Chapter 977: The four escorts


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    ...Robin would have undoubtedly sent news of his upation of thoses to Pythor, but only after they werepletely upied and defenses were set up, and this is to prevent Pythor from even thinking about returning to fight for them, this is technically what Pythor is also doing in the central and western regions of Nihari.


    The first expected reaction of someone like Pythor would be to get angry and send part of his army to at least twos... If he did this then Robin should have sent more forces to hold thoses to force Pythor''s men into request support and open several major battlefields and spread the Great Serpent''s army, and thus be able to return to Nihari, or if they don''t get support then he forces them to retreat and thus keep the nines for himself as a pressure card.


    But in the end, upying and defending theses is not the goal, but the means to the next step...


    "What?! Father, what are you saying? Are you really going to the City of Hope for the so called negotiation? It''s clearly a trap!" Theo lost his usualposure, and even Richard frowned slightly, "What are we supposed to get out of that meeting anyway? Do you think he''ll simply hand us Nihari and we give him his nines? Then what, everyone would just go back to what they were doing before and forget about the tens, no, BILLIONS of deaths that happened between us in the past year alone? Father, you can''t be serious! If I told this to a little kid he''d tell me I was joking, we''ve reached the point of no return!"


    "I know, of course, I know, we wouldn''t get any deal out of this." Robin''s smile deepened, "Pythor is a tough guy who doesn''t like to appear weaker than anyone, it shows in all his choices, he might actually be willing to negotiate, he''ll probably offer to leave me the southern region of Nihari in exchange for me returning all hiss to him, the fact that he wants to wait until supportes and he has more control over Nihari before the meeting starts only reinforces that idea, but I won''t agree, what am I going to do with one or two regions while he''s just a few steps away from me? And most importantly, he knows I won''t agree."


    "Then why go through all the trouble?" Richard frowned


    Robin looked away for a moment, "To sound more convincing, of course! ...In that meeting, Pythor will try to kill me."


    "...Is that okay?" Richard looked at his older brother Theo, his father smiled at the mention of the attempted murder as if he hoped it would happen.


    "That depends." But the one who answered was Robin who put his hands behind his back and took a few steps forward, "I have full confidence in my strength and that I can bring down Pythor without using all of my cards, so I want to put myself in this position, I wanted to be alone with him afterpletely controlling his nines, the only problem I faced was how to send the meeting request to Pythor in a way that would make him not suspect my intentions, for someone like me who is victorious and has a firm grip on all thoses, I would have no reason to negotiate with him, but... haha I can''t believe he took this step on my behalf!"


    "Doesn''t that mean he''s confident too?" Billy quickly interjected, "Robin, you''re overconfident, don''t forget that he''s a ten thousand year oldary emperor, someone with knowledge and experience from the middleary belt, and we don''t know what else he has! Don''t go alone, you don''t know how powerful that person is and what he''s nning for you!"


    "That''s right, especially since what he''s calling you to is the City of Hope, their current stronghold, if you go alone then definitely Pythor won''t be alone, his entourage will be everywhere in the city, maybe all of his 300 imperial guards will be there!" Theo furrowed, "If a fight starts under these circumstances, you won''t be alone with him, he''ll be the one to surround you!"


    "I''lle with you." Richard took a step forward, killing intent burning in his heart, "If he tries to use an army to surround us inside the city, I''ll use the city to surround them!"


    "...Alright then," Robin nodded with a smile, it was a pleasure to involve his son in his affairs! Billy nodded and then looked at Robin, "You should at least take Caesar and Sakaar too, and it''s best if you find a way to take the rest of the generals and a few warlords!!"


    Robinughed, "Can you imagine the warlordsing out of the portal of the City of Hope? What kind of negotiations would that be? The battle would start immediately and everyone would disperse." Robin shook his head, "But Richard, Caesar, and Sakaar are okay... The three of them can engagerge numbers at the same time, they will be enough if a battle breaks out, the rest of the generals are busy with their own assigneds, and even if they join us it won''t make a difference."


    He then looked at Theo, "Take Richard to Caesar, tell him to send him to thergest battlefields on The Poison Rock in theing period to gather as much life force as possible, then you should take over from Caesar themand of the forces on Poison Rock and send them both to me on the seventh day."


    "...Yes." Theo nodded, a bit of gloom and helplessness showing on his normally emotionless face, but he patted his little brother on the shoulder anyway, "Let''s go, you''re going to have a long week."


    After they left, Robin''s eyes turned back to Billy, "Can you go to Nihari for me? Call Sakaar and Amon, I need to exin to them what''s going to happen, and you stay there to manage the portal affairs until they return."


    "Not a problem!" Billy also used the Jura City Portal and quickly disappeared, leaving Robin alone behind.


    In the middle of the city where there was no breath but Robin''s, he raised his face to the sky and closed his eyes... Smiling.


    His n was to force Pythor into a life or death battle with him without trying to escape, this meant that he would have to put himself in a weak position willingly until the negotiation day, Pythor needed to think that he had a chance or everything woulde down to nothing. But the thing is, he wasn''t afraid of this situation, rather... Excited!!


    *Baaam*


    At this moment, with a crashing sound, something huge descended in front of Robin. "Hmm?" Robin opened his eyes to see arge shadow blocking the sun from him, and then he heard a voice, "I was eavesdropping, I want to go with you to that negotiation meeting, I have some unfinished business with them."


    Robin''s smile grew, he knew immediately that his mission had be even more exciting... thatrge shadow was Hk.