21: Chapter 21 Slaves and Vassal States, You Are Not Worthy to Negotiate with Me!

A wooden spike as thick as an arm fell from the sky and shot directly over.

The thick wooden spike skewered three Goblins together; the lethality was terrifying, and the visual effect was explosive.

What was going on with this flying wooden spike?

Looking in the direction the spike came from, Xu Xuan on the Floating Island was operating a ballista.

Since there were no resources to waste for now, Xu Xuan chose to use sharpened wood as bolts.

In a close-range strike from a high vantage point, these wooden bolts made from local materials were very effective!

It was thick enough, and the ballista was powerful enough; even a bolt carved purely from wood could skewer several at once!

After Xu Xuan fired the first shot, two savages beside him began to turn the wooden wheel, recocking the ballista with a few mechanical clicks.

Hu Zi Mei shouldered a wooden bolt over two meters long and placed it on the guide rail.

Xu Xuan on the empty island aimed again, pulled the lever to release the bow, and shot the pure wood bolt out!

That immense penetrating power struck among the Goblins, directly skewering and sending several Little Green Skins flying.

This feeling was incomparably wonderful to Xu Xuan; those filthy Little Green Skins skewered by his bolt like candied haws felt like stepping on a few stinking rats.

Goblins, those filthy and ugly things from legends, were like rats crossing the street that everyone wanted to hit.

Xu Xuan felt no guilt at all in killing them.

Watching their flesh and blood splatter under the bombardment of the ballista felt particularly satisfying.

Xu Xuan also noticed the JK girl surrounded by Goblins in the crowd.

Tsk tsk, a Japanese girl, and she's actually quite good-looking.

Looking at Tokugawa Ieyasu fleeing with his son, Xu Xuan roughly understood the cause and effect of the situation.

That middle-aged man abandoned his wife and daughter to flee with his son while being hunted.

In that case, I shall take care of your wife and daughter!

Operating the ballista, Xu Xuan shouted down: "Surrender and submit to me; this is your only way out!"

As Xu Xuan's voice reached below, several lines of text appeared before Tokugawa Yoshiko and her daughter, Mio.

[Xia Country Lord Xu Xuan has proposed negotiation terms.]

[1. Unconditional surrender.]

[2. Become a vassal of Xu Xuan (no autonomy, must obey 100%, no rebellion allowed).]

[3. After becoming a vassal, a certain percentage of food must be handed over!]

Seeing these vassalage terms, it was clearly blatant plunder; their mother-daughter tribe would become Xu Xuan's slaves, farming, hunting, and picking fruit, all to hand over a portion to Xu Xuan.

However, in front of them were the vicious Goblins, and behind them were the father and brother who had abandoned them.

Mio bit her lip, her heart full of resentment.

Within the protective circle of the savages, Mio looked up at Xu Xuan: "I have one condition."

Xu Xuan, operating the ballista, grinned and pointed the bolt at her: "You are not worthy of negotiating with me!"

Is this a joke?

Now, as long as Xu Xuan lightly pulled the trigger of this ballista, one bolt could skewer this girl in a JK uniform like a kebab.

He was perfectly capable of such a ruthless act!

After all, the surrounding Japanese Lords all wanted him dead; if they wanted to kill Xu Xuan, they had to be prepared to be killed by him.

Mio said very seriously: "My only condition is that I want to punish my father and brother with my own hands!"

She spoke those words with hatred; she had been prepared to die to protect her family.

But her father had left with her brother, not caring about her as a daughter at all.

Since childhood, her father only doted on her brother, and Mio had long since grown used to it.

Also being part of the Confucian cultural sphere, Japan's preference for men over women was much more severe than in Xia Country.

Since childhood, she had been brainwashed that it would be enough to become a full-time housewife when she grew up.

Statistics showed that the poverty rate for women there was extremely high; almost one in four Japanese women was poor.

This was why there were so many well-known teachers there, and why so many girls chose to film adult movies.

Paying off debts for parents, boyfriends, or the family were all reasons for filming.

People just didn't say it openly, but in reality, these concepts were deeply rooted in their bones.

In a place where the sense of hierarchy was so strong that honorifics were required even when speaking to elders, and where men and women spoke differently.

It was clear that they had carved the concept of male superiority into their very marrow.

But now, this was the Lord Continent.

As a Lord herself, she had to obey her father, only to end up being abandoned in the end.

Thinking of this, Mio clenched her fists, her mind filled only with thoughts of revenge.

Since this Xia Country Lord needed vassals, she would bow and scrape to be his follower, as long as she could punish her father!

On the Floating Island, Xu Xuan was momentarily stunned when he heard the JK girl's condition.

This was followed by a loud laugh: "Good! Good! I promise you. This is hilarious! A drama of 'filial' piety; I love it!"

Hearing that Mio wanted revenge on her father, Xu Xuan readily agreed; after all, his goal was to continuously hunt down the surrounding hostile Lords and clear the entire area!

Mio surrendered and submitted to Xu Xuan directly, but her mother, Tokugawa Yoshiko, was very hesitant.

"This... this isn't right, is it? You actually want to seek revenge on your father?"

Mio's face was cold, her eyes full of fury: "Mother! It's because of your constant endurance and cowardice that you've been looked down upon and abused by father! He even dared to flirt with female savages right in front of you! Wake up, that old man doesn't treat us as family!"

"Now he has abandoned us, taking his son! He ran away with his precious son, leaving the two of us behind! Wake up, Mother!"

Under Mio's barrage of persuasion, the full-time housewife fell into a daze.

She didn't have much of an opinion and didn't understand what a Lord's war was; she just wanted to be a full-time housewife in peace.

After her daughter's words, she gradually realized that her unfaithful husband had abandoned them.

"I... I don't know. Mio, Mother will listen to you this time."

It seemed that Tokugawa Yoshiko was exactly that kind of traditional Yamato Nadeshiko type of woman with no opinions of her own.

Under their daughter's persuasion, they both pressed the [Agree to become a vassal] button on the virtual screen.

At that moment, the mother and daughter, Mio and Tokugawa Yoshiko, along with the over one hundred savages they commanded, all became Xu Xuan's subordinates.

Since they were on his side now, there was nothing more to say.

Furthermore, Xu Xuan wanted to test things out! Test the combat power of the God of War Chi You, and see how bronze weapons would crush these Goblins carrying wooden clubs.

Thinking of this, Xu Xuan waved his hand: "Gong Clan, lead the Female Archers and fire! Chi You, prepare to rescue our slaves!"

"Understood!"

Chi You shouldered his Giant Axe; behind him were rows of savage soldiers holding Bronze Spears!"