Wang Shan was overjoyed and threw back his head with a wild howl.
"Ha ha ha, I succeeded!"
"Good, I got it!"
"I won't just be the emperor of this island—I'll be the emperor of the entire world!"
Then, in the next instant, with a pfft, a blade pierced him. He stared wide-eyed at the person beside him.
It was one of his Undying Warriors.
No, on closer inspection, it was not. It was an orphan adopted by that Undying Warrior.
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, but this world will never need an emperor again!" the orphan said fiercely.
"What are you doing?" The Undying Warrior stared at the child he had raised in horror, then looked toward his master.
His master had fallen. His eyes were wide open as he collapsed, utterly unwilling to accept it.
"I... I actually died so carelessly..."
"I made it through so many trials, only to die at the hands of someone I believed was loyal."
"Killing you is ridding the world of a scourge!" the orphan declared righteously.
"Cheng Ming, what have you done?"
"You bastard! The master saved you! I saved you!" the Undying Warrior roared in fury.
He drew his blade and placed it directly against the other's neck.
"You saved me—that was a small kindness. But killing an emperor is for the sake of the whole world, for the greater good of all humanity!" the orphan Cheng Ming said stubbornly after taking a deep breath.
"Y-you... Who taught you such things?"
"I learned them at Southerners Academy. They gave us compulsory education and taught me what the greater good of the world truly is."
"For everyone in the world to support one person for no reason at all—this is the most evil thing in the world! Massacre and cruelty cannot compare