Roman’s excuses sounded believable, but there was no reason for Tang Shaoyang to trust him or people from the guild again. This could be just Roman’s ploy to keep his life.

Tang Shaoyang nodded his head, “You almost convinced me to spare your life, but again, there’s no benefit from keeping your life. Your death will help my skeleton, but alive?” He shook his head. “You have no value at all.”

Roman closed his eyes and smiled. He understood it was impossible to convince Ying after what the man had experienced. He, too, would not ever trust anyone from the guild after what happened back then. Ying saved his and the other adventurers’ lives from the Virandal Empire, but the guild did the unthinkable.

“The only way to keep me alive is to keep Roman alive.” Lulu had woken up much, much earlier. She suffered the least injuries between the three and heard pretty much everything. She sat and held the dagger on her neck as she heard that Ying wanted to use her as bait to lure her Elder Brother. Using that fact, she used her life to save Roman.

Tang Shaoyang shrugged. “Go ahead, kill yourself. It will do the trick as well. If he knows that you die with me, he will come and search for me too, no? He will come faster if he knows his sister gets kidnapped because he knows he has a chance to save your life. But it doesn’t really matter if you are alive or dead, your brother will come to me regardless.”

Lulu’s hand trembled as she could not really talk back. As Ying said, her brother would come for him regardless if she was dead or alive. Her threat did not really work on Ying.

“How could you be this evil!? We tried to save you!” In anger, she threw the dagger toward Tang Shaoyang. It was just a normal throw that was easily deflected by Tang Shaoyang. She was also aware that whatever she did was useless against Ying. Four Primordial Ranks could not even leave a scratch on Ying, let alone her, who was just an Epic Rank.

Tang Shaoyang raised his right brow with an interesting claim. “Tried to save me?” He shook his head. “I don’t know when you tried to save me, but I know for sure that your family wanted to capture me so badly and take over my familiar. I can’t see where you try to save me at all.”

“Let me… be… your slave… for real… this time… I will make an oath… also take the contract….” Roman’s desperate voice rang, attracting Tang Shaoyang’s attention. The determination to live was reflected in Roman’s eyes, meeting with Tang Shaoyang’s gaze.

Tang Shaoyang let out a chuckle. “You think highly of yourself, Roman. Even one of my skeletons is stronger than you, so why would I take you in? While the guild holds high regard for an Epic Rank, you are no more than a burden that needs to be fed.”

It was true that there were only twenty Epic Ranks in the guild who participated in this Ancient Rank. The reason was that the Ancient Rank and above were not interested in entering this tower because they could join the higher-rank tower than this one.

Different from the other factions, the guild did not force their adventurers to do a certain job. The adventurers chose their own missions by following the guild rules. While the Virandal Empire’s attack was unexpected, most of the time, the guild rarely got involved in a big battle, even though the adventurers were much weaker than the other forces. The sole reason was that the adventurer God Alliance had their back and also being the most with God Ranks in the alliance.

“What about me becoming your slave? I will be your slave too, if you accept him!” Lulu made an extreme decision. “Even though I am still an Epic Rank, I have a big potential because of my bloodline.”

“Interesting…” Tang Shaoyang turned toward Lulu and held her cheek, pulling her pretty face closer. “What about if you satisfy me? If you can satisfy me, I might consider taking him as my slave.”

Lulu’s eyes shook as dread started to take over. She looked Tang Shaoyang in the eyes, then she looked at the desperate Roman. Roman tried to shake his head, telling her not to take the offer. Tang Shaoyang’s right hand moved to hold Roman’s jaw, making him not be able to speak so he did not influence Lulu’s decision.

“Make your choice, Princess.”

Lulu Avilius Mistovel kept glancing back and forth between Tang Shaoyang and Roman, struggling to make the decision. But it took her less than thirty seconds to make the most important decision in her life. “Let’s do it!”

It was Tang Shaoyang’s turn to be surprised. He furrowed his brow for a moment while Roman tried to speak, struggling harder as he tried to do something to Lulu. Roman did not want Lulu to sacrifice her body for him. An evil smirk formed on his lips as Tang Shaoyang took out the contract scroll. He always brought those contracts with him, slave contracts, cooperation contracts, and so on. He had them all in his armory if he needed them. While the contract would not be able to punish the breacher directly, it would tell him if Lulu, in this case, was breaching the contract. The oath was more potent than the contract, but he did not have his priests to make an oath.

“Sign the contract, and once the deed is done, then I will heal him.” Tang Shaoyang handed the contract to Lulu. He had dropped his blood, so it just needed Lulu’s blood to activate the contract.

“In this case, I want a change in the contract. I will be your slave, but you free Roman!” Lulu was quite smart; that way, just one of them would be Tang Shaoyang’s slave.𝞸𝗏𝐞𝔩xt.𝔠𝗈𝐌

“I am quite touched,” Tang Shaoyang nodded his head and altered the contract to Lulu’s demand. “I don’t care. As I said, he does not have any value to me.”

Lulu did not hesitate to drop her blood on the contract after she confirmed the terms. She did really sacrifice herself for Roman.

Tang Shaoyang pulled his hand from Roman’s mouth and saved the contract with a satisfied smile. He then looked at Roman, who had an unbelievable expression, looking at Lulu. “You are quite pathetic that she sacrificed her life and future to save your life.”