When Jin Rou was 10 meters away from the king. He smirked and asked, "If you want to kill me, just say if right away. Why the need to come up with half-baked statements which contained flaws? Aren't you just losing your entire ancient race's face here?"
This was true. The story that the ancient race had given was flawed. After all, why would the princess be killed by just asking the compass back? If that really happened, all he would do was decline and not kill them. Of course, as long as they did not try to kill him.
But the ancient race had done this intentionally, so they knew that it was flawed. After all, no matter how many times they twist the truth, their reputation could not be any worse already as they were the terror of the Sea Continent and many wished for their downfall and demise. Furthermore, this continent was not their turf so their influence here was small to none.