Yao Clan Winged People Autonomous Association

Lu Yao drank his tea and looked at the lines of text on the screen.

The announcer, Chesia, revealed that the hierarchy in the Time Stop Zone was even stricter than in the Divine Domain.

Over there, Feathered One Monarchs regularly plundered and expelled Dukes, while dealing with weaker Winged Warriors was even simpler and cruder: they killed them. As long as they dared appear near their territory, they were treated as enemies.

It was not that Monarchs showed mercy to Dukes, but that killing a Duke was much harder, and Dukes could usually escape.

"This tradition has existed for a long time. On the surface, it displays martial strength and deters the outside world, but it also cuts off the path for low-ranking Feathered Ones to become Monarchs."

Chesia explained, "The birth of a new Monarch requires the support and loyalty of a Curse Worm group. This loyalty triggers a special Curse Decree called a Blood Oath."

"Under normal circumstances, a swarm of curse worms can be conscripted by any Feathered One. They're like commoners and mercenaries in the Divine Domain. Any ruler with power and strength can forcibly bring them under their command."

"But a Monarch's Blood Oath is an exception. Only one clan can possess the Blood Oath and obtain the power of a Monarch Feathered One's bloodline. They can grow and awaken faster, and may even transform and evolve. After receiving the baptism of the Blood Oath, their chances of advancing into Feathered Ones are also greater."

"But obtaining the Blood Oath also comes at a price. They can only ever be loyal to their own Monarch, cannot be conscripted by other Feathered Ones, and other Curse Decrees have no effect on them. They are also every Monarch's most central attendants and Engineers, the most reliable