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Chapter 678 Old fourth, is that you?
Chapter 678 Old fourth, is that you?
Chapter 678 Old fourth, is that you?
678 Old fourth, is that you?
When they came to their senses and the white light faded, the first thing that hit the ones that survived was the smell of blood.
When their vision cleared, they saw the red that was all around them.
There was blood and pieces of humans that were scattered all around them,
The ones that didn't have stomachs that were as strong couldn't take this and threw up when they saw this.
The ones that had stronger stomachs just looked around them at the scene of carnage that was there.
The explosion definitely wasn't weak based on the scene in front of them.
The first prince was the one that reacted first as he looked around and said, "What happened? Where's the Wyvern Stone?"
Even though he had almost lost his life as a result of this explosion, he was still thinking about the Wyvern Stone.
The other princes looked around as well, but not a single one of them were able to find a thing.
That pure white stone had completely disappeared.
"Did you really think that there's such a thing in this world?"
A voice suddenly rang out which shocked all of the princes that were still alive.
That was because this was a voice that they would recognize no matter what.
This was the voice of the person who had been putting pressure on them the entire time.
If it wasn't for this person, they wouldn't have had such a hard time in their path to the throne.
But for some reason, they couldn't seem to pinpoint where this voice was coming from.
After a moment of silence, the first prince knitted his brows and said, "Old fourth, is that you?"
All of the princes remained silent as they waited for the answer.
There was a chuckle that seemed to come from all around them before the voice said, "Does it matter?"
The first prince couldn't help knitting his brows even more when he heard this, but he still said, "Old fourth, why are you doing this? Don't you know how sad our royal father will be when he hears of this?"
"Ha, ha, ha." Laughter rang out after he said this before the fourth prince's voice suddenly turned cold as he said, "You're talking about how sad our royal father will be? Have you ever thought of your own actions and how they hurt our royal father?"
The first prince revealed a confused look when he heard this.
Not only him, all of the other princes revealed confused looks.
After all, in their minds, they thought that they had acted as perfect princes that gave their father no reason to hate them.
Yet now, the fourth prince was saying that they had done things to shame their royal father?
After a moment of silence, the first prince shouted, "Nonsense! We've done everything that we could to bring honour to our royal father's name!"
There was a sigh that answered the first prince after he said this.
Along with that sigh, the fourth prince said, "You fools really believe what you're saying, which just makes it worse."
"Fools?" The princes muttered under their breaths before losing it.
The fourth prince just ignored all of this as he said, "Get it all out of your system since none of you will be making it back alive after today."
The princes suddenly fell silent when they heard this.
They looked at each other with blank dismay before looking at the corpses around them. As they looked at these corpses, they could feel a chill running down their spines.
The reality of their situation started to sink in and they started to feel the fear of the situation.
They could tell that the fourth prince was serious about killing them.
So they immediately cast down their pride and started begging for their lives.
At the same time, they gave silent orders to their soldiers to find a way out for them.
The first prince had the biggest change as he no longer acted as prideful as he did before. Instead, he said, "Fourth brother, is this for the throne? Just spare me, I promise I will never contend against you for the throne again."
The other princes started promising the same thing, though not a single one of them really meant it.
All they cared about was their own lives.
The fourth prince didn't say a thing as they begged for their lives.
During this time, the soldiers found that the entrance that they came from had been completely blocked off. At the same time, it seemed that there wasn't a single other exit to this room at all.
They could try to unblock the entrance that they came from, but it was clear that it would take a long time to unblock it.
The fourth prince wouldn't give them this time to escape.
Since the fourth prince didn't say a single thing, the pressure on them became greater and greater.
It was a feeling of helplessness that they couldn't shake, a helplessness that they had never felt before.
They were princes, so they had been privileged since they had been born.
They had never felt this kind of helplessness where they couldn't even control their own lives…
So there were some that broke under the pressure.
There were some princes that picked up their swords and started slashing at the rocks that blocked the entrance, but they couldn't do a single thing to them. They were spoiled princes, they weren't warriors, so it wasn't as if they could cut through the rocks.
The first prince had been begging for his life the whole time, but he eventually also said, "Fourth prince, just what do you want?!"
He no longer addressed him as 'brother' and just called him out as 'prince'.
It was only then that the fourth prince spoke, "Just giving you a taste of the pain that you've caused the people of this kingdom with your incompetence. But let's end this now."
As soon as his voice fell, there were slits that opened in the walls around them.
Out of those slits were shiny arrowheads that poked out.
"No…"
The princes said, but there wasn't a single thing they could do.