After storing Hurricane, Uranos turned its gaze to Lobal.
The eyes of the Tri-headed Lionhound were still dazed, still caught in the Heart Illusion.
Uranos specifically looked at the tail head, knowing Lobal and aware that its tail head had the potential of The Sage.
The birth of a Sage is extremely rare, and Uranos wanted to plead for Lobal, but having already pleaded for Hurricane, its relationship with Angel wasn’t at the stage of repeatedly appealing; it had neither the position nor the qualification to plead.
For this reason, Uranos ultimately gave up pleading, but with so many wind element creatures, including Lobal, in the Illusionary Realm, it was curious about how Angel would deal with them.
"There are many wind creatures from Storm Ridge in this Cloud Sea. I wonder how you intend to handle them?" Uranos asked.
Angel looked at Uranos with some surprise, having already started to label this character with the tag of Holy Mother. According to the Holy Mother’s personality and actions, shouldn’t it be pleading right now?
But from Uranos’ words, it seemed intent on handing over these imprisoned wind creatures to him?
Was it truly intending to let go, or was there a hidden agenda of the Holy Mother?
Angel wasn’t sure what Uranos’ intentions were, but he had already decided on how to deal with these wind creatures.
These wind creatures initially showed strong hostility towards Angel’s group. If not for their lack of strength, the outcome might have been different. So, while Angel could forgive one or two on Uranos’ account, he had no intention of forgiving them all.
Since Uranos implied letting him deal with them, Angel decided to act according to his wishes.
Angel didn’t conceal his thoughts and revealed his method of dealing with these wind creatures.
Straightforwardly killing them would not only be wasteful but unnecessary.
Utilizing their remaining value was what Angel intended.
Initially, the first thought that crossed Angel’s mind was to find an elemental partner among these wind creatures. Although he needed a fire elemental partner more, future research into wind elements would happen, so securing one in advance wasn’t bad.
However, upon reconsideration, he dismissed the idea. An elemental partner requires a mutual understanding of hearts, and sometimes, when some wizards cultivate elemental bodies, they need to have the elemental partner possess them to experience the elemental body, requiring a high level of trust.
Of course, these cases are special, mostly where wizards raise them from elemental sprites, daring enough to let them possess; but it proves one thing, wizards and elemental life need harmony and trust.
Angel didn’t think he could find such an existence among these wind creatures.
After shelving the idea of seeking an elemental partner, Angel considered it further and ultimately decided to actualize their value by signing a contract with these wind creatures.
Not the kind of symbiotic mind contract with an elemental partner.
But rather a Dingyuan-Moke Oath.
The essence of the Dingyuan-Moke Oath is: "Retain private freedom and potential development while fulfilling all requests made by the other party."
Under the influence of this oath, Angel could direct these elemental creatures to act according to his will and slowly infiltrate the personal will and value of the Barbarian Cave into the Tidal World’s elemental creatures.
Even, if needed, they could be used as a blade to carry out some cleanup tasks for him.
After hearing Angel’s words, Uranos slightly sighed in relief, at least Angel had no intention of killing these wind creatures, which was already quite good.
However, upon learning the specifics of the Dingyuan-Moke Oath, Uranos frowned slightly and couldn’t help but say, "I appreciate your kindness, but I doubt many wind creatures will agree to this contract."
"Why?" In Angel’s view, the Dingyuan-Moke Oath was already lenient; he hadn’t gone for a harsher oath, which was already generous.
"Because they are wind..."
With Uranos’ explanation, Angel began to understand Uranos’ meaning.
Wind creatures, among all elemental creatures, pursue freedom the most, and while the Dingyuan-Moke Oath appears lenient, for these beings who seek freedom, it’s a psychological torment. Even if Angel doesn’t assign them any tasks, it would act like a shackle, heavily binding their lives and gradually consuming and eroding their pursuit of nature.
When this suppression reaches a certain point, they might rather die than continue being bound by the oath.
"In other words, even if they agree to this oath now, a future without hope will become a burning candle, constantly consuming and extinguishing their will until the day they can no longer bear it."
Uranos wasn’t pleading, simply stating a fact Angel hadn’t considered.
Angel pondered for a moment and felt that Uranos had a point.
What Angel understood as the leniency of the Dingyuan-Moke Oath was due to "retaining private freedom and potential development," but in reality, for wind creatures, their nature is the pursuit of absolute freedom. Although it’s difficult to say that absolute freedom exists in the world, this pursuit can exist. Once permanently shackled, it ends the longing for freedom, then how can there be "future potential" to speak of?
In short, using the Dingyuan-Moke Oath on wind creatures is no different from a harsher oath.
Angel considered it and finally said, "Alright, it will still be the Dingyuan-Moke Oath, but this time I’ll add a time limit to the oath."
"Twenty years."