Rise Of Void Dragons - Chapter 21

Ignoring Wang Ming on the side, Elder Chen said to Ning Qiang, “Your Majesty, as I said earlier, there are two ways to treat Princess Jinying. But it comes down to you and Little Ming to choose which method to use.”

“Go ahead, Elder Chen. We all are listening.” Ning Qiang said solemnly. Although he was excited that there’s a method for the treatment of Jinying, he needs to think everything thoroughly. He can’t do things irrationally.

Saving his daughter was important for him. But, he needs to thoroughly analyse the method of treatment and not make any haste.

Elder Chen smiled after seeing the patience of the Dragon King present in front of him. There are very people who can remain calm in cases where their kins are directly involved.

This should be the nature of a good king.

“The first method is to kill Little Ming and use his soul and blood as medicine for the treatment. This method is the safest method we have in our hand. As everyone here knows, Little Ming’s body was able to absorb the power of the Dragon God Fruit, so nothing in this world can compare to Little Ming’s body in terms of medicinal power.”

Everyone in the room, “…”

To talk about killing someone and using their bones, blood and even soul as medicine, in front of him? Is everything alright with Elder Chen?

Although we are dominant Dragons, we aren’t goons who kill innocent people openly and moreover, we don’t say that loud in front of our target.

On the other side of the room, Wang Ming felt like a vibrator was inserted into him after entering this room. Every word that comes out from the mouth of these elders was able to shake his body thoroughly.

His body and soul shook uncontrollably, ‘Heck! Can anything be crueller than this? And you asked for my cooperation in this? Should I write a suicide note to clear you from charges of murder?’

“Everyone, don’t misunderstand me. I am not jesting on this matter, nor am I being cruel. This matter really involves getting genuine permission from Little Ming.” Knowing what was going on in the mind of everyone present here, Elder Chen shook his head and tried to explain.

“Everyone here knows about the effects of grievance of the soul. If we use Little Ming’s soul without his permission, not only we will not be able to treat Princess Jinying, we might even kill her soul.”

“Ah so that’s the matter.” After Elder Chen’s explanation was over, everyone came to a realisation.

Elder Chen, The High Priest of the Ning Royal Clan, turned towards the now stable Wang Ming, “Little Ming, I know it’ll be sad for your family and friends. But you ate our Dragon God Fruit. It was truly important for us to treat His Majesty’s Second Daughter, Princess Jinying. Do you agree with my method?”

“I..” Wang Ming opened his mouth to speak but he wasn’t able to speak. The scenes of his friends secretly helping him, his parents taking care of him since childhood, etc. All flooded his mind, making him incapable of thinking and making his decision.

Didn’t I want to join Luo Qiqi in the heavens? Why am I hesitating?

Was my love for her not true? Or my feelings for her have also died down in these two years of separation?

How can this be?

An internal struggle started inside him. Making him review all his actions in the past two years. Making him rethink about the things he still needs to do. Making him doubt his love and feelings.

You can call for death whenever you want. But when real death is right in front of you, making you choose between life and death, you’ll face what’s real and what’s an illusion.

His love for Luo Qiqi was as real as this world. But his way of thinking about his love was as fake as life itself.

Why did Qiqi save him over her own life? To let him live longer, to let him grow stronger and to let him treasure his life.

But what did he do? Did he live according to her expectations? Did he satisfy her wishes?

He can’t answer that!

However, when he was struggling between his thoughts, a majestic voice which he hadn’t heard for the last few minutes, reverberated in the room.

“Elder Chen, I pass on this method. Please tell me another method.”

Everyone was shocked. Didn’t his majesty order before to take away the life of the thief? Why did he back down now?

Elder Gu, who was standing in the group, chuckled, “May I know, why his majesty is going back on his own words? And moreover, this is the safest method in my hand. Are you really not opting for it?”

“Hmm I am sure I will not choose this method,” Ning Qiang said solemnly, “And I am not going back on my own words. I said to kill the thief. But, this boy here is innocent. Even though he ate the Dragon God Fruit, it was an unintentional act.”

“Killing innocents for my own greed is not what my ancestors taught me and is also not what I want to teach my children.”

Listening to his answer, everyone fell silent, including Wang Ming.

At this time someone clapped and chuckled. He was non-other than High Priest.

“Your majesty, you made a good choice. Now I’ll tell you the second method.” Elder Chen chuckled lightly as if he expected this outcome.