The First Sacrifice! Over a Million Dead!

Everyone present witnessed it.

Even the calmest among them

could no longer keep their composure.

Many faces changed.

Hearts pounding, they stared at the sky.

"The sky's gone dark!"

"What is Alliance Leader Xuanyuan doing?"

"Why has he surrounded this entire area?"

"Don't tell me..."

"I saw people talking about Alliance Leader Xuanyuan online."

"He isn't really going to sacrifice everyone, is he?"

"Are we going to be the first victims?"

"..."

When the black cage enclosing the border town was complete,

everyone's eyes widened.

Nobles, Transcendentalists, great clans, soldiers—

all raised their heads. No one remained kneeling quietly.

They stared at Xuanyuan Cang in the sky, stunned.

Their hearts hammered.

Every instinct warned them that something terrible was about to happen.

Then

Xuanyuan Cang spoke.

"Some of you have waited here a long time."

"You did not ask why you were summoned before you left, nor did you ask when you could leave after you arrived."

"You carried out every order I gave. That was how you showed me your loyalty."

"So I owe you the truth."

A brief silence fell over the entire area.

"I founded the Human Alliance not to keep you alive, nor to rule the world, but to fulfill a dream of mine: a five-hundred-year dream of immortality."

The moment Xuanyuan Cang dropped the pretense and revealed the truth,

every face changed.

They would have preferred another hollow speech

to hearing him lay the bloody truth bare before them.

"Now, my dream is on the verge of coming true."

"I will not keep the greatest glory in human history to myself. I will share it with you!"

Keep it to himself?

Share it with them?

Only a fool there would believe him!

No one believed Xuanyuan Cang would share his dream of immortality with them.