Hearing the question which came out of Agni's mouth, the werewolf king was greatly shocked. He was a king who had lived all of his life in pride well, most of it, but that still doesn't mean that a week boy would not listen to him when he had told him that he will know all of the answers when the time will come and ask him a stupid question. But calming himself down, the king said, "I told you didn't I, that time will unravel everything. Kid, I don't have much time left. Be quick and please except my legacy." The impatient king requested Agni once again for him to accept his legacy. Agni didn't knew it, but various kinds of emotions were running in the king's mind at the moment. The sheer fact that Agni will refuse his legacy and will left his raice to defend themselves without a king left him afraid of the possible outcome.
He was sure that what he was thinking happened, then his raice will die in the hands of those humans and the king, was also desperate for him to accept his legacy because of his pride.
It was said that a king who did not left his legacy would be considered a week king by everyone and his pride as a werewolf didn't aloud him to be mocked by other kings of other Raices.
The silence between them was intense to the point that if someone were standing there at the moment, he would have not been able to even breathe properly and they would be suffocating by now.
But fortunately for the werewolf king, he did not had to wait for long and Agni's reply came at once, but the king wasn't happy with his reply at all instead, he hoped that Agni wouldn't've replied.
"I have another legacy, so I am afraid your majesty, I am not able to accept your parting legacy. I hope that you can forgive me. It's not like that I don't want to help your raice, but I have really no choice in the matter…"
He clarified in a respectful tone. The laste thing he wanted now was for him to be shredded into pieces for disrespecting someone who could be even more powerful than Novias.
And as for Agni's true feelings, they were indeed, what he was showing from the outside. He respected the werewolf king for his tenacity and pride, it was just as the king had said, "a king who lives without his pride is not a king, but Agni was sure that it was no longer the case now. He has lowered his pride to him, to a mere human which in his prime, he could crush under a foot. But Agni only had respect for the half animal/man, because he did not think that other kings of other Raices were willing to go against their pride for the sake of their raice and ask a mere human to decide whether he wanted to accept the legacy or not. They would have just forced Agni to accept their legacy or worse, killed him.
So, Agni decided to answer truthfully despite being a little tortious. And as expected of him, he got only what he had expected, a deep sigh filled with regret from the old werewolf king.
The laste thing the werewolf king was expecting was certainly not the words which came out of Agni's mouth. He was utterly hopeless now, and his pride from before was all gone suddenly.
The werewolf king, in a dilemma, started to think about the future of his raice when suddenly, an idea came to his head. There was an item in his possession, an item which could merge two legacies and make them one. But there were two problems, rather conditions he had to satisfy. and he was not concerned about the first, but the second one was very troublesome.
The first condition was that the one who was using the artifact has to bind there soul to their artifact, and there consciousness in turn, will be bounded to the artifact.
And the second condition was that the legacy must belong to someone closer to the second person, and he or she must be alive or not dead for 30-years.
This was exactly the condition that the werewolf king hoped to fulfill because the artifact wouldn't work if any one of the conditions remained unsatisfied.
He only had one chance, only one chance to make an attempt for the survival of his raice.
With a single thought, a bluish and red glow surrounded the werewolf king and a ring on his finger glowed and an orb suddenly appeared in the air and stopped just in front of the king's hands.
By inducing a little bit of his mana into the artifact, a golden ray of light released from the orb in a swift motion, and collided with Agni's body. Seeing this, a smile formed on his face, a maniacal grin appeared and then, a deep sigh of relief.
With a calm gaze unlike a person who will die soon, he said to Agni—"I have a way to merge both of your legacies, and make them one. I will ask you for the final time, the king's voice was soft but domineering, just like a king's voice should be in Agni's mind.
"do you accept?"