Chapter 343: Chapter 82: Bloodthirst; Arrival of the Black Dragon Maiden (8k)_4
He could indeed run away, but what about the army below?
What about the tens of millions of citizens of the Barbarian Royal Court?
He is a king and needs to be responsible for his country and people.
Udi quietly looked at him for a while, watching as the muscles of the Barbarian King tensed all over, then said calmly,
"One billion gold coins, and hand over that greatsword in your possession, and we’ll let this matter go; otherwise... you might escape, but the Barbarian Royal Court won’t." freewebnovel.cσ๓
Hearing this, Victor took a deep breath and said with some difficulty,
"Our Barbarian Royal Court can’t come up with one billion gold coins... As for this Legendary Greatsword... it’s a heritage weapon of the Beastman Kingdom, and I have a contract with the Red Blade Sword Saint. This sword is only a loan and cannot be disposed of otherwise."
"Do you think this is a negotiation?"
In the sky, the massive Black Dragon stretched its terrifying dragon wings over 150 meters, with its vast draconic aura brushing across nearly half of the Northern Wasteland. On the battlefield, both low-level barbarian warriors and master-level barbarian warriors felt a deep sense of trepidation and panic, with a shadow cast over their hearts.
In contrast, the Black Wing Followers were almost unaffected as they mercilessly struck down the enemy whose forms had slowed down, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of barbarian warriors fell.
The Black Dragon Lord clearly had a very refined control over the draconic aura.
"It’s an order!" The Black Dragon’s brownish-yellow vertical pupils gazed coldly at the Barbarian King, showing no respect.
Victor’s face twitched continuously under the assault of the draconic aura. He noticed the Barbarian Army below gradually starting to collapse... Previously, the Barbarian Army could barely hold their conviction with the arrival of His Majesty Victor, but under the assault of the draconic aura, even the firmest beliefs became useless.
At every moment, a large number of barbarian warriors permanently fell on the wasteland.
The battlefield was filled with the bloodthirsty and frenzied one-sided massacre by the Black Wing Followers.
Seeing this scene, Victor stopped struggling and said wearily, freēwēbnovel.com
"Enough, stop it... I agree. But I do indeed have a contract with Red Blade Sword Saint Taylor, and I cannot violate a contract witnessed by a Divine Spirit... If you want to obtain this ’Bloodthirst,’ you’ll need Beastman Sword Saint Taylor’s consent; of course, if you kill him, the contract can naturally be dissolved."
"Your Alliance Army is quite interesting." The Black Dragon smiled wryly, seeing Victor getting a little anxious, then let out a Dragon’s Roar, stopping the massacre and pursuit from the followers below.
The surviving Barbarian Army saw those terrifying Black Wing Followers finally stop pursuing them and hurriedly sped up their escape, wishing they could grow two more legs.
"Then let’s sign the contract." The Black Dragon laughed at Victor, who looked relieved across the way.
Victor glanced at the Black Dragon, felt conflicted for a moment, but still did not plan to resist.
At least not now.
Otherwise, the Black Dragon could continue the pursuit, or even invade the current territory of the Barbarian Royal Court, allowing those Black Wing Followers to slaughter the barbarians at will.
Got to stabilize this guy first, Victor thought to himself.
Of course, he was unwilling to just give up ’Bloodthirst.’
"Alright, let’s sign the contract." As he thought, Victor nodded.
Subsequently, under the watchful eyes of the Platinum Dragon God, after paying a high-quality ruby, a contract was signed between man and dragon.
Among humans and other intelligent races, the Platinum Dragon God was also quite reputable and respected as an alien god, so Victor naturally had no objections.
The contents of the contract were roughly as follows: Victor is to join the Beastman Sword Saint in launching an attack on the Black Dragon Lord in the coming period. During the attack, Victor must not harbor murderous intent toward the Black Dragon Lord, and vice versa.
This contract was essentially setting a trap for the Beastman Sword Saint.
Udi and Victor were to put on a show.
This did not violate the alliance agreement between Victor and the Beastman Sword Saint, as the agreement did not specify such details.
Apart from some meticulously crafted contracts, most have loopholes that can be exploited; whether to exploit them depends on one’s desire and willingness.
For example, Udi had several ways to exploit loopholes in the alliance between Black Wing Nest and the Emerald Forest.
One simple method was using others to do the work — fighting a powerful enemy over the Emerald Forest.
While Udi’s attacks could be controlled to avoid damaging the Emerald Forest, the enemy wouldn’t control theirs; thus, if it was destroyed, it was by the enemy, with Udi only having failed to protect the Forest Elves.
There are other methods of using others to do the work.
For instance, contacting some unrelated evil forces to issue a task to acquire the corpses of Forest Elves. Since the task did not specify it had to be Forest Elves from the Emerald Forest, it would not technically violate the alliance.
If those evil forces eventually chose to kill the Emerald Forest’s Forest Elves to complete the task, it was unrelated to Black Wing Nest, as it was not their directive but the evil forces’ own choice.
As an ally, when the Emerald Forest was in danger and sought help from Black Wing Nest, per the alliance, Black Wing Nest surely had to send aid, but the speed of aid could vary, right?
All these operations were actually quite ordinary; the contracts drawn by devils in the Ninefold Hell involved operations far more insidiously than this.