Knowing that the war was about to begin, the mercenaries who were unwilling to compromise naturally could not willingly return to the inhumane days of the past.

Sully was initially a little worried about what to do if some of the mercenaries became a faction that wanted to negotiate peace.

As a result, when this question was asked, the Lions Club leader who had not been seen for some time gave a decisive answer.

"The premise of negotiation is the final choice without any resistance. But the current situation is that it is unreasonable for you to obediently run over and be treated as a dog by others just because they have pointed out by name that they want to treat you like a dog."

"The loyalty of mercenaries refers to their perseverance in fulfilling their mission, not their determination to serve their employers. Freedom is our greatest need for life. Even the wages paid by employers are only a need in our pursuit of freedom, not a necessity."

"So if there are such soft-boned people among my men, I guarantee that they will die before they produce a useless declaration, and not even a bone residue will be left."

In this respect, the Lions leader is even more vicious than Euphia.

The reason why he initially chose to continue to accept a large number of war missions and lead some mercenaries to openly leave the alliance and form the Lions Club alone was not only because of the conflict of interest with Euphia's reform plan, but also because he had the heterodox idea of ​​treating fighting with others as a job.

And most of the people who follow him think in this way.

After all, Euphia's reform plan at that time was seen by the Lions Club leader and the people behind him as: destroying someone's wealth is like killing their parents.

As for the fact that he relies on fighting others and killing them as a source of income...

The Lions leaders at the time believed that this was what mercenaries did and there was no right or wrong way to do it.

Work is just a way to get rich, and when killing people is equated with work, then there is nothing wrong with it in the eyes of Lions leaders.

The difference in viewpoints was eventually resolved by Suli, a third party. But the change was agreed to only because Suli gave the Lions club leader an idea that he had never had before.

When the results of the changes are clear, there may be a temporary visual sense that the speed of wealth acquisition has decreased, but over time, the death rate of other Lions mercenaries will also be greatly reduced.

Only when people are alive can they create more wealth.

After that, the two organizations reached a cooperation, and on the surface, the alliance still took priority.

Therefore, once the war that was bound to happen was confirmed, the leaders of the Lions Club's thoughts were all transformed into the two crazy dogs of the Vatican and the royal family, who wanted them to return to the cruel regulations that would directly sell their lives with just a contract.

Therefore, he warned his men early on that if any coward dared to compromise, he would kill him in advance. By then, the people he would kill would no longer be brothers who had lived and died together, but simply traitors.

It is more convenient for Euphia. The president of the alliance has been assassinated, and the mercenaries can't just pretend nothing happened.

What will happen after the current system of the alliance collapses? Will King Amicbee maintain the current situation after regaining control of Sadina? And, after Sadina is conquered, what changes will the Church bring to the city?

Three questions, each answer sends chills down one's spine.

Once the existing system collapses, the mercenaries will become weeds again and may be swept away by the winds of the nobility at any time and their roots will be completely destroyed.

Furthermore, if the king deprives Sadina of its right to self-government, Sadina will become a territory controlled by the nobles, just like the surrounding cities.

But what is truly terrifying is the impact that the Vatican's presence in this city has had.

The mercenaries who are supposed to symbolize freedom would probably be brainwashed by the Vatican into believing in the supremacy of theocracy.

Perhaps their generation can still remember the past, know that they should not compromise, and will not directly turn into running dogs of the Vatican, but what about the next generation?

There are always adults who are threatened with life and death by their own cubs.

There are always adults who are forced to compromise with their families.

"This war is doomed to be inevitable and a war that cannot be compromised. If Sadina loses everything it has now, the final result can be imagined."

The words "pre-war mobilization" should not have been said by Sully. As a child of twelve or thirteen who had not been exposed to the public, he had no right to do so.

But if everyone stays inside the small building, then Sully has the ability to speak freely.

"If it really comes to that, this world, which has barely changed a little after a thousand years, will return to the domination that has lasted for thousands of years."

Then everyone can only hope to be born into a noble family in the next life.

Egbert saw in Sully's eyes a heaviness that could not be simply defined as worry, nor could it be fully described as profound.

At this moment, Egbert felt that he had never been so close to the world that Sully saw.

Lord Sully may be able to see very, very far, but those green eyes are not completely blind to the existing world.

He was also paying attention to the world and everyone around him. Egbert was satisfied with just a glimpse of this part.

"I will never let that happen!" Egbert said solemnly, "If I say that I will protect Sadina, it will sound too weak. But if we add everything else to protect the city where Lord Suli's mercenaries live, then I think it's not just this city that can't fall..."

"Even a single brick and a tile of this city that is cherished by Lord Suli cannot be destroyed."

Egbert emphasized the last four words clearly, and his gaze towards Sully was even more intense.

Not to mention that Sully's face turned very stiff at that moment, the voices of others echoing him made Sully maintain a completely expressionless look again.

Cyril was inexplicably excited and said, "Of course. Although I am not a native of Sadina, nor have I ever been a mercenary, it would be inexplicable for me to say that I will live and die with this city. But if you add that it is for Suli, then I think no matter how powerful the enemy is, I will dare to face him."

Roy leaned back on the sofa in a nonchalant manner, his tone carrying a tone of arrogance that he himself did not quite understand, but which was extremely obvious: "How can the place where the young master lives be out of his control and become a place that others can control at will?"

"How is that different from watching a bunch of demons and monsters break into your home?"

Roy would never allow the small building he recognized, the home he recognized, to become like everything that had been destroyed in the past, with nothing left but yellowed memories.

Lan Zhe shrugged his shoulders and said, "Whether Suli wants me to appear on the front line to prove the proclamations that the mercenaries sneered at, or to stay in the rear and serve as a protector, I can do both and I accept them."

Mark added calmly, "I was originally in the building to protect Mr. Sully, so I would not put him in danger."

Even the crow, with his limited vocabulary at this time, could say: "As long as I am alive, Suli will be safe."

Those who gathered in this small building because of Sully were all willing to do things for him that might sound a little corny when talked about.

But the person involved inexplicably felt that what everyone else said was correct, except for Egbert...

Although there was more of a reason, it was because of the burning look in Egbert's eyes that could be seen without even having to read.

But as long as you force yourself to ignore it, you can still ignore it.

Therefore, even if Sully caught a glimpse of Egbert's face suddenly turning red when he turned his head away from him and talked to other people, Sully didn't know how many times he pretended to be blind.

He responded seriously. Although his expression and words were different, he was still protecting his people. He said seriously, "Then I will also do my best to protect myself in this war."

Having been a corporate slave for so many years, Sully knows better than anyone that one should not be too absolute in what he says. Therefore, he rarely says things like "give it your all".

But this time is different.

In the past, no matter how others showed their appreciation for him in the details, Sully only regarded it as a close relationship between family or friends.

But if he is seen as the source of the purpose of certain actions, then when the actions are not sinful, Sully will still make promises even if he is passive.

It has nothing to do with the idea that "one should not be the one who bears the attention of others" that has always existed in his consciousness. He just feels that when others express their kindness from the bottom of their hearts, giving a response is a much better answer than avoiding the question.

Likewise, his seriousness was also conveyed to those he wanted to convey it to.

At least Egbert has already started to brag uncontrollably: "Lord Sully is probably the kind of god who will get a response if you give."

If you keep thinking about it, there will be a response.

But most of the time it’s not that perfect.

At least in the first 23 years, Egbert had never seen a true miracle from the God of Light. But if he was facing Suli as a human, he would never have regrets about his prayers not being answered.

The flattered Sully: ...Thank you. I don't want to experience what novelty means at this age when I think I have experienced everything I should have experienced.

…

However, those who were planning the transfer of a large number of mercenaries in the Mercenary City had already been prepared inside the small building. After being completely cut off from any news from the inner city, they could never have imagined that Willard, who was favored by the God of Luck, was completely abandoned by the God of Luck today when the news came out.

Even Willard, who was imprisoned in the prison and had been whipped by Ophelia until he was bleeding, was still thinking: "When faced with someone like me who dared to leak information about you, shouldn't the princess just kill me the way she used to treat her servants?"

The thoughts in my mind and the words on my lips appear at the same time.

Ophelia, wearing a bright yellow dress, looked completely different from the dark and bloody prison. She sneered and responded to his words: "Threatening the old man is not the same as killing you directly."

Willard's fingertips, hanging on the rack, moved slightly, and his intuition told him that this sentence, which seemed to have only superficial meaning, had a deeper message.

But when Willard tried to use his already heavy brain to think about how to test it, he found that his mind was empty and he couldn't organize any words that would be beneficial to him.

Ophelia didn't care what a fool who sent intelligence by letter thought. She said to herself, "My old man knows that I won't kill him so easily. After all, I still need him to pave the way for me. But killing you directly is different. Even if your mother is not a daughter of a big family, who can blame that woman for being the cousin of my 'kind' mother."

"So you won't die." Ophelia lowered her head and looked into Willard's eyes with cruel eyes. Ophelia, who was three years older than Willard, was tall enough to look down on him.

"But you also have to know that a life worse than death has always been something more terrible than death." Ophelia pressed the handle of the whip against Willard's chin, forcing him to look up at her.

The pair of golden eyes inherited from his mother were filled with the cruelty of making others' lives worse than death in order to please himself.

She said: "If I broke your legs, the old man would just say don't go too far. And if I cut off your arms as well, he would just tell me I went too far."

Ophelia talked about the nails on her other hand in a bored manner.

The next second, Ophelia stared directly into Willard's icy eyes, which clearly showed the royal blood of the Amicobes, and said with a cruel smile: "But if I blinded your eyes and made you unable to see this colorful world from now on, the old man would not blame me at all."

"As long as you are still alive and well, my goddess-like mother will feel that everything is still in her expectations, and will forever be obsessed with the false rosy dreams woven for her by others."

"But you, Willard, will truly lose your sight and will never be able to see the God of Light, who is completely useless in my opinion. Then, you will never be able to see clearly anything you want to see."

Ophelia saw clearly all the changes in Willard's expression.

When she said the words to break Willard's limbs, he just frowned, but after she said she blinded his eyes, Willard's constantly trembling pupils brought Ophelia indescribable excitement.

"You're scared! You're scared, you're scared, you're scared!!" Ophelia shouted excitedly, "Let me guess, the person who received the letter is extremely important to you, and you hope to see him again."

Willard's suddenly widened pupils gave Ophelia the answer.

"Let me think..."

"That person must be a weak person who didn't have the strength to come to the palace and take you away."

The answer is [yes].

"The person who can make a fool like you understand the difference should not be the one who uses absolute suppression caused by age and strength. I know that you are the kind of idiot who thinks you are particularly great and will only become more great in the future."

Willard turned his head away.

"Pfft." Ophelia made a meaningless sound, and even said at this time, "It seems that I guessed right again."

"So, he is the same age as you. He is infinitely wiser than you, but he is also a weaker person whose strength may not even be as good as yours."

"A weak person cannot talk to a fool like you who only has arrogance but no ability, so there must be a powerful person around him."

When Ophelia saw that Willard not only turned his head away but also closed his eyes, she couldn't help laughing, and even laughed so hard that she bent over and tears came out. After a long while, Ophelia wiped away her natural tears and said something that made Willard hate himself for not dying earlier.

"That person is the prophet of Sadina City. He knew that Ziso Town would be invaded by the ninth-level monster. He also knew that Amiqbi would send troops to suppress Sadina City, the land of rebellion."

"Willard, Willard, I never thought that someone who has never been used to the same extent as you could bring me so many surprises."

Willard's mind was completely occupied by the information that "the person in front of him was a demon who could see through people's hearts."

Cannot be disobeyed, cannot be resisted.

Even recalling Sully's image, his actions, and even those green eyes in his mind only made Willard tremble more.

He was seen through.

It's no problem for someone like him to be seen through, and Suli can do the same.

But if it was Ophelia...

What if she saw through his intention and it was just to target Sully?

Willard completely ignored what Ophelia had said before, wanting to destroy his eyes. He was full of thoughts that Sully could not resist Ophelia's idea.

Strength is always the most basic basis for defining everything in this world.

Despair enveloped his heart, and his body, which had already been badly injured from the beatings, finally affected his brain, which was not very smart to begin with.

My mind collapsed, my faith was shaky, and even my heart, which was determined to be a tool, began to question myself. Since I was just a tool, why didn't I die early when I had completed my mission...

Otherwise Ophelia would never have discovered all this!

But the next second, Willard found that Ophelia had pinched his chin.

The girl with a cruel look said even more cruel words.

"How can you die when I didn't let you die?"

It is very difficult for a person like Suli to bite his tongue to commit suicide. Even if he bites off his tongue, he will most likely die from excessive blood loss.

But if it's an elementalist, everything will be completely different.

When Willard's limbs are restrained by torture instruments that shield the elements, he can bite his tongue and manipulate the blood of mixed elements as a water elementalist. Using the tip of his tongue, which is most sensitive to elements, he can forcibly manipulate the restricted elements, turning his own blood into water blades that directly penetrate his throat from the inside.

But Ophelia didn't give him that chance.

Even death cannot be determined...

Willard was completely devastated after Ophelia forcibly removed his jaw.

Ophelia, who had created all this and driven her brother to madness, simply threw away the whip stained with Willard's blood, and directly pulled the hem of her skirt, with the clothes that had not been wrinkled by any of her violent movements, and walked out of the prison step by step with the arrogance of a princess.

Leaving behind only the man still tied to the rack, defining himself as completely useless waste.

In the end... in the end, nothing could be done.

He neither became a tool in the hands of his father, nor became a suitable tool in the hands of the manipulator chosen by himself.

Willard's existence may have completely lost its meaning at this moment.

"Whether a person's existence is reasonable should not be judged by his peers."

Sully's words emerged in his mind, and Willard couldn't help thinking what Sully would think if he were in this situation.

Ignoring the intellectual aspect and only simulating Sully's thinking based on the emotional changes, the person might just say: "Don't treat yourself as less than a human being."

Not yet, not yet the time when everything should end with death!

Willard smiled. It was different from the time when Sully had never told him anything but just listened and his mind was shaken and grew. Now he was truly growing after the incident.

Just a price...

But it's crazy.

…

On the eve of Sadina truly becoming a trapped beast within a beast, Suli was forced to put on a lot of life-saving equipment.

For specific details, please refer to the previous time when some areas would provide extremely high dowries for daughters who had been spoiled for many years when they were married off.

This substitution doesn't have any other meaning, but it can be more intuitively reflected. Suli has five rings on both hands. In addition to the last work left by Nanan on his chest, he is also equipped with three silver chains, two pendants, and is forced to wear earrings and platinum hair that is forcibly tied up with a green headband...

According to Euphia, "The purpose of making this headband larger is just to cover the eight clips that will be worn on your head. It has nothing to do with the green hat theory."

In addition to these, Sully's upper body also has three bracelets, two silver bracelets, and an armlet that almost covers 80% of the length of his left forearm.

The lower body is even more outrageous. In addition to the boots being top-grade alchemy items, the lower ten centimeters of the right thigh are covered with runes that fill the entire foot.

Before being forced into the shackles, Suli shouted from the bottom of his heart: "Enough, enough, really enough! I won't die that easily, and I have promised that when faced with danger, I will do my best to survive."

The next second Sully saw Egbert narrow his blue eyes.

"So what Lord Suli means is that before you made the promise, did you ever think about not trying your best to survive when facing a crisis?"

Suli fell silent.

You all know that you will fail. If you keep struggling, won't it just look very tasteless?

It's a late comer to lie down and rot.

But Egbert wouldn't accept it.

Then, this former Son of Light not only added a bell of unknown function to the golden chain that was originally only supposed to be put on Suli's feet, but he also tied a white bandage above the anklet, the function of which was unknown.

The clothing was even more outrageous. According to Roy, "Lan Zhe's group is still not as strong as me. When I integrated some of the effects of the medicine into the fabric, I used ice elements to preserve the powder."

Then, Lan Zhe took out a set of clothes that looked weird.

The upper body is as gorgeous as the Dunhuang murals, and the colors of the lantern pants on the lower body are equally bright.

If you look closely, you will find that some of the golden lines of varying degrees of saturation on the clothes are almost the same as the silver symbols painted on Sully's thighs. The style of his trousers is closer to the tight-fitting lantern trousers of modern society, but the length is only 7.5 inches.

Not only does this allow one to see at a glance that the boot straps have some heightened design, but it also directly exposes the anklets and bandages.

In addition to the clothes on Sully's upper body, the leader of the Lions Club suddenly put a large piece of alchemy item similar to a bronze mirror on Sully's chest.

Perhaps because there were enough participants and they had discussed it in advance, all of this was coordinated harmoniously enough that at first glance, Sully looked like a character in a mural.

It is so beautiful that it is hard to look away.

but……

Sully still feels like a butterfly.

Previously, Suli had followed the crowd to buy basic hero clothes, and some of them, such as the belt, were troublesome enough for him. But he never expected that this time, everyone would pile him up like a walking gold mountain.

Cyril even said with regret: "I originally wanted to remove the scales, but they said that the dark red color doesn't match this outfit."

The author has something to say:

When I found that there were no new comments for more than ten hours, I thought, has the Jinjiang comment area crashed?

After waking up, I thought, oh, I am such a loser. qaq How could this happen!