Determined to join the fight, Azir, with the assistance of Zelas, slowly broke the forces of the other princes one by one.

There was no obstacle on the way to the throne, and Azir was naturally summoned by the emperor.

Zelas, on the other hand, waited alone outside the Great Hall for Azir's good news, and he waited until late at night for Azir to come out of it.

Zelas, who stepped forward to greet Azil and believed that Azir would be approved by the Emperor, was full of smiles.

But when he got closer, he noticed that Azir's pupils were dull and hollow.

With a smile on his face, Zelas hurriedly asked Azir and the Emperor to talk about the results of the day.

Azir looked very tired, and he didn't talk to Zelas on the spot, but took Zelas back to his palace residence first.

It was only after returning that Azir told Zelas the general content of his conversation with the Emperor that day.

Today, Azir went to meet his father with joy, and he was eager to get his father's approval this time, having not been recognized since he was a child.

However, it backfired, even if he won the political battle with other princes, he still could not see any trace of recognition of him in the emperor's eyes, could not feel his father's care from the emperor's words, and could not feel the encouragement and appreciation from the emperor's tone......

It was as if he had always been useless in the eyes of the emperor, and could never be seen to shine. All his efforts were just to get his father and his emperor to approve of him, but why couldn't he always do so?

Azir is troubled, lost, and confused about the future.

Seeing Azir so frustrated, Zelas, who was a friend, was also a little distressed. He also couldn't understand why the emperor was reluctant to approve Azir as a candidate for the next emperor, was it really just a character that was not suitable for being emperor?

No matter how much Zelas tried to reassure Azir, Azir's mood did not improve. Knowing that Azir was in a state of turmoil at the moment, Zelas decided to leave Azir alone.

Before leaving Azir, however, Zelas asked a strange question, "Azir, do you really want His Majesty's approval so much?"

Not recognizing the strangeness of Zeros's tone, Azir forced out a smile. He laughed at himself: "Maybe I won't be able to get my father's approval in my life, right?"

Azir's reluctant smile moved Zeroth's heart, his eyes froze, his face sank, and he turned and strode away.

……

The picture of Mirror Moon Lake rippled as Zelas, who looked gloomy, turned around, and Ye Feng was shocked by the gloomy emotions contained in it as soon as he saw the picture reflected on the surface of the lake.

He had seen this look on Sarah's face before, when he was beaten up by people who had a grudge against Sarah in Bilgewater, and Sarah showed this palpitating expression when he returned home and learned about it.

If he'd guessed correctly, the next image projected by Mirror Moon Lake would have seen Zeroth do something terrible.

Sure enough, as soon as this idea was born in Ye Feng's heart, the surface of Jingyue Lake alluded to a terrifying picture.

In the dark of the night, in the silence of the palace, Zelas's blood-stained face looked particularly cold and unforgiving against the moonlight shining in from the window.

Inside, a young man dressed in royal attire fell to his stomach in a pool of blood. The royal man's face before death was extremely frightened, as if he had suffered great pain before he died, and it made the gloomy expression of Zelas indescribably weird.

An eerie black thunder with a dark aura flickered around Zeroth's body, eroding his sanity.

The images of Mirror Moon Lake fluctuate continuously, but without exception, they are all scenes of Zelas killing the children of the royal family. And these royal children are all Zeroth's brothers!

In addition to the goddess Acacia, who looked like the same as ever, Ye Feng and the others who were standing by the lake saw a palpitation.

And Lulu, who finally had some sympathy for Zelas in the front, was frightened again, and she wondered why Zelas suddenly turned bad?

The gloomy picture of Mirror Moon Lake dissipated, and the well-dressed Zelas and Azir were strolling through the palace, discussing political affairs as they went.

Among them, Azir mentions the mysterious deaths of other princes during the year with a tired face, and Zelas's expression is somewhat vague when he hears this, but Azir, who trusts Zelas, does not see anything.

As the culprit, Zelas signaled that Azir could go to His Majesty the Emperor to discuss the mysterious death of the prince, and Azir also felt the need to talk to the Emperor, so he did not suspect Zelas.

After Azir walked away, Zelas raised his head in a trance and said something inexplicable: "I'm doing this for your wishes!"

Without the competition of other princes, Zelas believed that this time, Azir would definitely get the emperor's approval and fatherly love.

But when he saw Azir's dejected expression again, he knew that His Majesty the Emperor still did not approve of Azir.

After asking the reason, he found out that he had done him a disservice, and His Majesty the Emperor had a great temper with Azir, obviously suspecting that the other princes had been killed by Azir, but did not say it explicitly.

Moreover, the old emperor also said that he would give birth to other princes to inherit the throne, and he would not approve of Azir.

Unable to make the old emperor approve of Azir, Zelas couldn't help but harbor a trace of resentment in his heart.

He swore resentfully in his heart that he would kill as many new princes as the emperor wanted to give birth.

As he somehow became dark and twisted in his mind, with Azir behind his back, Zelas secretly killed all the newborn princes in the next few years.

Still not seeing the old emperor approving of Azir, the sick Zelas made a crazy decision in his heart.

On a rainy night with a dark wind and thunder, Zelas, dressed in black robes, infiltrated the emperor's and queen's bedrooms and brutally killed them.

Within a few days, the leaderless Shurima Empire had elected the only royal bloodline, Azir, to become the next emperor.

And Azir also strictly investigated the murder of the royal family after succeeding to the emperor, but in the end it was closed because there was no clue.

Surround the turmoil, Zeros waited for Azir to deliver on his promise. But as the years passed, Azir never failed to mention the promise he had made back then.

Zelas was disappointed in Azir, but he decided to leave it at that, considering that he had been given everything he had done today, and that he considered him a friend and brother.

Although he comforted himself in this way, he did not know that the haze in his heart was getting deeper and deeper with the status of a slave.

As soon as the tipping point is reached, the accumulated gloom will burst out, turning into even darker and more negative emotions, distorting his cognition.

And one day, Azir showed him a cold and strange face, and warned him: "You are only a slave, you must always know who you are!"

That sentence kept echoing in his mind, like a magic sound that disturbed his mind, and became the fuse that allowed the haze that had accumulated in his heart to burst out.

He has paid so much for Azir, and has been a villain so many times, but in the end, not only can he not exchange for the promise of the year, but he ushered in an extremely cold gap?

Perhaps Azir used him as a cheap tool from the start?

Maybe from the beginning, he was a slave in his heart?

That's enough!

He, Zelas, has had enough of being a slave!

In the past, he endured the cynicism of others, and now even Azir, whom he regarded as a sibling, looks down on his status as a slave, and he continues to work for the treacherous Azir!

How can he get rid of the slave status that he has endured for decades?

Despaired, Zelas fell into deep thought.

After pondering all night, a terrible thought came to Zelas's heart.

If he wants to get rid of his slavery status, if he wants others to look up to him, he has to become the new emperor of Shurima!

Since Azir is unkind to him, don't blame him for being unjust!

He wants to control his own power, control his own power, and become the only emperor of Shurima!

Black lightning flickered, reflecting Zelas's hideous face in the darkness of the night.

……

I went back to the dormitory in the afternoon, so I was updated before dinner.

(End of chapter)