Bestowal, Choice, Mutation! (Part One)

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Clang~ clang~ clang~

A gentle tapping on the bone of the seat sent a measured rhythm rippling through the quiet Palace.

With every tap, Christina's and Gonzales's hearts sank lower and lower. An inexplicable, crushing pressure bore down on them. The figure high on the Throne cast a vast black shadow over them, and in their eyes, he seemed to have become a terrifying Demon King, ceaselessly eating away at their minds!

Sweat trickled down, drop by drop!

Christina's face went pale, her nerves on edge. Gonzales's spinning gradually slowed as well, exposing the Rock Core within!

"Two choices!" Er Dongsheng's voice suddenly broke the suffocating silence. At some point, his fingers had stopped tapping, and that frightening, rhythmic clicking vanished. The two beneath the Throne and the maids throughout the Palace all breathed a sigh of relief!

"I'll give you two choices!"

"The first is death! Your body and soul will be destroyed by my companion Solanka! You should consider it an honor!" Er Dongsheng gently stroked Little Bei'er, who lay fast asleep in his lap. He raised his other hand, curled his five fingers, and sent something hurtling downward with a whoosh!

Bang!

It planted itself upright before the two of them. Dark light glimmered along the spear, revealing countless patterns through which Black Flame wound and flowed, mysterious and noble!

The two stared at the enormous Long Spear before them, mouths dry, at a loss!

This was the first time anyone had seen this famed, powerful weapon from so close. Legend held that it could communicate mind to mind with the one on the Throne, that it was an extension of the terrifying Demon's soul and had stood beside him through life and death since his weakest