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Chapter 227 Trial, Destruction of the Nation, Devouring the Whale (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

The vast palace was now deathly silent, with few people around. A single torch flickered on the high walls on either side of the red carpet, illuminating Caesar's face.

He lowered his gaze, his eyes vacant as he looked at Cosimo, Lorenzo, and Karilina, who were kneeling on the ground.

The three men were in a terrible state, with rags stuffed in their mouths and chains binding them. They were bound in front of the throne they had always dreamed of, looking less like dignified and reserved nobles and more like a group of livestock waiting to be slaughtered.

Qi Yuanli stood with his hands behind his back at the entrance of the palace, silently watching Caesar's back. After a moment, he broke the silence with his voice.

He said slowly, "Then, as agreed, we will accept the treasure of the Whale Kingdom."

"It doesn't matter."

Caesar spoke without turning his head, his face still expressionless.

Qi Yuanli did not linger, retreating into the shadows, and then his figure transformed into a raven feather and scattered.

Caesar gripped the White King's Scepter in his left hand and held his sword in his right. He stepped forward and stopped in front of Kalilena.

"As agreed... Mom, I've come to kill your whole family."

After the white-haired youth finished speaking, he raised his hand and slashed at Cosimo's neck.

The second prince's head rolled to the ground with a clear sound, then slowly slid down to Karelina and Lorenzo, blood gushing out.

"First."

Caesar tilted his head back, speaking softly with a blank expression, the gruesome bloodstains splattering across his cheeks.

Lorenzo was taken aback.

After a long while, he belatedly turned his head and stared at the second prince on the ground without moving.

Karelina's eyes widened, and a tear welled up in her eye, tracing a path down her pale cheek.

“I was ignorant before, but I understand now. My second brother was just stupid, which is why he let you manipulate him. So I gave him a quick death, and there’s no need to pursue it further.” Caesar turned to look at Lorenzo. “But you are different, brother.”

Lorenzo shuddered.

"If you don't want to die, then kill your mother with your own hands."

Caesar spoke softly, as if recounting something utterly ordinary, then raised his hand and handed the longsword in his hand to the servant who was pacing over.

After receiving the sword, the attendant nervously went over to untie Lorenzo, removed the rag from his mouth, and then handed the longsword to Lorenzo.

“Why? Do we really have to do this? Aren’t we family, Caesar? Do you remember when I took you horseback riding when we were kids?” Lorenzo’s hand holding the sword trembled as he looked up at Caesar with an almost pleading gaze.

"It's too late, brother... If I were you, I would shut my mouth and try my best not to anger someone who has just experienced betrayal, do you understand?"

Caesar looked into his eyes and spoke calmly.

Lorenzo hesitated for a long time, lowering his head in thought, before finally making up his mind to grasp the longsword, stand up, and slowly step over Cosimo's corpse.

“Mother, I will do my best to free you as soon as possible…” he said in a hoarse voice.

Karelina shook her head violently and let out a mournful cry through the cloth in her mouth, but no one could hear her.

Lorenzo took one last look at his mother's face, then closed his eyes, raised his sword, and plunged it down, piercing Kalilena's head in an instant.

"This is the pain of being betrayed by loved ones, Mom..."

Caesar lowered his eyes and silently watched Kalina, whose eyes were wide open and who was gradually losing her breath.

“I’ve done as you said, you’ll let me go, right… Caesar?” Lorenzo said hoarsely, tossing down his longsword and staggering toward Caesar, forcing a smile at him.

Caesar looked up at him, paused for a moment, and then said calmly, "Brother, I will give you a chance to challenge me. If you win... then I will let you go."

He lowered his voice, "Haven't you always wanted to be king? You even went so far as to kill Li Qingping. The opportunity is right in front of you, you can't just give it up now, can you?"

He paused. "Don't make me say it a second time, pick up your weapon."

As he spoke, Caesar casually kicked the longsword that had fallen to the ground, sending it back to Lorenzo's feet.

Lorenzo stood there stunned for a long time, then slowly knelt on the ground and picked up the longsword once more.

He got up and looked up to meet Caesar's gaze. "Where's your sword?"

“Me? I remember my brother saying when we were little that I was not suited to wield a sword, and that he would protect me. Although it was just a joke, I took it seriously... So I don’t wield a sword, and I’ll fight you in another way.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a phoenix bathed in flames rose from behind Caesar, his white hair fluttering in the wind.

Lorenzo's pupils contracted to their maximum, his whole body trembling as he gripped his sword. His face contorted as he forced out a few words: "You've gone too far! You bastard, you think you're something special after teaming up with a bunch of bandits?"

Caesar remained silent.

The next moment, Lorenzo lowered his head, drew his sword, and roared as he charged toward Caesar.

Amidst a deafening roar, the phoenix descended from the sky, and Lorenzo's head flew to the right. Blood gushed from the headless corpse's neck like a fountain.

The giant, crimson bird flapped its wings and blew down a cloud of crimson flames, burning the throne and the corpses of the three people beneath it to ashes.

Caesar kept his head up, silently watching the burning throne, his gaze never falling on the three corpses on the ground.

Three minutes later.

Caesar raised his hand, removed the crown from his head, and casually threw it on the ground. Then, holding the White King's Scepter, he walked out of the palace expressionlessly and stood on the high steps.

The boy looked down at the island in the sea, and a palm-sized Norbe shark had appeared on his shoulder.

“I’ve already sent all the survivors of the Royal Court Army back to the island,” Little Shark said. “Their attitude has completely changed since they saw you get the White King’s Scepter.”

“This country is so ridiculous, letting a scepter decide who is king,” Caesar said softly.

Agubaru thought for a moment, then asked, "Is this really a good idea?"

“I’ve said it before, Agubalu. Now that Li Qingping is dead and my father is dead, I have no reason to stay in this place.”

"Then in the eyes of those people, you will immediately become a sinner for all time?"

"It doesn't matter what they think... I will keep my promise to you."

After a long silence, Caesar suddenly raised the White King's Scepter high, and a black and red light suddenly gathered at the end of the scepter, just like the alternation of night and dusk in the miniature world.

This ability was originally designed by our ancestors to evade enemy invasions. Once this light shot into the sky, the islands located in the sea would be sent away from the Whale Garden and to the human world. But now he used this ability to completely destroy the Little Garden Kingdom, which is completely contrary to its original design.

"Can they survive in the outside world?"

Caesar silently watched the shifting light on the scepter, then suddenly asked.

Agubaru flicked his tail and said in a serious tone:

"Don't worry, there's a 'Translation Medal' in the Popular-Level Oddities Fragment. Once you wear it, you can communicate with humans outside... And in order to study the history of the Little Garden, the countries of the human world will help them adapt to the outside world. They are a very valuable group of people, no less valuable than a group of primitive people suddenly entering modern society. They won't be abandoned easily!"

It paused for a moment: "And most importantly: you are no longer a prince... Caesar, the fate of these people has nothing to do with you, there is nothing to feel guilty about."

"None of my business? That sounds selfish."

"You humans are just so sentimental, but sharks are different. What's wrong with being selfish? Whether you're human or shark, you only live once. Why carry things you don't like on your back?"

Caesar pondered for a moment, then nodded slightly. "So you still feel guilty?"

“My father valued this country highly. If he knew I would make this choice in the afterlife, he would surely be angry. And… once the island's inhabitants leave the Little Garden…”

Before he could finish speaking, Ababaru suddenly leaped from his shoulder into the air. Its other parts remained unchanged, except for its small fangs and mouth, which suddenly swelled countless times in size, and then it let out a deafening roar towards the island in the sea:

"Listen up, you bunch of lowly primitives and lowly red dragons, everyone! You must live well in that world!"
"Otherwise, the shark will haunt you even in death! You'll be going to end up inside its belly! There's no shark-themed miniature world inside for you primitive humans to survive!"

As Agubaru's roar subsided, the entire Whale Garden seemed to fall silent for a moment. The next instant, amidst the myriad lights of homes, people peeked out of their houses and looked up at the imperial city in the sky.

After roaring a long string of words, the little shark's mouth returned to its original state, its entire body covered in black tide, and it returned to Caesar's shoulder.

It turned its head and revealed a row of sharp little teeth to him:
"Doesn't that feel much better? Look, everyone's morale is high after being comforted by Shark." As it spoke, it stretched out its fin and pointed to the island.

People gathered in the street, looking up at the sky and discussing amongst themselves, their faces filled with fear.

Caesar was stunned for a moment, then murmured softly, "Aguru, are you an idiot?"

He suddenly laughed silently, then raised his head high and released the last power of the White King's Scepter towards the sky.

At the tip of the scepter, a beam of color that gradually changed in the twilight and night shot into the sky, landing on the whale skin. Then it transformed into thousands of meteor-like rays of light that scattered down, falling precisely onto each island in the whale's miniature garden.

Before long, the brightly lit islands in the sea gradually disappeared, turning into beams of light that rose upwards, passing through the transparent belly of the whale without any obstruction, and silently heading to the outside world.

The island was moved, and naturally, the island's inhabitants were also taken away.

At the same moment, in the real world, on the sea near Bergen.

On the islands of miniature gardens, thousands of homes are deserted. As the campfires flicker, people look up in a daze. What they see is no longer an unchanging, transparent whale skin, but a clear night sky.

The bright moon hangs high in the sky, and a streak of alternating blue and green aurora stretches across the dark sky.

Looking into the distance, the brightly lit city of Bergen sits on the fjord, and the legendary whale "Chicanao" is moored at the Bryggen dock.

This was probably the first time in their lives that some of them had witnessed the true face of the legendary whale, and the first time they had realized how insignificant the whale's belly, where they had previously lived, truly was.

The sky they could never reach was nothing more than the belly of a two-hundred-meter-long whale.

Inside the whale-shaped miniature garden, Caesar silently gazed at the empty sea before turning and entering the palace. After walking a short distance, he slowly stopped in front of the king's sleeping quarters.

He approached the bedside, lowered his head and remained silent for a long time, then slowly raised his eyes from under his bangs and glanced at the old king sleeping peacefully on the sickbed.

Farewell, Father.

As soon as the words were spoken, the phoenix silently dropped a fiery feather, and the magnificent bed burst into flames.

Ten minutes later, in the real world, torrential rain poured down, relentless winds pounded the sea, and the moonlight was obscured by dark, heavy rain clouds.

A two-meter-tall Yagubaru flew out of its open whale mouth, traversing the stormy ocean with a white-haired, blue-eyed boy on its back.

"Are you sure you can eat it?!" Caesar shouted, his voice piercing through the thick rain and reaching the shark's ears.

"Who are you looking down on? Shark is much bigger than it now," Yagubaru muttered. "An old whale that has had no natural enemies for a thousand years, living a life of ease and unaware of potential dangers. If Shark can't eat it, it will be a disgrace to the great shark!"

"I was really surprised today. I never thought you were so amazing, Agubaru."

"Not just surprised, it was absolutely astonishing!"

Yagubalu roared and its body gradually expanded in the storm, transforming in the blink of an eye into a colossal creature three hundred meters long. The raging wind and rain seemed to stop for its arrival.

It created a bottomless trench on the sea, carrying a black wave like a tsunami, and finally crashed head-on into the backside of the legendary whale in the harbor!

Agubaru opened its blood-red maw, and in that instant, its mouth swelled up, swallowing the legendary whale's body head and tail whole. The whale, like a struggling beast, thrashed its tail against the shark's throat, but its body still couldn't stop sliding into its body.

Finally, only a long, drawn-out whale cry echoed from inside the shark's belly, the sound seemingly so distant that it was difficult to hear.

At the same time, a huge notification box was reflected in its pupils.

[It has already swallowed its last natural enemy—the legendary whale "Chicanao"—into its belly.]

It is estimated that digesting the legendary whale, "Chicanao," will take a total of one month.

Yagubaru thought, "It's unrealistic to digest a whale that's over two hundred meters long in a short time. Let it struggle in my belly for a while."

"The last main mission for Unit 3 is 'Devouring the Legendary Whale,' which can be completed in a month, and should be able to catch up with the final battle at the Salvation Society base."

"With Caesar's help... we have another world-class combatant at our disposal. With Caesar's talent, it shouldn't be a problem for him to reach the Cataclysmic level after a month of training outside."

Thinking of this, it brought up the panel and glanced at it. The main missions of Unit 3 were basically completed.

Now all that's needed is for the legendary whale inside the body to be digested before this machine reaches its complete form.

The rain was pouring down.

The white-haired boy stood atop the 300-meter-long giant shark, silently watching the scene unfold. His mouth gaped open in slight surprise, a mixture of fear and excitement. Just moments before, he had witnessed his country being swallowed whole by a shark.

After a long while, he suddenly raised the corners of his mouth and laughed loudly in the wind, a laugh that was open and honest. His thin body swayed, and the wind and rain that rushed towards him soaked his forehead hair.

“Aguru, didn’t you say before that you had a very good friend who was locked up in a laboratory?” Caesar suddenly asked loudly.

"Of course, he's still waiting for Shark to save him."

As Yagubaru spoke, he shrunk his size countless times, instantly transforming into a three-meter-long ordinary shark, weaving through the storm amidst the black tide and thunder.

“Okay, then I’ll go with you to rescue him, just like you rescued me,” Caesar said without hesitation.

As he spoke, he turned his head and glanced at the distant sea behind him. The islands from the Whale Garden were scattered across the North Sea, and the islands were still brightly lit.

"No... now is not the time. Not to mention that I don't even know where that experiment is, even if I did, if we rushed there now with our current strength, it would just be like moths to a flame."

As Yagubaru soared through the air and sea, gazing at the distant fjord city, he thought, "I'm waiting for the right moment."

"Is the opponent very strong?" Caesar asked curiously.

“You’re very strong, probably among the strongest people in the world,” Agubaru paused, “Are you afraid?”

"I'm not afraid... I said I'll stand by your side no matter what."

"Okay, let's go find someone first."

"Who?"

“Gu Wenyu. Li Qingping asked me to give him a small item before.”

“Li Qingping’s friend…” Caesar murmured. “Then let’s go to China to find him first. But I’ve never been there before, even though I’ve heard Li Qingping talk about it many times before.”

“Then let’s head to China. Shark is faster than an airplane, we won’t be there for long!” Yagubaru said smugly. “It’s a great place, you’ll soon find out why Li Qingping loves China so much.”

"Okay, but how do you know where Gu Wenyu is in China?"

"Li Qingping told me his home address. With Shark's super strong sense of smell, I can find his location in a second, even if he is thousands of miles away."

Caesar looked up and then down, then suddenly smiled and said, "Let's go to China."

　There will be another update later!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)