"You don't want me to kill it?" Angor already sensed Gentle Wind's arrival. However, the creature had been hiding, so Angor pretended not to notice.
He thought Gentle Wind would stay hidden until the battle was over. Angor did not expect Gentle Wind to show up halfway.
If Gentle Wind chose this moment to show up, it must have something to ask. Considering the current situation, it was not hard to guess what it was.
On the other side, Gentle Wind Uranus was a little surprised by the question. Angor did not mention its identity. He only asked the question casually, but Gentle Wind knew that Angor must have already recognized it. Angor's question was cold and emotionless. Perhaps it was a multiple-choice question, or a statement?
Soft Wind Uranus sighed in his heart. He was a little regretful that he did not bring Master Camus with him. Camus was wise enough to know what to say at this moment without offending Angor and saving Harry's life.
Yes, Gentle Wind did not want Harry to die.
Although Harry came with malicious intent, Soft Wind Uranus knew that as wind creatures, even if one of them was defeated, they wouldn't do anything to the core members of the Wind Elemental Alliance.
It was a delicate balance, but also a tacit understanding between the two races.
No matter if it was Soft Wind Uranus or Harry Ken, they were both the pillars of the wind creatures. Ordinary wind creatures couldn't compare to them. They were the pillars of the Wind Tribe. If any one of them collapsed, the Wind Tribe, which was already in a precarious situation, would become even weaker. And once they were weakened, other elemental creatures would surely attack them mercilessly.
When that happened, even the Verdant Plain, which was like a brother to White Cloud Village, would become a predator.
This tacit understanding was not only shared by wind creatures, but also other elemental creatures.
Gentle Wind did not mind watching Angor kill other wind creatures. However, when Harry was about to die, Gentle Wind still wanted to save him.
"Yes. As a wind creature, I can't bear to see him fall. Please forgive me, Mister Padt. " Gentle Wind bowed to Angor. He knew he was not good with words. He only hoped that Angor could see his sincerity through Mister Feng's human etiquette.
Seeing Gentle Wind bowing to him, Angor was a little surprised as well. It had seen a few monarchs from the Tide Realm. The others might have some quirks, but at least they looked dignified. This Soft Wind Monarch, on the other hand, didn't have the dignified aura of a monarch.
Furthermore, Soft Wind Uranus was very special.
Not only did they look like humans, but they also behaved like humans. Also, Gentle Wind and the harp in Uranus' hand … Angor could tell that it was made by a human. The traces of human life were completely exposed on Soft Wind Uranus.
Maybe it was because of Feng's influence?
Ulanos assumed that Angor had something else in mind since he didn't get an answer. Or maybe Angor wanted something else? Thinking about the principles mentioned by Mr. Feng, it seemed to understand.
"Of course, it's a little rude to ask you to let it go for nothing. As the leader of White Cloud Village, I will definitely give you a satisfactory compensation. "
Angor's mind was still wandering. He didn't expect Gentle Wind to suddenly mention compensation.
Looking at Gentle Wind's thoughtful eyes, Angor had a strange feeling that the creature might have misunderstood something.
When he first asked Uranus, he didn't expect Uranus to say anything. He just wanted to do him a favor. After all, this was someone else's territory. Angor could at least respect the owner's opinion. Besides, he also had something to ask of Gentle Wind. Of course, he wanted to use this chance to do Gentle Wind a favor so that he could carry out his task better.
However, he did not know what Ulanos the Gentle Wind was imagining that he was a man with endless needs.
Angor knew that Gentle Wind misunderstood him, but he didn't try to correct it. He only wanted to do Gentle Wind a small favor. Now, it seemed that he could get something bigger in return. Why not? At most, he would change his image a little.
"Sure." Angor nodded calmly.
Gentle Wind's eyes brightened up. It let out a long sigh of relief. It was worried that Angor would raise the price. After all, someone who could turn the three Wind Generals into illusion nodes was not easy to negotiate with. However, Angor agreed so easily, which made Gentle Wind feel like it was a great bargain.
Gentle Wind's expression brightened up. "Then I'll deal with Harry?"
Angor nodded nonchalantly.
Without hesitation, Gentle Wind walked to Harry's side. Harry heard their conversation, and its despairing eyes brightened up. It was not afraid of death, but it didn't want to die if it could.
When Soft Wind Uranus was dealing with Harry, he didn't talk to Harry directly. Instead, he used the wind to communicate with him secretly.
Angor noticed this too, but he didn't care. It didn't matter if the wind was criticizing him in their minds.
Compared to that, Angor was more interested in the reason why Gentle Wind saved Harry's life.
Angor didn't know about the mutual understanding between wind creatures, so he could only conclude that it was Gentle Wind's personal behavior.
After all, whether it was Mr. Magoo or Wise Man Bitter Platinum, they all said that Gentle Wind Uranos was a gentle person.
Gentle to the extreme could turn someone into a Virgin Mary.
In Angor's opinion, Gentle Wind saved Harry's life because it suddenly overflowed with the heart of a Virgin Mary.
If Angor knew the real reason why Gentle Wind saved Harry's life, he would definitely stop calling Gentle Wind a Virgin Mary. However, he would still scoff at it. Mutual understanding between wind creatures? Worried about being invaded by other elemental creatures? When the Tidal Realm was still a sealed world, these conflicts might have become the main topic of war in the Tidal Realm. However, once the Tidal Realm opened up, the conflicts on the outside would quickly unify the Tidal Realm. When that happened, the conflicts between elemental creatures would quickly decrease, and the conflicts between elemental creatures and outsiders would quickly escalate.
Angor planned to maintain a good relationship between Brute Cavern and the Tidal Realm so that the humans and elemental creatures in Brute Cavern could live in harmony. However, Brute Cavern still couldn't monopolize this world. There would always be outsiders coming in. Even if Brute Cavern set up rules, there would always be people who wanted to break the rules. When that happened, a lot of external conflicts would arise due to race, interests, civilization, and needs.
The increase of external factors would lead to fewer internal conflicts. Therefore, Gentle Wind didn't need to worry about Harry's death and the collapse of the wind creature's pillar.
However, Gentle Wind didn't know about the future yet, so he could only act according to the current situation.
…
At the center of the black whirlwind.
Perhaps the secret conversation between Uranus and Hareken worked. Hareken did not resist. Eventually, the black whirlwind gradually disappeared, and Hareken's huge body was confined by Uranus into a small green translucent bottle.
The bottle wasn't a real object. It was a special cage created by Gentle Wind using his own wind.
Harry was now a small black-spotted halfling inside the bottle. At first glance, he looked like an elf trapped in a magic lamp in a fairy tale.
Gentle Wind brought the bottle to Angor and showed him the bottle to show his gratitude.
Inside the small bottle, Harriken also looked at Angor.
Harry's fierce look was replaced by a coward when he saw Angor's calm eyes. Harry was confident that he could defeat Angor in a one-on-one fight, so he did not want to accept Angor's victory. However, when he looked into Angor's eyes, he suddenly realized that the human creature he had been looking down upon all this time did not seem to care about him at all.
Harriken knew that this was not contempt or contempt, but a kind of indifference from the bottom of his heart. It was as if they didn't care about the same situation at all.
In the end, Harry did not dare to look into Angor's eyes again. Instead, he was taken into Gentle Wind's pocket.
After putting away Hariken, Soft Wind Uranus looked at Lobber on the other side.
The three-headed poodle's eyes were still dazed. He was still trapped in his illusion.
Gentle Wind looked at Loebel's tail. He knew who Loebel was, and he also knew that Loebel's tail looked like a wise man.
It wasn't easy for a wise man to be born. Gentle Wind wanted to beg for mercy for Loebel, but he already asked for Harry's mercy before. He was not close enough to Angor to ask for mercy again, so he didn't have the right to do so.
For this reason, Gentle Wind gave up. However, there were still so many wind creatures in the illusion, including Loebel. Gentle Wind wanted to know what Angor was going to do with them.
"There are still many wind creatures from Storm Mountain. How do you plan to deal with them, mister?" Gentle Wind asked.
Angor glanced at Gentle Wind Uranus in surprise. He had already begun to think of Gentle Wind as the Virgin Mary. According to the Holy Mother's personality and behavior, shouldn't she be pleading for mercy now?
But judging from Gentle Wind's words, it seemed that Gentle Wind was going to let Angor deal with the trapped wind creatures.
Was Gentle Wind really going to let them go? Or was Gentle Wind trying to trick him?
Angor wasn't sure what was going on with Gentle Wind, but he already had a plan for how to deal with the wind creatures.
The wind creatures showed great hostility toward Angor and his companions from the beginning. If they were strong enough, they would have been killed already. Angor could forgive one or two of them for Gentle Wind's sake, but he didn't plan to forgive all of them.
Since Gentle Wind was implying that Angor would let him deal with them, Angor decided to do as he wished.
Angor didn't hide his plan and told Gentle Wind how to deal with the wind creatures.
Killing them directly was not only a waste, but also unnecessary.
What he really wanted was to make full use of the remaining value of the treasures.
His first thought was to find an elemental partner among the wind creatures. He needed a fire elemental partner more, but he still needed to study wind element in the future. It wouldn't be a bad idea to find one in advance.
But on second thought, he decided against it. Elemental companions required telepathy. Some Wizards even had to attach their elemental companions to their own body when they wanted to cultivate their elemental body. This required a very high degree of trust.
Of course, this was a special case. Most wizards would only let their elemental spirits possess them when they slowly cultivated them. But it also proved that a wizard and an elemental needed to trust each other.
Angor didn't think he could find such a person among the wind creatures.
After putting aside his idea of finding an elemental partner for now, Angor considered for a moment and decided to make use of the wind creatures' value by signing a contract with them.
It wasn't a symbiotic contract like the one he used for elemental partners.
It was Ding Yuan's Mork Oath.
The core of Ding Yuan's Mork Oath was: "Fulfill all requests of the other party while preserving your personal freedom and potential."
Under the influence of the oath, Angor could make the elemental creatures do as he wished. He could also slowly infuse his will and the value of Brute Cavern into the Tidal Realm creatures.
If necessary, he could even use them as a blade to do some cleaning work for him.
Gentle Wind Uranus sighed in relief. At least Angor didn't want to kill the wind creatures. That was good enough.
However, after knowing the details of Ding Yuan's Morko Vow, Soft Wind Uranus frowned and said, "I'm very grateful for your kindness, sir, but I don't think many wind creatures will agree to this contract."
"Why?" Ding Yuan's Mork Oath was already very lenient. The fact that he didn't use the Oath of Rod was already very generous.
"Because … they're wind …"
Following Gentle Wind Uranus' explanation, Angor began to understand what Gentle Wind meant.
Among all elemental creatures, wind creatures were the ones who pursued freedom the most. Ding Yuan's Mork Oath might seem lenient, but it was definitely a mental torture for these creatures who pursued freedom. Even if he didn't ask them to do anything, the oath was still like a chain that shackled their lives and constantly consumed their natural instincts.
When the pressure reached a certain point, they would rather die than be bound by the oath.
"In other words, even if they agree to the oath now, they will become a burning candle in the future, which will burn away their will until the day they can't stand it anymore."
Gentle Wind Uranus wasn't asking for mercy. He was just stating a fact that Angor didn't consider.
Angor considered and realized that Gentle Wind Uranus had a point.
In his opinion, Ding Yuan's Mork Oath was lenient because it "preserved personal freedom and future potential". However, for wind creatures, it was their natural instinct to seek absolute freedom. Absolute freedom might not exist in this world, but it was possible for them to seek it. Once they were shackled forever, they would lose their desire for freedom. When their natural instincts were suppressed, they wouldn't have any "future potential" to speak of.
In other words, using Ding Yuan's Mork Oath on wind creatures was no different from using the Oath of Rod.
Angor considered and said, "How about this. Ding Yuan's Mork Oath is still the same, but I'll add a time limit."
"Twenty years."
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