Looking at Alana, who was sound asleep in a drunken stupor.
Zong Shen fell into deep thought.
"Even if it's a god, I'll kill it for you to see..."
He turned those words over and over in his mind, sensing King Arthur's immense confidence behind them.
But what was even more thought-provoking was the information King Arthur had revealed.
After all, he had been one of the outstanding figures among the previous generation of "lords."
Zong Shen took his words very seriously.
Their brief conversation had contained several key pieces of information.
First, King Arthur had not died.
However, his condition was highly unusual, and he seemed to have become part of some arrangement made by the Lord System.
Second, the Alana before him—or rather, Princess Annie—possessed King Arthur's bloodline power and a fragment of his will. Controlling Annie meant controlling part of King Arthur's power in this era.
Annie was a key to unlocking the wealth King Arthur had left behind.
Of course, she could also be regarded as King Arthur's heir in the new era.
Third, if that fragment of King Arthur's will residing within Annie erupted, it would possess combat power comparable to that of a god.
Judging by the promise he had made, taking down a lower god would be no problem at all.
Fourth, King Arthur had explicitly mentioned that the major human Kingdoms of today were "big fat pigs" raised for the new generation of lords. This indirectly confirmed Zong Shen's previous suspicions.
That was, the previous generation of lords had failed to meet the Lord System's expectations or achieve some particular objective.
The Kingdoms they had left behind, along with the Great Cities within them, had suppressed the internal conflicts that could erupt at any moment under the control of some mysterious great