Chapter 374 The Holy King's Contract
"To cancel the contract, you need to be forgiven by all kingdoms? What kind of weird request is this? Who will forgive you?"
After hearing what Seferis said, Amber thought the old man was fooling him. It was reasonable to drive away the dragons. Perhaps it was not suitable to continue the war with the remaining dragons at that time. If they were to kill them all, the other races would not be able to hold on.
But what's the point of leaving such a request to terminate the contract?
It would be enough to directly restrict all dragons from returning, why leave this condition that "all kingdoms have forgiven the dragons"?
Seferis said with emotion: "That's right, no race will forgive the dragon race. That's why we have been on this sea for more than a thousand years, and dare not return. Only the bone dragons belong to the undead, and are no longer dragons, so they are not affected by this contract."
Amber Xiu said in surprise: "So, you created such a horrible bomb in the dragon tomb just to transform all the dragons into bone dragons and return?"
"How is that possible? If all dragons die, the dragon race will no longer exist." Severis retorted, "If they all become undead, the dragon race will lose its future."
"You're being a bit racist," said Amber.
All of you here are undead, so who doesn’t have a future? Amber Xiu’s future is to be the world’s richest man, rich enough to rival a country.
Seferis did not argue with Amber and continued, "The content of the contract is so simple. There were not many dragons left at that time. Including me, there were only three adult dragons, and they were all seriously injured. The rest were underage dragons, which added up to several hundred."
At this point, Gareth also asked curiously: "Why didn't Arthur Lane kill you all?"
Seferis glared at Gareth, and Amberxiu quickly said, "How do you talk to your father-in-law? If he is really killed by Arthur Lane, you will probably lose your wife too."
Seferis looked at Ambershu again. This lich's words were even more outrageous than that stupid son-in-law. No wonder they were friends!
Gareth apologized quickly, he was also excited at the moment.
Arthur Lane, he was once his idol, but he never expected that one day he would kill most of the Lane Empire.
Amber thought about it and felt something was wrong, so he asked, "How exactly do the Githyanki plan to help you break this contract?"
Seferis shook his head and said, "They didn't tell me everything. After all, the undead can no longer be considered dragons. I can only confirm that it will take them several years to complete this plan."
What would the Githyanki have to do to get forgiveness from all the kingdoms on the continent? Just attack all the kingdoms, and then the dragons would jump out and pretend to be heroes to save the continent? This is impossible. Not to mention how fake this is, no one in their right mind would believe it.
Even if they really believed it, would that mean they had forgiven the dragons? They were not fools, and they would not allow the dragons to return and compete with them for living space.
Unable to figure out what was going on, Amber decided to use his ultimate move.
"Since this happened more than a thousand years ago, we should ask the parties involved. Perhaps there are some details of the contract that we don't know and that Seferis has forgotten," said Amberxiu.
Seferis said curiously, "Parties involved? Apart from me, no one in the Dragon Clan can remember the contract. They are all new generations, and most of them were just children at the time."
Amber shook his head and said, "No, I'm not talking about the dragon, I'm talking about Arthur Lane himself."
Amber opened a tiny barrier to isolate the flowing dark magic, and then took out the hourglass from his private space.
Everyone looked at the hourglass curiously, and Seferis exclaimed loudly: "Eternal Hourglass! How did you get this thing? This is Atros's treasure. It was stolen by Arthur Ryan and the whereabouts of the hourglass has never been found. If Atros had this artifact in his hand, he would not lose to Arthur Ryan!"
What's going on with this lich? Can such a long-lost treasure be taken out? Amber said calmly: "Sir Severis, calm down, otherwise you will get even more excited later."
Severis calmed down a bit, and couldn't help asking, "Can you still revive our dragon king?"
"That's not possible, but I can make your dragon clan's enemy appear in front of you. Arthur, come out and meet your old friend."
Following Amber's call, Arthur Lane's heroic spirit gradually emerged from the hourglass.
When Arthur Lane saw Seferis, he asked in confusion, "Excuse me, who are you?"
Seferis' eyes almost popped out of his head. He never thought there would be such an outrageous thing in the world. This face, this look, and this powerful holy light power, Seferis will never forget it in his life.
Seferis roared, "Arthur Ryan! It's really you! How did you become like this? Shouldn't you enter the Kingdom of the Lord of the Morning?! I will... I will kill you!"
"Wait, old man, I don't know you." Arthur Lane said innocently.
"Don't know it?!" Seferis angrily revealed his true form, a gigantic bone dragon emitting rainbow light, but one of its wings was drooping down, as if it was about to break.
"Look at my wings, do you still remember me?!"
Seferis opened his mouth and almost swallowed Arthur Lane.
Seeing that the situation was not right, Amber Xiu hurriedly said to Gareth: "Quickly stop your father-in-law, they are going to fight, and this dragon tomb will explode!"
Are you kidding? Arthur Ryan had been fed with soul fragments by Amber Xiu for a long time, and now he has recovered most of his strength. The battle between him and Ai Ge was earth-shattering. Even if he couldn't win the fight here, the Dragon Tomb would definitely be severely damaged.
Gareth was about to stand in front of Seferis and comforted him, "This is not the same Arthur Ryan. My brother told me that this is just a heroic spirit that inherited some of his memories. Calm down. If it really is Arthur Ryan, you can't fight here!"
Perhaps Gareth's reminder worked, Seferis slowly calmed down and returned to his human form.
Arthur Lane now remembered and said in surprise: "It turned out to be you. I remember that the wound on your wing was left by me."
After saying this, Seferis almost went berserk again. Thinking of that sword strike, he really wanted to eat Arthur Lane alive.
It took Amberxiu a long time to calm the Lord of the Dragon Tomb and explain the origin of this heroic spirit.
When the atmosphere was no longer so tense, Amber Xiu asked about the dragon contract.
I was originally afraid that this heroic spirit had no memory of what happened next, but I didn't expect Arthur Ryan to say, "I know about this. I had already thought about what to do after defeating the dragon a long time ago. From what you said, the content of this contract is similar to what I thought."
Amber Xiu asked curiously: "Why do you want to leave a possibility for the dragons to return? If all kingdoms forgive the dragons, they can return. This doesn't make sense no matter how you look at it."
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Arthur Lane said even more strangely: "Why is it unreasonable? If you do something wrong and sincerely atone for your sins, isn't it normal to be forgiven?"
Amber Xiu didn't know how to judge. This Arthur Lane was so naive... No, was he so innocent?
"That's the dragon clan, the dragon clan that left behind countless blood debts." Amber Xiu said a little excitedly.
Arthur Ryan shook his head and said, "The dragons are also intelligent races, and they are also living creatures in this world. We overthrew the tyranny of the dragons because they killed other races and made it impossible for everyone to survive.
"Although I don't know what the outcome of the battle was, I think most of the evil dragons died, so the remaining dragons were expelled. Most of the ones who survived were young dragons, and the children certainly have a chance to be forgiven. Even if it doesn't work in this generation, we can wait a thousand or two thousand years. This hatred can't be passed down forever.
"Do you want to fight another war thousands of years later because of ancient hatred? Can you imagine two people drawing swords against each other because their ancestors were enemies thousands of years ago? If so, the blood shed in the war would be meaningless.
"From a human perspective, it's not easy to forgive the dragons. If it can be achieved, the dragons must have made incredible sacrifices so that they can return to their homeland. I think this contract is very reasonable."
Arthur Lane even felt a little complacent, feeling that the rules he set were really perfect and solved all problems perfectly.
Everyone was silent after hearing what Arthur Ryan said. Even Seferis let go of his clenched fist. From the beginning to the end, Arthur Ryan treated all intelligent races equally and treated all races fairly. The struggle was for survival, not for slaughter and extinction, which still left a glimmer of hope for the dragon race.
Very good, and it fits in with the Lord of the Morning's teaching of never giving up hope.
His Majesty the Holy King's way of thinking is indeed a little different from that of ordinary people, but Amber Xiu couldn't find any problems with it.
This contract is beautiful, idealistic, and naive. If everyone can understand the original intention of this contract, the dragon clan will probably be moved. But now it seems that Arthur Ryan is indeed too naive.
But after hearing this, Amber admired Arthur Lane even more.
He is worthy of the name of the Holy King. Human beings at that time were truly lucky to have such a hero.
Wait, no, that’s not the point now.
"Arthur, think about it carefully. Apart from this method, is there no other way to terminate the contract?" Amber asked.
He wanted to know the Githyanki's plan, but after talking for a long time, he got no useful information.
Arthur Lane shook his head and said, "I'm not the type of person who's used to leaving hidden messages, nor am I good at playing word games. As far as I can remember, I shouldn't have left anything else, at least not at the time. But whether there will be other changes in the future, I really don't know."
Amber felt very sorry and could only send Arthur Lane back to his private space.
Amber thought that he had to ask the Githyanki about this matter. If he extracted a few Githyanki souls and took a look, he should be able to get a clue.
After deciding on the next plan, Amber said to Severis, "Then there is one last question, Lord Severis. As a lich, I want to ask you, why do you want to snatch the power of death? What is this dragon tomb? How do you extract the power?"
Seferis said helplessly, "You may not believe me. We extract divine power for one purpose, which is to increase the success rate of transformation into a bone dragon. As for the method you mentioned, it is your Mourning Poetry Society's fault. It was your president who sent us a ring. Through this artifact, we were able to borrow the power of death."
(End of this chapter)