The villain's way to tame the protagonist

"She can't see clearly, and she's not on...our side."

The woman's laughter seemed sarcastic, or perhaps sad.

"Otherwise, why would she keep talking about meaninglessness?"

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"No...meaning, new...life."

Ming Fuluo felt that things were still not developing in the direction she expected.

Because although the revolutionary army's attacking troops were silent, the chaos was calmed down without anyone noticing.

They were all...looking at her with increasingly hostile eyes.

"It's meaningless. Live a new life... Hehe, hahahahahaha——"

Flames spewed out of the Fire Giant's mouth, and Fire Bite coughed up charred organs and boiling blood.

But he was laughing out loud, and the sound was completely out of shape, like a dying beast trapped in a thorn bush, howling in pain with every step forward.

"A new life? Your Highness the Regent's pet lady, what kind of new life do you mean?"

"Is it a life of being oppressed and humiliated by nobles and stronger transcendents? Is it a life of watching the corrupt and powerful continue to live in despicable ways but being powerless to do anything? Or is it a life of being unable to break free of the shackles until death... and having to beg for mercy from you?"

"What a joke!!"

The fire giant roared furiously and smashed Ming Furo with his fists, but the overwhelming fire could only create layers of flames on the shield.

"Do you really think that all of us started this war because we were afraid of death? You and that liar and betrayer are so high and mighty that you think... that we want to live like wild dogs in a dead end alley, eating garbage and sewage, and that's why we're risking our lives here!"

"..."

The flames from Huo Yao couldn't hurt Ming Furo at all, but his furious and ferocious appearance made Ming Furo's heart tremble for a moment.

What is he talking about?

After that brief shudder, the emotion that arose in Ming Fuluo's heart was... anger.

"So, you can take this kind of thing for granted?"

The steel monsters on the city wall woke up together, and the ultimate and pure destruction began to accumulate. Ming Fuluo's cold voice echoed between heaven and earth: "So, you can take the innocent people of an entire city as a threat... and take it for granted?"

"For your so-called ideals and beliefs, for the torture and suffering you have endured, you are going to bring even greater disasters... to all the innocent people?!"

"Because we don't have a fucking choice!"

As soon as Ming Fuluo's voice rose, Huoyao's roar drowned out her voice. Not only his roar, but also the roar of spells and the slashing of swords.

Someone... continued the attack.

Ming Fuluo saw the unresolvable hatred in the eyes of those who attacked again.

What are they hating?

They used the innocent people of an entire city to threaten me. They started this war without considering how much harm the civilians of Donggang would suffer... Why do they hate? Why do they... hate me?

"We don't have Hydra, who can squander countless resources just by acting like a spoiled child and allow you to arm the entire East Port. We don't have your talent and strength to form an army by yourself. We don't even have a leader who can truly command us!"

More firepower, more fury, along with the roar of Fire Bite, continuously poured onto the shield of Triumph Port City, even more violently than before.

"While you were sitting in your office giving orders to others, my brothers and sisters and I were traveling through dangerous terrain filled with ferocious beasts and monsters. While you were easily obtaining countless resources from Hydra, my subordinates and I were risking our lives to search for supplies from the monsters' lairs. While you were standing here, high and mighty, saying that innocent people should not die and that everything we did was worthless..."

"My comrades, my compatriots, people are dying every minute and every second, sacrificing their already miserable and painful lives for the meaningless things you mentioned!"

boom--! ! !

Fierce and unparalleled flames gushed out of the holes in the fire giant's skull. The powerful warrior roared and chopped cracks in the barrier with an axe. The high-level warlock squeezed out the last bit of ether in his body, along with his life, and gathered it at the top of the staff and blasted it out.

They are desperate.

For every kind of pain that Huo Yao talked about, there are countless corresponding people in the Revolutionary Army. They live in this empire dominated by the emperor, this hell created by the gods, and have experienced too much pain.

They may not really have any grand visions. Most of them may simply want revenge, want to vent, want to no longer experience that kind of despair, or they may want others to no longer suffer that kind of pain.

The same experiences and pains came together to form the grand goal of the revolutionary army, covering up their own dark or warm thoughts. But no matter how grand or small, the cruelty and despair they experienced never changed.

Who can tolerate that their obsession, which was born out of hardships, is lightly labeled as meaningless?

Who can tolerate someone who has never understood what they have been through, telling them to let go of everything and start their life again?

If possible, who wouldn't want to crush the corrupt dignitaries and the evil supernatural beings with dignity, wipe out all enemies easily without harming the innocent, without feeling guilty, and gaining endless praise and glory?

But they are just... helpless and desperate people.

They lost the genius and support they should have, they never had a leader who could show everyone the way, and even from the very beginning... they were all brought together because of a lie, and they were all powerless and desperate people.

From their perspective, they are right and they are fighting the fight they deserve.

Because they have no choice.

It's not a choice between life and death, but... a choice between submitting to the cruel world that torments them.

If they did not intend to numbly allow themselves to be slaughtered by this chaotic world, then they could only take up arms and do what Ming Furo described as meaningless things.

They were helpless, desperate and angry...the best they could do was this.

As for Ming Fuluo, she was just looking down on them and trampling on their last bit of dignity.

She was just a pet who was raised in such a way that she had no idea how cruel this world was. She was just an exquisite puppet living in the false paradise carefully created by Hydra.

Chapter 1.3: Pride Part (W)

Ming Fuluo felt irritated.

To her, Huo Yao's roar of pain did not sound shocking or worthy of reflection, even though Ming Furo could understand why Huo Yao said that.

They are oppressed and exploited by the nobles, despised and played with by the extraordinary people. Because they don't want their lives to be a tragedy until their death, and because of the various limitations of their birth, talents, environment, and cognition, what they can do is always limited... So here, all they can do is to use their long-ruined and gloomy lives to exchange for a glimmer of opportunity that they themselves may not even think can be realized.

It is both a life-threatening and self-destructive act.

Perhaps it is the price of rational thinking. Ming Furo has always lacked empathy. She lacks the ability to put herself in other people's shoes and think from their perspective. The extremely thin empathy she has has been completely left to Anser, with almost no empathy left.

But she did not think this was a shortcoming. On the contrary, Ming Furo always felt that if she was a woman with too rich emotions, she would have been turned into an idiot by Ansir long ago.

Because of this rationality, Ming Furo was not at all moved by Huo Yao's remarks and the revolutionary army's desperate actions.

If she was a bystander, and the revolutionary army was fighting for the life of an unforgivable noble or a transcendent who was indifferent to human life, then Ming Furo might have some respect for them.

But the problem is... the person Huo Yao said these words to was her.

Why did she, who wanted to protect the entire East Port from the ravages of war and tried her best to prevent any innocent people from suffering, seem to have committed a huge crime in the eyes of these people?

That's... ridiculous.

"Huh... The entire Gale Legion is ready to be annihilated, Zeg."

Huo Yao's breathing sounded like roars, and the power that he could not control was about to tear him apart, but it didn't matter to him because the real winner was not here.

"They are accumulating... a spell that uses the heart of the Northern Red Ice Python as the core material, and at the cost of the lives of all the survivors of the Gale Legion. That city will not be able to withstand this attack."

The surging flames covered most of the sky above Triumph Port City. Ming Furo personally operated and allocated the power quota of the shield. With abundant supply of magic crystals, the revolutionary army, which had lost its surprise attack force, would never be able to capture any city.

But the revolutionary army grasped Ming Furo's weakness - for her, the war would not be won if even one innocent person was harmed.

The Fire Bite in the Fire Giant's head had almost turned it into a charred skeleton, and the part below the chest was only burnt bones, but his eyes were always fiery, as if he was doing something just.

"If you can watch all the people in that city die... then you can annihilate us all here. This will prove that you, who always talk about protection and morality, are essentially no different from all the high and mighty people we have seen."

"If you don't want to watch them die like this, then... disarm the entire East Port and admit with your own mouth that you have been defeated."

"We won't do anything to the civilians of East Port. We just need it... we need it to become... ahem... "

Ming Fuluo didn't listen to what Huoyao was saying. She was observing the remnants of the Gale Legion outside Lishui City. Huoyao wasn't bluffing. This spell seemed to be a disaster spell. Even if it was only at the fourth level, the large-scale destructive power was definitely not something that the small city with its resources on the verge of exhaustion could withstand.

It was a bit difficult for the third level of the aftermath of the spell to get close, and it was also outside the range of the city defense cannon. It should have been because of luck that the range of the city defense cannon was reached.

It is impossible that the revolutionary army is composed entirely of lunatics from top to bottom, with not a single normal person.

Ming Furo's cold eyes swept across the battlefield in front of Triumph Port City, while she paid attention to the other two port cities. She found that... only the offensive of Triumph Port City was the most fierce. The revolutionary army attacking the other two cities had their desire to fight reduced a lot.

Even in the Triumphant Port City, the revolutionary army's offensive seemed extremely crazy... and that was because they were instigated by Huoyao - no, it should be said that people like Huoyao were attacking without caring about their lives.

Ming Furo could even see the revolutionary soldiers sitting on the ground helplessly and losing their fighting spirit in the magic position behind the revolutionary army.

If I can provoke a quarrel among them... and allow Triumph Port City to hold out for a while without me, I can get rid of those lunatics who want to drag the entire city to hell.

But how can we——

How is this going?

At the moment when she was thinking about countermeasures, Ming Fuluo saw something that was impossible to happen no matter what.

"Make a decision quickly, Zeg! You're the one without a choice now!"

Huo Yao forced Ming Fuluo to make a decision immediately: "We have given you enough time to think. You only have ten seconds left. The last ten seconds."

"...Ten seconds?"

Ming Furo looked up at the crumbling fire giant that could collapse at any time. There was no anger in her gorgeous purple eyes, but... pity?

"Not ten seconds, idiot."

She raised her hand, and the light curtain above the port city changed, reflecting... the bloody plain.

Severed limbs, pieces of flesh, internal organs, bones, and the deep dark red that soaked the earth.

Life has become meaningless in this slaughterhouse, and those who are willing to step into this slaughterhouse...what on earth have they experienced to choose to end their lives in such a ridiculous way...after watching their comrades around them being blasted into pieces one after another?

Ming Fuluo could not accept their choice, but at this moment, when she looked at the killing field paved with blood, flesh and bones, she could no longer feel such hatred for these people.

In this world, there are very few people who can overcome the fear of death.

Either you regard something as more important than your life, or you have no attachment to life at all. The former is worthy of admiration, while the latter is worthy of pity.

What on earth did these people go through, and what kind of thoughts did they have, that would make them choose to end their lives in this way?

Yes, all dead.

The last remnants of the Gale Legion died in an instant.

Die...under the deep blue tide.

The only person in the sea of ​​blood and corpses raised his head and smiled at the reconnaissance plane floating in the air:

"Don't worry, Ms. Zeger, the threat has been resolved."

"..."

That's right, Lian De Shenlan, as the leader of the revolutionary army and a fifth-level extraordinary being, she personally intervened in this war that a fifth-level extraordinary being should not have intervened in.

A sigh was heard from the highest building in Triumph Port City.

"You've crossed a line, Ms. Liand."

At this moment, the violence that was about to pour out, the anger that was about to burst out, and the still foolish confusion... were all frozen by this sigh.

Because everyone felt the sight that seemed to transcend time and space, looking down at every existence on this vast land, as if a god high in the clouds cast an indifferent glance at the world.

"Anser, wait..."

Ming Fuluo spoke subconsciously, but swallowed the rest of the words with difficulty.

She didn't know why Lian De did this, but she knew that this woman, who had caused her so much trouble, did provide her with the most important help at this most critical moment.

But Anser would never go back on his word on such an occasion. He did not come here at this moment as his best friend or dear lover. The majesty that almost held the entire East Port in his hands belonged to the Regent and Hydra.

Ming Fuluo, who was relieved, could only remain silent, but she decided to plead for mercy to Lian De later, at least to let Ansel spare her life. No matter how much she hated Lian De before, she had to distinguish between grudges and gratitude.

But Ming Fuluo still didn't understand why Lian De would do it himself.

Is it to make up for the mistake he made when he was deceived by Leng Zhu, or would he rather risk breaking the rules and being killed than allow his dignity as a noble to be trampled upon and tarnished in this way?

But no matter what, this is a good thing, at least Lian De is on her side.

Lian De in the picture smiled and said fearlessly: "I am not interfering with this war, Your Highness Anser."

"I'm just... cleaning up the interior."

"Without your interference, the outcome of the match between New World and Ming Fuluo would still be difficult to determine."

Hydra's majestic and indifferent voice echoed above the sky: "What are you quibbling about?"

"I am just making temporary wartime decisions based on my status."

Lian De Shen Lan remained calm: "I did not attack Miss Zeg, nor did I harm any of the territories. From a standpoint, I did not break any rules, did I?"