The weak should obey the orders of the strong.

But being strong definitely does not just refer to strength.

The eldest princess, who was born into a noble family, actually had no blood relationship with the king...

Just thinking about all this makes people laugh out loud.

The status of heir that should have been a matter of course was completely shattered by the fact that was suddenly told to him.

If you want something, you can only get it with your own hands. If you want to get something, you can only rely on your own brain.

Everything that was originally taken for granted has become a matter of course that can no longer be sustained.

A father in name only, a mother who is related by blood, a brother who is related by blood but not from the same father...

Who would believe that the eldest princess favored by the king is essentially nothing?

But it is precisely because I am nothing that I can also be... everything!

…

"Your Highness, the Daughter of Fire from Sadina City suddenly began to attack. What should we do?" The guard assigned to Ophelia by the king was crawling on the ground, asking with his head down.

Ophelia was sitting on a huge golden throne, covered with fox fur that was whiter than snow. When she heard this, she sneered and said, "Why do you need to ask me about this? What use do I have for you?"

"Don't you understand what being a guard means? Protect my life and eliminate anyone who might endanger me. Since the Daughter of Flame dared to jump off that turtle-shell-like wall, what you have to do is to eliminate this woman who is likely to bring danger to me."

"If you don't even understand what the word 'solve' means, then I will let someone solve you later, understand?"

Ophelia threw the colored porcelain containing hot tea directly onto the forehead of the nearest guard.

The gift from the king, which could easily support a town for a whole year after being exchanged for wealth, was smashed into pieces by Ophelia, leaving only a ring of trash.

"I don't want to hear any questions from you about what you should do from now on." Ophelia stared at the guards below with fierce eyes. Her voice was colder than the wind and snow outside the tent. "I don't need idiots around me."

When there was no one left in the tent, she lazily stretched out on the throne, waiting for the guest who would definitely come, whose name she didn't know.

After Ophelia picked up another colorful porcelain cup from the tea set beside her and poured herself a cup of hot tea, she suddenly found that there was even the figure of an adult man in front of her, and the other party's finger was pointing at the temple of the person on the golden throne.

Ophelia's golden pupils turned red, but the next moment she couldn't control her excitement and said, "Ah, I didn't expect it to be you - Egbert."

"I guessed so many possible guests, but I never thought that the prophet would send me such a great gift like you."

"I have been looking forward to meeting you again more than once."

Egbert frowned at Ophelia, who looked a little abnormal.

"I've never met you before." Egbert was unwilling to have any intimate words with anyone except Sully.

"Of course, you have never seen me. After all, Sri Qingcheng is just one of my fiefdoms."

"But even so, I have always been impressed by you." Ophelia looked at Egbert with eyes as sweet as if she was gazing at a lover.

It was a look stickier than condensed milk bread with a whole jar of honey in it.

"After all, I have never seen a man like you who was schemed to the point of being a homeless dog, actually acted like a dog in the beginning, and even asked the internal staff of the Lord's Mansion of Sri Qing City to report the changes in the city and hope to have the case overturned."

"Hahahahahahaha, do you think that certain things can exist so smoothly? Is it really because that man who has been dead for who knows how long has planned everything?"

"That's naive. That's just the tacit consent of all the smart people."

Egbert's response to this was to grab Ophelia's neck with his backhand.

He also sneered: "There is no need to remember what happened yesterday, but you can still look forward to tomorrow."

"What do you want to see from me by using what happened in the past against me? An expression of anger or hatred for the truth of all the awful shit?"

Egbert did not expect Ophelia to give him an answer, because he had already strangled her throat so much that she could not make any sound.

"I'm sorry. Because you can't see anything."

"Even if my past was as stupid as a paramecium, I still live under the expectations of others now."

Egbert calmly sealed several major nodes of elemental circulation in Ophelia's body, and then used local materials to tie Ophelia up tightly with a soft whip on the weapon rack not far inside the tent.

Egbert doesn't care about Ophelia's language barriers. He has long stopped letting his past beliefs affect his mentality.

As long as Sully's image can still flash in Egbert's mind, he will realize very clearly that he is a man who cannot live completely at his own pace.

But he could live for Lord Suli.

Sully's life is higher than Egbert's life. Sully's dignity is something that Egbert will protect even at the cost of his own life.

As for Egbert himself?

So far, what Egbert is most certain of is that he will, and will only, become a servant who serves Lord Sully forever.

Trapped but not gagged, Ophelia continued to taunt: "So, you went from being my dog ​​to someone else's dog?"

Egbert ignored Ophelia's trash talk and pulled a piece of cloth from the curtain of the tent.

But before he blocked Ophelia's mouth, even though she was being held hostage, Ophelia still arrogantly instructed: "If you dare to put that thing in my mouth, Xia Zuo will only act for the Prophet in the future."

"I guess a rural stray like you who is cut off from the news probably doesn't know who the prophet is referring to. But I can tell you that he is the person you care about most in your heart, that is-"

"Xia Zuo's goal today."

Egbert paused.

Ophelia looked at him and laughed again: "It's really pitiful that a wild dog doesn't even know how to wag its tail when its owner is not around..."

But the wild laughter stopped abruptly the next moment, and Ophelia's expression turned cold and ruthless again.

"Now, don't do anything to upset me. I'm tired of explaining to idiots. Take me to the prophet. I want to see if his predictions are as good as mine..."

"Crush! Press!"

…

Suli looked at Xia Zuo, whose eyes were red and who was pressing himself against the tree, and said without a trace of emotion in his green eyes, "Let go."

"Unless you want the sister you're talking about to become a corpse, you can kill me as much as you want."

When being covered by the enemy's all-round firepower, Suli would not be so complacent as to imagine that he could gain an all-round victory in this game. What he wanted from the very beginning was a draw that could put both parties on the same level.

Finally, Xia Zuo loosened his grip on Suli's collar.

The crow, which had served as a trump card and had not been noticed by Xia Zuo until now, was now standing on the bare tree trunk and could just be seen by Suli's right eye.

"What did you do?" As soon as Xia Zuo loosened his hand, he couldn't control the murderous aura that surged out of his body.

"If you dare to do anything bad to Ophelia, I will make everyone you care about in this city die one by one in front of you."

"Even you, I will not leave even a complete body." Xia Zuo looked at Suli as if he was looking at a lamb to be slaughtered.

However, Suli didn't even look at Xia Zuo. He just bent his waist slightly and patted the dust off his calves.

Honestly, those three minutes were just too earth-shattering.

If Sully hadn't repeatedly reinforced the concept that "the mind and the body are not the same thing" in his mind, he would probably have been unable to control his fear when he was knocked away for the first time.

It is good to be invincible at the moment, but with Sully's current physical condition, if he carries 30 kilograms of water for half an hour, lactic acid will accumulate in his body the next day. He will be in so much pain that he cannot get up. When he was knocked away, all he could see in his mind was a bloody scene of himself.

His heart rate quickened, and he almost made the silent timing in his mind inaccurate. All of these things were swept deep into his memory, along with the memories of the speechless moments that Egbert had created, and stuffed into the area called the trash can, never to be dug out again.

As Sully was brushing off the dust, his mind was completely divided into two.

One was constantly thinking, just after his invincible moment ended, Xia Zuo hit him against the tree again. This must have caused bruises on his back, and once Lan Zhe discovered the injury...

How many people will hear it?

Another thought was wondering why Ophelia would be so proactive in acting according to all his assumptions.

Predicting each other should be a basic operation.

Suli had appeared earlier in an outfit that looked like a Christmas tree, which proved that the people in the city valued him, but it also showed the opposite. No matter how strong Xia Zuo was alone, he would not be able to kill him with one blow amidst the prepared defenses of so many powerful people...

But it is precisely because of this that Xia Zuo would chase them and hack them directly in the city.

In this case, Ophelia still let Xia Zuo enter the city...

I guess the situation that will happen next has been taken into consideration.

As Suli thought about it, he felt more and more that this possibility was the truth.

Until Cyril, who had run away, reappeared.

Suli has never felt so deeply the importance of partners.

He said excitedly, as if he was staring at a gift from the goddess of fate: "Great, you're finally back!"

Sully's nose was slightly red, and even the corners of his eyes were a similar red.

Unlike Xia Zuo who was so angry that his eyes turned red, Suli... was frozen.

Cyril quickly wrapped Sully in the clothes she had taken from the small building before saying, "You look pretty good in that tattered state just now."

Suli quickly wrapped himself into a ball: ………………

"That's too much." Suli sniffed.

He would never admit that the reason he bent over and brushed off the dust on his body for so long was because he was frozen stiff in the minus ten degrees cold air and his limbs could not coordinate.

Cyril said seriously: "I am just stating the facts."

"You may not be able to see it yourself, but from my perspective, you who originally looked like a prince have now instantly become a person who lost his country. Ignoring the broken alchemy tools, most of the ones that remain are also full of cracks."

"And this indestructible thing, at this moment, just makes you look full of the beauty of destruction. And the other thing is..."

Cyril pointed at Sully's chest and said in a lower voice, "When that guy grabbed your collar, he should have pushed it back. Look at that red spot. If you didn't know, you would think he had done something to you."

Suli sneered: "I think you are a little bit arrogant because everyone's focus has been on the foreign enemies these two days and no one has trained you."

Cyril coughed and said quickly, "You are the one who misunderstood. I just thought that the red color looked like plum blossoms."

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Xia Zuo frowned: "You guys..."

"Come with me and don't talk. I don't want to answer. But I promise that you will see Ophelia soon. Also, don't think about killing me or anything. Maybe you had a chance for a moment before, but now, it's impossible for you." Sully stretched out his red hands that were frozen from the cold and caught the crow that flew down from the branch. The smile that had disappeared at the corner of his mouth because he was angry with Cyril was hanging on the corner of his mouth again.

Then, the white snow from the sky covered the ruins that were shattered by Xia Zuo.

The three people walking in the snow left behind a series of footprints that could be covered by the wind and snow at any time, and the only sound was a "crack" in the air that disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Compared to the three children walking side by side, the tied-up Ophelia made a smacking sound when she saw Xia Zuo.

“Tsk.”

Then, Xia Zuo, who was originally standing beside Suli, ran to Ophelia's side in the blink of an eye, as if called by the owner.

After Xia Zuo used the light blade to cut the ropes on Ophelia's body, he was pinched on the face by this woman who seemed to have no gratitude at all.

The sharp nails left obvious nail marks on Xia Zuo's face.

Ophelia looked down at Xia Zuo, whose facial features were not much similar to hers. Her eyes were cold and she said in a dissatisfied tone: "You reacted too slowly, idiot. You should have brought the prophet earlier. I was tied up for so long in vain..."

Anyone who saw Ophelia casually ravaging a strong man who made everyone present on guard would probably feel incredible.

But Suli is an exception.

Because he felt that there was a fact that he had to admit even if he didn't want to.

For example, whether Egbert is willing to rub his face... this proposition.

Sully refused to think of an answer.

But he also refuses to allow Ophelia to control the possibility of the host and the guest.

So Suli asked directly: "What is the prophet?"

"You ask me a question right away. Why do you think I tell you this? Because you look... because you look pretty good, or because you think we are evenly matched now?" Ophelia glanced at Sully.

Xia Zuo, who was standing beside her, was kneeling on one knee considerately, straightening Ophelia's wrinkled skirt.

These words and Xia Zuo's actions are enough to highlight Ophelia's strength and arrogance.

Of course, the premise is to ignore the fact that she has to admit that Sully is not ugly.

"It's not an even match." Sully pulled out a chair and sat down at one end of the long table. "I just think that since you can show up here, it means that you must have something you want to do."

"At least in my opinion, you are a person with a strong sense of purpose. All your actions and behaviors are full of strong purpose."

"Although this is the first time we met, this feeling is already particularly profound."

"It seems that you don't need me to acknowledge your judgment." Ophelia sneered, "But it is indeed as you said, I was willing to be caught by your dog, and I did have a purpose..."

"Wait a moment." Suli frowned and made a stop gesture.

Ophelia raised her eyebrows and looked meaningfully at the "prophet" who she had heard of for a long time.

"I don't care how you view the people around me, including myself. But if we are at the negotiation table, where we can have an equal dialogue, then I ask you to at least respect the basic bottom line of human dignity."

"Of course, in exchange, I can answer your question first." Sully stared into Ophelia's golden eyes, with a calm demeanor that showed no sign of giving in.

Ophelia sneered, then said, "Then I'll do as you say."

"As for my question..."

"I want to know how much you have guessed about me so far."

Suli crossed his hands, put his elbows on the table, and rested his chin on the back of his hands. This made him look smaller than the others present, but this action also had body language to hint to others.

Although he seems to be the weakest guy, he can sit at the negotiation table on behalf of many powerful people. This in itself is a force that cannot be ignored.

Following this information output, Suli then said: "To fully answer this question, more than one question needs to be answered."

"In exchange, I can tell you what the prophet is in advance." Ophelia said in a condescending tone.

"We are already sitting at the same table, so there is no need to continue testing." Suli shook his head. "After all, the so-called prophet is just a fictitious title. Maybe someone will have bad intentions because of the so-called 'prophecy', but before those people dance in front of me, they are just insignificant people."

"And if they come to me, then with my ability to save my life..."

At this point, Suli deliberately glanced at Xia Zuo.

"All I can say is that they ..."

“It’s worthless.”

Ophelia was now in a good mood. She kicked away Xia Zuo, who was still tidying up the hem of her skirt, and the next second she pulled out a chair and sat on it, looking from afar at Sully, whose eyes became increasingly deep in the dim environment.

"I thought that in your opinion, the value of human life should not be so light."

"Although I can't help but feel disgusted just by hearing these words coming out of my mouth, you are definitely someone who places extreme value on the importance of life."

"There's no reward for guessing right." Suli spread out his palms. "I don't care about the jackals that seem to have smelled the scent and rushed over, because people are close to each other and distant to each other."

"So I certainly don't condemn the death of a group of people who could have hurt me and caused suffering and pain to those around me."

"I will only strike first when they try to attack me."

Therefore, even if this so-called preemptive move and some details misled Ophelia into thinking that he also did not value human life, Sully would not use this to extend anything else.

Sure enough, the next second Ophelia showed a look of sudden enlightenment.

"But your so-called preemptive strike does not mean that it will lead to their death."

"So you are still that boring man who is boring as hell, except for his brain, but he is not interesting at all."

"Hmm..." Sully pondered for a moment, then decisively agreed with Ophelia.

"You are right."

Ophelia laughed out of anger.

She said bluntly, "Tell me everything you guessed, and I will tell you everything I guessed."

“That’s fair.”

"I don't think so," Sully denied.

"A man who is too greedy will have his four limbs chopped off and the fifth limb completely crushed." Ophelia narrowed her eyes.

Suli disagrees.

What he guessed was completely different from what Ophelia guessed.

Suli didn't mind speaking frankly about any piece of information related to himself.

But for Ophelia, some things are destined to be secret and cannot be known by others.

Ophelia let him speak out just to make sure how much he knew and what kind of threat it would pose to her.

"Irrelevant information is completely equivalent to junk information. When it comes to my personal safety, I value it more and stay the same in the face of ever-changing circumstances."

Ophelia: “It’s so hard to get along with…”

Suli was speechless: "Then why do you still have to smile?"

"None of your business." Ophelia retorted.

"Tell me how far you have guessed and what information you have determined. In return, you can get any information you want from me. The limit is, there are only three pieces. And the answers I can give are only yes and no." Ophelia held up three fingers.

Sully made the decision on the spot: "I agree!"

His action stunned Ophelia.

"Although I can see at a glance that you are a weakling without any element, you must know that the elemental contract exists, right?"

"As long as you swear to God, you can make any contract that must be obeyed, and the price of violating it will depend on the content of the contract."

Suli was speechless again. Not to mention how many loopholes there were in the contract...

“When you ask someone a question, do you settle on the answer based solely on the answer they give?”

"Eyes, micro-expressions, body language, heartbeats, even if a person doesn't show anything, just stays there, without any changes, in fact, he is already answering the message."

"Or do you think so?"

Ophelia laughed again.

She doesn't look like the type of woman that people would associate with the word "princess" - a dignified and beautiful woman.

On the contrary, they seem to be freer than the mercenaries who advocate freedom.

And a little too free.

Sully didn't care about this, he just expressed his speculation as Ophelia asked.

"You and Xia Zuo are siblings. As the elder sister, you do not have the ice-blue eyes inherited by the Amikubi royal family, so you inherited your mother's eye color, while Xia Zuo has ice-blue eyes."

"Before this, I had already guessed that one of you had mixed up the royal bloodline."

"Xia Zuo is not, so it will only be you."

Facing Xia Zuo's continuous murderous aura, Ophelia stretched out her hand with interest to stop him from continuing to emit this unnecessary aura, which would only cause the opposite group of people to be on guard once it appeared.

Suli continued: "Moreover, the king was not aware of this information."

"In addition, I also have a guess. After knowing Xia Zuo's existence, I understood that the reason why he was exiled to this city was not because of his lack of talent, but because Xia Zuo's talent was too amazing."

Under the sun, the stars are dim.

"The king only needs to do one thing, to hint to his wife that the child she gave birth to is not capable of inheriting the country. Then, as the wife and one of the saints of the Church of Light, she will have to compromise in order to prevent her son from becoming a sitting duck."

Of course, there are also those who are the eldest and the legitimate son.

From the perspective of the Saint Queen, as long as she didn't know about Xia Zuo's existence, she would simply regard sending Xia Zuo away as a compromise and wait for the right opportunity.

"One of them is destined to not represent absoluteness."

Even though those aristocratic gossip history books were filled with nothing but garbage information, they had never gossiped about the king marrying a saint.

In other words, this marriage is the first of its kind in history.

Starting a business means the road ahead is unknown, and it involves both risks and opportunities.

For a saint, not being the absolute one proves that she is a replaceable existence. So even if she has a child, it doesn't matter. If the child dies, then it means nothing.

"If a man who was personally stated by the king to be unfit to be the next king, but who inherited the orthodoxy and became not only the heir but also the eldest, is not sent away, he will probably become a thorn in the eyes of all the children born later in the palace."

"As one of the saints, she obviously couldn't rely on her status as the queen to take the first place among the saints and become the root that the Pope couldn't cut off. So she could only choose to compromise with reality, send her child away who didn't have much strength, and then shape herself into a weak character who was powerless and could only let things go, and plot in secret."

"Of course, this secret plot is my private speculation, and I have no evidence to prove it. But I still believe that a person who can sit in the position of the Holy Maiden of Light, and is one of them, must be able to see more clearly than before."

Omitted is Egbert's name.

Those who stand at the top from beginning to end cannot see the chaos below.

And only after falling flat on his face did he recognize the reality. No matter how necessary the reality after recognizing it was for Egbert, it was still undeniable that it was something that was formed by breaking something important.

So even though Sully instantly thought of Egbert, he swallowed the pronunciation of the name back into his stomach without hesitation.

"The eldest son who was sent away voluntarily will also be doomed to not receive the education of an heir. From the king's perspective, no matter how he develops in the future, whether it is good or bad, from the moment he was sent away, he was doomed to never have that position again. After all, for the king, how can he trust a child who is not taught by himself?"

"Similarly, as the eldest princess, you are the apple of the king's eye. When the king publicly expresses his affection for you and uses this as an excuse to allocate resources to Xia Zuo through you, you only need to take the initiative to tell the king. Because Xia Zuo cannot show up in person, cannot reveal his identity, and cannot properly receive systematic heir education, so you can only replace him in this regard. After learning those knowledge, you can teach your brother who is born of the same mother."

"And the king can also put you on the battlefield of the orthodox heir simply because he loves his daughter. No one will suspect that you have a problem. The king will not suspect you, and outsiders will not suspect the king. At that time, no one knew about Xia Zuo's existence."

"Going back to the speculation that you are not the king's child, I guess you probably knew your true identity before you became the 'most favored princess'."

“And after that, I started to plan for myself purposefully.”

Suli glanced at Xia Zuo, and there was no emotion of pity in his eyes.

Although he knew that Ophelia had probably begun to intentionally brainwash her half-brother, Xia Zuo, after she knew that she was not the king's child.

Otherwise, how could Xia Zuo, who is only in his teens and is already so strong that he is closely guarded by a series of top warriors, not be angry when he was kicked while he was adjusting Ophelia's skirt?

Even now, his eyes are full of intimacy.

Suli also has a guess about Xia Zuo.

But now, Sully has not finished talking about the speculative information related to Ophelia.

But just saying this, Ophelia couldn't help but raise her hands and applaud.

She looked at Suli with admiration and praised him generously: "If I hadn't put myself in your shoes and referred to the information I already knew, I would have been able to roughly guess these. Otherwise, I would have doubted whether you were standing in God's perspective and looking through my life in advance."

For the first time in her life, Ophelia felt that there was actually someone who could keep up with her thinking, or rather...

She is evenly matched.

Ophelia's eyes sharpened and she said, "But you are wrong about one thing."

"Those are my eyes." Ophelia's eyes were filled with a smile as sweet as honey, but they froze in the next second. "This is not my mother's eye color."

"That woman's eyes are similar to yours, the same emerald green." Ophelia's fingers almost touched her own eyeballs. She pointed at her eyes and said, "These golden eyes are inherited from my real father."

Sully's fingers, which were originally resting on the table, jumped uncontrollably at these words.

He couldn't control his brain storm after he said this.

What on earth did the cuckolded king experience...

Su Li muttered in a voice so small that he thought only he could hear it: "You don't believe in the theory of returning to your ancestors and inheriting the eye color from your maternal ancestors, do you?"

"Well, I guessed right this time." Ophelia admitted decisively.

Suli: “???”

"Are you kidding me?!"

"Your Majesty, what on earth have you been through to believe...to believe such a statement?!"

Ophelia flicked her nails, her golden eyes revealing some inorganic coldness, and then she said, "I'm not kidding, I'm telling the truth, and that man really believed it."

"Every time I think of this message, I feel like I have seen the funniest thing in the world and I can't help laughing at it, hahahahahahaha."

Ophelia was laughing really wildly.

"That was the first time I felt that ignorant people could really be so stupid."

"But then I put myself in that man's shoes and it seemed possible."

Sully blinked at her, and was so obsessed with eating the melon that suddenly appeared that he wanted to eat it.

Ophelia glared back. "What are you looking at? You haven't finished your guess yet, have you?"

"Or do you think that this kind of story, which would shock everyone once it is told, is not worthy of being an answer to one of your three questions?"

Sully: "...Your statement is too general. If I can use this to guess a question that you can evaluate whether it is the correct answer, it means that I have at least made a clear guess about your father's identity. At that time, it probably won't matter whether I ask or not."

Ophelia snorted coldly: "It's none of my business."

Suli couldn't help but make a half-moon eye.

Apart from Ophelia's cruel character of not caring about other people's life and death, dignity, personality, and basic human rights, Ophelia is still a self-centered fun-loving person.

Sully could even clearly see that Ophelia found it amusing that she couldn't perceive the truth but could only keep her mind racing.

Sully had no intention of causing a stir.

Instead, he tried to liven up Ophelia's mood.

"The reason you want to destroy the Mercenary City is to prove Xia Zuo's absolute strength and the fact that he only listens to you."

"A perfect tool who only lacks his own strength, but can follow my instructions and do whatever I tell him to do. Coupled with your calculation ability that many people find terrifying, I think you must be planning something big."

"The King of Amiqbe... To be honest, I think this is only one of your goals, not all of them. But due to insufficient intelligence, I have no way of guessing what the other one or more goals are."

Sully always felt that Ophelia was like a book whose ending he would never be able to read no matter how hard he tried.

and.

This person is still growing.

This is the most terrifying thing.

Sully, who had lived for 30 years before traveling through time and had already retired, had already labeled himself and his thinking was defined.

But Ophelia is different. She is only in her teens, an age with countless possibilities.

"Then do you want to ask?" Ophelia held up three fingers again.

"No, don't expect me to satisfy my gossipy heart with the answers to the three important questions."

"I may be curious about what happened to you, but the purpose of sitting at this table and talking with you is just to protect the city of Sadina. And I will never forget this," Suli emphasized.

Ophelia frowned: "I'll say it again, you are really a very, very difficult man to deal with."

"My honor." Suli nodded.

"In addition, my three questions are..."

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Big big fat chapter! Hehe