Chapter 976: 0574 Endgame (Part II)

"..."

Upon hearing Li Ang's words, Prince Andre, covered in snake scales, was silent for a moment. He then turned his head to look at Fei Liya beside him, his lips moving slightly, but he couldn't say anything.

"Andre, this is your last chance."

"I..."

Hearing Li Ang's reminder, Prince Andre trembled slightly. Looking at his sister beside him, whose eyes were filled with pain, he finally whispered:

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

"..."

Fei Liya, her face full of pain, turned her head upon hearing this and looked at him softly. She then shook her head, extended her arm covered in crow feathers, and tremblingly tapped his shoulder. Although she said nothing, it was as if she had said everything.

Upon receiving her gaze, the tears in Prince Andre's eyes spilled over, and he said with remorse:

"I'm sorry! Fei Liya, I have wronged you, and I have wronged all of you. If... if only we hadn't been born in the Kingdom of Krolok, how good would that be?"

Ugh... wait?!

Hearing this, Li Ang, who was beside them, was slightly startled, as if he had faintly grasped something, but it was blurry and not quite clear.

Prince Andre, meanwhile, hugged Fei Liya, who was covered in crow feathers, and sobbed incoherently:

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

"Wait a minute!"

While Prince Andre was crying halfway through, Li Ang hissed, then slapped him hard on the back.

"Quick! Say what you just said again!"

"Ah?"

Being forcibly interrupted while crying his heart out, Prince Andre was stunned for a moment, then said in astonishment:

"Perhaps our whole family could have..."

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

Further back...

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

"That's it!"

Finally grasping the inspiration from the void, Li Ang slapped his thigh, then pulled Prince Andre's soul up from the ground and asked loudly:

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

"It is continuously triggered..."

The somewhat bewildered Andre pointed to the three blood beads floating between his brows:

"These three are the seal beads of the blood oath, and they are also the markers responsible for executing the blood oath. It seems that in the past, several members died due to accidentally violating the blood oath, so now, except for cases like deliberate leaks, it has been changed to this continuous triggering method..."

"Then there is a chance! Kneel down now! Immediately announce your surrender to me!"

"Ah?"

"Still don't understand? Those three constraints of yours all have prerequisites!"

Pointing to the three blood beads floating between Prince Andre's brows, Li Ang repeated the three constraints and then explained:

"Cannot leave while the Kingdom of Krolok exists; you cannot bear royal descendants; no Krolok royal shall be captured and taken away... The prerequisite for everything is the royal family! Do you understand?"

"You mean..."

"I mean, I am now representing the Kingdom of Lvzhou to launch a war, I have captured the last two of you royals, and I declare the Kingdom of Krolok destroyed!"

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

"Only the ruler of a kingdom is the royal family. If the Kingdom of Krolok no longer exists, then what kind of royal family are you? And since no royal family member has been captured by the Bureau of Cleanup and taken away, can your constraints still be effective?"

Should... it stop?!

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

"This... this is a bit like child's play, isn't it? Can it really work?"

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

Helping the girl with emerald eyes up and pressing her to kneel in front of him, Li Ang pulled Prince Andre to kneel down as well. He set up the simplest surrender ceremony in history, then broke a dead branch from the side to use as a ceremonial sword, placed it on Prince Andre's shoulder, and announced loudly:

"I, Li Ang, in the process of serving as an envoy to the Kingdom of Krolok, discovered the hidden sins of the Kingdom of Krolok. Therefore, I represent the Kingdom of Lvzhou to launch a war, occupy the palace of the Kingdom of Krolok, capture the last two royal members of the Kingdom of Krolok, and declare the Kingdom of Krolok destroyed!"

"..."

"What are you still 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 Andre's mouth twitched. He had no choice but to hold the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living one, and pulled his sister to bow down to Li Ang.

"I... Andre, Third Prince of the Kingdom of Krolok, together with Sixth Princess Fei Liya, surrender to... to the person in front of me, and declare the permanent abandonment of the status of the Krolok royal family..."

And with Prince Andre's declaration, the three-colored blood beads between their brows actually began to shake, and then began to dissipate visibly to the naked eye.

It's working! It actually works!

Not expecting that such a ridiculous method could actually bypass the blood oath, Andre, the monarch of a fallen kingdom, stood up with great excitement.

However, at this moment, after the three-colored blood beads had dissipated halfway, they did not continue to disintegrate, but slowly stopped changing, still rotating quietly, slowly and irresistibly crushing everything about them.

Still not working?

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

As expected, such a ridiculous method could not completely bypass the King-Slaying Society's constraints; it only loosened the hand strangling their throats a little bit, and their fates had still not been changed.

"Do you think it's possible that this condition alone is not enough?"

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

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

???

Meaning... you have only completed the "acceptance of surrender" now, but have not actually "occupied" the territory of the Kingdom of Krolok, so it does not count as completely destroying the Kingdom of Krolok, and therefore cannot completely terminate the blood oath?

Having had the previous precedent, Prince Andre instantly understood Li Ang's intention, and then asked with twitching cheeks:

"Are you thinking of occupying..."

"Let's destroy the entire Kingdom of Krolok!" ===== CHAPTER 977 =====