The villain's way to tame the protagonist

"Of course, how else could it be?"

As Anser said this, Xin caught a glimpse of a shadow flashing by out of the corner of his eye. A transcendent not far away suddenly froze, and then his upper body slowly slid to the ground, wailing in pain.

Miss Crow is here too... If she and Mr. Devil were together, they should be able to put an end to the chaos in no time, but why...

Thinking of this, Xin felt his "heart" beating faster, because of some kind of throbbing, because of some kind of... desire.

Even though this non-physical self of hers did not have a heart, it seemed as if something was scratching her curiosity and giving her this strange illusion.

Why didn't Mr. Devil help Miss Wolf directly? Why did Mr. Devil watch this chaos? Why did he say that my deceiving him was a good start? Why... did he come to me?

Xin was never curious, because there was no need to be curious. The lives of those who were judged or redeemed, whether happy or sad, good or bad, had nothing to do with her.

Because their sins are in her eyes, their egos are in her eyes, so Xin is never curious about anyone. After all, everyone is transparent in her eyes.

But Mr. Devil is very different. What does he want to do?

"Have you noticed anything special about this area?" Anser smiled, taking in the curiosity written on Xin's face. "If you can spot it, I will end this chaos three minutes earlier."

"!"

Xin's expression changed and he began to look around very seriously.

The streets were destroyed, the houses were burned, the people were crying and running away, the extraordinary people were fighting...

The Saint Lady pondered for a long time, then said with certainty: "There are many dead people here!"

"..." Ansher was rarely silent.

As if realizing that his answer was a bit too nonsensical, Xin immediately explained: "What I mean is that many people died here, which means that this is the center of chaos... one of them. And if this is the center of chaos, there must be some special reason."

As he spoke, Xin was stunned by what he said.

"So the characteristic of this area is...it has characteristics?"

After saying this, the Saint looked at Gen'anser somewhat anxiously, like a child who knew he had done something wrong but didn't dare to admit it, and even hoped that the adults would forgive and cover up for him.

The young Hydra shook his head and sighed: "Well, it's my fault for asking you such logical questions. I will try to avoid it in the future."

"Am I a fool, Mr. Devil?" asked Xin.

"No, you're just not normal."

Miss Saint nodded: "That should be better than being an idiot. I hope I'm just not good at this kind of thing."

Xin never thought of becoming an unfathomable genius like Mr. Devil, but he also hoped that his thinking could be sharper.

Well...it would be nice to be as smart as Miss Wolf!

"Mr. Anser." When Xin was thinking this, a slightly hoarse female voice sounded beside Anser, "The execution progress in the East District and the South District is almost at the end."

"So fast?" Anser raised his eyebrows slightly, "Are you already reducing the speed to the lowest?"

“Not at first.”

The voice from the shadows sounded apologetic: "We underestimated the strength of the counterattack of those termites, so we went a little too far."

Anser looked up at the wolves and demons fighting in the sky and smiled gently, "It's okay. A one-minute error is acceptable. It might not be a bad idea to end it quickly... If we fight any longer, our Highness Ivora will have to escape early."

As soon as he finished speaking, the demon wolf in the sky roared and slammed Ivora into the ground with one claw, plowing a ditch hundreds of meters long on the street.

"Yes."

Marina, who never emerged from the shadows, seemed to have left quietly again, and Ansel turned to look at the confused Xin. Miss Lamb's innocent look full of curiosity made the devil very happy.

"Curious what I was talking to Marina about?" he asked with a smile.

Nodding, Xin nodded vigorously.

In view of Xin's strange thinking logic, Anser did not intend to beat around the bush. He raised his cane and pointed at the buildings on the street: "Although they are almost burned down now, Your Excellency the Saint, you should be able to see that before they were destroyed, the buildings here were quite magnificent, right?"

"It seems so." Xin tilted his head slightly, "What does this mean?"

“This means that most of the people who live here are rich.”

Hydra said meaningfully: "A rich man living in the imperial capital."

Xin was stunned for a moment, then said with enlightenment: "Then according to what Miss Crow said just now, the other places where chaos occurred are also... where the rich live?"

Anser smiled and praised: "Isn't this very sharp, Your Excellency the Saint?"

Strictly speaking, there is no real circle of rich people in the imperial capital, because the center of the imperial capital is always dominated by extraordinary people. Only people who have money... unless they have a lot of money, they are not worthy of entering this circle. Therefore, most of the rich people basically live in the four wealthy areas of the east, west, south and north of the imperial capital.

"The riots...only happened in places where rich people live." Xin murmured in a low voice, "Why is that? Are the extraordinary people who caused the riots short of money?"

"War is always a money-burning thing." Anser said leisurely, "The war in the North has been going on until now. All supplies have been purchased from areas outside the North. Money is being burned every minute and every second. Is it strange to be short of money?"

"...Yes, Miss Wild Wolf seemed to think that the chaos was caused by the people of the Skyfrost Tower."

Xin seemed to understand a little: "They are out of money from the war, so they want to come to the capital... to rob money?"

The corner of Anser's mouth twitched. He resisted the urge to laugh out loud and tapped his cane lightly: "Xi'er only traced the Sky Frost Tower, but that doesn't mean that there are only people from the Sky Frost Tower in the imperial capital."

"The Iron Blade Front, the three divisions of the Revolutionary Army, and the various associations of the Skyfrost Tower... the three forces in the north have all stationed people in the imperial capital, both to collect intelligence and to bide their time."

The devil turned his head and looked at other areas of the imperial capital: "The Skyfrost Tower's association caused a commotion here, the soldiers of the Iron Front caused a riot in the south, and the revolutionary army split into two groups and looted... Since one side has taken action, it doesn't make sense for the other two sides to just watch, right?"

"Yes, is that so?" Xin was a little confused. "But wouldn't this...wouldn't it make Mr. Devil angry? If Mr. Devil gets angry, what's the point of them robbing so much money?"

"But they'll still be doomed if they don't rob, won't they?"

Anser chuckled and pointed at himself: "Do you think they will hope that I will show mercy and let the North become independent? What's more..."

He looked up at the sky that was ablaze with bloody flames, and the curve of his mouth showed an increasingly intense joy:

"What's more, they now have a backer who may be able to use him against me."

Xin remembered the man's cry just now, and his eyes gradually became clearer: "Because they think Miss Devil can fight against Mr. Devil, so they decided to fight to the death... Is that right?"

"That's not all." After blowing off another extraordinary person's head while chatting and laughing, Anser continued, "You and I both know what kind of person Ivora is. If we show more powerful strength in the imperial capital and plunder more resources, we will naturally be able to win her over better. With this bargaining chip to fight against me, they will do their best to destroy everywhere..."

The boy tilted his head slightly and smiled harmlessly: "That sounds reasonable, right?"

"..."

Xin stared at Anser for a long time, then shook his head in confusion: "It seems... reasonable, but I always feel like there's something wrong."

"What made you think there was a problem? Intuition?"

"No, Mr. Devil."

Miss Saint stared at Anser: "Mr. Devil knows so much, how could he let this thing go on?"

Anser's steps suddenly stopped, he looked into Xin's holy blue eyes, and after a moment he showed a satisfied smile.

"Good, Xin. You learned something new."

"…New things?"

Anser did not answer directly, but raised his staff and pointed to the highest point of the imperial capital, the palace that once symbolized the authority of the Feast of Flames but now represents the power of the Hydra monarchy.

"The answer I gave just now was from the perspective of the North, and from the perspective of someone who is at the same level as those people in the North... Now, let's change the perspective."

He supported his cane with both hands and asked with a smile: "From my perspective, do you think there is any benefit from today's chaos?"

"..." Xin thought for half a second and immediately shook his head, "No."

"No longer thinking for yourself?"

"I can't think of it even if I think about it carefully." Xin's face was full of confusion. "It was Mr. Devil's territory that was destroyed, Miss Wild Wolf would be in a bad mood, and Mr. Devil's dignity would be jeopardized... How could it be good?"

"But didn't you just discover it?"

The devil looked at the cute lamb he was leading and said, "You found that I would not accept the loss indifferently, which means that this loss is not a loss to me, but a gain."

Xin was stunned for a moment, and a thoughtful look gradually emerged on his mature and beautiful face. While Xin was savoring this sentence, Anser continued: "Saint, if a person hates someone but still wants to cooperate with the other person, and at the same time desires something from that person, what do you think he will do?"

Without waiting for Xin to answer, Anser answered himself: "The best method is, of course, robbery based on deception."

For the young Hydra, ruling the empire was a long process.

During this period, he was confident that he could replace those parasites and garbage that he hated, but only in the initial stage, any component of the entire upper ruling group could not be easily destroyed.

He can crush one or two or three interest groups at will, but he can neither bring down destruction at will nor spread this destruction to the majority.

"Rule is a very troublesome matter, Your Excellency the Saint."

Anser sighed softly and said, "A society built on individual will is very fragile. This fragility is not necessarily structural, but because its existence or destruction depends entirely on the ruler's thoughts."

In the early stages of the empire's transformation, Anser still needed the ruling groups that had dominated the empire for thousands of years.

Of course, he could also refuse it, but the premise was that he had to ensure that he would not waver in his ideals and goals every minute of the next year. Anser, who still regarded fighting against fate as his first goal, could never make such a guarantee.

So before cooperating with these annoying guys, Anser has to collect a small amount of interest first.

The wealthy class who can settle in the imperial capital are undoubtedly the top wealthy class in the entire empire. Most of them have accumulated huge wealth with the support of the extraordinary group. Although they are essentially working for the extraordinary people, for ordinary people, that is already an unimaginable astronomical figure.

And Anser wants to make this astronomical figure, and the upper and lower classes it brings, flow again.

Similarly, there are better and more gentle ways to make this astronomical amount of money flow, but there is no need for Anser to adopt them. Firstly... this is not his main purpose, and secondly, the side effects of doing so are minimal to him.

A total of 3,697 wealthy people will die in this melee.

Most of their property will be looted and divided up, and a small portion will go to where the money should go according to Anser's wishes.

Anser never thought of achieving change and redistribution of wealth by killing the rich. It would be stupid to do so simply for the sake of "sharing the money". For him, this was just a simple start.

"My people will take a portion of the wealth we have plundered from them, and the rest... I will generously donate to our friends in the North who have the courage to be independent, to support their war that is full of positive meaning."

Anser chuckled and said, "They have already suffered an unexpected disaster. We can't let them go, right?"

And this is only Anser’s first purpose, and it can be said to be the most secondary purpose.

For the ruling group under Anther, these dead wealthy people were almost all tools for their subordinates to make money, which means that the lost wealth was essentially their money, and nothing... could make people more united than losing the same interests because of the same enemy.

Anser needed these hyena maggots who were busy scheming to unite. He could use violence and power, but that was essentially self-deception, so he fed these greedy guys a sweet bait - the North, which was not suitable for living but rich in mineral resources and supernatural resources... and immediately created a common, damn enemy for them.

There is no doubt that after today's chaos, these damn hyenas will unanimously turn their attention to the North in a short period of time, and this short-lived unity and cohesion will be enough for Anser to do many things that they absolutely cannot imagine.

“They will recognize who the damned enemy is and who the good leaders are.”

Anser looked at the fallen Transcendent not far away, with his eyes wide open, and nodded with satisfaction: "And they are not the only ones who realize this."

The ruling class will realize how beneficial Anther is to them as a leader, and the common people will realize how kind Anther, the Regent, is after the emperor's death and the northern warlords go crazy.

As the war expands, this awareness will only expand infinitely.

And one last thing.

"You damned female cat, is this all you can do!!!"

Xitana's roar resounded throughout the imperial capital, and the brutal blood flames ignited by Ivora were equally terrifying.

"But you are just relying on Anser's luck... I should have burned you to ashes the first time I saw you!"

In the sky, the hysterical Ivola had bloodshot eyes and was furious. The complete madness drove her to compete with Hitana right now, even if they both died.

However, at this moment... three warlocks suddenly appeared behind her, and the violent spatial fluctuations directly swept her in, causing her to disappear out of thin air!

"..."

Hitana, who was about to take Ivora's attack, was stunned, and Xin, who looked up at the battle situation with Anther, was also stunned.

Why did he just...run away?

"Although Ivora is a stronghold that the North can use to fight me...but does anyone really want to use her to fight me?"

Anser looked at the gradually dissipating blood flames and chuckled, saying, "Although it may sound boastful to say this, you should know that, Saint, rather than relying on Ivora to fight against me...more powerful people in the North might prefer to surrender to me directly, give up independence, or place their hopes for the future on me."

"But how can independence be ended just like that?"

The devil narrowed his eyes slightly: "We can't treat such a serious matter as playing house. So..."

He turned to look at Xin and smiled brightly: "So, it's reasonable for me to give them a push, right?"

As long as the extraordinary people "from the North" stir up chaos and turmoil in the imperial capital, make them show that they urgently need Ivora, and then let Ivora and Shitana stage an unreserved bloody battle, then... who will care about those who do not intend to rely on Ivora?

That is the only hope to defeat Hydra. Are we really going to watch her die at the hands of Shetana?

Now that someone has shouted this, can those at the scene still expect Hydra to let them go and wait for the masters in the far north to finish their quarrel before making a decision?

What other choice is there besides running away with Ivora?

Hearing this, Xin was suddenly shocked. She stared into those ocean-blue eyes and said in disbelief, "So... these people, the extraordinary people who caused the turmoil, were all arranged by Mr. Devil?"

"Of course it can't be all of them, only part of them."

It only takes a part of them to cause a melee, and then let Marina enter the scene for the massacre, forcing the lurking Northern spies to join the battle. By that time... does it matter who is looting wealth and who is looking for Ivora?