Under the complicated gazes of the crowd, Eric Kermango drew his long sword from the ground and walked up to T 'Challa. He slowly raised his sword and prepared to slash at the kneeling T' Challa.
"No!"
"T 'Challa! Stand up! "
Princess Surui shouted anxiously. The Queen couldn't help but cover her mouth, her eyes filled with horror.
Although the former King T 'Chaka didn't say anything, the nervous expression on his face and anxious eyes said it all.
However, the sacred challenge ceremony couldn't be interrupted. The ceremony would only end when one side surrendered or died. At this moment, T 'Chaka hoped that T' Challa would admit defeat. He didn't care if he lost the throne, but he couldn't lose his son!
"T 'Challa …"
Unfortunately, the stubborn T 'Challa didn't have the slightest intention of admitting defeat. Although he was seriously injured and couldn't get up, his eyes were still filled with unyielding determination.
Just as Eric Kermango raised his long sword and slashed at T 'Challa, a long spear suddenly pierced from the side and blocked his long sword.
Everyone looked at the long spear and found that it was High Priest Zu Li, who had been standing to the side, who had intervened in time and destroyed the challenge ceremony, saving T 'Challa.
Of course, this was also because Eric had held back and hadn't used his full strength. Otherwise, if Eric had used his full strength, Zu Li wouldn't have been able to block it.
"Let him go. If you want to kill someone, kill me. It was because of me that your father died!"
With that, Zu Li let go of the spear in his hand and let it fall into the pool. He looked at Eric with eyes filled with the determination to die.
So many years had passed, but he still couldn't let go of what happened back then. Although he had never admitted it, they were indeed in the wrong.
Today, he would use his life to atone for his sins.
Eric Kermango's eyes flashed with a cold light when he heard this. He stared at Zu Li's eyes. It was as God had said, his father's death was because of Zu Li.
Eric put down the long sword in his hand and walked aggressively towards Zu Li. The immobilized T 'Challa, the Queen, and Princess Su Rui hurriedly shouted to stop him.
"No!"
"Zu Li!"
"No!"
Amidst the anxious shouts of the crowd, Eric walked in front of Zu Li and looked down at him coldly. However, he did not kill him as everyone had expected. Instead, he looked into Zu Li's eyes and asked in a cold voice.
"Do you plead guilty?"
"I'm guilty!"
As Zu Li spoke, he knelt on the ground and lowered his head deeply. The river water reflected his face, which was filled with pain and regret, as well as a hint of relief.
Although he didn't personally kill Prince Nicjob, Nicjob died because of him. Most importantly, he and King T 'Chaka had abandoned Eric Kermango and his mother, leaving them to fend for themselves.
Although Nijob was guilty, his wife and children were innocent. They were the people of Wakanda and deserved to be taken back to Wakanda to get the status, rights, and life they deserved instead of struggling to survive in the slums.
However, because of their own mistakes, they chose to escape and abandoned their own people. This was what he could not forgive himself for. After more than twenty years, regret would still occasionally surge from his heart and torment him.
He had secretly returned without King T 'Chaka's knowledge, wanting to see how the mother and son were doing. However, no matter how hard he tried, he could not find them. It was as if they had completely disappeared from this world.
Zu Li once thought that the two had met with misfortune. Without the protection of her husband and father, it was difficult for the widow and orphan to survive in the chaotic slums. They might have died under the knife of some ruffian who broke into their house to rob them, or they might have been shot dead in some dark corner. Their deaths were all due to their cowardice and avoidance at the beginning!
Zu Li, who returned from America, was completely disheartened. Ignoring T 'Chaka's efforts to persuade him to stay, he resolutely gave up his position as the head of Wakanda's intelligence department, "War Dogs", and threw himself into the embrace of the Panther God, becoming a priest.
When he found out that Eric Kermango was Prince Nicjob's son, Zu Li's emotions were extremely complicated.
So, he didn't die. Zu Li couldn't help but rejoice. This way, he still had a chance to atone for his sins.
Inwardly, Zu Li approved of T 'Chaka's decision to hand over the throne to Eric Kermango. This was what he deserved and what they owed him. Moreover, this was not enough to offset the harm they had done to Eric and the mistakes they had made.
However, T 'Challa had nothing to do with this. After becoming a priest, Zu Li had never married and had no children. He had always watched T' Challa grow up as his own son.
Seeing that T 'Challa was about to die under Eric Kermango's knife for the sake of the throne, Zu Li could no longer care about anything else. He resolutely violated the tradition and rules of the challenge ceremony, extending the priest spear in his hand to block Eric Kermango's long knife and save T' Challa.
T 'Challa was innocent. He shouldn't have been implicated. Zu Li was willing to use his own life to end all of this and make up for his mistakes.
Eric Kermango lowered his head to look at Zu Li kneeling in front of him, then turned to the former King T 'Chaka and asked in a deep voice.
"T 'Chaka!"
"Do you plead guilty?!"
Under the complicated gazes of the crowd, T 'Chaka with a complicated expression slowly stepped into the baptismal pool, arrived in front of Eric, and loudly knelt in the pool.
"Father!"
"T 'Chaka!"
Princess Su Rui and the queen couldn't help but shout.
T 'Challa looked at his father kneeling in front of him with a face full of guilt and remorse. His heart was incomparably tangled. He opened his mouth, but no words came out.
"I am guilty!"
T 'Chaka raised his head to look at Eric Kermango and said in a deep voice. He seemed to see the shadow of his younger brother Nicob on Eric's face. This was his family, his nephew. However, after he accidentally killed his father, because of cowardice, because he didn't dare to face it, he chose to run away, abandoning his mother and son outside, not caring about them for more than twenty years. He was guilty!
Looking at the two people kneeling in front of him, Eric Kermango tightened his grip on the long knife in his hand. Just as T 'Challa's eyes tightened and he braced himself, intending to risk his life to save his father, Eric threw the long knife in his hand into the water and raised his head to say in a loud voice.
"The two of you committed an unforgivable mistake back then!"
"Now, since the two of you have pleaded guilty, I will hand you over to the Council of Elders. The elders of each clan will judge your crimes and give you a fair verdict!"
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