Chapter 979 – Hearing Your Voice (1/2)
Chapter 979 – Hearing Your Voice
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
After hearing the Demon Lord's words, Luoluo walked to the edge of the observation platform and quietly pondered this question.
The damp winds from the Red River shifted about the warm mists on White Emperor City's streets, refreshing the people within.
She remembered that she had once discussed a similar question with her teacher in the Orthodox Academy, but she had forgotten what her teacher had said.
How should she choose?
At this moment, the ritual music from Whalefall Platform suddenly stopped. Several furious strands of Qi soared to the heavens, and then she sensed fierce quaking.
A battle had suddenly occurred within the Beast Guard in charge of guarding the Imperial City and been quickly suppressed.
The little flowers on the ground trembled. The distant stone steps were dyed red and she could make out several Beast Guards being dragged away, though it was not possible to see whether they were dead or alive.
Before these Beast Guards had been suppressed, they had shouted a few words that Luoluo had heard loud and clear.
”Her Highness cannot be married!” They were willing to die in order to give voice to these words.
Luoluo turned to the Demon Lord and said, ”I will not marry you.”
The Demon Lord asked, ”Just because of these foolish and loyal guards?”
Luoluo explained, ”It has some relation, but the more important reason is that I do not like you, so how can I marry you?”
The Demon Lord considered this response, then answered, ”These words are very reasonable. I cannot find any words to refute them.”
Luoluo noted, ”But they won't make you back off.”
”Correct. I will still marry you, even if you don't love me. Because marriage, especially the marriage between you and me, is related to the rivers and mountains as beautiful as a painting, is related to the peace of the continent. It is related to many things, but it is only with regards to love that it has no relationship.”
The Demon Lord calmly gazed at her and added, ”In addition, the day we are married, I will kill Xuanyuan Po as a present to you.”
Luoluo's complexion paled.
If this marriage alliance could not be broken, he would not need to personally act, only make a request, and Xuanyuan Po would die.
Because this was the sincerity that the Demon race had the right to demand from White Emperor City.
Although Xuanyuan Po was a member of the Bear tribe, his more important identity was that of a student of the Orthodox Academy.
If the demi-humans killed Xuanyuan Po, then with Chen Changsheng's personality, there would be no means to reconcile the two sides.
The demons could bring up even more conditions, like a massacre in the Great Zhou embassy and the Daoist Church of the Western Wastes. They could also make it impossible for the humans and demi-humans to ever be at peace, but if this was done, the situation on the continent would rapidly deteriorate, which was something neither the demons nor demi-humans were willing to see.
In this aspect, the Demon Lord was not lying. He truly did hope for peace.
At least until he and his race could regain their strength.
The blood on the steps was quickly cleaned up by the laborers and palace maids.
The ritual music started up again from Whalefall Platform.
Several Grand Scholars of the Demi-human Court and important ministers of the various pavilions split into two lines and walked out of the hall.
The bright yellow edict was placed on a cinnabar plate and then was taken with both hands by the highest-ranked official in the Imperial City.
Madam Mu walked up to Luoluo, her expression solemn. Just like the images of ocean spray woven in black and gold on her robes, she was gorgeous and majestic.
Luoluo said, ”Mother.”
Madam Mu said, ”My daughter is about to married. I truly am rather reluctant.”
When she said this, her expression was very calm, both a sign of her resolve and that she would not tolerate refusal.
”I will not marry.”
Luoluo's voice was also very calm, a sign of her resolve and that she would not accept.
Madam Mu looked at her and said, ”You should be well aware that the ancestral spirits accepted him yesterday.”
Luoluo replied, ”The ancestral spirits accepted him, but I will not, because the person being married off is me, not the ancestral spirits.”
Madam Mu asked, ”Even if he is Heaven's Chosen?”
Luoluo replied, ”The one the heavens chose is not the one that I choose, so there is no meaning to it.”