Chapter 611:- A New Dawn for the Istarin Empire

611 Chapter 611:- A New Dawn for the Istarin Empire

"Are you perhaps looking for the blackwood?" Aditya asked with a smile. Their reaction said everything. "Just tell us everything that you know. At most, you will be put to prison for a few decades for your crimes. But at least your lives will be spared. But if you don't talk.....!" Aditya didn't need to say more. His eyes turned red while the shape of his pupil changed to vertical slits. Others fearfully took a few steps back but the leader remained in her position. Aditya was actually being kind. In a normal situation, these people would have died in his hands. But he was offering them a chance to live and seek redemption. Other than the leaders, others were actually considering Aditya's offer. They felt that it wouldn't be bad to be imprisoned for a few decades rather than lose their lives. Seeing Aditya first, she was afraid. But now her expression had changed to being stoic and cold. The next second, she did something that even her subordinates hadn't expected her to do. "I am sorry but this is where we all part ways. Farewell.....!!!!" Before they all could understand what their leader meant by that, she suddenly took out a sword and stabbed herself in the heat. Seeing this everyone was quite shocked. Even Aditya was surprised. He hadn't expected this woman to be so devoted that rather than falling into the hands of the enemy she would rather take her own life. "Riya, capture them.....!!!!" Since the leader had died, Aditya had a feeling that they wouldn't get much of any information out of these people. He was very disappointed. Crack.....!!!!

Suddenly the ground cracked. Large and small cracks started appearing all over the ground. Dark green tentacles came out of the ground through these cracks and wrapped around the remaining members of this group. They also did not put in much of a fight since they knew fighting would only get them killed. By surrendering they could at least save their lives. Aditya stepped forward and asked. "What do you all know about this blackwood? I want to know everything." Aditya was quite serious. Although they were afraid of Aditya, since the Dragon Monarch himself had assured them that he wasn't going to kill them today, they did not hold back any information.

"Your Majesty, what we do know is, that The Lionrock City isn't the only city that is affected by this curse," Selina said in a fearful tone. Meanwhile, Riya controlled some other dark green tentacles to wrap around the dead body of the leader. Once her whole body was covered by the dark green tentacles, her dead body was simply dragged inside the ground through one of the large cracks. Riya buried her body more than a few hundred meters deep in the ground. "Which other cities are affected by this curse?" Aditya asked. "We know that in the central region, other than the Lionrock city, 9 other cities are also cursed." The inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.

"Whose orders you all were following?" "We don't know....!!!" Selina fearfully replied. Suddenly the dark green tentacles tightened around their bodies. "You better speak the truth otherwise, I don't mind burying your corpses along with your leader's corpse," Riya said in a cold tone. Usually, she isn't the type to do this kind of thing. These kinds of things are better suited for Sasha or Lilith. But being the Goddess of Nature and knowing how evil these backwoods are, Riya was very angry. She wanted to reach the bottom of this matter as soon as possible. "I swear on my mother's name, I don't know anything...!!!!" Biku cried out in pain. Seeing that they weren't lying, Riya snorted before slightly loosening the tentacles. Hmph....!!!!

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But instead of sitting down, all four of them got to their one knee in front of Aditya. "Your Majesty, please lend us your Protection." 'Sure enough, I was right.' Aditya had a small smirk on his face. "But what I will get in return?" Aditya asked back. Each of these city lords was also the Patriarch of a Beast-kin clan. The four city lords looked at each other before saying. "Your Majesty, our clans will pledge our loyalty to you. We will serve the Istarin Empire and the Dragon Monarch."

"The correct thing would be to say is that we want our cities to become a part of the Istarin Empire's territory." Helen was slightly surprised but she wasn't too shocked. Meanwhile, Aditya's smile widened. The current Istarin Empire had become so powerful and influential that City Lords were coming to him and begging him to make their territories a part of the Istarin Empire. Although this meant that they would need to pay a part of their income to the Istarin Empire, it was still worth it to them. After all, the central region of the Beast Continent was more chaotic and wild than the Northern region of the Beast Continent. Because of this region, no city in the central region was truly safe. The city lords that came here today were weak. They were really struggling to defend their cities from outside attacks. If this continued like, then sooner or later some other clan would defeat them and kick their clans out and would take over their cities and rule them instead. Rather than accepting this inevitable fate, the city lords came here today to seek refuge from the Istarin Emperor. Right now, no one would want to mess with the current Istarin Empire. If they willingly joined the Istarin Empire and served the Dragon Monarch, then in the future they won't have to worry about anyone daring to invade a territory of the Istarin Empire.

While also doing this, they would also gain access to the vast and almost seemingly endless resources of the Empire to develop their territories. Not to mention, the current Emperor was kind and caring to his people. In their eyes, this was a win-win situation. Meanwhile, Aditya will expand his Empire to the Beast Continent and will have a strong presence in the Beast Continent. After coming to Lionrock City and seeing just how much the city had changed in just 10 days, they were now even more willing to join the Istarin Empire. ----------------