The villain's way to tame the protagonist

On the mountain peak covered with smoke and dust, Hitana stood in the rubble and breathed slowly. The wolf armor on her body faded a little and became somewhat transparent. The wolf tail, wolf ears and snake-like vertical pupils also disappeared.

It's not that she is weak, and the previous blow was not her right. She just knew that it would be a waste of effort to continue hitting.

"It's really... a hard tortoise shell."

Shitana sneered and clenched her five fingers. The sound of her knuckles crackling made people feel that she seemed to want to throw another punch.

The smoke and dust cleared, and the Grey Tower Duke patted his sleeves lightly, seemingly unharmed. But in fact, the surface of the gemstone on the top of the staff he held had cracked with a barely visible pattern.

"To be honest, you really surprised me just now, Lance... Sir."

The old man shook his head helplessly: "I almost thought you had really transformed to the point where you were no longer bound by those mundane things... If that were the case, our chances of winning would indeed be close to zero."

He looked at the girl in front of him who had suddenly become domineering and violent, and who seemed to not care at all about how much horrible damage the aftermath of her punches and kicks would bring to the civilians, and said with some amusement:

"But it was only almost. I didn't expect you to have such a cunning side, Lord Lance."

"Won't you come out and see me?"

Dormer Gray Tower cast his gaze towards the city not far away and greeted it in a friendly and amiable manner:

"The one who has recently become famous... Mr. Righteousness."

A few seconds later, a dazzling stream of light flew over from the sky above the neighboring city and landed not far from Xitana.

The light faded, and the wings of light behind the young man trembled gently, scattering a few feathers that scattered as soon as they touched the ground. He held the hilt of the slender sword at his waist, his expression alert and resolute.

"If possible." Hercules, who had already begun to gain fame in the North, said cautiously, "I hope you two can resolve the conflict here instead of leaving me to deal with the aftermath."

The gust of air that exploded above the city when Shitana crashed into the Grand Duke of Grey Tower was dealt with by him who happened to arrive.

"Oh?" The Grand Duke of Gray Tower looked at Hercules with a little surprise, "Mr. Righteous and Lord Lance cooperate so well. I thought you two knew each other for a long time and greeted each other in advance."

Xitana crossed her arms with disdain on her face and said, "Idiot, that guy is as bright as an ether lamp. It's you who didn't realize that he was approaching a long time ago."

"Well... this is indeed my shortcoming."

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower actually accepted Xitana's criticism calmly: "The power of the church is too mysterious. We have never been able to get involved in the field of divine arts...but Lord Lance can actually sense it."

"The power of the Wind Lord..." He looked at Xitana with a half-smile, "It's really incredible."

Hitana felt a little guilty when he looked at her, because she found that Hercules certainly had nothing to do with any traces of the church's magic - how could she not know that Anser was here?

The brutal and brutal attack just now was indeed out of absolute trust and tacit understanding with Anser...but he certainly couldn't admit it.

Why does this guy look like he knows something? There's no way he knows that this Hercules is Anther.

This war, after all, is just a stage controlled by Anther alone. The so-called agreement with Ivora is meaningless to him, and the naturally evil Hydra kid doesn't care about breaking his promise to the enemy, but Hitana still doesn't want others to think that Anther is too insidious and cunning.

Knowing that Ansel is a bad guy, she alone is enough - at most Marina can be added... and Ming Furo!

As for other people, you are not allowed to say bad things about Anser, and you are not allowed to think that Anser is a bad person!

Fortunately, the experienced Miss Wolf was no longer able to hide anything like before. She resisted the urge to secretly look at Anser and said in an impatient tone: "What the hell is wrong with you? Where are those people!"

"Those people?" Hercules interrupted at the right time, slightly surprised, "The refugees who disappeared in the nearby shelter?"

Xitana was also stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked: "Did you come from that shelter?"

She thought that Ansel came to find her out of concern because he saw how violent she suddenly became.

So it was because I went to the empty shelter? But...it can't be such a coincidence.

If it were someone else, Hitana would probably think it was a coincidence, but since Ansher was one of the people who encountered this coincidence, it was definitely not a coincidence.

Xin thinks so too.

She stared at Xitana, who was trying hard to disguise herself, and the thoughts in her mind were almost exactly the same as Miss Wolf's.

This is definitely not a coincidence.

She had experienced too many coincidences like this in Donggang, so she would never believe that this was a coincidence. The only problem was... How could Anser create such a coincidence?

Direction... Mr. Devil determined the direction he was moving in, so he must have known in advance that something had happened in the shelter and found this place during this time period.

What about Miss Wild Wolf? How did Mr. Devil control Miss Wild Wolf to appear here and not let her feel that she was arranged? She didn't appear directly in the shelter, and she didn't appear when protecting the evacuation team just now, so she attacked the nearby territory?

But why did he choose this city? How did Mr. Devil lead her? And...

Xin stared at the calm old man not far away, feeling somewhat surprised.

He is...what's going on.

Xin did not see any sin in the Grand Duke of Gray Tower, but he saw an assistant with unclear weight.

There is only one possibility - that is, Dormer Grey Tower was once redeemed by the saint of the church, and now he is on the road to making the synergy a reality.

But... judging from Miss Wolf's behavior and Mr. Devil's opinion of this old man, it seems that he is not doing anything good.

"Haha, don't worry, Lord Lance. I know that no matter how domineering you pretend to be, you still care about those innocent refugees... I am the same."

"Stop saying such disgusting things." The corner of Xitana's eye twitched, and she really wanted to punch the old man in the face a few more times.

"I actually don't know why these refugees appeared there."

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower said sincerely, "You have to know that I really don't have the energy to spend my time calculating a shelter with only one or two thousand people."

Hercules suddenly took a step forward, holding the glorious sword tightly, his expression solemn and stern: "Do you want to say that this is the church's problem?"

Dormer glanced at Hercules, sighed and shook his head: "It's only been such a short time... and you already have such a strong sense of belonging to the church. That's right, who can resist the temptation of reaching the top overnight?"

"Don't give me that crap!" Sitana, who was still trying to protect Anser even though she was pretending not to know him well, said directly, "Do you think I will believe you?"

The Grand Duke of the Grey Tower stroked the cracks on the gemstone on the top of the scepter. "It is your freedom to choose whether to believe it or not, Lord Lance. My personal guess is... the priests of that shelter may have reached a deal with Basat - the warlock you just scared. But for some reason, the deal between them broke down. The priests believed that the shelter was no longer safe and they could not wait for support to arrive, so they had to take the risk."

The three people present... Oh no, it's four people. Perhaps even the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower himself knows that this is nonsense. With Marina's deep control and the special means within the church, if there really is some irresistible risk, sending out a distress signal and waiting for assistance is definitely more reasonable than going out to die. Unless the priests who manage the shelter have all lost their brains for some unknown reason, they would never do such a thing.

In other words... something seems to be wrong with the church itself. Of course, the problem may be limited to this sanctuary.

"By the way, the scene I showed you happened a day ago. Now they have all been taken to the wealthy and safe territory."

"..."

Sitana, Hercules, and Sin were all stunned at the same time - of course, one of them was pretending.

Miss Wolf stared at the Grand Duke of Gray Tower for a long time, and finally said, "Are you sick?"

When he came out, he was sneaky, as if he wanted to threaten so many people, and seemed to be deliberately lurking around her.

After getting beaten, you told me that you took everyone away?

"You must have made a mistake, Lord Lance."

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower looked at the distant city, and the sigh in his eyes seemed so real: "Do you think everything that happened in the North is under my control alone?"

"My old friend, and the respected Princess Crown Princess... I alone cannot influence their decision."

"...You don't mean to say that the attack on the evacuated troops during this period was not done by you."

Sitana continued to look at Dormer with that "don't treat me like a fool" look.

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower smiled nonchalantly: "I told you, the choice of whether to believe it or not is up to you, Lord Lance."

Hercules, who was out of tune with these two big men but full of courage and a typical hero, asked, "So what you mean is that you actually want to do... the same thing as His Royal Highness the Regent?"

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower actually wants to rescue the refugees?

"Of course." The Grey Tower Grand Duke said without hesitation, "Otherwise, I could just watch them die in the shelter one by one due to exhaustion of resources. Why would I want to make a deal with the church?"

"Don't talk about your duty as if it's a grace. It's...disgusting."

Xitana did not respond to this comment at all. Instead, she became even more ferocious and violent: "You obviously shouldn't have allowed so many homeless refugees to appear in the North! Don't forget who is the culprit who caused them to lose their homes, relatives and friends!"

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower was not angry at all, and even began to admonish Xitana:

"Lord Lance, if you continue to use your high moral standards to demand others, you will only live in such rage and resentment forever."

Xin's slender eyebrows trembled slightly.

Too high a moral bottom line?

This is not the reason why Miss Wolf is angry. The root of her anger... is that she is not strong enough.

However, Xitana was now completely furious. In Xin's eyes, the flames on the wolf's body began to burn violently, as if they were about to soar into the sky.

"You scumbags don't do your job well, but instead turn around and say that I'm asking too much?"

She was so angry that she even laughed, and the meridians in her temples were throbbing: "No wonder he can become a duke. There is a reason for it."

From an objective perspective, the thinking mode of this Grey Tower Grand Duke is indeed far less upright than that of Miss Wild Wolf, but he has indeed committed no sins and is also fulfilling his duties as an assistant. Why is this the case? Since he is promoting the assistant he holds, then he should not -

Xin's thoughts suddenly froze.

Because she suddenly realized that she had unknowingly equated the promotion of the assistant manager with good and evil.

Coordination... Performing coordination has nothing to do with good or evil. It has something to do with a greater and correct purpose, the correct purpose of the entire world...

So what is it?

[The standard for judging and redeeming mankind is the standard of this world? Does this mean that the collective of mankind is equivalent to the world itself? ]

[If everything about human beings represents the world in your teachings, then how can the so-called coordination transcend good and evil?]

These were the bewitching words that the devil once whispered in her ears, and now, together with reality, they were gradually eroding the cognitive barriers that Xin had built up over the years.

Xin herself didn't know when her cognition...had become like this.

Xin wanted to convince himself that this was also a trick of Mr. Devil, but this...how could this be possible?

After arriving in the North, she followed Anser almost every step of the way. She was sure that Anser had absolutely no connection with the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower, and he naturally could not drive this old man to become a pawn to destroy himself.

There is no doubt that the Grand Duke of the Gray Tower came for Shitana. In the end... all this is still for Shitana.

Xin unconsciously placed her hand on her chest, and the pure pain that she didn't want to endure came over her again.

Mr. Devil believes that Miss Wolf and Miss Doll can also bring him salvation, so... he cares about them so much, loves and helps them unconditionally.

I...I really just want Mr. Devil to be saved. As long as Mr. Devil can be saved and can fulfill his mission, that is enough.

Xin, who was leaning close to Anser, subconsciously wanted to touch Anser, but when she found that Anser never looked at her, nor took the initiative to speak to her, let alone communicate with her face to face, but was looking at Xitana out of the corner of her eye... her hand twitched slightly, and finally retracted.

...is enough, that's right.

Anser's words strangled Xin, who was still worshipping God. As long as she was still proud of her duty and regarded it as everything in her life, no matter how painful it was, she had to admit... She absolutely did not have the idea that she had to save Anser by herself.

Even though she had thought about it countless times.

From a big picture perspective, Anser did a good job of restraining himself this time. At least no matter how jealous Xin was, he had to accept Anser's unconditional attachment and love for Miss Wolf under the compulsion of faith, gods, and life values, and accept that she could only be a marginalized person who could never be compared with Anser even if she was needed, and could never touch the depths of Anser's soul...

However, being forced and being voluntary are two different things.

Ansel wanted to temporarily free Xin from his twisted and morbid mentality, and he succeeded. By creating a sense of being needed, he more or less stabilized Xin's mentality.

But the problem is that without that morbid mentality, Xin can no longer turn pain into happiness at any time and place, and she can no longer... easily convince herself that no matter what Anser does, he is trying to make her fall.

Without this twisted self-protection, Xin became calm and normal, but also became... more vulnerable.

Every pain she endured was no longer sweet, but so unforgettable.

Chapter 138: The Extraordinary and All Living Things, Part 1

The appearance of the Grand Duke of Gray Tower seemed like an abnormal accident. Neither Xin nor Xitana could find the reason for his sudden appearance here.

"No matter what you think of me, I want to have a good talk with you, Lord Lance."

Even though he was offended again and again, the Grand Duke of Gray Tower did not show any resentment towards Xitana. He still said sincerely:

"I hope you can understand that I am not your enemy, let alone His Royal Highness the Regent."

Sitana was silent.

She didn't expect that there were people in this world who could be so shameless.

If she remembered correctly, the independence of the North was led by Grand Duke of Grey Tower, and then he quickly backstabbed Grand Duke of Iron Blade, igniting the raging war in the entire North, and then surrendered directly to Ivora and chose to be a dog.

After doing so many shameless things, this guy still said... he is not Anser's enemy?

"I know what you are thinking, Lord Lance. You are despising my meanness and shamelessness."

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower smiled calmly and indifferently: "But what if I tell you that I am actually doing the same thing as His Royal Highness the Regent, but I can't do it as well as him?"

A low roar echoed on the flattened mountain top. Xitana was still standing there, but the dark shadow of the demon wolf had already roared and smashed the shield of the Grand Duke of the Gray Tower with one claw. The dazzling sparks and the constantly shaking surface of the shield proved the weight of the blow.

"Don't compare trash like you... with Anser!"

"..." The Grand Duke of Gray Tower took another step back and shook his head helplessly, "Lord Lance, I don't think His Royal Highness the Regent would want to see you...lose control when talking about him. If you really have to vent your anger, you have to wait for me to make my words clear, right?"