Richard glanced at the thin man standing in front of him, shook his head slightly and said, "I have to say, your actions are very unwise. Because of your strength, you can't kill me at all - in fact, you cut my body open, It didn't cause any harm to me, at most it only damaged the container that contained the things."
As he spoke, he saw Richard's incision turned over. Instead of his internal organs falling out, an energy octopus more than one meter long squeezed out. It was the Gao Ling who had been "captured".
After Gao Ling was "captured", he has been trapped in Richard's specially made sealed body for study. Until recently, the research was basically completed, giving the other party multiple satisfactory souls and transferring the other party into another body.
Richard's plan was to use it as a trump card. If there were any setbacks in Xia Ya, he could use it accordingly.
Who knows, there are twists and turns, but the enemy is too weak, this trump card is not used, and Hongyue dies.
He planned to wait until he left Xia Ya and find a time to release Gao Ling back, but who knew that Shadow would release him in advance.
That's good... Richard thought, touched the wound cut by the shadow with his hand, and quickly recovered, then turned to look at Gao Ling, who was suspicious.
"Our transaction is over, you can leave directly now." Richard said.
"Huh?" Gao Ling was not happy after hearing this, but was surprised. He communicated with his mental fluctuations, "Can I really leave? But... It seems that the originally stipulated time has not arrived yet, about two days away. In addition, you You gave me several extra souls as sacrifices before, but I didn't give you a corresponding reward. Now you want me to go back. How do you calculate this? Is there some conspiracy?"
In the past month, Gao Ling has been deceived many times, resulting in an unprecedented level of vigilance.
Richard smiled bitterly and patiently explained, and finally convinced Gao Ling that there was no conspiracy and really let him go.
"Okay..." Gao Ling agreed reluctantly, then turned around, and the many eyes on the tentacles locked onto the shadow.
"Well, this soul looks a little special and nice. Can I take it with you?" Gao Ling asked.
"If you want." Richard said.
"Very good." Gao Ling responded happily. As soon as he finished speaking, his body expanded suddenly, barely giving the shadow any chance to resist. He rolled up, jumped into the air, opened the passage, and returned to the void with the shadow, disappearing completely. net.
After Gao Ling disappeared and silence returned, Richard looked at the Alliance Emperor again.
At this time, the Alliance Emperor finally lost his composure and couldn't even support his body, so he collapsed on the throne.
The reason for this is that on the one hand, he has lost his last support of the shadow, and on the other hand, there is a man-eating monster hidden in Richard's body, which shocks his spirit too much - he knows that his teacher Hongyue is scary, but with Richard In comparison, he looks like a kind old man. After all, his teacher Hongyue would not stuff any messy things into his body.
The Alliance Emperor looked at Richard, his face pale and his body shaking uncontrollably.
"Are you afraid?" Richard glanced at the Alliance Emperor and said.
The Alliance Emperor did not answer, but asked in a trembling voice: "You... what do you want to do?"
"What do I want to do?" Richard chuckled after hearing this, "Actually, I should ask you this question. Your Majesty, what do you want to do? In other words, what do you and those people behind you want to do? After all, you are the ones who I invited Xia Ya and set a trap to kill me. Now that the plan has failed, shouldn't it be you who confesses everything and seeks leniency?"
"I..." The Alliance Emperor's eyes flashed, as if he had regained some strength, and he confirmed and asked, "You mean, if I say it, you will let me go?"
"This is a choice." Richard showed a thoughtful expression, "However, just confessing is not enough. It depends on what else you can give."
"I... I can pretend that nothing today happened. You are still Lord Sarin, and I promise that the Alliance will not disturb you in any way again." The Alliance Emperor said quickly.
After hearing this, Richard shook his head lightly: "Not enough. What happened today was caused by you, and Shalin is my territory and should not be disturbed. Isn't it right?"
"Then..." The Alliance Emperor hesitated for a moment, bit his lip and said, "Then I can give you another territory. You can choose as you like. I will never refuse."
"It's not enough." Richard still shook his head, "I want more than just territory."
The Alliance Emperor was a little angry: "Then what do you want? Do you want me to give you the throne? Do you want the entire Alliance?"
Then he was surprised to see Richard shaking his head again and said lightly: "It's not enough."
Alliance Emperor: "..." He fell into silence and had nothing to say. After all, he really couldn't think of anything else to give.
At this time, Richard took a deep look at the Alliance Emperor, turned over his hand, and took out a piece of parchment. It was a contract given by the former Alliance Emperor Peter Romanov.
Richard spoke up and said to the Alliance Emperor Byron: "You know, what I am holding in my hand is the promise your father made to me as a reward for helping the Alliance win the national war.
Part of the reward was the books in the Royal Library and the right to read in all alliance libraries. He promised that if I couldn't get it, 'everything from the Soma Alliance can be taken.'
As for this reward, I haven’t gotten it all yet. Some of the books I need are still in the Royal Library. I went there once two days ago and was refused entry. The other official libraries of Chara also blocked me. Access the innermost confidential database. So, theoretically speaking, I can use this to directly obtain the entire Soma Alliance—in name and with the ability to obtain it.
But I thought about it seriously. It doesn't seem to make much sense to really get the entire alliance. It is nothing more than getting more resources, but these resources are not easy to control, and a lot of time and energy must be invested in management - the alliance is not a sarin, the area is too large, there are too many people, and management is very complicated, maybe in For several years, there is no output, only investment.
This is nothing, the most important thing is that the truth behind you will penetrate the alliance so much that even if one leader dies, the remaining people can still cause trouble. It is difficult to find them all, and if one is left behind, there will be endless troubles.
Therefore, getting an alliance is both a gain and a burden. All things considered, I would rather not have it. After all, my demand for resources is not that high at the moment. If the demand is really that high, there will be better solutions. "
"Then just go back to Sarin and pretend that nothing happened." The Alliance Emperor whispered.
"Ha, how is that possible?" Richard laughed, "I can indeed return to Sarin and pretend that nothing happened, but can you do the same, Your Majesty?"
"I can do it." The Alliance Emperor said quickly, with a serious expression.
"But you can't." Richard shook his head and corrected, "If I really go back, the other members of the Truth Society behind you will definitely control you to deal with Sarin. Even if they don't control you, as the emperor, you really can If you can endure a place outside the law, can you really endure an existence that is higher than the imperial power
No, you won't. Even if it doesn't matter on the surface, there will be many tricks secretly. And if I have the means, I have to deal with it, which will be very troublesome. What I hate most is trouble. In order to solve the problem, I have an idea - to solve the problem once and for all. "
"One and a hundred? What do you mean... one and a hundred?" The Alliance Emperor asked nervously, and his premonition was not good.
"It's very simple." Richard responded, "If the alliance ceases to exist, everything will be solved - if I solve the source of the trouble, naturally there will be no more trouble."
"How could the Alliance not exist?!"
"Of course the alliance can cease to exist. First of all, we can start from the simplest first step and make the alliance emperor cease to exist."
The Alliance Emperor's eyes shrank when he heard this: "You want to kill me? But do you know that if you kill me, the entire Alliance will be your enemy!"
"Very good, then all the sources of trouble will be exposed and can be solved all at once." Richard concluded with a smile, "In short, the alliance is a trouble, and I can't get it, because it will become its own trouble - itself. Trouble is harder to solve than external troubles.
I can't just let it go. Although the external troubles are minor, if they are allowed to develop, they can affect me to a great extent. Therefore, I can't get the alliance, and I can't keep the alliance as it is. I can only smash it, destroy it, and make it cease to exist - that's the end of it. The beginning of an end is to end His Majesty. "
"You... you are regicide!" the Alliance Emperor roared, his eyes widening, "You are regicide openly and honestly, if you dare to do this, everyone will have a reason to attack you and betray you, and you will be torn apart. ,you… "
"Shh, Your Majesty, be quiet." Richard made a gesture of silence, looked at the Alliance Emperor and said, "Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty, but those are things that I will worry about in the future, so you don't need to worry. Now? , you just need to sit quietly, sit still, and I will send you to death."
"You!" The Alliance Emperor was stunned and tried to struggle.
Richard's hand fell on the Alliance Emperor's head and he pressed it down expressionlessly.
The Alliance Emperor's body shook, and blood spurted out from his seven orifices like a fountain. It was red at first, then slowly turned black, and finally the blood dried up. The Emperor leaned limply on the throne, motionless.
Richard turned around and looked not far away.
I saw the surviving palace officials, as quiet as ice at this time, looking straight at the dead Alliance Emperor, not daring to move, lest it be their turn next moment. A few unlucky palace officials finally crawled out from the bricks. They were screaming in pain, but now they were silent. Their faces were full of fear, and they didn't know what Richard was going to do next.
Speaking of which, Richard would dare to kill the Alliance Emperor, and he would dare to do anything bold.
But Richard didn't do anything bold. He just glanced at the palace officials and said calmly: "I ask you to keep it secret now and not to tell me about my regicide. You will definitely agree. But I know that as soon as you leave My sight, the confidentiality ends. In addition, even if you keep it secret, you can't hide this matter. In fact, I don't want to hide it.
Therefore, I only ask you to do one thing, and that is to tell as many people as possible what you saw today. Let them know that the regicide is my Lord Sarin, Richard Austin.
If they wish to avenge the Emperor, come to me—come together and come to me, and I will wait for them in Sarin. By the way, remember to remind them that I am very fierce and difficult to deal with. They must be prepared to die before looking for me. Well, that's it.
And in return for doing this, I suggest you look at the sky more... because in the future, such a sky may only exist in memory. "
As Richard spoke, he looked up at the sky.
All the palace officials looked to the sky with doubts and found that today was a good day in summer. The dust raised during the battle has dispersed, and as far as the eye can see, the sky is clear and the sun is shining brightly, which is indeed good.
But other than that, there was nothing special. After all, although the weather was nice, it was just an ordinary day.
They frowned, looked back, and looked at Richard again, looking for an explanation.
Then it was discovered that Richard had disappeared without knowing when.
Only the throne was left in the field of vision. The emperor sat crookedly on the throne, half of his body was covered in blood, his mouth was wide open, and his face was distorted. A pair of red-stained eyes turned upward diagonally, as if they were also staring at the sky, as if they had seen some fragments of the future through life and death, traveling through time, and were terrified and screaming about it.
The palace officials looked at each other with flustered and confused expressions, and there was a dead silence.
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ps: The third small volume of this large volume, "Regicide", is over.