The villain's way to tame the protagonist

"I want you to...witness the order established by these pure people."

Dormer Gray Tower's voice was so sincere: "I want you to witness what a perfect world they live in. They are free from worldly interference and can face this world with an absolutely pure mindset. They can correctly use their abilities as extraordinary beings to reach the other side... called transcendence."

"We have been bound to the mortal world by the Emperor. Now that the Emperor is gone, why should we continue to coexist with mortals?"

"Polynia, no, I was wrong. Very wrong. I shouldn't strip away the extraordinary for the sake of mortals. This direction is completely wrong."

The old man spoke in a hoarse and decayed voice, emphasizing each word:

"You should be extraordinary and abandon the mortals."

This is the ambition of the Grand Duke of Grey Tower. He is not seeking his own transcendence, but wants the extraordinary people to abandon all mortals and create an absolutely perfect world with only extraordinary people.

With the existence of extraordinary powers, there is no need to worry about the distribution of resources, no need to consider fairness, everyone's material desires can be satisfied, there will no longer be any disputes or conflicts, and on this basis, one can fully exert the power of a extraordinary being, step by step, step by step, find the possibility of transcending that limit and sublimating into a god.

The study of divine arts is also one of the groundwork and preparations for this.

This is why the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower asked Xitana to revisit his old place. He wanted to make Xitana approve of his behavior through the contrast between those defective products who grew up in the imperial order and made Xitana feel only hatred and anger, and the absolutely pure masterpieces that transcended the shackles of the world.

But he had only done half of it when the Dark Witch suddenly appeared from the sky without warning and destroyed his plan.

Not only did he fail to showcase the perfect lives of these "pure people", he also exposed the madness and ugliness behind this perfection.

The Grand Duke of the Gray Tower may not have thought that he could completely hide the truth from Shitana, but if he could make Shitana feel how harmonious a society made up of pure extraordinary people is, perhaps there would still be a chance of turning things around even if the truth was known.

But Marina did not give him this opportunity. The witch who claimed to like to act on her own was like a rainstorm and thunder, tearing all her plans into pieces.

"Shitana."

Marina, who had already seen the ending, smiled sweetly: "Do you support Mr. Huita's idea?"

"…Abandon, mortal."

Shitana murmured in a low voice. She looked at those creatures that were mating like pigs and dogs and could no longer be called human. She had no feelings about the absolutely beautiful future described by the Grand Duke of Grey Tower.

"If the children they give birth to do not have extraordinary talents, will they also be abandoned?"

Her voice was calm, and those who knew Sitana knew that when she was this calm, it meant that something extremely brutal could happen next.

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower remained silent, and this silence was the best answer.

If the extraordinary people living in the imperial order are defective products, then mortals are obviously not even garbage to the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower.

"Teacher Polynya, did you also grow up in this kind of environment? It's great that she's not as stupid as you."

"It proves that I never tried to control their minds."

The Grand Duke of Gray Tower could even emphasize to Xitana that he was right: "I give every Skyfrost person absolute respect and freedom, and give them full rights to choose. Polynia... has read my manuscripts and notes, so she decided to take the path that I had abandoned, but one day she will understand that protecting mortals is meaningless."

To a certain extent, the Grand Duke of Grey Tower is indeed qualified to say so. The fact that Polynia, a transcendent being, makes creating a new order for mortals her life goal is enough to show that the Sky Frost people live in a very ideal environment and are indeed not influenced by worldly concepts and bad habits.

But this also reflects the other side of the pure people he mentioned, because they are extraordinary people who have never lived in a mortal society since birth and are simply unable to empathize with mortals. They are absolutely extraordinary people.

Rather than being a rescue or an end to the supernatural's wanton domination of mortals, Polynya's actions are more like... captivity.

That is greatness from above, compassion from above - unless she can really make everyone equal mortals.

But no matter what, it is at least much better than the Grand Duke of Gray Tower abandoning mortals directly.

"So this is what you call a theory superior to Lady Polynya's."

Hercules, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke at this moment.

The Grand Duke of the Grey Tower attaches great importance to him. After all, Dormer knows who made the situation like this. It is also possible that he not only wants to show his ideas to Sitana, but also wants to show the real person under the false skin of Hercules.

"Don't you agree with me, Mr. Hercules?"

He still followed the playwright's wishes and addressed the character by his name: "Then I hope you can tell me, what do you think the mortals mean to the extraordinary?"

"Do you think it is right to continue the emperor's distorted rule? Do you think that the current Regent..."

The old man seemed to not care about anything, and said word by word with a blank expression:

"Like the emperor, do you want to treat everything in the empire as a plaything to satisfy your selfish desires?"

"Don't you have parents?"

Anser's calm answer stunned Hitana, who was almost going berserk, and the same was true for the Grand Duke of Gray Tower.

Then he asked again: "Don't you have parents?"

“…They’ve been dead for many years.”

"Oh, I thought you didn't have any. I thought you not only had no parents, but also no relatives, no friends, no one you cared about, and no one who cared about you."

Anser said this so naturally that it sounded like he was stating a fact.

"But I have parents, relatives, friends, people I care about and who also care about me."

"They are all very good people, people whom I love deeply and who love me too. They and I were born and raised in the twisted order you mentioned."

He tilted his head slightly and looked behind the Grand Duke of Gray Tower.

"Instead of being born in litters like pigs and dogs, or growing up in jars, not knowing who their parents are, or perhaps not even caring."

As to why he cared about mortals, the young man gave a very simple answer.

"I think someone with parents would not say something like abandoning a mortal - regardless of whether his parents are mortals or not."

When the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower talks about abandoning mortals, in essence he is not simply excluding mortals, but excluding everything related to mortals.

Ethics, social order, human nature and human nature have become another species that is completely different from the "human" that is recognized by society today.

So the reason why Ansel did this was very simple, he had parents, not just parents, but also many more people who were very, very important to him, and he loved them very much.

"So this is ah."

After a long silence, Dormer Huita expressed this feeling, feeling relieved and regretful.

"So you...really are not a monster, but a human."

He stopped pretending because the possibility of him achieving his ideal had dropped to the lowest point.

Anser no longer played the role of Hercules. He turned around and waved his hand:

"Xi'er, you must have been patient for a long time. There are more floors above this one, so I'll leave it to you to clean them up."

"I've been waiting for you to say this, Anser...eh?"

Xitana finally reacted: "Wait, the old man in the Gray Tower knows that you are from Anser!"

Marina covered her mouth and chuckled, "You are as slow and clumsy as ever, Sitana."

"I don't!"

"Yes, yes, yes... Then I'll leave this place to you. I'm going to go see Mr. Anser and... Miss Xin."

Marina left gracefully, and Shitana looked at the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower, who was standing still and silent like a stone statue, and unconsciously twitched the corner of her mouth.

"I have parents too, that's great!"

She hummed complacently. After hearing what Ansel said, she felt so comfortable that all the pores on her body opened up.

That's right! I grew up in that environment, I'm used to living with ordinary people, you just don't want it? Only a parentless guy like you can say that so easily.

Hitana, who summoned the phantom of the demon wolf, was in a rare good mood instead of being filled with resentment.

However, just as she was about to start cleaning, the Grand Duke of Gray Tower spoke again.

"If possible, I hope you can show mercy, Lord Lance. Since you did not choose to destroy the divine research center, can I understand that you do not want those precious data to be destroyed?"

"The research here is equally important. It has accumulated decades of data on the conditions for the birth of extraordinary people, as well as more advanced research on the soul and extraordinary factors—"

boom!

The fist wind that brushed against Domer's cheek and destroyed all the equipment dozens of meters behind him gave the answer for Hitana.

"...Okay, I understand what you mean." The old man sighed, "But I have two final words, please think about it carefully."

"Lord Lance, do you really think that your sister took the initiative and messed up my plan?"

"Do you really think... that His Royal Highness the Regent did not consider your feelings at all and gradually turned you into what he wanted according to his ideas?"

This time, Sitana did not punch, but looked at Dormer with a slightly pity look.

"As expected of a parentless thing."

Chapter 6: Being Loved (K)

What happened in that miniature country could not affect the entire Skyfrost Tower for the time being. This tall tower, built by Dormer Greytower for some unknown purpose, was still immersed in a beautiful dream far away from the world.

Ansel and Marina sat in a quiet and cold pub, relaxing as if they were on vacation.

"Mr. Gray Tower really moved everything into the tower. Is he so obsessed with creating a completely closed independent society?"

Marina held her chin up and looked at the passers-by outside the window. Just like the tower where the Sky Frost people lived, any tower within the Sky Frost Tower was designed to fully meet the needs of human life.

"It feels like... I don't want to live in this world at all." She murmured softly, thoughtfully.

Dormer Grey Tower deliberately created this independent and closed society, so except for specific groups of people, people inside the Skyfrost Tower are very unresponsive to news from the outside world. Those students and teachers don't even know what Shitana looks like.

As Marina said, it gives people an absurd feeling of trying to escape from this world.

Anser took a sip of wine and said, "It seems that our Grand Duke is a hermit."

"A hermit will not start a war on his own initiative."

Marina looked at Anser and blinked playfully, full of curiosity: "This is also what I can't understand the most, Mr. Anser."

It seems that the true face of the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower has been exposed and his ambitions have been completely destroyed. Xitana is also happily enjoying her spring cleaning time, but is this really the case?

If the ultimate goal of the Grey Tower Grand Duke is to create a country where the Sky Frost people live and only extraordinary people exist, then what he should do most is to stay in the Sky Frost Tower all day long and not have any unnecessary and meaningless contact with the outside world, instead of purposefully starting wars in the North again and again.

He was the first rebel leader to declare the independence of the North and engage in a war with the Northern Revolutionary Army. He was also the culprit who suddenly broke off relations with Grand Duke Iron Blade, plunging the North into a three-way war. He was also the mastermind who welcomed Ivora into the North, causing the North to completely break away from the Empire.

Now, it is extremely abnormal that he suddenly declares his intentions to Xitana, which is a sign of betraying Ivora.

If he only wanted to build an ideal country where only extraordinary people exist, Dormer would never push the entire North to the brink of destruction, because he cannot escape from it. So far, his actions have been strange, abnormal, contrary to common sense, and illogical. So... what does this old man want to gain from this endless chaos?

Even Marina found it difficult to infer this.

"There are times when you can't understand something?" Anser looked at the dignified and well-behaved witch lady with some amusement, "Don't you understand me very well?"

For Marina, realizing Ansher's vision has become an instinctive thing. She doesn't even need to get exact information from Ansher to get a glimpse of his thoughts from his behavior.

The final ending of Donggang's long drama made Marina, who was also involved in it, understand that Ansel was determined to change the two girls who were extremely important to him. In this case, all she had to do was to keep an eye on her capable sister at all times and pay attention to all the people and things that would affect her.

That is why Marina appeared here and became the perfect backup for Anther to destroy the Grand Duke of the Grey Tower's goal.

In fact, Ansel never thought that Marina could do this. As the only uncontrollable factor for Ansel, theoretically, she would cause more trouble to Ansel due to the interference of fate.

But the fact is, Marina, who can ignore any morals, principles and bottom lines for Anther, is the sharpest knife in Anther's hand compared to the current Sitana and Ming Furo.

She just followed Anser's pace completely and resolutely, felt Anser's thoughts and intentions, and helped Anser win back one city after another without knowing the existence of fate.

If I could change that kind of temper and think more about myself, that would be great.

Hydra looked at the witch lady who was holding her cheeks with her hands, completely lacking the powerful aura that dominated everything before, and a bit of helplessness emerged in her eyes.

But for Marina, "considering yourself" actually means taking away my love, so there is no difference.

...Never mind, this is also good.

As soon as that sense of helplessness appeared, it was swallowed up by the surging darkness, leaving only a simple and evil satisfaction.

"That's another matter. After all, Mr. Anser did so much for Xitana. It has nothing to do with what kind of person the Grey Tower Grand Duke is, right?"

Marina, who was looking at Anser, seemed not to notice Anser's subtle changes. She chuckled and responded, "As long as it can prevent Xitana from being affected by unnecessary people... That's why I haven't dug deep into Mr. Gray Tower."

"But if you think about it carefully, even if you want to dig out Mr. Huita's thoughts, it won't be that easy."

Dormer Grey Tower's life was too long, long enough for his character and thinking to undergo countless earth-shaking changes.

"From the beginning, he intended to inherit the will of the pioneers and bring hope and possibility of transcendence to everyone; then he realized that the gap between the extraordinary and mortals was irreparable, and that mortals could only live happily and peacefully if they stayed away from the extraordinary; then he regarded the extraordinary as everything and abandoned the mundane..."

"Time is a terrible thing. When Mr. Huita built the Skyfrost Tower, he definitely could not have imagined that his life's work would become what it is now."

A life's work...

Listening to Marina's sigh, Ansel rubbed the wine glass carelessly.

The trouble caused by the Grand Duke of Grey Tower seemed to have ended there, but his fight with fate did not stop, but entered the next stage.

Just standing on my side and acting like this is Marina's limit...

The amount of information that Miss Witch possesses is not on the same level as Ansher. This is already her limit. From now on, something new must happen that will make her understand Ansher's intentions. Otherwise, even if Marina is wholeheartedly devoted to Ansher, she can only wait and see for the time being.