No matter how much I want to complain about Egbert, I even want to say a few words: "How can you understand serious things, but these irrelevant performances can be filled in like this in your mind."

However, as soon as the idea came to Suli, he felt that there was no need to speak it out loud.

Because Egbert would only understand the two consequences of giving him a reply and not giving him a reply.

If Sully had responded to this topic, Egbert would have said, 'You don't have to hide it anymore.'

And if we accept it as it is now...

Then Egbert would say, "It's just an unimportant person. Lord Sully just needs to keep his eyes on me."

By the way, he also looked at Suli with extremely passionate eyes.

But fortunately, even though this seemingly routine action was so outrageous that it couldn't be more outrageous, Egbert himself would take the initiative to change the subject back.

She said, "The people of the Dark Church are so arrogant. Whether it's because of Ophelia's status as a princess or because she is the only heir who can show off, she will not let go of the people of the Dark Church who are provoking the royal family."

"That's true." Suli decisively pretended that nothing had happened. "Up to now, the open situation has always been that the Dark Church has been targeting important people in the inner city. The Light Pope hiding in the dark is not even a threat to this city."

“Even Ophelia’s goal is just to sit on the throne. If she is in that position, then although she still cannot achieve the so-called absolute freedom, there will be relative freedom.”

After all, the king is ultimately a person of the same class as the pope.

"It's hard to say whether Ophelia will have any further thoughts at that time."

It is currently assumed that the Pope's goal is to take a step further and reach the highest peak of power in the human world. The existence of Ophelia, who inherited his bloodline, can verify how much it will take to achieve that goal.

Time, energy, and the principle of repeated reduction.

Absolute freedom cannot exist in human beings. If Ophelia sits on the throne and thinks that it is enough and stops there, then the people in the Dark Church in the inner city and her people who rushed from the Mercenary City will all become outsiders who can only focus on external affairs for the sake of internal peace.

The current situation is that it is necessary to purposefully delay the speed of Ophelia ascending the throne, and, on the basis of delaying the eldest princess ascending the throne, she must also have a certain degree of control over the country.

Otherwise, if the Pope found that his pawn was disobedient, he could completely ignore any subsequent consequences and slap his daughter to death with a single blow, even though he had no blood relationship with her from any angle.

Ophelia must be able to resist, but she must not have the relative balance to confront the Pope head-on.

Similarly, if Ophelia's individual strength is insufficient and the Pope comes to the inner city, the main output will definitely not be Egbert with the same attributes.

The crows can be dispatched in a targeted manner, but we also have to prevent the situation of killing the donkeys after they have done their job.

If one of two parties of equal strength wants to achieve absolute victory, how can it be achieved without paying some price?

Assuming that Raven managed to kill the Pope despite being seriously injured, who can guarantee that after the Pope falls and the power of the Holy See is forced to shrink, Ophelia will not have the idea of ​​climbing to the top of humanity and dominating it?

From this perspective, they will still have to face the siege battle in which Sadina will be unable to withstand the siege alone.

then……

If you don't want to face those consequences, you need to be subjective and guide the third-party force, the Dark Church.

Q: "When the Dark Saint took the initiative to inform the Pope of Light that he wanted her to guide the Dark Church to assassinate King Amicbee, did the Dark Church take action?"

Suli asked the question and Suli responded with the answer: "The answer has already been given."

"So, what we need to do next is to make Saint Mavis not miss the opportunity even though she knows that they will be led to do something."

There is no pressure to use such measures in Suli.

Checks and balances are the basis of faction warfare settings in role-playing games.

"It's just..." Suli's hands, which were originally hanging naturally at his sides, tightened a lot.

"Whatever goal you want to achieve, you can choose to tell me. As long as you want, I can do anything for you." Egbert looked at Sully firmly, trying to use these words to make Sully think of himself in advance every time he thought of "just".

"No, I don't want to." Sully waved his hand decisively. He looked back at Egbert and said calmly, "I just think that when people live in a new environment that is different from the previous environment, they seem to be destined to make certain changes in order to live in a relatively harmonious way in the new environment."

Egbert was stunned for a moment.

He wanted to understand the deeper meaning of these words, but when he tried to think, he suddenly found out...

I can't seem to keep up again.

"Is it because the gap between the inner city and the mercenary city is too big that you say this?"

While saying this, Egbert was thinking in his heart, Lord Sully, who would say this, does he think that Licheng... has no need to exist?

Otherwise, wouldn't Lord Suli's words be contradictory to his previous behavior?

Sully is obviously the kind of person who will not be changed by external things. Compromising with some facts does not mean that the compromised things are correct.

Then by the same token, the city of Rijo that would force Lord Suli to compromise for something unimportant...

Is there a need for its existence?

no.

When this answer came out, Egbert suddenly felt enlightened.

He said hurriedly, "Sorry, please pretend that I didn't say anything just now. Also, please tell me what you think."

Sully looked at Egbert for three full seconds, but couldn't read anything from his face, so he decisively gave up trying to read his expression.

Finally, Suli said helplessly: "The only way I can think of to balance the current situation is to let the people of the Dark Church kill the nobles and officials who support Ophelia to become the king."

"And spread the news that the Dark Church assassinated the king, and anyone who sat in that position would become a target of assassination."

"...Maybe I'm not smart enough. All I can think of is this bloody way of balancing things."

Sully sometimes wondered what Ophelia would do if she were in his position.

The conclusion is obvious. If she were in the same position, the eldest princess would kill those who supported her to the throne without hesitation and spread the news further.

For example, tell the world that the guy who was pushed to the throne randomly is not worthy of being killed by the Dark Church. Only those who are truly qualified to sit on the throne are worthy of being assassinated by the Dark Elementalist.

This is how Ophelia is trapped in a delicate position where she has real power but cannot reach the top.

Sully told Egbert: "Although we can investigate in advance whether there are any scumbags among the officials and nobles who support Ophelia, and use such people as the first people to be attacked, this cannot completely alleviate some irrelevant..."

Guilt.

"I want to be rotten." Sully looked up at the ceiling of the hotel, doubting deeply that it must be because the dinner was too bad that he could become so rotten.

"But we have to do this, don't we?" Egbert lowered his head, knelt on one knee, and looked up at Sully who raised his head and looked at the ceiling as much as possible. He said, "As long as Lord Sully wants to achieve something, whether it is murder, arson, or the destruction of creation, I will obey your orders."

"I agree with both the first and last words, but how crazy do I have to be to let you commit murder and arson?" Suli wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead.

"That's not insanity, it's just that you think my existence is worth being directed and controlled by you." Egbert looked devoutly at the position of Sully's knees. He lowered himself very low, but he knew very well that this was not a devaluation of himself.

He simply felt that Sully was always in a position that he could never reach, so he believed from the bottom of his heart that as long as he could stand behind Sully, it would be enough to make him happy.

Suli's mouth twitched.

"So, I really don't have any intention of asking you to kill or burn anyone."

Egbert: "But even if you don't want to, I want to tell you loudly that I can do all these for you!"

Having said that, the crow, who had been watching the whole process of this plot, rudely flapped its wing on Egbert's head.

"You, man..."

Sully discovered that the way Raven spoke seemed to have returned to when he first transformed into a human form.

At this time, Du Ya was also speaking in that mechanical way: "Don't instigate him to do certain actions when you know that Suli would not instigate you to do those actions."

For the first time, Suli felt that the level of understanding between humans and animals could be so profound.

Du Ya understands him!

Suli reaffirmed that intelligent life has nothing to do with the entity at all. As long as they can talk and communicate, it means that there is communication and the possibility of understanding.

Then, the crow stared straight at Egbert and said in a bass voice: "Even if you want to use this to show your seriousness, it's not possible."

"Just because I understand doesn't mean Suli will understand."

…

…………

That night, risking his life in an assassination attempt, Sully drove Egbert and Rook out of the room together.

Three days later.

"The ones who danced the most happily, the nobles who approved of the eldest princess's methods and secretly treated some weak people as slaves and pets, but..."

“They’re all dead.”

When Sully saw Mavis again, the Dark Saint was sitting in the dining area of ​​the hotel, holding a plate of grilled meat in one hand and a knife for cutting meat in the other.

And the small knife that shone with silver light was spinning non-stop in her palm as she spoke, and she was playing with it in various ways.

Mavis was now pushing her feet on the table, so that only the two legs at the back of the chair could support her whole body weight. With her face splattered with blood, she showed an undisguised bloody smile to Sully who was walking down from the second floor of the hotel.

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