Chapter 260: For The Sake Of My Cute Little Sister

“Will!” Wendy ran towards William and gave him a hug. “Did you also pass the trial?”

“I did,” William replied and he returned Wendy’s hug. He was surprised that after meeting Belle, his feelings for Wendy hadn’t changed. It meant that the straightforward girl had managed to worm herself inside William’s heart and the latter had also recognized her as his lover candidate.

‘Belle said that I can have up to nine wives or concubines,’ William thought. ‘I guess I’ll just cross that bridge when I get there.’

His gaze then landed on Ian and remembered Belle’s warning about him.

“What are you looking at?” Ian asked. “You look creepy.”

“Yep. It’s impossible for this snot nosed pansy to be a girl,” William muttered as he averted his gaze. ‘Belle’s intuition was wrong.’

The Oracle had already warned them that they should keep the contents of their own trials a secret. Although they could share it with other people, she advised against it. She said that if other people were to know the contents of the trial, they would not be able to set foot in the Northern Regions again.

Because of this, none of them asked each other what happened in their trials. They returned to the Peak of Chivalry because William still had loose ends to tie up. To his surprise, the representatives of the Anaesha Dynasty had already left, while the representatives of the Zelan Dynasty remained.

Sir Jerkins personally informed William that Crown Prince Alaric wanted to talk to him. Although he was surprised, William decided to meet with him after he settled the issue with the tribes.

“As you may already know, the Great One has appointed me to choose the next Great Chieftain of the Tribes,” William said with a serious expression.

All the different Tribal Chiefs looked at him anxiously and waited for his next words.

“The Great One has also issued a decree,” William continued his speech. “The Tribes will not participate in the war nor will they act as the reinforcements for the Hellan Kingdom. They are to stay in the Northern Regions until the war is over.”

Some of the Tribal Chiefs sighed, while others nodded their heads. Most of them didn’t want to participate in the war because it would only cause the death of many of their tribesmen. Although the regions of the North were harsh, they weren’t lacking in anything.

“There’s more, the nearest town of Stanmore will now fall under the jurisdiction of the Tribes,” William said. “This will be the compensation of the Hellan Kingdom to the Tribes for not participating in the war.”

Earlier, Sir Jerkins had told William that the King had told him that he could use the three towns near the Kyrintor Mountains as bargaining chips to gain the aid of the Allied Tribes. However, since the Demigod had forbidden them from joining the war, the bargaining chips became useless.

William knew that some of the Tribal Chiefs still had the notion of expansion, so he was willing to compromise and satisfy their itch. The Half-Elf told Jerkins that in order to prevent the tribes from joining the Tri-Party Alliance, they needed to sacrifice one of the towns on the border in order to appease them.

Jerkins readily agreed to William’s suggestion because he was afraid that the tribes would really switch sides if they didn’t give them some form of compensation.

For the Ambassador, losing one border town was better than fighting on three fronts of the battlefield.

Just like William expected, the Tribal Chiefs were quite