The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 1833

Chapter 1833: The Blood Oath

The man on the other side of the unfortunate paladin handed a piece of paper to Karl.

"It’s actually really easy to use the blood contract, since it’s not a magical item. I carry a couple of copies on me. You just sign it with your blood and have the target sign it with theirs.

The Clans view it as the peaceful option as it guarantees that the victorious side won’t continue to seek vengeance on you, and the contracts says that they’re willing to swear an oath on it.

So, while it doesn’t stop the robberies and assaults, it does keep them from escalating too far. If either side attacks, the contract will cause backlash on them, so neither side can seek vengeance for some time.

And, it counts asking others to do it for you as an attack on your part.

That’s the genius of doing it through the System. It guarantees that the victim can’t call their Elders over to turn you into paste the moment that you spare their lives."

And that explained why it was both widely used and widely hated. Once you were forced to sign, you had to swallow your hatred for a period of time, and just accept that you’d been robbed. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

It was basically adding insult to injury.

Now that Karl thought about it, those agreements could be the source of most of the tense relationships between groups. If they were waiting for a timer to run out, it would explain why they were all somewhat getting along, despite not getting along.

It would also explain some of the reason why so many disciples were attacked on their way here.

Just disciples of the other Clans, when normally they would attack any Immortal they found wandering the wilderness without protection. If they were headed to the recruitment, they were looking to bring in members, and that meant maintaining some sort of decent reputation.

If they went attacking recruit candidates, who were almost all young and newly adult Immortals, they would get a reputation for preying on the weak that would discourage any of the new Immortals from joining them, for fear of being turned into a slave for the Sect, or a training tool for the older disciples.

There was a lot that went into maintaining a Clan when they were all more than a little sketchy.

In Karl’s mind, that was one of the greatest advantages that the Darklight Host had. They were questionable in many ways, but they were not a sketchy group, or treacherous. If you made an agreement, they stuck to it.

The trick was making a good agreement with them when they had the World Dragon on their side.

Karl read through the agreement, and found that it really was a simple and open document, agreeing that you wouldn’t seek retribution, lead the other into harm, or take actions that would cause injury or death.

That was why they had left the Paladin a crappy spare sword.

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