Chapter 135: Lacking in Virtue According to the Five Elements, Destined to Be Beaten Up (6.4k)

The next day, an angry roar echoed through the entire royal palace.

"I am not dead yet! Do you think I would bow down to those foreigners at sea? As long as I live, there will be no such possibility!"

Summoned back from various city-states once again to report to the palace, the five princes were facing the wrath of King Minos for their passive approach to war preparations and for trying to persuade Crete to seek peace with the Atlanteans.

As a result, the aging lion of a King was so furious that he cut short his convalescence, burst out of the inner chamber, and in full view of the court, beat his five sons half to death with a whip.

Had it not been for the intercession of his second daughter, the high priestess, and the generals, King Minos might have sent his five disobedient sons straight to the Netherworld.