I JUST WANT A PEACEFUL LIFE

"No deal!! I will break the contract on my own!!" yelled Jayna.

"Jayna…" said Angus.

Before Angus completes his sentence, Jayna glares at Angus and makes him shut up. Seeing this, King Leon could only give a long sigh.

"Jayna, listen to me first." said King Leon.

"Father, no matter what you say, my decision will not change." said Jayna resolutely.

"*Sigh* Alright, but let me explain first about the marriage contract." said King Leon.

After calming down a little bit, "Fine." said Jayna.

"The marriage contract is actually not an ordinary soul-bound contract. It affects not only the King but also the entire Heart Kingdom." said King Leon.

"What?!! The entire kingdom?!" exclaimed Angus.

As a researcher, Angus knows many things about the soul-bound contract. However, this contract usually only affects the people who sign it.

Any other people who didn't sign it will never be affected by it. This is one of the weaknesses of the soul-bound contract. Based on this premise, there is no way it could affect the whole Heart Kingdom since it is impossible to make all the residents sign soul-bound contracts.

Not only does it consume a lot of time and resources, but it is also impractical since there will always be a new resident in the Heart kingdom.

"This contract is also known as the World Contract. Unlike other soul-bound contracts, this contract is created and judged by the world itself." said King Leon.

"World Contract is similar to the Vow used by high-grade combatants. However, it is more detailed and involves a large number of people. World Contract is often used by large forces and kingdoms when they handle something involving the whole nation."

"Like Vow, the World Contract is very flexible regarding punishment for breaking the contract. Unless the punishment is specified before, it usually will affect the fate of the entire force." explained King Leon.

"Unfortunately, My Grandfather is forced to gamble the whole Heart Kingdom's fate in this matter as the Heart kingdom was on the brink of extinction at that time.

"He signed the World Contract not only with the nearby kingdom but also with some strong kingdoms that are not far from here."

"The contract is that as long as there is a royal blood princess of the Heart family married to the contracted kingdom, they must be allied with the Heart kingdom and couldn't attack nor betray the Heart Kingdom." explained King Leon about the contract details.

"Hmm… So, those contracted kingdoms are aiming for the Royal Blood Heart Family and will leave the Heart Kingdom alone for some time." said Angus as he noticed the problem.

"Correct. Since ancient times, the Heart royal family has been famous for their [Possession] unique skill that allows them to fight a grade higher than theirs. Although not many can awaken the [Possession] unique skill, it is still a power to be reckoned with." explained King Leon.

"With the condition to not attack and allied with the Heart Kingdom, this is an excellent offer for the other country at that time. Unfortunately or fortunately, no other people could awaken [Possession] beside me and Jayna until now."

"Hence, many of those kingdoms decide to ignore this World Contract. However, this time it is different since Jayna managed to awaken Possession at such a young age."

"After this news spread, those countries immediately sent countless marriage proposals to me. Until now, I always avoided giving them any clear answer." explained King Leon.

"Can't you just reject those marriage proposals?" asked Angus.

"That's the problem. Rejecting those marriage proposals will also indicate we forcefully break the contract and receive all of its penalty." replied King Leon.

"What's the penalty?" asked Angus.

"Fate will be against us. To put it in layman's terms, there will be countless misfortunes until the Heart Kingdom is completely destroyed." explained King Leon.

"Is that even possible? Isn't that only superstitious or something?" asked Angus back.

"Since you are not a seventh-grade combatant, you don't know how fearsome the thing called the fate of the world is. Come to think of it, you truly are an anomaly since you bring that girl yet still alive." said King Leon.

'Did you mean Anna?! Well, technically I almost died after saving her in the first place.' thought Angus inwardly.

"Anyway, what I can tell you now is we absolutely couldn't forcefully break the contract." added King Leon.

"Then, how did we break the contract? If I am not wrong, you even told Jayna to become stronger to break the contract." said Angus.

"Yes. Although my Grandfather is making a stupid decision at that time, he still thinks about the Heart Kingdom's future. He decided to leave a safe way to break the contract without any penalty for the future generations."

"To break the contract safely, the Heart Kingdom princess needs to defeat the other kingdom's marriage candidate or someone from the Heart Kingdom manage to defeat the other kingdom candidate." explained King Leon.

"That's easy, right. You just need to send a sixth-grade combatant or even participate yourself to be done with it." said Angus.

"If it is only that, I will already break that stupid contract long ago. However, those countries also give additional rules that the Heart Kingdom's representative must not be no more than 21 years old." explained King Leon.

"Moreover, the princess of the Heart Kingdom also needs to be married to one of those kingdoms by age 21 since that age is where humans fully mature." added King Leon.

"That's certainly a harsh condition. Does this also apply to those kingdom's marriage candidates?" asked Angus.

"You think?" asked King Leon back.

"I see… Since everyone also wants Jayna, I bet there will be more marriage candidates to defeat, right?" said Angus.

"Correct. Moreover, after Jayna's show of power during the battle with one of the Plargos Cardinals, those kingdoms become more fervently asking for her marriage." said King Leon.

Hearing this, Angus didn't flinch as he still showed the same calm face. However, Jayna could feel a huge disturbance in Angus' mood.  She could feel him trying to keep himself from walking out of this room and massacring those kingdoms.

"So, that's why you asked about those conditions before. However, if the opponent sends a seventh-grade combatant, we will still definitely lose and never break that stupid contract." said Angus.

"As the seventh grade yourself, you must know how powerful seventh-grade combatants are even when they are at their weakest state." added Angus.

"You don't need to worry about that. We seventh-grade combatants may be so powerful in this world. But, we also have a few restrictions. One is we absolutely can't influence the world's will or fate." said King Leon.

"In return, we are protected from that fate or the world's will unless it is a special case. In other words, no seventh-grade combatant can be involved in world contracts. Once you become a seventh-grade combatant, the world contract itself becomes null to you." added King Leon.

"So, only sixth grade and below can be involved with this world contract" said Angus.

"Yeah. So, did you have confidence in breaking this contract?" asked King Leon.

Angus didn't reply and looked at Jayna beside him. In response, Jayna gives a silent nod to Angus and conveys her decision to him through their bond.

"I think she could break the contract by herself when she reaches 21 years old." replied Angus confidently.

Seeing the couple's confident smiles, "I hope you are right. I don't want to lose another daughter."

"Don't worry, I rather tortured for eternity rather than lose Jayna." said Angus as he remembered his experience meeting the Forgotten King.

"Alright. Now, explain about this spear artifact and why you used it to launch it at the Royal Palace's wall? I hope you don't give me a silly answer like you don't like the Royal Palace or something similar." said King Leon as he stared at Angus with his murderous glare.

At the same time, Old butler Darius put the artifact spear on the table while King Leon pointed at it. Currently, the spear is wrapped in a special thick cloth. Angus feels the thick cloth enchanted with various kinds of complex runes.

"Hahaha… Of course, not. I truly have a good reason." replied Angus with cold sweat on his back.

At the same time, Jayna couldn't help but giggle a bit since she knows the major reason Angus targets the Royal Palace is because he hates the building size, which is too stupidly huge according to him.

"Since you possess weapon artifacts, you must know that every artifact is sentient. Some of these sentient artifacts could be quite demanding or dangerous such as my twin sword artifact." said Angus as he took out his twin sword artifact.

"W-Wait a second… H-How… were you able to wield that artifact?" asked Aunt Extalia.

As Angus took out his weapon artifact, everyone could feel the immense power of the twin sword. Everyone feels they will burn to ash if they try to use this sword. Even now, they feel like they will burn to death from the sword artifact feeling its aura.

The only one that is still calm is Angus and Jayna. As the owner, he already knows how dangerous and powerful this artifact is, while Jayna herself is the embodiment of Fire Phoenix, making her highly resistant to fire.

Combined with the blessing of Ancient King Firelord and ancient power [Hellfire], she could be said to be immune to fire and heat.