Armipotent

Guild Master Alves looked at Young Lord Volans’ reaction. Volans were surprised by the numbers, but that was it. As if Young Lord Volans expected the number to be that high. This made him curious about what actually happened in the battle.

The shocking thing was about the five knights. He just showed Tang Shaoyang’s contracts, but he did not show the five knights’ contracts. Not because he wanted to keep it secret, but because there was nothing to show. The five knights did not complete a single contract. It was so strange considering how strong Gianni was.

Someone like Gianni could easily complete one thousand contracts, yet Gianni’s contract showed zero completion. Everything was strange and didn’t make sense. Winning this battle was already absurd, and then he was presented with this strange occurrence within the contract.

There was never a moment of an error in the contract since the establishment of the mercenary guild. This was not an error, but again, it just did not make sense to him.

Grand General Senton made a mental calculation after seeing the contract. 9857 contract completion meant Tang Shaoyang killed 98570 soldiers that were ranked Demi-God Rank and below. Then his eyes looked at the second contract with 217 completion. That was even crazier than the first one as it meant Tang Shaoyang killed 217 God Ranks.

It was absurd and hard to believe, but the system could not be manipulated, not when they were inside this prison. He heard about his ancestor’s past, where they did an unauthorized change for their benefit which led to his imprisonment. That was why he believed in Alves that this was not a manipulation contract.

“Let them have the duel, Grand General Senton. It’s better to lose five God Ranks than the whole monarchy.”

Volans’ words suddenly made sense to Grand General Senton. This was indeed never Volans’ plot because he could understand what Volans tried to do.

Grand General Senton let out a sigh and agreed with Volans. It was better to have the four God Ranks to duel Gianni than letting Albin to throw an army at Tang Shaoyang’s team.

“Is there really no way to resolve this peacefully, Sir Gianni?” Grand General Senton stepped up and asked the knight.

It was his last attempt to save the four God Ranks from the Sorcerer Monarchy. If it failed, then there was no choice but to support Gianni to have the duel. Just like Tang Shaoyang said, The Dominion would not have enough army to defend the city if their main force was annihilated in this place. Retaking the cities would be easy, unless Tang Shaoyang decided to change his mind and fought them instead.

Grand General Senton let out a sigh when he did not get a response from the knight. He turned around, “Let them have the duel, Young Lord Albin. If your people are afraid of Sir Gianni, then they could surrender.”

He understood why the four God Ranks decided to flee from the duel shamelessly. Surrender right after the duel started would taint their reputation. That was why they chose the lame excuse because people would easily forget about this since the war was approaching. But if they decided to fight the duel and surrender, that would leave a deep impression that they were cowardly.

“I will accept the surrender if they kneel and apologize, or Your Lord Albin can do it for them instead of he wants to save them so badly,” Gianni turned toward Albin, “If you knee and apologize, then I will spare your people’s lives. It does sound like a good deal for you, no? You maintain your force intact by dirtying your knees, shouldn’t be a big deal since you don’t have an honor to maintain anyway.”

That was an unexpected return from Gianni. Tang Shaoyang did not expect to hear that from the well-mannered Gianni. It seemed like these people truly hit Gianni’s reverse scale.

Grand General Senton was speechless because he realized that Gianni would not surrender. He wanted to kill the four God Ranks. Albin would not kneel to the mercenary because he might lose the qualification to win the throne. No one wanted a ruler that knelt to a mercenary. The duel to death was inevitable.

“What are you going to do if we refuse to continue the duel? Are you going to fight us all?” Young Lord Albin’s expression turned cold as killing intent permeated from him. If Albin might try to avoid the clash before, it would be different after such a provocation.

For the first time, Gianni’s emotionless face broke into a delighted chuckle that surprised everyone around, “We annihilate the Dominion Army, and do you think we are afraid of your force? Try me, Young Lord Albin, and you will see.”

Albin realized that the threat would never work even if he had an army behind him. That was right, they just fought the Dominion’s main force and won. If you're not on M*VLEM*PYR, you're viewing a copy.

‘Does that mean I am at an advantage? They must be exhausted after the battle and with my elite fighter, we will kill them!’

“Or those four cowards could escape, and I will bring them down. It works for me either way,” Gianni added.

Albin did the unexpected, observing his surroundings. He was not the only one with an army here. The Chevalier Monarchy and the Raven Monarchy had their own elite soldiers. Then three Mercenary Guilds and their elite teams were here as well. If he ignored the fact that these six mercenaries fought the Dominion’s main force and decided to go at them with his elite fighters, he realized that the others might side with the mercenary and ganged up on him.

Volans would certainly back the six mercenaries, and the three Guild Masters obviously sided with their mercenary. Grand General Senton and General Marko were clearly standing up for Gianni and his friends. Even if a fight broke out, he would lose the battle.

Albin made a rational decision and called the four God Ranks, “Come here Heron, Zico, Patrick, and Oliver!”

“I want to protect, but clearly I am still lacking. I have no power to protect you when two monarchies and the three mercenary guilds are with them. You make your choice, will you proceed with the duel or you apologize,” Albin purposely did not mention the kneeling part to avoid further humiliation for his people.

He was smart enough to let the four God Ranks make the decision. He did not tell them what to do, meaning he did not hold a full responsibility for whatever they decided to do. Even though everything stemmed from his plan that tried to weaken his brother’s influence with the mercenary guild.

The first ranked in the God Rank list of the Sorcerer Monarchy, Heron, stepped and knelt, “I apologize for my arrogance that caused you to be mocked and laughed at by many of our people.” His head hung low and did not immediately stand up after apologizing. His tone was sincere and convincing, a genuine apology from Heron.

It was then followed by Zico, Patrick, and Oliver in turn as they apologized to Gianni. The knight did not expect for them to kneel and regretted the fact that he gave them that one option.

Tch!

He clicked his tongue, “I expect some fight, but it’s quite disappointing. I will honor my words and spare their lives.”

Nikolas, Jovrick, Mathias, and Ruben returned after watching everything from a distance.

“I thought I would get some action, but they are spineless indeed. They don’t even try to flee,” Nikolas voiced his disappointment as well.

Volans, Grand General Marko, and Grand General Senton were relieved that it was resolved without spilling blood. But this taught everyone a lesson, not to mess with Tang Shaoyang and his team.

“Let’s gather and discuss our next move!” Grand General Marko took the lead and gathered the people. The war was not over until they retook all the cities occupied by the Dominion.

They only brought their elite force to confirm what Captain Bran told them. They have confirmed it, Volans won the battle and annihilated the Dominion Army. To be more exact, it was the mercenary team that won them the battle. Of course, only Senton, Marko, Alves, and Volans knew, and they did not plan to spread it out.

Grand General Senton and Marko as well as Guild Master Alves had reached an agreement to support Volans to succeed the Sorcerer Monarch. Not because Volans was better than his older brothers, but because Volans was decent enough to see the bigger and certainly for his connection with Tang Shaoyang.

After a fifteen minute meeting, they agreed to set up a camp not far from the Dominion’s old camp. The Grand Generals and the Guild Masters would return to the city to bring the good news and also prepare for retaking the occupied cities with their main force.

The two Grand Generals thought the battle was over when the Dominion Army was annihilated, but they returned for a surprise.

Benedict took over the capital and declared himself as Sorcerer Monarchy. At the same time, Benedict announced the death of his brothers as well as the two Grand Generals and also the three Guild Masters.

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