Branton, Leili, Black Wolf, and even Griffin all felt Yveta's demands were going too far.
They weren't actually the losing side.
They clearly just didn't want to keep sinking costs into their castles.
But apparently, Pan had granted the Snake Woman Great Chieftain more authority than anyone had imagined.
To everyone's astonishment, the Snake Woman Great Chieftain rose to her feet and agreed to Yveta's demands, her face dark with anger.
She was so furious as she left the castle that she nearly stumbled.
The Snake Woman Great Chieftain silently wondered why Pan had ordered her to finish negotiating with Yveta and his people today at all costs—even allowing her to agree to any demand Yveta made.
Although their army was afflicted by the plague, they were nowhere near the end of their rope.
She couldn't understand why Pan was so eager to make peace!
At noon, the two sides agreed to meet beneath the castle and form an alliance.
They would negotiate the terms at a spot halfway between their two camps.
For safety's sake, each side could bring only three people.
Yveta had requested this mainly because he needed to guard against both the Children of the Forest and the assassin Bassan.
He wanted to reduce the number of people who could get close to him.
He wanted to avoid a repeat of what had happened at the Shao Jiu Inn, when an assassin from the Little Brotherhood of Faith had hidden inside a corpse and manipulated it like a puppet to get close to him.
He had also told Griffin and the others that someone with the Formal Assassin profession was coming to kill him, so they needed to stay on high alert.
Yveta brought the Old Witch, a Third Rank witch.
When it came down to