The Lord's Empire (Part 2)

Chapter 972-976

Chapter 972: Blood Contract

Zhao Fu was not very confident as to whether or not he would actually be able to obtain an entire Continent. All he could do now was wait and make preparations for a counter-attack from the Fish Scale people. After all, Zhao Fu was not 100% confident in these white magic formations.

The ambassador returned to the Fish Scale world and told the leaders everything that Zhao Fu had said. Hearing that Zhao Fu had directly asked for an entire Continent, they felt quite angry, because not a single person in the Fish Scale world owned an entire Continent. And yet, Great Qin had asked for a Continent without even doing anything; that was one-seventh of their territory, and they felt quite angry that such a demand was being made. They were not being taken seriously at all.

Those gifts, such as the five billion gold coins, treasures, and top-tier beauties, were all gifts that they had spent a lot of effort to gather. Not only had they suffered such heavy losses, but they had also given money, treasures, and women; how could they not feel angry?

Great Qin's Legatee had accepted all of those things, but he still was not satisfied; he still wanted those Cities, the captured people, and an entire Continent. He was simply going too far.

"Great Qin's Legatee is being too outrageous; putting aside all of the money, treasures, and women we sent over, he still wants an entire Continent. He might as well be robbing us!" a Fish Scale person said.

However, others quickly rebutted him, "Even if he is robbing us, what can we do about it? If we don't want him to destroy the Fish Scale world, why do we have to act so pitifully; we should just attack Great Qin and kill everyone in Great Qin!"

"What should we do? Do we really have to give him an entire Continent? How could we do that?"

"That's right, how can we cede an entire Continent? That's not a decision for us to make."

"If we don't want to cede a Continent, we'll have to defend against Great Qin's invasion. We can use gifts to stall them, but Great Qin can still attack at any time. Don't tell me you all want to die together."

"How about we go all-out against Great Qin? We'll set up a large number of traps somewhere; worst comes to worst, we'll die together with Great Qin. At least that way, we won't have to suffer this kind of humiliation."

The people in the hall continuously debated as to what they should do. If Zhao Fu had asked for less, they definitely would have agreed in order to preserve their safety. However, Zhao Fu had asked for simply too much, making it so that everyone's opinions were quite divided. Some people wanted to compromise while others wanted to die with Great Qin.

A robed elder cleared his throat and coughed a few times. This elder was quite famous within the Fish Scale world, and hearing his coughs, everyone settled down and looked towards him.

The elder said, "I think we can agree to Great Qin's Legatee's demands. The Netherwater Continent is the Continent closest to the human world, and it is in great danger right now anyways. People are continuously escaping from there, and if we spread news that Great Qin will commit a slaughter in the Netherwater Continent, there will naturally be no people there anymore.

"That way, we can cede the Netherwater Continent to Great Qin but also increase everyone's hatred towards Great Qin in order to make a counter-attack in the future.

"Moreover, the Netherwater Continent only has 5,000 or so regions, and because it is the smallest Continent, it will not be a great loss.

"We also received a piece of useful news: Those four billion people are not dead and have instead submitted to Great Qin. However, do you really think so many Fish Scale people would have completely submitted to a human? This is not very possible, and we can use them to destroy Great Qin in the future together. Furthermore, even though the Netherwater Continent will be given to the humans, the power will still be in our hands.