"You concede?" Qin Siyang frowned. "Any conditions?"
Duke Henry shook his head, seemingly unwilling to say more.
"Why?" Qin Siyang asked, puzzled. "Don't you need to save the others in the First Domain? You clearly said you wanted to protect them."
Duke Henry said, "If I made that a condition, would you agree?"
"Of course not."
"There you have it. A waste of time."
Duke Henry's frankness took Qin Siyang quite by surprise.
"You have no other demands? Such as asking me not to kill you?"
Duke Henry smiled. "I said during our fight that I wouldn't run, no matter what. I don't have long to live anyway. Is there any point in asking you to spare me?"
For a moment, Qin Siyang was stunned.
After a brief pause, he asked again, "So you're simply conceding, is that right?"
"Yes," Duke Henry said. "I'm not conceding when I could take you down with me or still pose a threat to you. I'm conceding because I can see no possibility of defeating you, because your strength has utterly humbled me."
"How could I set conditions under those circumstances?"
Qin Siyang was speechless.
Because Duke Henry had said exactly what he had been thinking.
All Duke Henry could do now was take a beating. Qin Siyang had planned to refuse him outright once he could no longer hold out and tried to negotiate the terms of his surrender.
He was stronger than Duke Henry, and an army of five hundred thousand stood on the First Domain's doorstep. He had no reason to negotiate with him.
In his eyes, Duke Henry had only two options: lead the First Domain in an unconditional surrender, or die fighting.
He had expected forcing a surrender to be a drawn-out, bloody process. At the very least, Duke