silence...
Absolute silence...
Everyone just looked at each other, some in astonishment, some in stupefaction, and others gloating with hatred.
Even Caesar moved his eyes between Robin and Victoria like crazy when he heard this
Does he have to become the guardian of the Empress of the Water Empire?!
"Your Excellency... this... Doesn't this mean that our new emperor will be Mister Caesar?" One of the old men from the Water Empire bent his back and spoke with a feigned smile, " Don't you see that this is a bit unjust? I mean, even the Flame Empire currently has an emperor to manage its territory without consulting anyone, we know that Victoria was wrong but not to that extent, right? Can't we just change our ruler and get treated like other empires?
"Father, I don't think this is...." Even Caesar took two steps and tried to say something to distance himself from this situation, but was interrupted by Robin's voice addressing the old man.
"Who the hell are you? Is it up to you to say to what extent is she wrong?! My problem with Flame Empire was not personal, but she tried to kill my adopted son knowing that he was close to me, while you lot stood to watch! ...I will not justify anymore, there is no room for arrogance in my new world, this is my judgment and I will not go back on it, accept it as it is, or please leave." Robin shook his head
"Ah.. ah..." That old sage from the Water Empire wanted to say something, but not a word came out of his mouth...
Even Victoria's eyes began to shine slightly with a thin film of tears as she looked at Robin's cold face. This is the first time in her life that she has faced this kind of rejection and indifference.
Either she or her Sages are well aware that they had nothing to back them in the situation!
The Empire of Wind, the Empire of the Sacred Tree, and the Empire of Flame have declared their eternal loyalty to Robin. If they left now, they would be outcasts in a world ruled by enemies. Robin is serious in his words because he really does not need them to declare their loyalty anymore!
They may enjoy peace for a day... for a year.. but their inevitable downfall, which will bring the annihilation of the ruling family of the Water Empire, will inevitably come.
*CRAACKKK*
That old sage from the Water Empire looked at Victoria angrily, and muttered one word in a low voice, "...Agree."
Victoria moved her bright eyes at last from Robin and towards that old sage in shock, then looked around to see the expressions on the faces of the rest of the sages, whether they agree to this or not, whether they wanted to fall into this abject humiliation or fight to the end.
But she found lowered heads and angry, spiteful features, all nodding towards her to accept as well, but it was clear that they all seemed as if they wanted to devour her alive.
Victoria was 100% sure that if Robin had told them to kill her, they wouldn't have hesitated for a moment.
*Exhale..*
*Inhale..*
"It's okay, it's just a few words that I don't really mean... just words..." Victoria calmed herself, just words said to appease Robin's vanity now and then forget them.
Without another word, she looked at Robin again and slowly raised her hand as if asking for something. Robin waved and one of the metal plates flew toward Victoria in return.
*swoosh*
"..Gulp~ ...I swear...to be...full loyalty...to His Excellency...Robin Burton...and not to harm...his interests and----" Victoria picked up the metal plate, passed her spiritual sense into it as her predecessors did without understanding the reason, then she began to say the hardest words She had to say in her life, "...and to take my orders... and ask for permissions from... Caesar Burton in everything I do... and if I break the oath, Then I deserve death."
*ZNNNNNN*
Before she could even pull her spiritual sense out of the tablet and throw it back towards Robin, Victoria suddenly felt a part of her soul being drawn into the tablet, "What the...?!"
"Hehe, Welcome on board, that was very close! you should hold yourself back and act more rationally in the future!" Elizabeth quickly stood up and went to hug Victoria, but in the meantime, she grabbed the metal tablet from Victoria's hand and threw it quickly toward Robin.
Robin smiled when he saw this, he knew that Elizabeth was trying to protect Victoria, now that she knew there was something tying her soul and that she might actually die if she broke the oath, she might destroy the board and choose to fight, so she took the tablet from her hands quickly before she took that decision
But he did not put the tablet away or hide it in his ring, as Elizabeth would have liked, but picked it up and put it before him completely exposed on the table, and then spoke, "It seems that today is going to end without spoiling a drop of blood. It's much better than I imagined. Please come and sit down."
"Come let's sit for now and leave the thinking for later. We are in a new era now, just accept it and move on." Elizabeth whispered absent-mindedly in Victoria's ear and began to pull her hand toward the chair next to her
Even with all the old differences between them, and even though Victoria almost attacked her a while ago while she was reciting the oath, they are now on the same side whether they like it or not, now they are really sisters in every sense of the word, the time for smiling in the face and stabbing in the back is over.
Victoria nodded slowly, still completely absent-minded, trying to think of how she was going to spend the rest of her life at someone else's behest, and almost took her first step without realizing it until she heard a shout, "HOLD YOUR STEPS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!"
"What do you want, Alexander? Forget the past and let her sit with us, she is one of us now." Elizabeth put both her hands at her sides and looked with feigned anger at Wind Emperor Alexander who had just shouted, was he trying to gain favor with Robin this bad?!
"...It's Alright, I understand." Victoria patted Elizabeth on the shoulder and then looked at Caesar, "....May I sit with them?"
"Mm.. yeah you can... I guess..." Caesar scratched his head and replied awkwardly.
"Thank you." Victoria nodded and then continued with Elizabeth towards her old chair amidst the astonishment of everyone, even Elizabeth herself... The oath includes even asking for such a silly thing?!
Robin chuckled when he saw this and took out a few plates from his Void Ring as well. They fell in front of Victoria, "Even though I was planning to leave the Water Empire without any benefits, I quickly found how silly this is. now that you are my loyal subordinates, your remaining weak is my weakness too, so take these... This is The perfect technique for the Major Heavenly law of Water, now you have it up to the third stage, the foundation modification technique, and the Minor Condensation Heavenly Law technique that will enable you to transform water into its three states without much effort, I believe before you were using up most of your energy to convert water vapor into ice, right? well, that's over now... and this is a technique for---"
...Truth be told, even Victoria herself didn't think she would receive anything from Robin, she just opened her eyes wide as techniques were thrown in front of her one after another, even the rest of the Sages from Water Empire couldn't believe what was happening, especially when Robin mentioned the Minor Condensation Heavenly Law. This law alone, if used sideways, will multiply the strength of their army many times over!!
Robin laughed out loud seeing these reactions and declared, "Hahaha Alright Alright, you should get used to this as we are all on the same side now. Amon, Jabba, hunt us some beasts and have a proper Nihari-style feast!"
"Yes." Amon bowed and retreated, and the rest of the demon kings retreated with him, a feast of this size that needs all possible help!
"Oh, a feast from another world? That sounds fun! .. But Your Excellency, may I ask you something?" Elizabeth spoke in her usual angelic voice
"Today is a beautiful day, ask whatever you want!" Robin put his hand behind his head and replied with a smile, today really made what comes next much easier for him
" As far as I know, Your Excellency has no particular name to belong to other than the Burton family... I know the four of us have become your subordinates but we are not Emperors anymore and we are now part of the Burton Family, then what are we called now? ... What is the name of this new World?"