Facing the Old Eagle King's assault, Jiang You ordered the Winged People to leave this airspace and continue cutting down the Eaglemen Royal Court's army.
He stayed where he was, ready to face this aged Legendary!
On the Ferland Continent, a Legendary was generally the greatest fighting force a tribe possessed.
An ordinary tribe might need dozens of generations of accumulated heritage before it had the means to produce a Legendary.
From a transcendent to a class bearer, from Formal Rank to Hero Tier, the journey often consumed vast amounts of a tribe's time and resources, and could only be forged through blood and fire.
The birth of a Legendary was the true sign that a race had grown powerful.
A Legendary expert had a lifespan of at least a thousand years and could protect their race for a millennium. What an extraordinary blessing that was.
As the Eaglefolk's only Legendary, the Old Eagle King was already very old.
Eaglemen were not a long-lived race. In this era, an ordinary Eagleman's average lifespan was only around fifty years.
Although he looked like a middle-aged Eagleman, the Old Eagle King had lived for nine hundred years and had few years left.
His body was failing, and his strength was far below what it had once been.
That was why he favored caution. He had taken the same approach in the war between the Titans and the Goblins. Though his Eaglemen tribe had served the Thunder Titan for generations, he had held back rather than committing its full strength, all for the Eagleman Royal Court's future.
The Old Eagle King's greatest regret was that none of his descendants had become a new Legendary.
Even now, none of his sons or grandsons possessed exceptional talent.
Although his people had many young Eaglemen with outstanding talent, the Old Eagle King refused to pass down the royal family's Legendary advancement class to them.
Only his descendants could hold the title of Eaglemen King.
In truth, he sometimes regretted his decisions.
Long ago, when he was still in his prime, one exceptionally gifted prince had become a Hero Tier class bearer in just a few decades. But to preserve his own rule, he had schemed to destroy that son's path of transcendence, driving him to suicide, and banished his descendants from the Royal Court.
That small tribe was said to have settled on a little mountain in the east, where its descendants had multiplied.
Above Heavenly Mountain.
Wrapped in the power of storms, the Old Eagle King beat his wings in the sky. Bone spear in hand, he charged at Jiang You with murderous intent, fury raging within him!
His original plan had been to surrender to the Goblin King so that the Eaglemen Royal Court could survive.
He had also chosen his strongest offspring to become the next Eaglemen King, without any fear of opposition from his people.
That was because he had sent all the talented members of his tribe to the battlefield between the Titans and the Goblins.
Then, many years later, once one of his descendants became a Legendary, the Eaglemen could rise again.
But now, the Winged People legion led by Jiang You intended to wipe out his Royal Court!
And judging by Jiang You's words, the Eaglemen had already lost their chance to surrender. His Royal Court was truly in peril!
It made him want to tear Jiang You into a thousand pieces!
Damn him!
Yet when he soared into the sky and charged at the Winged People leader, he saw no fear in his opponent. Instead, the leader calmly drew his longsword and waited to fight him, making him laugh inwardly.
"Ignorant Winged People! How could a mere Hero Tier like you stand against the power of a Legendary?"
Once he came within fifty meters of Jiang You, the Old Eagle King raised his bone spear high. Savage storm power swirled around him, the resonance of a Legendary radiated outward, and a Legendary domain formed from storms enveloped Jiang You!
"Storm Domain!"
At once, dozens of wind spears formed from storms shrieked toward Jiang You within the domain, while the overwhelming pressure of a Legendary crashed down upon his body.
At the same time, the Eaglemen King himself surged forward, thrusting his spear!
Facing the old Eagleman's tempestuous assault, Jiang You's purple eyes lit up with a dazzling glow.
Behind him, his white feathered wings shone with pure white light. A moment later, two more wings made of light appeared.
His speed immediately increased by far more than a little!
As though dancing on a knife's edge, he narrowly evaded every one of the Old Eagle King's attacks.
Then Jiang You held his bronze sword across his body, violent purple lightning rippling along its blade. As the Old Eagle King's bone spear struck empty air, he slashed the king's black feathered wing.
"Aah!"
Blood streamed from the wound, driving the Old Eagle King into an even greater rage.
In an instant, Jiang You was like a man aboard a tiny boat in a sea of storms.
Yet the powerful combat awareness granted by Champion's Will meant that even with every advantage in his favor, the Old Eagle King could not so much as scratch Jiang You. Instead, Jiang You wore him down relentlessly.
Finally, amid cries of shock, the Old Eagle King had both hands severed and both wings broken, and plummeted to the ground!
He was old, after all, and could no longer sustain a prolonged battle. Had he been young, Jiang You might truly have been no match for him!
As Jiang You pursued him, the Old Eagle King lay fallen on the ground and gave a bitter smile.
"I am willing to surrender and pledge allegiance to your Winged People!"
"No need. The Eaglemen Royal Court will perish today!"
Jiang You refused coldly. He too folded his wings and landed, then walked toward the fallen Old Eagle King, one step at a time.
Despair overcame the Old Eagle King. At last, he could not help asking.
"Why must you condemn my people to death?"
"Eagle King, do you still remember the High Barbarian Mountain Eaglemen Tribe?"
"The High Barbarian Mountain Eaglemen Tribe?"
The Old Eagle King searched his memory.
"You don't remember, do you? But we do. The ancestors of our Winged People lineage were the High Barbarian Mountain Eaglemen Tribe. When we were weak, your Eaglemen Royal Court drained the High Barbarian Mountain Tribe dry, again and again. My fathers and forefathers were all spent as cannon fodder on that old battlefield between the Titans and the dragons!"
"Today, we have come for revenge! You never imagined it, did you? The lofty Eaglemen Royal Court would ultimately be destroyed by a little tribe it once despised!"
Jiang You laughed aloud. Without waiting for the Old Eagle King to say another word, he beheaded him with a single stroke.
As his head flew through the air, the Old Eagle King suddenly remembered something.
Wasn't High Barbarian Mountain where the descendants of my most outstanding son settled all those years ago?
If I hadn't done that back then, would things have ended differently?
Filled with endless regret, the Old Eagle King's consciousness sank into darkness!
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