Lesser Face Slap

The hall was uncomfortably quiet for a while, the other human emperor and empress as well as the Titan's chief where annoyed. They knew their request was likely to be denied anyway, so they had tried to be humble, they where even willing to beg before.

The arrogant emperor realised he made a mistake with his bluntness but decided to go all in. He did this by saying "I am willing to let my daughter marry you."

The other leaders in the room all realised that offering things like that was a good idea as well but first, they wanted to see how Daedalus reacted. The arrogant emperor smirked slightly at this thinking he had already won, his daughter was considered the most beautiful woman in the younger generation. Other than that his words where a lot like "I will let you marry into my family."

Daedalus of course picked up on these hidden words even if he wasn't planning to except. He had of course seen pictures of the princess but he had Andromeda and Andromeda was five times as beautiful.

Thus just as the emperor thought he had won Daedalus said "I am afraid I have to decline, I am married already and quite happy. Also I don't believe I will be able to give you the method to cultivate. It is complicated and deadly only I am capable of cultivating it due to my natural abilities and immense control. If I where to help you start cultivating it I would need your full trust to guide your energies."

With that said Daedalus turned to his grandfather and said "Grandfather, how is it that they came to learn of my cultivation method?"

His words came out as almost a whisper but everyone could hear them. Dwalin sighed and said "They had guessed you had a special method and I gave them some information. I knew they couldn't cultivate the method but I didn't realise they would ignore that part of my explanation."

The other leaders hearing this felt a bit embarrassed as they had indeed been told about the drawbacks with danger of death. Daedalus on the other hand nodded and said "I can say only a small part lest you decide to try and cultivate after my warning. The method requires you to cut all of your meridians, it requires complete control over your energies and finally you need to have a natural regeneration strong enough to bring you back from being crippled."

As they heard the requirements slowly stacking up the faces of every leader, including his own family, went pale. Some went pale knowing he went through such a thing, they all knew that oven a small scratch causes unbearable pain, but he cut all of his meridians.

The first to speak was the arrogant emperor again "It is impossible that that is the method, you would have died just from the pain alone, let alone being able to cultivate afterward!"

Daedalus just shook his head and said "I don't even know if I can cultivate yet, the method is still being developed."