"Each of you will be provided with one liter of blood every six months. I don't care if you can handle it or not. If you don't agree, not only will your goddess disappear, but everyone here will die!"
Upon hearing this, Eris suddenly began to struggle violently.
This is different from what Li Xuanzu had told Him before.
"Don't rush. You didn't agree to my conditions before, but now the initiative is in my hands, so I have to raise the price a bit, right?"
Li Xuanzu turned to look at Eris and smiled, showing no shame whatsoever for his outrageous demands.
"I forgot to mention, your supreme leader, Biegun Fahri, is dead. Go find someone who can speak to you. I'm not giving you much time to consider."
Li Xuanzu added a sentence.
Then, he clenched his fist, and the little boy in front of Eris instantly exploded and died, blood raining down, some of it splashing onto the crowd and causing screams.
No one gets used to death; the fear of death is ingrained in our biological instincts.
However, things didn't end there; the killing did not stop with the death of one person.
Li Xuanzu kept grabbing people from the crowd, regardless of gender, age, physical condition, or disability. He would take each person to Eris, force them to look into Eris's eyes, and then cruelly kill them in front of Him.
As Eris watched the vibrant people before him gradually turn into withered corpses, no one knew the torment He felt.
"It's a pity you can't speak, and I won't let you speak either. So, do you agree to my conditions?"
Li Xuanzu didn't even glance at the chaotic crowd, but instead pinched Eris's scarred yet still beautiful face.
Seeing that Eris remained silent, Li Xuanzu was not annoyed. In any case, the outcome was about the same, so he didn't care about a little more or less.
Soon, a voice came from behind the crowd.
"We agree to your conditions, and we can sign the agreement now. Please stop immediately and cease harming the people of Serbia!"
The speaker was a fourth-tier divine envoy, followed by several panting people, each holding a piece of paper.
Li Xuanzu was waiting for this very sentence, and immediately ordered the blood servants to stop. The crowd also consciously parted to make way for people to walk.
"It's all in black and white, and only in black and white. How can I guarantee that you will abide by the contract after I release Eris?"
"You can rest assured about that. The contract we signed is on paper imbued with the power of faith. It concerns the fate of our nation, Sai. Now you can be at ease, right?"
The fourth-tier divine envoy looked serious. Li Xuanzu used his divine sense to probe him, and he was indeed not lying.
"Alright, it's not like we can't capture your goddess again, it'll just be a bit more troublesome. You draft the contract, don't try any tricks."
After Li Xuanzu finished speaking, the other party grabbed the paper and threw it into the air.
He then realized that it was actually a piece of parchment.
Then, the parchment floated in mid-air and swayed continuously. After a while, several lines of text appeared out of thin air on it.
The content is roughly the conditions that Li Xuanzu mentioned.
The fourth-tier divine envoy summoned the innate spirit within his body and attached it to the parchment. An invisible force then connected him, and even the entire Sai Kingdom, to the paper.
After checking and finding no problems, Li Xuanzu separated a wisp of his divine consciousness to prepare for signing the contract.
However, an unknown attack suddenly struck the parchment, seemingly intent on tearing the contract apart.
As soon as Li Xuanzu raised his hand, he immediately separated his entire divine sense from his body to withstand the attack.
The opponent had clearly used all his strength this time, and Li Xuanzu felt a sense of discomfort.
"Li Xuanzu, is your Dragon Kingdom really going to war?!"
A woman's voice came from afar, but it was particularly loud.
Deceive the goddess, Apate.
Another god has appeared, and his power seems to be much greater than Eris's.
"It's the goddess Apat!"
"My lord, please save the goddess Eris!"
"We're saved!"
Shouts rang out from the crowd, filled with excitement.
"Avenge your best friend? We'll see if you have the ability, you little liar!"
Li Xuanzu acted swiftly, signing the contract without giving Apat any time to think.
The parchment gradually dissipated in the air, as if it had been burned.
"You! How dare you..."
Apate looked at Li Xuanzu in disbelief, but her face quickly regained the resentment she had shown at the beginning.
"You are but a mortal, what evil methods did you use to imprison and torture my sisters!"
I'll make you wish you were dead!
Apate's attack quickly reached Li Xuanzu.
But Li Xuanzu didn't flinch; he just stood there.
The silver spear actually pierced through Li Xuanzu's body and then disappeared into the air.
"A liar is incorrigible; how dare he try those little tricks in a fight?"
Li Xuanzu chuckled, and a blood-red longsword instantly materialized in his hand as he lunged forward.
The difference is that this time the blood-red longsword is imbued with a trace of divine consciousness.
Apat's lips curled into a smug smile.
A massive net covered the sky and instantly enveloped Li Xuanzu, then rapidly contracted.
"Deception is my livelihood. You think you can figure me out? Hahaha!"
Apate wasted no time, quickly appearing in front of Eris and waving her hand to remove all the shackles and restrictions from His body.
Looking at Eris, who was no longer recognizable as human, Apate felt a pang of heartache and a wave of self-reproach washed over her.
"Eris, I'm sorry. We started looking for you as soon as we sensed your presence disappear, but we only found you now. You've had a hard time during this time."
Apate didn't know how to comfort the other, so she just kept channeling divine power into His body.
"They're all dead... all because of me... I'm a sinner... I'm not a god... I'm a sinner... a sinner..."
Eris spoke, but was on the verge of collapse.
"They believed in me so much, yet they suffered unjustly because of me; they died before my eyes, and I..."
Eris placed her hands in front of her eyes, and tears never ceased flowing from her eye sockets, which had no pupils.
He can hear and see, but he cannot speak or do.
He felt his body covered in blood and filth, watching his people who trusted him so much die one by one, and hearing them step forward despite the threat of death, simply because they disrespected their goddess.
As a god who is said to be omnipotent, He has never felt so powerless and desperate.
"No, it's not you! It's all because of that bastard from the Dragon Kingdom, it's all because of him, it has nothing to do with you!"
Apate's phantom solidified in part, grabbing Eris's shoulder and shaking him incessantly.
To an outsider, this scene would truly be a picture of deep sisterly affection, especially since they are goddesses with appearances that perfectly align with human aesthetics.
"Haha, this is so touching, I almost cried."
Li Xuanzu's mocking voice rang out from not far away, seemingly unaffected in the slightest.
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