Noah arrived right in front of Adrian and stored one of his sabers to stretch his fuming hand and grab his uncle's throat.
Adrian felt an immense strength preventing him from breathing, he could only stare at icy-blue eyes hidden behind the armor of smoke while Noah chocked him.
He saw the deep hatred radiated by them and understood that Noah wouldn't think twice to trade the territory under him for his life.
Noah continued to tighten his grasp, and the black smoke around him kept on consuming Adrian's silver skin, the latter knew that only death waited for him at that point.
However, a golden light shone next to them, and three figures appeared immediately after.
Noah heard a familiar voice speaking a few words directed at him right after he sensed the three cultivators.
"Stop, Noah Balvan, this act doesn't respect the pact sealed by the rulers of our nations!"
Noah didn't need to turn to understand the identity of the man behind that voice.
"Thaddeus Elbas, do you think rules can bind me?"
A deep voice came out of the fiendish figure, Noah answered Thaddeus without releasing his grasp from his uncle's throat.
Another figure appeared near Noah, Elder Hope had immediately entered the battlefield when she saw that three heroic cultivators had teleported next to him.
Thaddeus revealed an ugly expression when he heard those words, but he managed to remain calm as he threatened the entirety of the Hive.
"If the Hive doesn't respect the pact, the Royal family won't respect it either. Take his life, and you will obtain a war."
Elder Hope's expression became cold when she heard Thaddeus' threat, and she turned her gaze toward Noah.
She couldn't really stop him, Adrian's throat was already in his hands, Noah could just crush it before anyone could intervene.
Everything was up to him.
Noah closed his eyes for an instant, but countless thoughts surged in his mind in that brief moment.
He knew that he wouldn't obtain another chance to kill Adrian anytime soon, he had been able to reach for him only because his uncle wanted to fight after all.
Yet, killing him would provoke a war against the Utra nation, something that the Hive couldn't endure.
The territories just claimed would become battlefields, and he knew that the Hive would lose.
Losing those territories would force the Hive back in its previous situation, with promising heroic assets but without the adequate resources to nurture them.
Without powerful heroic cultivators, the Hive wouldn't be able to expand its influence on the old continent and would be forever contained by the three big nations.
If the Hive weren't influential, Noah's position as Demon Prince would be affected, and he wouldn't be able to obtain resources for his cultivation.
Without resources, his path toward the higher ranks would be hindered.
'When will I be able to snap his neck without fearing the consequences of my action?'
Noah sighed internally as he thought that.
Then, he released his grasp and dispersed his armor of smoke, revealing his skinny figure out in the open.
Adrian coughed for a while as he retreated, he had come too close to death at that time, he didn't want to remain on the new continent any further.
"The Royal family can't tolerate such actions, we ask the Hive for compensations!"
Thaddeus continued to speak when he saw that Adrian was safe.
The meaning behind his words was clear, he wanted to extort something from the Hive.
Yet, Noah's answer forced the royal to drop that act.
"The pact wasn't broken, you can complain about my behavior to Chasing Demon when he returns. In the meantime, go away from my land."
Thaddeus saw the pair of reptilian eyes fixing on him when those words resounded in the area, he felt as if Noah would just charge at him if he insisted on that matter.
In the end, he simply left, followed by the two elders that had teleported with him and with a wounded Adrian.
Chapter end
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