Chapter 578: It's all about human relationships

Raul experienced the longest two minutes of his life.

Screams, roars, the sounds of running and struggling, as well as the sounds of crying and begging for mercy... all so chaotic that it made Raul's ears buzz.

The carefully reinforced castle was torn into pieces like it was made of cardboard, the wizard consultant who was hired at a high price teleported away after throwing a fireball, and the mercenaries who were usually well-fed and well-fed fled in all directions after a few of them were trampled to death.

Everything he had worked so hard for was completely destroyed in just two minutes.

Until the black knight, covered in blood, walked to the top of the castle and came in front of Raul, everything had been destroyed.

The Black Knight casually threw the mercenary's body with his head crushed in front of Raul and asked, "Do you still want to resist?"

Raul looked at the bloody scene in disbelief and asked in a trembling voice: "Who are you? I haven't offended you, why are you..."

The Black Knight interrupted impatiently, "Have those slaves ever offended you? You are old enough, not a child who has never seen the world. Why are you asking such questions?"

Hastings was an adventurer when he was alive, and he had seen more life and death than Raul. Even though he had a tragic past of being raped by a witch and turned into an undead by a lich, he was not as naive as Raul.

In the end, Raul stopped resisting and looked like he was ready to be slaughtered.

Hastings grabbed him, but did not leave immediately. Instead, he asked, "Where is the woman who gave you bad advice?"

Raul was stunned for a moment. Why would the Black Knight ask this? Did he know about Ivy's existence? "Who are you?" Raul asked excitedly.

"You don't even recognize me... Oh, that's normal, I have a new set of armor. I'm Hastings, remember?"

"Hasting?!"

Raul had an impression of this name. Wasn't this the undead under the command of the lich? How could he suddenly appear here and kill people in his manor?

Raul said angrily, "Did Isabel ask you to come?!"

Hastings carried Raul and looked around. When he didn't see Ivy, he said impatiently, "Your IQ is a little off. I told you, my master ordered me to come here!"

Raul's eyes widened, and he muttered to himself in shock: "Master... How is this possible... He..."

Hastings was too lazy to pay attention to this ignorant guy. He knocked on his chest, and a ball of mercury flowed out from the gap in the armor and quickly condensed into a human shape.

Hastings ordered, "Hares, go find that woman and kill her immediately."

Hares hesitated and said, "Ah, this is not good. The master said that if you resist, you will die. This person has been caught."

Hasting snorted coldly and said, "Master, how could we care about the life and death of such a woman? This bitch spread rumors and made you and me make an extra trip. Aren't you going to vent your anger?"

Harris nodded quickly, then melted into a ball again, began to swim rapidly on the ground, and disappeared in a short while.

Hastings continued to hold Raoul and walked down the castle. Before he reached the bottom floor, Harris came back with a dead head with eyes open wrapped in mercury. It was the woman who had just been lying in Raoul's arms.

Raul stared at the head blankly, unable to understand what had happened to him. Then he felt a pain in the back of his head and passed out.

After confirming that Raul was completely unconscious, Hares complained, "Brother, why did you go through so much trouble? You even put on this show in front of him. You clearly wanted to vent your anger on Miss Isabel, but you still had to pretend that we wanted revenge."

Hastings snorted coldly and said, "I think you don't understand at all. Let Miss Isabel vent her anger. It's enough to let Miss Isabel know about this. If Raul knows about it, this idiot might even blame his own sister in the future. Do you think we are doing favors or trying to sow discord? "Now Raul hates us, Miss Isabel has to accept our favor. This favor will be useful sooner or later. To work under our lich master, it's not just about fighting and killing, but also about the ways of the world."

Hareth said helplessly: "It's even more complicated than when we were adventurers."

"Of course. In the past, we were gangsters and we were dealing with people at the bottom of society. But now, everyone around the master is the best in the world. We are just ordinary adventurers. You are a ranger and I am a thief. If we don't want to be eliminated like this idiot, we must recognize our own status." Hastings was educating his brother, and suddenly said, "You were not so stupid before. Can't you understand this? Have you become stupid because you sleep too long and don't use your brain?"

Hareth said helplessly: "This is what happens when you become an undead. You will gradually lose all your desires and naturally lose your ability to think. It is because the master has added some fuel to our souls that we can survive until now. If you don't get more sleep, your will will disappear faster."

"No, I have to tell my master about this when I get home. I don't want to become a drooling zombie."

"Yes, if I lose consciousness I will really turn into a pile... I see those mercury zombies are living quite comfortably. The earliest batch can already work as workers on the assembly line."

The two brothers chatted and took the unconscious Raul back to the castle.

Amber did not ask for specific details and asked the two brothers to wake up Raul.

Seeing Amberxiu in the mirror, Raul trembled and said, "Master, you are really resurrected."

Amber Xiu smiled and said, "Why, if I hadn't been resurrected, you would still think you were right, right?"

Raul said unwillingly: "Where did I go wrong? I just tried my best to climb up, but in the end I just didn't know that you, the master, were resurrected. If I knew, how would I dare to..."

"But Isabel didn't know at first either."

Amber's words made Raul silent for a moment, and then he said more excitedly: "That's because Isabel is a woman, she is different from me! I must climb up, I must have power in this cruel world to save my life, otherwise I will be easily destroyed by you like today.

"I know the despair of waiting to die. I always dream of that scene when I have a nightmare. I just want to control my own destiny. What's wrong with that? I don't have as strong power as you, Master. I can only rely on making money to buy the power to protect myself. I have to deal with people when I do business. In this Dwarf King's Capital, the Alchemy Association is so powerful. What's wrong with me cooperating with them? "If you were still alive, Master, I would never do this. If you could give me even a little help, Master, I wouldn't need to ask those alchemists! Why am I wrong? Anyone in my position would make the same choice. No one is willing to bow to fate!"

Amber Xiu was not impatient, just waiting for Raul to speak out all the grievances in his heart, and did not refute, but said calmly: "Yes, no one wants to be controlled by fate, including me, we are fighting against fate.

"But you lost."

Raul looked at Amberxiu in surprise, thinking that this wise man who was teleported by the world would have a long speech, but the result was just this?

Amber Xiu said strangely: "Why, did I say something wrong?"

Raul was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer. Did he lose? He did. The territory he had built with great difficulty was easily broken through, the mercenaries escaped, and the slaves all ran away in the chaos. He was bound to go bankrupt. If this wasn't a loss, then what was it?

But, is that all?

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Amber Xiu knew what Raul was thinking, and he just said calmly: "Raul, the world is not that complicated, and I don't want to preach to you. If you think that everyone in your position will make the same choice, and also think that you have done everything you can do to the best of your ability, then what is there to be unwilling about?

"If we do it again, won't the result be the same?

"You feel like you have tried very hard, but you still lose. Choice is greater than effort, and luck is greater than choice. This is fate sometimes."

Raul said excitedly: "What is the meaning of life then?"

"Find the meaning of life yourself. I don't care about you. Now, go apologize to Isabel, then go to Silver Coin Island and work on the factory assembly line to think about the meaning of your life."

Amber waved his hand impatiently and asked Hastings to throw the person into the teleportation array.

After Raul disappeared, the brothers Hastings and Harris came up to the magic mirror with a grin on their faces.

As soon as Amber Xiu saw the looks of these two guys, he knew that something bad was going to happen, but seeing that they were doing things quite steadily, he reluctantly listened to what they wanted to say.

When Hastings and Hares mentioned the negative effects of the undead's continuous loss of will, Amber clapped his hands and said excitedly: "If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it. It just so happens that I have an experiment here that may be able to completely solve this problem. The only thing is that I lack experimental materials... No, volunteers. Do you want to try it?"

Hastings: ...

Harris: ...

Just now, this Lich Master mentioned the experimental materials, right?

Hastings couldn't help but ask, "Master, can I ask about the dangers of this experiment?"

Amber Xiu said confidently: "Don't you understand my methods? Even if your soul is broken, I can mend it and make it back for you. I guarantee you won't die."

Hastings and Hares looked at each other, and both read from each other's posture that "something bad is going to happen."

They knew the old man's habits too well. He promised that they would not die, which was true. But what he meant was that this experiment would most likely shatter their souls.

However, precisely because they understood Amber's habits, the old man's eyes lit up. Even if they refused, this experiment had to be done.

At this time, can they still refuse?

Hares spoke first, "Master, we are 100% willing to be volunteers, but last time I was transformed into an undead first, and Hastings was locked in the container for a long time. This time, I can't be the first, please let the eldest brother go first."

"ha?"

Hasting looked at his brother in shock. This kid said before that he had become stupid, but now it seems that he was just pretending!

It turns out that serving this master is not all about fighting and killing, it's all about human relationships and worldly wisdom.

(End of this chapter)