Chapter 167 Hero

I was in a state of confusion and darkness. I didn’t know how long I had been unconscious. When I opened my eyes again, I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head, which made me wake up completely. I reached out and carefully touched the painful and numb part. There was a big swelling.

"Fuck, it hurts so much!"

The slightest touch hurt me as if I was cut by a knife. I really hope this has no effect on my head. I struggled to stand up and looked around. At this time, Levi and his gang of thugs had already run away without a trace. There was nothing on the road.

"Anai!"

I suddenly remembered that Levi was trying to take Anai away with his minions. I resisted and was knocked unconscious. I was unconscious on a grassy spot by the road. I guess Anai had been taken away by Levi.

“This bastard!”

I gritted my teeth and said to myself that I would never stand against this damned bastard. I lowered my head and saw no one around. There was nothing but the large horseshoe prints on the road that could prove what happened this morning.

"You're awake, Luke."

Andrew's voice came from behind me. I turned around and saw Andrew with tattered clothes and scars all over his body. He was slumped behind me, leaning against a tree, looking at me, his face covered in blood.

"How are you, Andrew!"

I was frightened by his appearance. I didn't expect Levi and his men to be so cruel. I walked unsteadily. The sequelae of the stick made me dizzy and unsteady.

I crawled to Andrew using my hands and feet, took off my shirt and wiped the blood off his face. Andrew gritted his teeth, and I could clearly see his facial wound twitching as I wiped the wound on his face. He was in pain, but he endured it without making a sound. He was very strong, but the more he was like this, the more guilty and sad I felt. If I hadn't deliberately wanted to find Anai, he would not have ended up in such an embarrassing situation like me.

"I'm sorry, Andrew." I lowered my head and whispered to him, "If I hadn't come to find Anais..."

“Bang!”

A slap hit me hard on the face, and for an instant, I felt a burning pain on my left cheek.

"You coward!"

Andrew held back the pain all over his body and roared at me. He was so angry that he pushed away my hand that was wiping the blood for him. His red eyes glared at me, and I lowered my head, knowing that he was furious because of my cowardly apology just now. I didn't know why I said such a thing.

"Levi was going to kill you and me!" Andrew stared at me and said slowly, "In the end, Anais threatened to die in exchange for saving our lives, but the premise was that you and Anais would never see each other again!"

"We can never meet again!" I repeated, feeling the pain on my face, and couldn't help laughing, because I was so weak that I couldn't even protect a weak woman, but now I need Anai to protect my life. "So, Levi took Anai away..."

I was unconscious, and the wound on my head didn't hurt as much as it did at first, probably because I was unconscious. I stood up and looked far away at the direction where the horse hoof prints were going. The horizon was Ludinan, and I knew Anais must be there. She was imprisoned by Levi, and I was just an ordinary person who was powerless.

"And the coachman?"

"Him? Ha!" Andrew sneered, and then said, "Can you still count on that old guy with his servile appearance?" I turned around and saw two Oren gold coins lying in Andrew's open palm. He continued, "The old guy scolded me as soon as Levi and the others left, and cursed me to die a bad death. Haha, if I still had the strength to stand up, I would definitely kill him. Fortunately, he is also a coward, so he returned all the Oren gold coins we gave him before he left."

"This is very frustrating, too frustrating. I found that after we stepped down from the position of centurion, we couldn't even protect the most precious things." Andrew slapped his thigh fiercely and said, "We are nothing now. Today it's you, and tomorrow it might be me? I haven't been in touch with Kunta for a long time. What if I go back and find something I shouldn't find? I don't even have the right to defend my dignity. Is this what it means to be ordinary? Powerless, mediocre, and at the mercy of others?"

"No, it's not like that!" I gritted my teeth and tried to hold back my tears. At that moment, I suddenly felt that my soul was connected to Alessio's. How sad and angry was he when he was lying on the carriage and stroking the brass mask? Ordinariness made me lose the right to resist. Just like Alessio was robbed of his divine face and wealth by Aetius, Levi not only took away Anais, but also ruthlessly destroyed my dream, my dream of being content with being ordinary and trying to live in harmony with the world.

"Luka!" Andrew looked at me, his expression very serious. "Do you want to save Ana? Even if she has sworn that she will never see you again."

"Oath? It's nothing but empty words!"

There is a desire for revenge in my heart. It is like a flame, burning slowly in my heart and starting to remind me that I want revenge and I want to take Ana back.

"So what are you going to do? Fight back recklessly? You know you can't do anything. You can't even defeat the soldiers guarding the Ludinan city gate!"

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"So, I want to become stronger, but not physically. Even if my body is stronger, it won't change anything!" I said, holding the blood-stained clothes tightly in my hand, as if the clothes had become a sharp sword. "I want to become a warlord above the entire empire, commanding a strong enough army like Aetius, so that the emperor will be willing to ally with me, and let Levi be humiliated like me but unable to do anything! Only in this way can I take back Anais and realize all my wishes!"

I raised my clothes high and chopped down hard at Ludinan. It felt like I could split Ludinan, who was far away in the sky, into two halves, but it only made a "whoosh" sound caused by the friction of the air, and nothing else.

"Lujia." Andrew hesitated for a moment, then said to me: "Actually, Ana asked me to bring you a message before leaving. I wonder how you will react now after hearing it."

"Go ahead, Andrew!" I clenched my fists. "Tell me she'll wait for me?"

"No!" Andrew shook his head. "She told me to tell you to forget her. Even though last night was short, she was very happy. She told me to tell you that no matter what others say, you will always be an upright man. At least in her heart, you will always be a hero!"

"Hero," I don't know why, when I mention this word, my tears fall uncontrollably. Anais still thinks I'm a hero, I'm her knight, she's my princess, but I'm powerless in the face of danger, I only have the strength to stamp my feet and yell, but I don't have the ability to save the woman I love! What kind of hero is this?

(End of this chapter)