The villain's way to tame the protagonist

Hitana originally thought that Marina would say something like "You being threatened is the same as Mr. Anser being threatened", but her sister, who had taught her not to rely on violence, said as a matter of course:

"Why can't you be so domineering, Xitana? You are no longer the person you used to be. You already have the power to carry out that belief, don't you?"

This is something Marina would never say.

"I……"

Hitana was speechless for a while and even began to reflect on herself.

The notorious Scourge Wolf looked back on his experiences along the way. He was either beating people or killing people, either being unreasonable or killing everyone.

I'm already like this, am I not domineering enough?

Miss Wolf was a little shocked, but if she continued to be so domineering, then, wouldn't she be no different from the emperor?

Marina looked at her silent sister, seemed to guess what she was thinking, and sighed softly.

"Why, does what Lady Polynya said make you doubt yourself?"

"I didn't! How could I doubt myself..."

Xitana retorted subconsciously, but her voice gradually lost its confidence.

From the moment she met the Grand Duke of Grey Tower, she had unconsciously fallen into a very serious problem that she had never considered before.

What exactly can her violence bring?

Can pure power really change everything in the world according to her wishes? And what is the difference between her who uses this power and the emperor?

Marina did not ask any further questions. After looking at Xitana deeply, she turned her gaze back to the Grand Duke of Gray Tower.

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Gray Tower, I just wasted some time... Now let's talk about the price again."

The woman raised one hand, and a crow flew out from the shadows and landed on her bent index finger, as if conveying some message. She smiled at Dormer and said, "Your willful behavior has caused a lot of trouble for Xitana and me. Although you said that you would send those refugees back as long as Xitana revisits her hometown, the damage they have suffered during this period is irreparable. If Xitana feels guilty about this, it is also my dereliction of duty."

"So in contrast... you also need to experience the same pain."

After delivering the message, the crow flapped its wings and flew away, while Marina turned around and said briskly in the manner of a master:

"Come with me, Xitana, I will show you what Mr. Huita wants you to see, and..."

The witch tilted her head slightly, and a sweet and gentle smile appeared on her beautiful face:

"Beneath these appearances, there is a truth that he doesn't want you to see."

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There are many subsidiary towers surrounding the Sky Frost Tower, and this tower is one of the larger ones. The scene inside this tower... is so stunning that it is hard to describe in words.

Because after Marina retracted the shadow that blocked the entrance, what appeared before everyone's eyes was a row of...houses?

It's not just houses, buildings, streets, and green plants... this space is designed according to reasonable urban planning, which is equivalent to a small city.

"The first to third floors are all residential areas. From my point of view, the city planning is not very good. However... the living area of ​​​​the 'Sky Frost People' does not need normal planning, right, Mr. Gray Tower?"

Marina was strolling leisurely on the street, and there were many pedestrians on the street, but they didn't dare to move.

Because of the endless black crows densely squatting on every roof, they dared not even make a sound, let alone move.

Originally, when they saw the Grand Duke of Grey Tower, their eyes were filled with ardent hope and surprise, but when they realized that the Grand Duke of Grey Tower was indifferent to the current situation, that ardent hope quickly turned into deeper despair.

Marina's question made the Grey Tower Grand Duke's eyebrows move slightly. He stroked his cane and said, "Ms. Malros's understanding of the Skyfrost Tower is beyond my imagination."

"Hehe, it's just that what you said to Xitana made me a little concerned... As a Grand Duke, your thoughts on the crushing and destruction of the ordinary by the extraordinary seem a little too profound and advanced, Mr. Gray Tower, so I did some simple research."

"Investigation..."

The Duke of Gray Tower looked at the figure that was obviously slender and graceful, yet as terrifying as a monster, and narrowed his eyes slightly:

"Is it you who wanted to conduct such an investigation, or...was it instructed by His Royal Highness the Regent?"

Sitana paused slightly.

The witch's cheerful laughter soon followed: "I almost forgot that you don't know my true nature."

"I am the only rebellious person in the world who can act on behalf of Mr. Anser, Mr. Gray Tower."

She turned to look at the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower, but her words seemed to be addressed to someone else.

"I will take the initiative to find and complete everything... I think that things that are beneficial to Mr. Anser do not require Mr. Anser's consent, and I don't even need to let him know."

"Including your current revenge?"

"It's revenge for Xitana." Marina responded nonchalantly, "Although I don't care what she becomes, Mr. Anser does. However, he always respects Xitana too much, respects her own will and choices, and is reluctant to influence her."

"But I am willing to do so."

The witch glanced at her sister, whose expression was slightly stiff, and chuckled.

"Will Mr. Devil be reluctant to let go?" Xin whispered in Anser's ear.

"How is that possible?" Anser looked at her with amusement. "Would I be reluctant to change Luo? Of course I treat Xier the same...it's just that Marina always takes the initiative."

The dark color in those ocean-blue eyes surged and faded, and he whispered softly:

"Really... you can't bear to see me being wronged at all."

Xin didn't say anything, but just looked into Anser's eyes silently.

Marina led them quickly through the residential areas on the first to third floors, and the crows followed them closely, making it impossible for the "Sky Frost People" here to show their normal lives.

The witch's shadow seemed to have completely taken control of the entire tower without anyone noticing. How she managed to do this without the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower noticing... no one knew.

"Xitana." Marina stopped before the fourth floor and suddenly asked, "Does the residential area built by Mr. Huita leave you with any deep impression?"

Miss Sitana seemed to be irritated by her rude words and replied in a slightly unhappy tone, "Your crows are everywhere. What's there to be impressed by?"

"I don't mean the architectural style, but... the residents."

"…Residents? What's wrong with residents? Aren't they all normal? They don't look weird, they all look like normal people."

"Are you sure they are normal people?" Marina asked back.

"Of course they are—"

Hitana, who was retorting subconsciously, suddenly stopped talking because she realized something very important and incredible.

"wrong……"

A look of disbelief appeared in the girl's eyes:

"They...they are all extraordinary!"

That's right, although I didn't pay special attention, as long as I thought about it, I could find that every person in this three-story residential area, no matter how young the child or how old the old man, had traces of ether flow. They were all... extraordinary people!

"Are you surprised?" Marina smiled. "This is a school for extraordinary people. It's normal that there are only extraordinary people here."

It would be strange if it were normal!

Hitana widened her eyes. Marina's nonchalant attitude failed to calm her down. Instead, it made her even more anxious.

But her sister didn't say anything else, and led them to continue upwards.

The fourth floor is the learning area, where many types of colleges are built. Those young children probably complete their primary education here.

The fifth floor is a giant library. The dozens of meters high bookshelves and densely packed books are like a spectacle that is shocking to look at. There are even more exaggerated collections of books in the main tower of the Sky Frost Tower. The library here is probably only for the Sky Frost people in the tower.

The sixth to ninth floors are leisure and entertainment areas, with lakes, grasslands, dense forests, and even artificial seas that have completely restored the ecology; there are also carefully carved gardens and theaters full of humanistic atmosphere, as well as some buildings that Hitana has no idea what they are used for.

This tower perfectly meets everyone's living needs. To exaggerate a little, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a miniature country.

The road above the ninth floor is blocked and requires special permission to pass.

Marina stood in front of the teleportation array leading to the tenth floor and asked Xitana with a smile: "How do you feel now?"

Xitana thought for a while, then curled her lips and said, "If they hadn't been scared like that by you, they would have been doing well."

"Yeah...everything is going well."

The witch lamented: "The existence of the extraordinary makes most of the things that are necessary for mortals meaningless - there is no need for farmers, craftsmen, cooks, waiters... All meaningless labor activities are abandoned, and people born in this environment will undoubtedly live a very happy life."

“No need to worry about food, no need to worry about the temperature tonight, no need to worry about whether you can earn money to support your family... Chaofan provides everything, there is no shortage of resources, everyone can receive a good education, enjoy a stable order, do what they want, cultivate their sentiments, and relax their minds...”

"Mr. Gray Tower." Marina looked at Dormer with a half-smile, "You really created a beautiful place that people yearn for."

Although he knew that Marina was preparing a killer move to destroy it all, the Grand Duke of Gray Tower could only lower his eyes and said, "This is exactly what I want to show Lord Lance."

An ideal country, a prosperous country without disputes, oppression, and prosperity.

——But the problem is, he couldn't show it at all because it was all ruined by Marina.

All Xitana saw along the way were the frightened Sky Frost people. How happy they were, how joyfully they lived, how stable the order here was... there was no way to show it.

She had absolutely no impression of this tower, the Skyfrost people, or the order created by the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower. No matter how beautifully the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower tried to describe it all, it was all just empty talk to Hitana - she even found it a little confusing.

And this is just the first step. After all... this is not an ideal country at all.

"Then why did you block and hide the entrances to the tenth floor and higher floors?"

Marina pointed to the teleportation array behind her and said, "Even if I'm not here, Xitana will be able to sense it. How did you plan to deceive her?"

"If Lord Lance wants to go to a higher level." Dormer seemed to accept the current situation and responded calmly, "I will not stop him."

"Then come on, Sitana." Marina stepped into the teleportation array and looked back at Miss Wolf who was wondering what she was thinking.

She said softly and earnestly:

"I hope you can understand through this incident the gap between a false ruler and a true ruler."

After reaching the tenth floor, the scene before my eyes changed drastically.

In stark contrast to the previous nine floors of residences, colleges, libraries, and leisure areas that were full of life, the tenth floor was completely a large...laboratory.

The cold and transparent compartments were like prisons, and the researchers who were supposed to be busy were controlled by Marina and wore the same uniform. Looking deeper, one could even see neatly arranged jars, and the objects floating and sleeping inside were all... living people.

But Xitana hadn't noticed the people in the jars yet, because she was so shocked by the scene so close to her that she was speechless.

In those transparent compartments, what was being studied were not objects or ether, but living people. However, the scene was not bloody, just very... disgusting.

Because they are all mating.

Male and female, male and male, female and female, even humans and animals, and most of the fights are mixed... Their mating behavior has absolutely no autonomy at all, and is no different from animals that are forced to mate. Even animals that are forced to mate depend on their estrus period, but they probably don't have time to rest.

"Xitana, you also think it's abnormal that all the people in this tower are extraordinary, right? Because according to Mr. Gray Tower, these Sky Frost people were born in the Sky Frost Tower, which means that all the people born in this tower are extraordinary."

Marina looked at the scene in front of her with indifference and disgust, which had no trace of lewdness at all and was just horrifying.

"But everyone knows that the qualifications of extraordinary people are completely uncontrollable. Even if the road to heaven can theoretically allow everyone to embark on the road to extraordinaryness, it is only in theory. To allow a person who has no qualifications to have the ability to contact the ether, the cost and the result are completely disproportionate."

"The Skyfrost Tower is obviously not so generous as to allow every child born to undergo a ritual to change their qualifications unconditionally. So considering this disgusting scene before you... I think you should understand why all the people in this tower are extraordinary, right?"

The answer couldn't be simpler.

That is... life.

They give birth non-stop, breed non-stop, and create new life with cold and cruel utilitarian purposes. And judging from the complete equipment and complex breeding conditions, this place is more like... a laboratory than a breeding farm.

"Normal mating between men and women, same-sex mating achieved through magic, and interspecies mating that transcends reproductive isolation through magic... There is also artificial insemination, and life forms created without reproductive means."

Dormer Grey Tower recounted in great calmness what kind of shocking and crazy research he was doing.

"As you can see, Lord Lance, I am looking for the conditions that will definitely lead to the birth of a transcendent."

Everything she saw before her eyes couldn't even make Hitana angry, because it was too absurd, so absurd that it was beyond her cognition. Before she got angry, she tried to understand why such a thing happened in the world.

"Gray Tower...were you driven crazy by that old woman emperor a long time ago?"

"I have always been normal, Master Lance."

Dormer's tone did not fluctuate at all: "Before you continue to ask questions, I think I need to tell you the real reason why I asked you to return to the Sky Frost Tower... The real reason that you should have known."

"I hope you can recognize the true nature of the Skyfrost Tower and its new and more superior order that transcends the secular society."

"——An absolutely advanced order composed of extraordinary beings."

By using extraordinary powers to satisfy the needs of being human, and the extraordinary people themselves can be the subjects of the extraordinary, they are both the beneficiaries and the providers of the extraordinary, so the kingdom of the Tianshuang people can achieve a positive cycle.

"I know you are full of disgust and even hatred for your school days, but I think you should understand now... those who trampled on, despised, and hurt you were all nobles, defective products who grew up in the old order of the empire, an order distorted and dominated by the emperor."

"They clearly possess supernatural powers, but they are still trapped in the inferiority of mortals. This is the evil result of the thousand-year rule of Feasting Flame... If you think about it carefully, you will realize why the extraordinary people have to live in a society built for mortals and follow rules that are designed for mortals?"

"Lord Lance... you should understand that when those noble children used secular power and the authority of their families to put pressure on you, it was the Tianshuang people who purely admired your talent and your gifts. They were your students and teachers who took on the pressure for you time and time again. Those extraordinary people who have not lived in a mortal society since birth and do not need to abide by mortal rules, and are therefore nobler and purer than those defective products, firmly stood on your side."

How could Polynya alone bear all the responsibility for the numerous evil deeds committed by Sitana? The nobles that the young wolf had offended and the enemies that he had made were not something that Polynya could handle alone.

In other words, in this regard, the Grand Duke of Gray Tower did not lie - the Sky Frost people he mentioned were indeed people who valued ability more than class and origin, and were completely different from those who belonged to normal society.

A pure... extraordinary person.