Chapter 319: Unconventional Talk
Maclean Lyons was accompanied by over a dozen generals, and Ashby was closely guarded by eleven elder statesmen and a five-thousand-strong imperial guard that he had brought from the capital!
Only Sean stood alone!
Brandishing the Wolf’s Massacre, he charged forth single-handedly, leading the charge. In front and behind him, a combined force of a hundred and fifty thousand soldiers, along with countless venomous creatures and ferocious beasts. Sean, amidst them all, was like a solitary leaf in a vast sea of people. The moment the army embarked, the very earth beneath them seemed to tremble violently.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The hundred-thousand-strong army marched in unison, each step they took was deafening!
Time!
Every minute and second continued to slip away!
The two armies!
Step by step, they were closing in on each other!
Twenty minutes!
It took nearly twenty minutes to reach the pre-arranged negotiation table!
Sean raised his right hand!
Suddenly!
The hundred-thousand-strong army halted their march, the front-line soldiers were only a hundred meters away from the negotiation table. It was as if a torrential flood had abruptly come to a stop right in front of the table!
On the other side!
Led by Gloydius and others, the barbarian army also arrived at the southern side of the negotiation table. Five towering tiger generals, each muscular and robust, each holding a chilling trident, each riding a ferocious Black Rhino Tiger!
Sean had met Gloydius and his three companions the night before, so he knew the other two he had not met were Lynx and Cheetah!
Behind them!
Fifty thousand barbarian soldiers and innumerable venomous creatures and ferocious beasts, all stopped a hundred meters from the negotiation table!
The two armies stood off against each other!
The tension in the air was palpable!
“Crown Prince!”
“General Mason!”
“General Lyons!”
Gloydius was the first to speak, “Please!”
Although Sean was the commander-in-chief of the army, Gloydius still put Ashby first, after all, in Gloydius’s heart, he had always belonged to Ashby. It was not yet time to turn against him, so he naturally gave face to Ashby!
“Please, gentlemen!”
Ashby responded immediately, unable to hide his excitement. He glanced at Sean and the cold killing intent in his eyes almost spilled out!
It was coming!
It was coming!
After three days of waiting, careful planning, the moment to assassinate Sean was finally about to come!
Sean, however, was not so excited!
These past few days!
Sean had been thinking about Cecilia and Phyllis, worrying about the safety of the mother and daughter, and did not pay much attention to this hunting expedition!
Next!
Sean, Ashby, and Maclean Lyons, followed by the dozen generals and the eleven elder statesmen, ascended the negotiation platform first!
No choice!
Sean’s fighting power was too terrifying, Ashby couldn’t do without their protection!
On the other side!
Gloydius and the others each brought three elder statesmen, a total of twenty people!
The negotiation platform was about two meters high!
About a hundred meters long!
In the middle were tables and chairs and pens and papers!
Once on the negotiation platform, Sean took the initiative and sat straight down in the middle of the north side of the negotiation table, with Maclean Lyons sitting on his left side, and to the left of Lyons, the generals under his command!
As for Ashby…
Originally!
As Sean’s deputy, Ashby should have sat next to Sean, just like Maclean Lyons, on Sean’s right side, but clearly, Ashby didn’t have the courage!
So!
After hesitating slightly, Ashby turned and sat in the far right position, letting the eleven elder statesmen sit between him and Sean, keeping a great distance from Sean!
As far away as possible!
In this way!
The situation on the scene was that Sean was surrounded by Maclean Lyons and the elder statesmen, with Ashby on his own!
It looked a bit strange…
What was even stranger!
The five tiger generals of Gloydius’s side were each in their own world, not sitting together. For example, Gloydius, he sat in the middle, letting the three elder statesmen accompanying him sit on his left and right!
The other four tiger generals were the same!
As if they were five independent teams!
It gave the impression that these five tiger generals didn’t trust or unite with each other as much as they appeared to!
Lynx took a seat opposite the generals under the command of Maclean Lyons!
After noticing Ashby’s unusual behavior, Cheetah headed straight towards him, decisively taking a seat opposite Ashby!
Furthermore!
As they sat down, Cheetah subtly gave Ashby a glance, as if to say: “Your Highness, I’m here with you! I’m here to protect you!”
Upon seeing this, Ashby’s face turned green with anger!
Damn it! What a treacherous traitor!
Betrayer!
Betraying me and secretly colluding with that bastard Sean is one thing, but how dare you brazenly sit in front of me? And even dare to blatantly wink and flirtatiously look at me???
Is this a provocation???
Damn it!
Ashby himself was a perfect practitioner of the Dark Realm, his teeth gritted, dark energy surging within him, already struggling to restrain his desire to kill!!!
However! Meeting Ashby’s icy gaze, feeling the overwhelming murderous intent emanating from Ashby, Cheetah was suddenly stunned, three black lines appearing on his forehead, a series of question marks popping up above his head!
??????
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But! Before Cheetah could ask, Gloydius, sitting opposite Sean, took the initiative to speak: “General Mason, you propose peace. I wonder, is there enough sincerity?”
The negotiation! It officially began!
With the sound of Gloydius’s voice, everyone’s nerves tensed up in an instant!
“Oh?”
Sean irritably retorted: “What sincerity do you want?”
“Revenge!”
Gloydius said solemnly: “The Beast King is the Lord of Fort South, the King of the Barbarians, our faith and leader!”
“He went to the capital to wed, but lost his life here!”
“We want to know!”
“How did the Beast King and our three tiger generals die?”
Feigning ignorance!
“I killed them!”
Sean was straightforward, admitting it directly!
Then! He asked: “Is my head what you want for sincerity?”
In an instant! Everyone was taken aback by Sean’s words, including Ashby. Ashby initially thought that, surrounded by both armies, Sean wouldn’t be so foolish or so audacious!
However! With surprise, a grim smile appeared on Ashby’s lips, because the more arrogant Sean was now, the more he could ignite the anger of the barbarian army, and the sooner he would die!
“It seems!”
“General Mason does not plan to negotiate?”
Gloydius stared at Sean, his pupils slightly contracted. Honestly, he was a bit surprised. According to the plan, during the negotiation, Sean was supposed to go back and forth with him, naturally leading to a breakdown and then a battle!
But! Sean did not act according to plan. His words were so blunt, so arrogant, that he skipped the entire back-and-forth process! A few words brought the atmosphere to a freezing point!
Of course, Sean did it on purpose!
He was preoccupied with Cecilia and Phyllis, not in the mood to play along with their act. The sooner he solved the problem here, the sooner he could return to the capital!
So, in response to Gloydius’s question, Sean raised an eyebrow and said in an even more arrogant tone: “Negotiate?”
“Screw your negotiation!”
“I am the General of South, personally appointed by His Majesty!”
“I came to Fort South!”
“To quell the rebellion, to suppress your barbarians, to slaughter you traitors. The only reason I agreed to negotiate with you was to lure you all out of the mountains and then annihilate you all!”
Boom!
Before his words fell, Sean slammed the table, his fist hitting the negotiation table in front of him. Accompanied by a loud crack, the several tens of meters long negotiation table shattered instantaneously!!!