Chapter 613: Bestowal and Unwillingness
When the kneeling young man heard the question that contained a profound implication in it, thousands of thoughts of mixed feelings rose in his heart.
The scenes of the most profound memories of life flashed in Yeegan’s mind. The intense expression of despair, rage, unwillingness, and self-blaming that only a king of a perished nation would have appeared on the face of his father, who ordered him to change into servant’s clothing a few years ago when the king castle was destroyed by the Atandin people. The hopeful look that forever etched in the eyes of his excellent teacher and worthy friend, Holby, who always followed him despite being captured and sold as slaves by the abominable foreign tribe’s chaos army. The greedy faces of the slave merchants who did not give a d.a.m.n when his thin partners were stabbed by the barbarian warriors in the throats because of their cries of panic after the slave s.h.i.+ps sent them to the desolate h.e.l.lfire islands. The Wizard Li G.o.d’s inexplicable smile when he risked his life to see the G.o.d to borrow an army to resurrect his nation after he put in great effort to become a Holy See knight when the Wizard Li’s expeditionary army raided the Green Leaf Mainland and gained a strong foothold on the mainland. The ecstatic cheers and shouts of his compatriots who had been persecuted by the foreign tribes when he ascended the Skybeast that was as big as a city to lead tens of thousands of army to return to his ancestral habitat that was thousands of miles away and raided his first oasis in the desolate corner of Songee Desert…
Yeegan fell into a moment of silence before answering dryly, “Great G.o.d, the reason I present myself in front of you is to grant you with the devout faith of millions of the sand people and ask your Holy See in the mortal world to take over all the oases I recovered.”
When Zhang Lisheng heard that the reason why Yeegan, who decided to disguise himself to meet with him, was to give up his authority, a subtle change suddenly could be seen on his expression.
After a moment of silence, he said, “Knight Yeegan, you had a vengeful battle against the Atandin people in Songee Desert by just relying on 50,000 paladins and managed to gain the support of millions of sand people in a short time. You have shaken the Atandin palace and tied the limbs of the Atandin people, causing them to be unable to join the mainland coalition forces. You have accomplished a merit great enough for me to bestow a land to you. However, the world of the theocratic world that I created can never retain the aristocratic cla.s.s of the feudal lord, so I can’t let you restore your country. However, as a G.o.d known for his generosity, I’ll not be stingy to a believer who has a prominent accomplishment. I’ll grant you the status of a chief priest, and Songee Desert will be designated as your parish in the future.”
