Chapter 1244: Final act (Part 2)

"..."

After hearing Li Ang's words, Prince An De Lie, covered in snake scales, was silent for a moment, then turned his head to look at Fei Liya beside him. His lips moved slightly twice, but he didn't say anything.

"An De Lie, this is already your last chance."

"I..."

After hearing Li Ang's reminder, Prince An De Lie trembled slightly. Looking at his younger sister, who was full of pain beside him, he finally whispered:

"I'm sorry... I... I am not a good older brother..."

"..."

Fei Liya, who was full of pain, turned her face to look at him softly upon hearing this, then shook her head and reached out her arm covered in crow feathers, trembling as she lightly patted his shoulder. Although she didn't say anything, it was as if she had said everything.

And after receiving her gaze, the tears in Prince An De Lie's eyes immediately spilled out, and he said with remorse:

"I'm sorry! Fei Liya, it's my fault, and I'm sorry to all of you. If... if only we hadn't been born in the Ke Luo Ke Wang Guo, how good would that be?"

Hmm... Wait?!

Hearing this, Li Ang paused slightly, as if he had vaguely grasped something, but it was still blurry and not very clear.

And Prince Andrei hugged Fei Liya, who was covered in crow feathers, and sobbed incoherently:

"It's all my fault, it's me who was too... If... if we hadn't been born in the royal family, without this damn bloodline, perhaps... perhaps our whole family could have..."

"Wait a moment!"

When An De Lie was crying his heart out, being forcibly interrupted, Prince An De Lie couldn't help but be stunned, then asked in confusion:

"Say that again! Say what you just said again!"

"Ah?"

When he was crying his heart out, being forcibly interrupted, Prince An De Lie couldn't help but be stunned, then asked in confusion:

"Perhaps our whole family could have..."

"Not that sentence! Go back a bit further!"

Go back further...

"If we hadn't been born in the royal family, without this damn..."

"That's it!"

Finally grasping the inspiration from the underworld, Li Ang slapped his thigh violently, then pulled Prince An De Lie's soul up from the ground and asked loudly:

"Tell me quickly, what is the 'constraint' you signed like? Is it like a switch that doesn't stop once triggered, or is it triggered continuously according to the current state?"

"It's triggered continuously..."

The somewhat confused An De Lie pointed to the three blood beads floating between his eyebrows and said:

"These three are the seal beads of the blood oath, and they are also the marks

"Then there's a chance! Kneel down right now! Immediately announce your surrender to me!"

"Ah?"

"Still don't get it? Those three constraints of yours all have prerequisites!" Pointing to the three blood beads floating between Prince Andrei's eyebrows, Li Ang repeated the three constraints and then explained:

"You cannot leave while the Kroke Kingdom exists; you cannot give birth to royal descendants; no Kroke royal can be captured and taken away... The prerequisite for everything is the royal family! Understand?"

"You mean..."

"I mean, I am now representing the Lyre Kingdom to launch a war, capture the two of you, the last of the royals, and directly destroy the Kroke Kingdom!"

Amidst Prince Andrei's bewildered expression, Li Ang reminded him:

"Only the ruler of a kingdom is the royal family. If the Kroke Kingdom is gone, then what kind of royals are you? And since no royal family member is being captured and taken away by the Cleanup Bureau, can your constraints still remain in effect?"

Should... they stop?!

After pondering along Li Ang's line of thought, Prince Andrei couldn't help but tremble with excitement, then said hesitantly:

"This... this is a bit of a farce, isn't it? Can it really work?"

"Whether it works or not, you have to try, don't you?"

After helping the green-eyed girl up and pressing her to kneel in front of him, Li Ang dragged Prince Andrei down to his knees as well, setting up the simplest surrender ceremony in history. He then broke a dead tree branch from the side to use as a ceremonial sword, rested it on Prince Andrei's shoulder, and announced loudly:

"I, Li Ang Laien, in the process of serving as an envoy to the Kroke Kingdom, discovered the hidden evils of the Kroke Kingdom. Therefore, I represent the Lyre Kingdom to launch a war, occupy the Kroke Kingdom's palace, capture the last two royal members of the Kroke Kingdom, and declare the Kroke Kingdom destroyed!"

"..."

"What are you dawdling for! Don't you want your sister's life? Surrender quickly!"

"..."

Surrendering is fine, but this ceremony of yours is a bit humiliating, and generally speaking, even if you really surrender, you don't have to kowtow to you...

Looking at Li Ang, who was urging him to surrender quickly, Prince Andrei's mouth twitched. He had no choice but to adopt the mindset of treating a dead horse as a living one, and pulled his sister to bow down to Li Ang.

"I... Andrei, the Third Prince of the Kroke Kingdom, together with the Sixth Princess Fei Liya, surrender to... to the person before us, and declare the permanent abandonment of our Kroke Kingdom royal status..."

And following Prince Andrei's declaration, the three-colored blood beads between their eyebrows actually began to shake, and then visibly began to dissipate.

It's working! It actually works!

Never expecting that he could bypass the blood oath in such a ridiculous way, Andrei, the king of a fallen nation, couldn't help but stand up with great excitement.

However, just at this moment, after the three-colored blood beads had dissipated halfway, they didn't continue to disintegrate, but slowly stopped changing. They remained quietly rotating, slowly and irresistibly crushing everything about them.

Still not working?

Looking at the three-colored blood beads that were only a little smaller but still constantly destroying their souls, the expectant eyes of the Andrei siblings dimmed simultaneously.

Sure enough, a method as farcical as this couldn't completely bypass the constraints of the King-Slaying Society. It only loosened the hand strangling their throats slightly; their fates had still not been changed.

"Do you think it's possible that this condition alone isn't enough?"

After staring at the half-shrunken three-colored blood beads, Li Ang frowned and said:

"In your constraints, there are two items: you cannot leave the Kroke Kingdom, and you cannot be taken away from the Kroke Kingdom by people from the Cleanup Bureau. So... besides the royal status, could the territory of the Kroke Kingdom itself also be one of the conditions of the blood oath?"

???

You mean... you have only completed the "acceptance of surrender" now, but haven't actually "occupied" the territory of the Kroke Kingdom, so it doesn't count as completely destroying the Kroke Kingdom, and therefore cannot thoroughly terminate the blood oath?

With the previous precedent, Prince Andrei instantly understood Li Ang's plan, and then asked with a twitching cheek:

"Are you thinking of occupying..."

"Let's just destroy the entire Kroke Kingdom!"

(End of Chapter)