"Were we really just going to let him go?"
Only after Zhu Jiu left did Thor voice the question in his heart.
Xu Kun shrugged. "What else? Was I really supposed to kill him?"
Killing Zhu Jiu was much the same as killing Xu Kun. Xu Kun could not be killed; once he was, the myriad races might be plunged into continuous war.
Likewise, as the newly born Primordial Ancient Dragon of the Dragon Race, if Zhu Jiu died, no race could withstand the Dragon Race's wrath.
The human race would bear the brunt of it, and everything would head in an unknown direction.
"Of course we weren't going to kill him, but even if you didn't take back what originally belonged to you, wouldn't it have been good to enslave him?"
Thor knew Xu Kun's methods quite well.
Once the Mystic Seal was used, Zhu Jiu would become Xu Kun's servant.
Xu Kun shook his head. "Enslaving Zhu Jiu can't be concealed. Doing that would be even more excessive than killing him. It's foreseeable that the Dragon Race would rather abandon Zhu Jiu than see him become my servant, becoming a blade I planted in the Dragon Race's heart. The only outcome would be them abandoning Zhu Jiu, then retaliating madly."
"That makes sense." Thor nodded.
Xu Kun looked at him. "More importantly, don't you think keeping this idiot around will make life more entertaining in the future?"
Thor opened his mouth, yet found himself speechless for a moment.
The guy treated you as an opponent, while you treated him like a toy?
Zhu Jiu: Sorry, I failed to entertain Lord Xu Kun this time~
Thor's mouth twitched. "Although we won against him by luck this time, I have to admit that he's very strong. Once he grows up,