Sunk cost, a financial term, is what Sully is now trying to apply to his relationship with Elvy.

The giant dragon obviously cannot have positive feelings towards the gray crane, who is both openly and actually against her. The black girl-like dragon also shows this all the time.

Knowing that all non-humans are hostile to themselves, choosing to join one in a two-to-one situation is the most foolish behavior.

Suli threw himself into the dragon's arms without hesitation.

Moreover, his current public identity is indeed that of a person who has awakened the dragon bloodline.

In Adonis' eyes, Suli could not possibly be someone who could stand in the same direction as him.

At this time, the test shooting, in addition to confirming his public identity, also has the second impact that Adonis will choose to view Suli as an enemy.

After all, his heart was pierced, and he didn't die here on the spot. He can only say that he was lucky.

The attack of Adonis that was blocked by the Black Dragon also proved that Elvi himself was dissatisfied with Adonis.

Otherwise, how could the Black Dragon under her command be so presumptuous?

What Suli has to do is to directly provoke a war between Elvi and the King of the Feathered Tribe.

Although it is a bit strange to say that the two armies are fighting each other without a fight, it still means the same thing.

Whether Adonis was seriously injured or died on the spot, it was an unbearable provocation for the queen in the mouths of these humanoid monsters.

The most interesting thing is that Elvi will not discover Sully's true purpose.

Because everything is hidden under Elvi's mastermind.

The cub's identity was that of Elvian, and it was the Black Dragon who prevented the seriously injured Adonis from counterattacking.

What did Suli do? He just followed Elvi's instructions and proved his identity as a dragon cub.

Just like Elvi was saying now, "Adonis, you dared to attack the only awakened cub in my bloodline in the past two hundred years. Does it also mean that the queen behind you has already developed dissatisfaction with the dragon race?"

"I dare not." Adonis's eyes were filled with shadows and he lowered them. "This matter has nothing to do with the Queen."

"The sudden injury was caused by my failure to estimate my own strength and my arrogance."

"As for your cub..." Adonis raised his head again and looked at Suli.

Suli knew very well that this was not a tactic against him. Gray Crane's behavior of bowing his head to show his submission and then raising it again was essentially just a manifestation of his rebellious nature.

"For a civil official like me, I can forgive him even if he does something excessive. But for a military commander with a bad temper... Your Excellency Elvi, you must protect your only child well."

With this implication, Suli said innocently: "But I remember I clearly said that you need to take some precautions."

"In addition, since you said that this matter has nothing to do with the Queen, then your injury is just a private matter. If you don't reveal it, how can those generals know that you were injured by me? Or... do you think it is natural for a cub that has not been fully transformed to cause you such serious injuries?"

Sully saw the crane's eyelids trembling.

His idea was so simple that Sully could see through it at a glance.

After Suli finished speaking, Adonis's thoughts must have shifted to, "How could a mere level nine monster possibly cause harm to him, Adonis?"

The damage was apparently caused by the cub, but in fact it was done by Elvy, right?

What's more, he has such a strong control over the wind element... Even if Suli has Elvy's blood, it is impossible for him to achieve this level with the ninth level strength.

What is this? This is the dragon clan provoking the queen.

Otherwise, how could a young cub be so arrogant as to attack the queen's close ministers, and even target such a heart position.

Adonis clenched his fist, causing Suli to look away. Suli lowered his head and kicked his feet, looking at the dust on the ground that he kicked up, and continued calmly: "What's more, if one day the queen suddenly attacks the dragons..."

"I'm sorry, I lost my temper."

Suli easily led the two dragons nearby to think that if the queen attacked the dragons, the most likely cause of this result would be Adonis.

Do you want to kill Gray Crane?

Victoria clearly showed the desire to take action.

Elvi vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but after quickly going over the series of events in his mind from his own perspective, he did not notice anything special.

The beauty of sunk cost is that even if a war breaks out in the future, even if Elvy finds out that everything was caused by Sully, the dragon will not attack him.

One reason is the value of his special physique as a pure human being, and the other reason is that Sully sees something in Elvy that he himself has not yet seen.

Don't forget that Leia was talking to Elvi on an equal footing.

Even because of her weakness, Leia showed a hint of humility.

This situation is very interesting. The equal standard of the mermaid governor should be the Queen of the Feather Tribe, but he happened to show respect to the administrator of the Dragon Tribe, which is a branch of the Feather Tribe...

Does Elvi want to move up a level?

This was obvious when she despised Leia for having outlived her by several hundred years and yet having made little progress.

As a powerful guy with supporters and like-minded people, can she really be willing to be inferior to others for a long time?

When the fight broke out afterwards, Elvi won because of his own ability, and lost because of the queen's inhumanity.

After all, the dragon has already handed over 60% of its resources.

The development of the incident still has nothing to do with Suli.

Even though Adonis still wanted to kill Suli, he was seriously injured and his focus was mainly on the two dragons.

One of the two dragons said arrogantly, "You'd better not say anything in front of the Queen. Otherwise, I won't do anything to the Queen, but for a cheap gray crane like you, I can't guarantee that I will do anything."

Another said, "We should go back."

"Some of the resources we exchanged from Leia were only for the purpose of improving Suli's strength."

Sully almost laughed out loud when he heard what Elvy said.

Even though he knew that the dragon was hinting that the Raven was about to be upgraded and that the upgrade materials were what he had exchanged from Leia, Suli still found what Elvy said interesting.

For Adonis, a man who had the guts to deceive the queen, now actually wanted to further enhance the strength of the man who almost killed him just now?

In Adonis's eyes, this move is probably no different from declaring war.

Cubs equal the next generation.

Elvi is powerful in her own right, and she has a talented next generation. If she wants to rebel, the dragons will surely stop her.

The most interesting thing is, is the 60% of resources that the Queen received the real 60% of resources?

Those who play politics have a dirty mind.

You can't survive if you're not dirty.

What would Adonis think? What would the Queen think? I'm afraid both of them would think that even if they said the proportion of this resource was 90%, they would have no way to prove it.

The resources were exchanged by Elvi, and only Elvi knew the process of the exchange.

The Mermaid Executive is the core figure of the aquatic tribe. The resources he can exchange for have a lower limit, not an upper limit.

If the gray crane had already thought of Elvi and Leia's cooperation, then now he would probably use everything in front of him as evidence.

The more chaos the Feather Tribe is in, the better it is for Suli.

He didn't want the ravens in his group of friends to stay in a place that coveted his genes for too long.

Furthermore, the fact that Leia was so unlucky before was that she happened to be harassed by Barthalom and Elvi, which also meant that there was internal strife among the aquatic tribe itself.

No matter how you look at it, the mermaids are now overwhelmed.

The Feather Tribe is about to have a civil war, and the Water Tribe is also experiencing internal political disputes. What will the Beast Tribe do when they are too busy to take care of themselves?

If Barthalom and Leia can cooperate to kill Elvi, then the beastmen can also cooperate with the Queen of the Feather Tribe to kill the rebels.

If the original purpose of the beastmen was to kill Elvi, who had extremely strong individual combat capabilities, then this dragon would have already been trapped in a vortex that it could not even detect.

The ultimate goal and the interim goals can be different.

If the ultimate goal of the beast tribe is to unify the three tribes, then it must survive to defeat the other two tribes without consuming too much energy.

The best way is to weaken the other two tribes and start with Elvi.

Barsalom can specially attack Leia. When Leia was sent back to the water tribe by Elvy before, if the mermaid wanted to seize the core political power of the water tribe, it would only result in that once he was entangled by Barsalom, the water tribe would no longer have core support.

And if Leia wants to delegate power, in the current political circle of the monster society, if the water tribe does not have the core control, it is not impossible that it will collapse.

You know, Elvik revealed a long time ago that Leia was a scumbag... no, a fish scum.

There must be some water monsters that dislike him.

——How interesting.

Even though he has already laid out the entire structure of the monster society on the chessboard in his mind, Suli is now just a dragon cub who has not yet been transformed into a monster.

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This is what people think, and so do dragons, except for the gray crane.

Adonis flapped his wings and accidentally met Suli's eyes...

If it weren't for the inertia of high-speed flight, his wings would have suddenly stiffened at that moment, causing him to fall from the sky and turn into a pool of mud.

What kind of eyes are those? The emerald green pupils reflect the world, as if the beauty of the whole world is submerged in those cold eyes, making people fascinated by them unconsciously.

But if you look at it again, you will find that the owner of these eyes has no mercy or sympathy for these creatures.

Those eyes were cold and ruthless.

Gray Crane caught up with the two dragons again. He was terrified, but he never dared to underestimate Sully's strength again.

Later, when they reached the dragon's territory, Suli decisively fell asleep on the tip of Elvi's claws.

When he woke up, he was already placed in the middle of a Western-style building with a dome about ten meters above the ground.

Suli was lying on the ground.

He yawned lazily, supporting his aching bones, and fixed his gaze on another living creature in this space.

That's Adonis.

Gray Crane, who was about 28 or 29 years old and had transformed into a human form, was now frowning and staring intently out of the curved window.

Sully sat up straight, stretched, and said lazily, "Why? I want to know whether Elvi is ready to treat you, an unfriendly guest, or..." Sully stretched out his tone.

"Or do you think she intends to attack the Queen directly?"

"Speed ​​is the essence of war." Suli rubbed his face, which was a little stiff from sleep. When he regained his composure, Adonis was already half-bent over, squatting in front of him like an attacking beast.

Suli laughed: "Why are you so close to me?"

While speaking, Sully didn't move his head, he just raised his eyelids.

This action made Adonis, who was already anxious, even more anxious.

Suli, however, could still say lightly, "I always feel that your queen is also in line with the average IQ of this world."

"Otherwise, there would be no reason to pick only one person to test the disloyal minister."

"...Or maybe the queen has long disliked you and wants you to die here so that she can have an excuse to attack the dragons directly?"

With no other humans around him, Sully's nonsense completely skipped the logic of speculation and came out of his mouth.

When facing his peers, he always tries to explain things clearly.

But when facing non-humans, Sully only needs to make sure that all non-humans are enemies, and then his actions only need to follow the most basic logic...

In other words, just keep adding value to yourself and adding weight.

Whether it was walking on a tightrope or waltzing off a cliff, Sully didn't care.

Anyway, Adonis didn't dare to attack him.

Suli watched Adonis's expression change calmly.

It was visibly that Adonis's anxious state of mind disappeared.

"It looks like I was right."

What’s even more interesting is that Adonis’s expression clearly shows that he knows the queen wants him to die here, but he still remains loyal.

Suli simply stood up from the ground and looked at the man who was half-kneeling on the ground not far away because he had a chest injury and bending over would only make the injury more painful. He whispered, "Don't tell me that what the black dragon-transformed girl said was true."

"Hmm... You can't really be a lowly gray crane who has no other value except for your self-sacrifice."

Adonis clenched his fists and said in a low voice, "What do you know?"

"The Gray Crane clan has not entered the Queen's circle for hundreds of years. We have nothing but numbers..."

"But it is precisely because of their large numbers that the Gray Crane Clan is the cannon fodder on the front line in every war."

Adonis showed a look of pain on his face.

"We lack strength and have too many people. Before I became a close minister to the Queen, the Gray Crane Clan had already become a well-known war cannon fodder among the Feathered Clan."

No matter how many people die, there are also many people who are born.

Suli suddenly discovered a problem after hearing this information from Adonis.

"In Korota County, the number of humans who have awakened the Gray Crane bloodline is not very large."

"Or is it that the newborns of the Gray Crane Clan, or the newcomers, did not come from humans, but were the result of your normal reproduction?"

"So what?" Adonis looked like he had lost all his popularity and was half dead.

Sully was surprised.

He looked at Adonis's head, or more precisely, at the location of his brain, for a full three seconds before he said, "Did the zombies eat your brain?"

Adonis did not respond to this incomprehensible remark.

"Skip the human transformation and have the normal monster reproduction ability. Do not participate in the additional interference rules of transformed monsters on natural monsters, and can also make each new gray crane's strength increase to the level of being able to become cannon fodder before the war..."

"It suddenly occurred to me that zombies certainly wouldn't eat your brain, because your brain is full of—"

"Nothing."

Adonis looked down on his own strength, which meant that he looked down on the ninth-level monsters. Furthermore, the Gray Crane clan had a large number of ninth-level monsters.

Although a level nine monster is equivalent to cannon fodder, it can be upgraded to level ten, just like the crow that is about to be upgraded. Doesn't that mean it has an alternative genetic value?

"Wait, tell me first, are you a transformed monster or a natural monster?"

Adonis himself fell into deep thought about this question.

“I don’t know,” he finally said.

Suli: ……………………

"Then let me change the question. Who told you that if you become a close minister to the Queen, the Gray Crane clan will no longer be used as cannon fodder in wars?"

"No one told me that Gray Crane has always done this."

"Has there ever been someone like you in the history of the Gray Crane Clan?"

"yes."

"...I don't think you need to care too much about the Gray Crane Clan. After all, with your intelligence, the fact that you are still alive today is definitely because the world favors you."

Elvi looked for the raven instead of the crane because he was worried that his brain would be assimilated.

But Adonis is not a stupid person...

Sully assured Adonis that he had understood everything he had hinted at before.

The reason why he can still be so loyal is so terrifying that it is just like the "strong are respected" that exists in the human society.

Just like strong thinking, whatever the strong say is right.

Even if Adonis has brains, even if the entire Gray Crane clan pours resources into his training, it cannot change his innate slave nature.

The Gray Crane Clan probably thinks that what Adonis has achieved so far is already the limit.

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"Let me ask you a question. Is the queen you mentioned a natural monster or a transformed monster?" Suli had actually guessed the answer, but he still asked.

"It's the transformation of a monster." Adonis seemed to think that he was about to die, so it didn't matter if he said something.

Su Li was too lazy to pay attention to this mentality. He was wondering why the transformed monsters could not interfere with the growth of natural monsters?

This is what Elvi calls the rule. The origin of the rule is unknown.

But judging from Adonis's external performance, this rule exists in blood cognition.

Just like the black dragon Victoria has an inexplicable sense of pride towards the dragon race.

This is a very typical aristocratic concept inherent in the Western world.

You can also refer to the influence of the Holy See of Light on humanity and the discrimination and abuse suffered by the Holy See of Darkness.

It's all a concept.

The nobles and the common people, the poor and the rabble, are completely different classes.

Even for the nobles, other humans besides the nobles cannot be placed in the same category as themselves.

And this class has long been solidified over the years.

It doesn't matter who made it, the transformed monsters cannot interfere with the growth of natural monsters. You just need to understand that powerful people of Elvi's level are abiding by this so-called rule.

Although there are a large number of natural monsters in the Gray Crane tribe, Elvi still chooses to enter human society to capture ravens. This is the rule.

Victoria is proud of her identity as a dragon, and Adonis is inferior to his gray crane bloodline. This is also a rule.

The Gray Crane clan, a natural monster clan, feel inferior to their own bloodline in front of the queen who transformed monsters.

Elvi, who can transform into a monster, has to abide by the rules that monsters cannot interfere with the growth of natural monsters.

This is so contradictory that it's like there are two supreme beings, one is a transformed monster, and the other is a natural monster. They are hostile to each other and are targeting each other.

But they merge with each other.

This kind of sick rules and social system has existed in monster society for countless years.

The human society is still okay, Charles who died early, the Pope of Light who wanted to enter the monster society, Dean Asa who opened the Elemental Academy, and the Mercenary President who established the Mercenary Alliance...

All these can be said to be the progress of human civilization.

But unfortunately, there are monsters above humans.

As long as monsters have the power to destroy humanity, then human civilization will be more like an act of seeking death.

Because as long as the monsters think that humans have violated the rules, humans will definitely be doomed.

But who makes the rules?

Ignoring this problem, Sully has already established that there are two parties who make the rules.

The current situation of the monster society is that the monsters need the genes of natural monsters to transform monsters, but they refuse to take action on the natural monsters native to the monster society. The conclusion reflected by this information is that the monsters in the "monster forest" that complement humans are more like "roots."

Or the origin.

It can also be said to be the last flame of fire.

Why? The reason is that the monsters there don't have to follow the "rules".

Du Ya had no concept of such rules. He only knew about the existence of monster civilization and monster society after he had gained enough strength.

This can indeed be said to be guiding him into that society. But it is also like a reminder for Crow to avoid entering the monster society.

The more Sully thought about it, the deeper his brows furrowed.

He decisively gave up thinking about it alone and chose to ask Adonis some questions to reflect his own guesses.

"Do you know Crystal Wing Dragon?"

Adonis looked confused: "What is that?"

"Bone-eating lizard? Fierce tiger python? Thousand green gorilla? Red fiber worm?" These were all monsters that the baits had beaten in groups during their previous training in the Monster Forest.

As a result, Adonis became even more confused.

“I haven’t heard of it.”

It was understandable that he had never heard of the crystal pterosaur, after all, the one that died was the last one in the world.

Adonis could understand other land monsters even though he had never heard of them, but the red silkworm looked a lot like a seven-spotted ladybug, and the most important thing was that it could fly.

"Do the Feather Tribe have flying insects or something like that?"

Adonis looked disgusted: "Of course not! No tribe would accept those dirty bugs."

Sully looked desperate.

Finished.

It can be basically confirmed that in the top confrontation between the transformed monsters and the natural monsters, the former won, while the latter could only huddle on the edge of the monster forest, leaving behind their legacy.

The victorious former also left behind the rule in the monster society that natural monsters are equivalent to lowly.

How come bugs are not considered monsters? There are some particularly dangerous plants in the Monster Forest.

Insects and plants have low IQs, but if monsters and beasts are trained to level nine, can’t they turn into humans?

If you transform into a human form, you will have the ability to learn.

If you live longer, your IQ will gradually improve, right?

It turns out that there are no such two in the monster society...

Adonis, who is most likely a natural monster, can still look down on insects with a slightly inferior blood cognitive mentality.

Ignore these.

Does the pattern of natural monsters and transformed monsters resemble that of the Church of Light and the Church of Darkness?

Although he knew that the two "gods" were monsters, Suli had not found any trace of "gods" in the monster society.

But now...

Suli: Destroy it, I'm tired.

Not wanting to let this damn world continue to rape his brain, Sully chose to show a holy smile.

He turned around and started to fool Adonis.

"Do you want to get rid of fate? Do you want to gain dignity? Do you want to no longer have to humble yourself? If you want to, then listen to me..."

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