Chapter 265

but rather had……

a full five!

"Have even those few my lords become restless?"

"Indeed!"

"Such a monster at this level……"

"Even those few my lords cannot ignore!"

Jorf thought.

What puzzled him was……

What exactly did the name Lu En mean?

Why did it move those five my lords so profoundly?

Impossible to understand.

Jorf shook his head.

He could not fathom it.

At this very moment,

the person on the other end of Jorf's phone worm……

was the supreme leader of the World Government.

Five absolute rulers standing at the very pinnacle of the world!

They were revered as……

Five Elders!

Time slipped by.

As Jorf and Lei Si waited in silence,

another half-quarter hour passed.

Finally—

a voice, slightly unfamiliar—not the same my lord who had first communicated with Jorf—came from the other end of the phone worm.

But this unfamiliar voice still radiated authority.

"You two need not interfere further in this matter."

"Treat it as if nothing ever happened."

"As for that terrifying monster named Lu En……"

"Remember this: under no circumstances should you approach him recklessly."

"He is not a being you are fit to contact!"

Upon hearing these words,

hiss—

Jorf and Lei Si both drew in a sharp breath together.

They could not even imagine it.

Who exactly was this Lu En?

That even these five my lords—the very top elites of the world……

needed to treat him so solemnly?

Utterly unbelievable!

Rosed Kingdom.

Within the opulent Wang Gong, countless glittering golden ornaments hung high on all four walls, making the entire palace interior radiate splendor.

Jin Bihuihuang,

luxurious and noble.

At this moment,

King Rosed IV leaned back in his chair, brow furrowed, pondering how to resolve the matter of the pirates.

Losing over five hundred royal guard soldiers was bad enough.

The critical issue was……

More than a dozen nobles from the kingdom had also been captured!

This made King Rosed IV's situation extremely difficult.

He could not afford to mobilize troops for a large-scale crackdown on the pirates.

If he sent troops in force, it might enrage the pirates, who would then execute all the captives. If those dozen nobles died, the consequences would be far too grave.

Behind each of those dozen nobles stood a colossal power group.

Even King Rosed IV could not withstand the collective reprisal of all those noble factions.

Precisely because of this,

he felt immense anguish.

Could it be……

that he truly had to yield to the pirates' threats?

"No! Absolutely not!"

"How could such a vast kingdom possibly be blackmailed by pirates?"

"Once you allow one such incident, a second will follow; once a second, a third."

"If this precedent is set, similar incidents will become countless!"

"I absolutely cannot allow this to happen."

"As King of the Rosed Kingdom, how could I compromise with pirates? What would my subjects think?"

King Rosed IV clenched his fists and crushed the fleeting thought of compromising with the pirates.

The King of the mighty Rosed Kingdom would never compromise with pirates!

This is not merely about the dignity of the Rosed Kingdom...

... but about the dignity of this supreme monarch himself.

Moreover,

if this precedent is set, troubles will come endlessly thereafter.

At that time...

the Rosed Kingdom will become the pirates' prime target.

And this, Rosed IV would never wish to see.

Therefore,

this time, he would under no circumstances choose to compromise with the pirates.

Even if...

he had to kill every single captive!

Including all those dozen or so noble captives—kill them all!

Thus, he would be completely free of any lingering concerns regarding the pirates.

Even if he would later face certain retribution from the powerful families behind those dozen nobles, Rosed IV would not care.

Better to kill all the captives than compromise with the pirates.

Thinking of this, Rosed IV hardened his heart.

He had made his decision.

"Those damned World Government bastards..."

"Every year, I send them so much wealth!"

"Yet when the kingdom faces crisis, they send two brats to handle it—how heartless! These bastards are utterly unreliable!"

Rosed IV gnashed his teeth.

He could not help but think of...