If the lord refused the challenge or lost, it would use an evil spell to cause destruction to the farmlands and scatter diseases.
Being offered as a sacrifice to such an Evil Being would be more miserable than staying here.
“But it will be different this time.”
At Ulric’s calm tone, the Female Bishop bit her lower lip.
“Ten years have passed, yet your personality hasn’t changed.”
Saying that, the Female Bishop suddenly knelt.
“His Royal Highness, the Crown Prince.
From now on, I will speak not as a cleric, but as Diana Mox, your loyal subject.
In truth, Your Highness has a third choice.”
“…!”
“Please, choose the third option.”
Ulric was a little surprised.
Her bringing up a third choice never happened in the original story.
It was likely a third choice that appeared because Ulric had changed his destiny.
Ulric thought he knew what that choice was.
“Are you telling me to become the emperor?”
“Yes.”
“I refuse.”
Ulric was originally the Crown Prince slated for the Imperial Succession.
He was one of the Five Dark Knights who killed all the Imperial Family, and also the only remaining bloodline of the Imperial Family.
‘This is also the reason why those bastards, The Three Kings, are trying to send me as a sacrifice in such a cumbersome and secretive way instead of killing me directly.’
The bizarre ‘Feudal System’ remained even after the emperor died and the empire was divided.
Therefore, the kings could never directly kill the emperor’s bloodline.
Because their loyalty contracts wouldn’t disappear even if the empire perished.
So The Three Kings secretly locked Ulric in the Time Prison, trying to slowly crush him to death with the power of time.
But Ulric didn’t die despite being locked up for nearly ten years.
His mind had only somewhat withered, and his level had decreased to 1.
That was why The Three Kings were trying to kill him indirectly this time by sending him to the Tower of Sacrifice.
In other words, The Three Kings were also vicious bastards.
Diana felt like her insides were going to burst.
“You only need to say one word to live!
If you just make a declaration to take the Imperial Succession…!”
“Stop.”
Ulric spoke firmly.
“There is a grave reason why I carried out the “execution” on the Imperial Family.”
“What is that reason!!”
Diana asked back, her voice tearing from her throat.
The only ones who knew the sole reason Ulric exterminated the Imperial Family were the Five Dark Knights, including Ulric.
“I will not answer.”
He couldn’t say it because bishop Diana might Go Mad if she heard the truth.