But before he could finish what he was planning to say, the guardian said in a deep, solemn voice, "You don't have a choice."
"You either fulfill your purpose as breeding stock or be dispatched immediately. The Gemini race doesn't raise useless livestock," the guardian said, swishing the black spear slightly.
He knew clearly that his son shouldn't be dead yet. He had become a Dao Lord four times now, and in the previous three timelines, his son was alive and well until he reversed time.
So now that he was being forced to have another child, either the guardian had lied to him about how he could only have one Gemini offspring at a time, or they had intentionally killed his son after he advanced.
Neither possibility was good, as it meant something like this could happen again. Instinctively, he wanted to resist or protest. But he saw the black spear move slightly.
