Chapter 1036 Forcing A Deal Over Lang

And once that happened, a faint rumble occurred while the drawings and writings on the ground shone in bright scarlet red light before seeping inside my and his bodies.

“It’s done,” I felt a familiar feeling. A sting pain at my left hand where all the red light went into before vanishing as if nothing happened.

“Do you know why it went into my left hand and vanished? Why did it cause such pain?” I didn’t speak about the cube issue, and instead tried to get a clue from what just happened here.

“It’s the way this world works,” Kong said as he pointed at his left hand, “I also got the same, all of us do. As long as you are a lord and have something bound to your soul just like our blood oath we did, then it will find its way through your body and left arm.”

Something that belonged to me and got bound to my soul? That was weird. So these cubes happened to get bound to my soul then. Yet… What for?

I got part, a small part of the answer. And now I had to wait and gather more info later on.

“Arrange your forces,” I said, “let them handle the defence here.”

“But… At least twenty lords are coming,” Kong moved his eyes towards the direction of Lang, “it’s better if we kill this little bastard or drive him away.”

“No, he still has a purpose to serve,” I didn’t accept what Kong said, even when he said that twenty lord’s armies were drawing close.

“But…”

“I’m Hye by the way,” I said, interrupting him from saying what he wanted to say, “do you know how long before this grand army will arrive here?”

“Well, if we have an advantage then they don’t yet know this jerk is here,” after looking at me for a couple of minutes that ended up with a tired sigh, he said.

“So they are dispersing their forces around and didn’t get a clue about his location? That’s cool.”

“How is it cool? They’ll eventually find their way here! It may take more than two or three hours to do so, but they eventually will.”

“But what if we hid him?”

“Hide him? Here? Lord… They can also track his forces!”

“I’ll take them away.”

“This…”

“I need to scatter forces, and they’ll be the price he’ll have to pay for his safety.”

“But… Will such a jerk accept such terms?”

“He has nothing else but to accept,” I shrugged.

“What if he refused? And refused to move away?”

“Hahahaha, let him do it and he’ll fall right here on our people’s hands.”

“I… Like it this way,” Kong laughed, and I felt he prayed Lang would be stupid to not accept my generous offer.

“Lang, hey you,” and as I finished dealing with Kong, and just as he was unfolding his map over my chariot to start explaining and delivering what he promised, I moved my little girl and shouted at Lang.

“What? Finally got time to speak with me? Let’s talk then…”

“It’s one offer, take or leave it is up to you to decide,” I stopped my chariot just one hundred metres away from him, “either submit yourself, your forces, your land over to me, or I’ll kill you here right now.”

“This…”

“And in return for this, you’ll get to save your head and keep it over your shoulders. What do you think of my offer? Great, isn’t it?”

“You… You are more shameless than I! You didn’t do the same with that bastard over there.”

“He is smart, didn’t let his chance slip away and accepted what was offered to him. Not like a moron who wasted not only one chance but three.”

“This… I…”

“I don’t have time for this. Either accept or refuse, I want to hear your answer right now.”

“Now? Can’t you give me an hour or two perhaps? You see, my head is hurt and I’m extremely tired from all this running and so…”

“Then it’s a no,” I didn’t even listen to what he had to say, turned around and raised my glaive, “ready up, we are going to fight this jerk’s forces and kill them all!”

“No… Wait… I accept it!”

As expected, he didn’t have any other way out of here but to further lower his head and be my lackey.

“Kong, can you write the strictest terms of an oath to bind this naughty fellow please?”

“My pleasure,” and with such an evil smile and laugh, Kong took a paper and a hard pen made out of special ore and started to draw a circle and write many words on it.

“This is for him,” he handed it over to me, “I’ll prepare yours now.”

“Take it and do it to the letter,” I threw the paper over to Lang, who got his face all dark when he read what Kong wrote in his paper.

Seeing this sneaky fellow’s face darken gave me a reassurance about how strong this oath was.

“This is yours,” and in a few minutes, as Lang was drawing in shaky hands, using his blood, to draw the two circles with terms written in between them, Kong finished my paper and gave it to me.

And when I read it, I didn’t find much differences between what Kong wrote and the strongest loyalty contract terms of my world.

Fine! Like this Lang would be kept under my total control.

“Are you done?” I asked after reading through my own terms. Lang was taking his time indeed to write this down.

“One minute,” he said in a shaky tone, “I’m almost done.”

“One minute and one extra second and you’ll end up with your head rolling on the ground.”

“Come on! Give me a break!”

“I can, but your enemies won’t give us any chance for that,” I shook my head, faking how I got enforced in such a situation.

“Tsk… Alright, I’ll get it done now,” he took in a deep breath before continuing to write. And like a man who lost everything and got resigned to such desperate fate, he started to haste his moves and got his part done in a few seconds.