Chapter 531
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Chapter 531: Unexpected Turn
As the supreme ruler of her civilization, Ye Qingxuan had just endured a series of fierce battles.
The two fallen cities also needed to be reclaimed.
Various messes awaited her attention.
Undoubtedly, at this moment, she was extremely busy.
After arranging a residence for Luo Ji, she had no time to linger, heading off to deal with official duties with a frustrated expression.
Sitting on the main seat of the residence, Luo Ji looked down at the bound goblin.
“You are Gawain?”
Hearing the question, Gawain’s heart jumped.
He immediately shook his head violently.
“No, no, I’m not the Great King. I’m General Gao Qiu, a goblin general under the Great King.”
“Oh, so you’re not Gawain.”
As he spoke, a knowing glint flashed in Luo Ji’s eyes.
Then, with a clang, he drew the bronze longsword from his waist.
“Then there’s no use keeping you. Let’s just kill you.”
“Gaa!!!!”
Gawain was utterly shocked, letting out an extremely bizarre scream as he watched Luo Ji, who was about to swing his sword without hesitation.
Watching the bronze longsword draw closer and closer, Gawain, almost scared out of his wits, quickly screamed loudly…
“Wait! I’m Gawain! I am Gawain!!!”
Listening to Gawain’s desperate cry, Luo Ji’s bronze longsword stopped just in time at the last moment.
Gawain’s eyes were wide and round, fixed on the sharp blade, which was barely a centimeter from his fragile neck.
His pants were wet; he was almost scared unconscious on the spot.
“Didn’t you just say you weren’t?”
“Great one, I was wrong! I am Gawain! I am Gawain!”
At this moment, Gawain, having regained his senses, burst into tears and snot, crying profusely.
He had initially thought that if the other side knew he was a player, he would surely die.
He planned to deceive them, making them think he was an NPC general, hoping to live a little longer, and then find a way to escape.
Who would have thought he’d run into such a ruthless person like Luo Ji?
Someone who swung his sword without hesitation?
Goblins, though cunning and intelligent, were inherently cowardly.
That brief moment had almost stopped his heart.
How could he still care about playing tricks?
He immediately entered a phase of tearful, snot-filled pleading.
“Great one, spare my life! Great one, spare my life! I didn’t know Ye Qingxuan was your person! I’ll never dare again!”
At this moment, Gawain’s thoughts were very clear.
His goblin civilization was clearly a late-game civilization.
In the late game, once its technology was fully developed, it would surely be able to run rampant.
But precisely because of this, if there was bad blood, it was highly likely that if he fell into enemy hands, they would want to kill him to eliminate future trouble.
Otherwise, would they wait for him to seek revenge later?
This time, Gawain truly regretted it deeply.
He had tormented so many players in the same tier.
Now, he has suffered a setback.
Gawain’s tears and snot at this moment were not fake, and he was genuinely crying from fright.
“Great one, if you spare me, you’ll be my boss from now on. Whatever you say goes. You tell me who to fight, and I’ll fight them…”
Gawain below desperately begged for his life, uttering humiliating words just to survive.
It was fortunate that Ye Qingxuan wasn’t there now.
Otherwise, seeing that the one who had defeated her was such a cowardly goblin, how complex would her feelings be?
Just as Luo Ji was thinking this, an unexpected system notification sounded in his mind.
[System Notification: Player ‘Gawain’ has expressed submission to you. Do you accept?]
Luo Ji was momentarily stunned upon hearing this system notification.
Something like this had never happened before.
“Could it be related to my civilization’s characteristics?”
This thought flashed through Luo Ji’s mind.
“The other party has expressed submission to me, and ‘submission’ literally means to bow down, accept my rule. In other words, he’s become my vassal…”
After pondering for a few seconds, Luo Ji finally decided to try it.
His idea was simple: if it didn’t work, he could always kill Gawain later.
Since Gawain was already in his hands, there was nothing to lose.
More than anything, he was bothered by not understanding how this “submission” occurred.
With this thought, Luo Ji decisively chose to accept.
Immediately, the system notification sounded again in his mind.
[System Notification: Congratulations, Player ‘Luo Ji’, for successfully achieving a high-difficulty conquest condition, receiving double conquest points! Furthermore, the ‘Civilization Conqueror’ or ‘Territory Conquest’ skills used this time will have their conquest point consumption halved!]
The system notification, like an unexpected bonus, landed directly on Luo Ji’s head.
This was an absolute stroke of luck!
A high-difficulty conquest condition?
So, making a player willingly submit without killing them was a high-difficulty conquest condition?
Not only would he get double conquest points, but the cost for annexing civilizations or territories afterward would be halved?
Holy cow!
This was enough to make him wake up laughing from a dream!
However, Luo Ji was ultimately a composed person, and his inner emotions quickly settled.
On the surface, he remained indifferent throughout, as if nothing had happened.
But his mind was racing.
Since this high-difficulty conquest condition existed, there were certainly players who had begged and cried for mercy when he defeated them in the past.
Why had it never been triggered before?
Looking at the tearful Gawain below, Luo Ji seemed to suddenly realize something.
Thinking back, although Gawain had been begging for mercy, he hadn’t actually used the word “submit” or anything similar.
In other words, the key to triggering this high-difficulty conquest condition wasn’t for the opposing player to say the words “submit.”
According to his hypothesis, it required a change in mindset or attitude.
Simply put, many players had been defeated by him in the past.
Although those players might have been crying and begging for mercy verbally, in their hearts, they might have been rebellious, shouting phrases like, “Fortunes turn like the changing river; never mock a youth for his poverty.”
Those rebellious youths’ pleas for mercy were merely intended to deceive him and then seek revenge when the opportunity arose.
With such a mindset, even if they shouted that they were willing to submit, the system wouldn’t judge him as successfully meeting the condition.
However, this Gawain in front of him was utterly cowardly.
He was completely in a state where he would do anything, even become a henchman, just to survive.
It was precisely because he held such a mindset that the system judged him to have met the “submission” condition.
Thus, if his analysis was correct, this high-difficulty conquest condition was truly quite difficult.
After all, it required the opponent to genuinely develop the thought of wanting to follow you from the bottom of their heart.
How could this be something a player could achieve just by wanting to?
