(I have to go for a few tests tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. I won’t issue a leaflet asking for leave then. I will update a two-in-one chapter in advance today and the day after tomorrow.)

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"Baisa..." Paladin knelt on the ground weakly, as if his spine had been ripped out. His desperate eyes reflected the backs of his brothers, and his voice could not stop trembling, "You have done it all.

What..."

Among the five troops that carried out the blitzkrieg, one of them was led by Paladin and Baisa. Their mission was to attack the Feiyuan Province from the flanks after attracting enough of the main force of the Kingdom's army in Chino, so that they could fight against the enemy in mobile warfare.

Complete division and annihilation.

The task of this army should be the easiest, because in the plan, they will face the regular kingdom legion whose elites have mostly been transferred to garrison in Sadwind City and whose lines are loose as they rush to support.

Without the threat of elite extraordinary beings, with the impact of the armored troops and the exquisite attack route planned by Chino in advance, the Royal Army troops can be cut into pieces like a hot knife cutting through butter, and the siege can be easily completed.

However, the battlefield at this time presents a completely different scene...

The sky was filled with turbulent energy currents. One after another, the airships were shot down by the soul spells released by high-level soul masters. The originally clear sky was covered with haze due to the smoke generated by the explosion, and the burning wreckage of the airships was cut like meteors.

The sky, falling to the ground.

The tragic scene in the sky was like a grand fireworks. From a distance, there was only the light of the explosion, and it was difficult to see the blood and corpses. The battlefield on the ground... was a hell made of flesh and blood.

Looking around, the soil on the battlefield is a shocking reddish brown. I don’t know whether it is that way or whether it is dyed red by the blood that has gathered into the ocean. The corpses of rebel soldiers and armored remains are densely packed to the end of the horizon, and they are constantly visible.

It smelled of blood and gunpowder smoke.

The overwhelming banners of the Royal Army swept across the battlefield, cutting the remnants of the rebel army into dozens of pieces. The dragoons charged back and forth, trampling the tanks and chariots into scrap metal. The fleeing soldiers were pierced by lances one after another, wailing.

He fell down with the sound.

In the airspace overhead, heavily armed dragon knights swept through, shooting down airships controlled by skilled pilots while searching for enemies on the ground who were still resisting. The dragon's breath flames fell from the sky, melting everything away.

Just as the Royal Army was slaughtering madly, more than a dozen rays of light rose from the end of the sky. They were rebel missile units equipped with large-scale destructive warheads. They launched bombings at the rear of the Royal Army, hoping to restore the defeat.

However, as the high-level soul master's chanting sounds resounded in all directions, a majestic soul barrier enveloped the entire area with a radius of dozens of miles. More than a dozen missiles hit it and exploded one after another, and the blazing fire burned across the sky.

But it failed to hurt the enemy at all, only the mushroom clouds one after another spoke of their powerlessness.

Just like what happened to Roman and others, the rebel army here also encountered an ambush, and it was an ambush from the most elite extraordinary beings. They were waiting like wild beasts on the borders of the Feiyuan Province, waiting for their prey to "arrive as promised" and reported to them.

They showed their sharpest fangs.

It was impossible to change the situation of the war. The elite butcher knives of the royal army continued to swing at the desperate rebels. Blood buds bloomed everywhere, making scarlet the main color of the battlefield.

In this one-sided killing, only two members of the rebel army were not involved.

Paladin was kneeling sluggishly and weakly, while Baisa stood not far away with his back to him. The two of them seemed to have some kind of force field. When the soldiers of the Royal Army swung their butcher knives, they avoided them and did not cause any harm to them.

In the midst of the chaos, a slave who was being hunted stumbled towards Baisa. He subconsciously thought it was a friendly army that was escaping with him, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Run! Run!"

"Scoff!——" The dragon spear fell from the sky, piercing the slave and his exoskeleton armor full of battle scars, and nailed him to Baisa.

The dragon landed in front of Baixa. The dragon knight withdrew the blood-stained dragon spear, leaned down and patted Baiza's arm, giving a silent greeting. The favor looked like a comrade in the trenches.

Paladin witnessed all this in despair, his voice trembling uncontrollably: "Baisa...what have you done..."

Baisa didn't respond, Paladin's eyes were split open, and his roar reached the peak of his voice: "What have you done??!

"

Baisa still didn't look back at Paladin, only a faint voice came: "I am making up for the mistakes I have made."

After rounds of raids by the Royal Army, the killings on the battlefield were basically coming to an end. The fierce fighting had stopped, leaving only the catch-up killings of those who had slipped through the net. The weak screams of the wounded rebels could be heard from time to time.

Silence amidst the sounds of killing.

Soon after, the laurel flower King's flag, symbolizing the royal family, appeared on the edge of the battlefield. Seeing this, the officers and soldiers of the Royal Army put away their weapons, knelt down on one knee in the direction of the King's flag, and nodded in salute.

The sound of horse hooves came together with the fluttering royal flag. Accompanied by more than a dozen royal guards, the "King's Right Hand" Lan Xian Heqi was wearing a robe and proudly riding on the horse, scanning with his deep eyes.

The battlefield finally fell on Baisa, with a faint smile.

Lan Xian seemed to ignore the difference in identity and status between the two, and gave Baisa a friendly greeting. He smiled and said: "Mr. Baisa, you should have been personally received by His Majesty, but please understand that the frontline

The battlefield is too dangerous for Your Majesty to visit in person at will."

"But it doesn't matter. When you go to the royal city, you will definitely receive the courtesy you deserve."

Paladin glared fiercely, rushed forward, grabbed Baisa by the collar, and yelled at him: "Are you a traitor? Are you betraying everyone?! Why are you doing this!

!”

Lan Xian signaled the imperial guards to pull Paladin away, and said gracefully: "With all due respect, Mr. Paladin, your statement is very problematic. Traitors? You are now rebels and enemies of the entire kingdom. You left the rebels and pledged your allegiance to orthodoxy.

, this is not called a traitor, this is called turning from darkness to light."

"Furthermore, I also hope that you can understand the painstaking efforts of my good brother, because you are not on the exemption list. It was Baisa who promised to give up all future titles and rewards, so His Majesty agreed to exempt you together. Otherwise, you would have been exempted now.

It’s one of these tens of thousands of corpses.”

After hearing these words, Paladin was completely stunned: "You suddenly betrayed everyone, and you don't want titles and rewards... What do you want..."

"Paladin." Baixa's eyes were still and he suddenly asked a strange question, "Do you remember Kino van Helsing?"

"...What?" Paladin thought for a moment that he had heard wrong, or that Baisa had gone crazy and asked such an inexplicable question.

Baisa said silently: "Not the current one, I mean the former Kino Van Helsing, the weak, introverted, and incompetent Civil Affairs Officer of Shilling Town."

Paladin's eyes were out of focus several times. If Baisa hadn't mentioned it, he would have forgotten that there was such a person, and he would have forgotten that the current "Kino Van Helsing" was actually a completely different person.

different people.

Baisa's eyes were filled with memories and vicissitudes of life: "For so long, do you know who I miss the most? It's him - that Kino Van Hel who always speaks obediently, has a playful smile, has no ability and never causes trouble.

pungent."

"If he was still alive and had never died, we should still be centurions of Shilin Town, we could still drink and sing every day, and live in peace with the world, instead of struggling in these whirlpools."

Paladin gritted his teeth and said, "I don't understand... Do you think this Kino ruined your stable life? So you want to take revenge on him?"

Baisa smiled, a little sadly, as if he was laughing at the fact that the brother he had known for more than ten years did not understand him. He asked slowly: "Please answer me a question first. What do you think of this Kino's journey along the way?

What does he want?"

Paladin subconsciously wanted to answer, but suddenly found that he, who was the first to follow Kino and claimed to know this gentleman best, could not even answer the most basic question at the moment.

What does Kino want?

Money, fame, wealth, power, status?...

Kino is indeed getting these things along the way, but are these the only things he wants?...

Baisa broke Paladin's silence: "Ever since I followed Kino with you, I have been thinking about the answer to this question."

"Initially, I felt that Kino was unwilling to accept the status quo and wanted to leave a poor place like Xilin Town, so he risked his life to fight a good fight with the horse bandits and obtained an exceptional promotion."

"I was very happy at the time because he was promoted and we also benefited from it. This is something that is good for everyone."

"Later, Twilight City was constantly invaded by extraterrestrials. We learned from clues that Kino did not belong to this world and was a member of the extraterrestrial visitors..."

"At this time, I felt a little grudge, but I could still sympathize with him because I could imagine the feeling of being in a strange world and having my life threatened all the time."

"Who doesn't want to live? Don't aliens have the right to live? I think what he wants is very simple, that is to live, that's all."

"Later, the "Enemy Protection Law" was promulgated, the Death Corps was established, and the alien invaders who invaded this world became vulnerable. Kino no longer had to worry about his life, and he rose through the ranks in the political field and achieved success that is difficult for ordinary people.

imaginary status, and then became involved in the battle for the crown prince."

"I was thinking, doesn't Kino just want to live? If that's the case, why would he take the risk to support Solandel? With the resources at his disposal, as long as he is loyal to Andre, Doguland can achieve the most stable development

The king's power is excessive, and his life can continue as usual."

"But he still stood by Solandel. I struggled for a long time, but still chose to understand, because I believe that everyone has private thoughts, and it is normal to reach out to help the people they care about. If it were me, I would do the same

I hope the person in charge is an important person in my heart, not a stranger."

When Baiza said this, his eyes became heavy: "But it was not until the end that I discovered that he asked Lugo to form an army when the situation was still unclear, and that he was directly provoking class conflicts and preparing to overthrow the regime when he lost power.

Realize the answer to the question..."

"This man doesn't care about fame, wealth, personal safety, the Kingdom of Doguland, or the little princess he calls. What he wants...is everything."

"Not a person, not a family, not a country. What he wants is all the useful dead things in the world, all living lives. He wants to be the master of everything, to realize a...no one knows the madness

Ambition.”

Paladin could not understand Baisa's logic and asked angrily: "What does Kino want to do and what does it have to do with you?!"

"Of course it does matter, because we are the price!" Baisa looked at the corpses of the rebels scattered all over the mountains and fields around him, and said with great sadness, "If you think about it carefully, has Kino lost anything from Xilin Town to today?"

"Nothing! Because he is not from this world to begin with! Everything here has nothing to do with him. He has no relatives, no lovers, no destination. He doesn't even have the empathy that humans should have."

"He doesn't care how many people die. He doesn't care how many things are destroyed. The world is just a chessboard to him. If he wins, he gets what he wants. If he loses, he just starts over from the beginning."

"If this war breaks out in a normal way, whether the nobles suppress the slaves or the slaves overthrow the nobles, it will be a historical trend and law."

"But now, this war is led by an extraterrestrial visitor who does not belong to this world. He is behind the scenes instigating, instigating, and manipulating our compatriots to kill another group of compatriots!"

"From the very beginning, we made a very fatal mistake. The "Defense Against Enemy" was a mistake, the existence of Kino itself was also a mistake, and any help we gave him was a mistake."

Baisa's eyes were very bright, as if there was a blazing flame: "Didn't you just ask me why you betrayed the rebels? Now I will tell you the answer."

"I don't think the greedy nobles are superior to others, nor do I think the brutal and brutal slaves deserve sympathy. I gave the war information to Andre not for the sake of fame and title, nor to punish the slaves for killing the nobles in Twilight City."
To be continued...