Half a day later, night fell and Xiao Chen and Roger prepared to go to the banquet with Ordaz.
Before leaving, Xiao Chen sighed and said to Roger beside him: "Am I becoming more and more cruel? Now I can easily ravage a person's spirit with magic, and I can prepare to kill all the enemies at a banquet. The most important thing is that there is no ripple in my heart, as if these things should happen as a matter of course."
"Sir, I feel that you are becoming more and more like a real warrior and leader." Roger, who was always serious, actually smiled.
"Both a warrior and a leader? Are you saying that both warriors and leaders should be cruel?" Xiao Chen touched his nose, not quite understanding what Roger meant.
"Cold? This is a superficial understanding." Roger shook his head slightly. "A true warrior knows what he should do, so he is calm every time he has to make a decision. Two hundred years ago, Count Lamur, the Iron Spear of the Empire who guarded the northern border for the Purple Eagle Empire, once said: There are many kinds of me in life. You can see me as irritable, funny, timid, and arrogant. But on the battlefield, you can only see the same me—the calm me. Count Lamur fought the orcs in the northern border for fifty years, moved the front line northward a thousand kilometers, and made the orc king's court move five times. No one has ever thought that he is not a real warrior. I think you are moving closer to what he said."
Xiao Chen was stunned. "Isn't this a bit too much praise?"
Roger couldn't help laughing and said, "You think too much. I just said that it is getting closer. I didn't say how big the gap is between you and him. After all, if you jump up, you will get closer to the sun, right?"
"Roger. Why am I not happy at all even though you are praising me?"
"But in my opinion, you have grown more as a leader. You have put yourself in the right position with your people. You can make choices for their survival without hesitation and eliminate enemies for them without any obstacles. This is what makes you different from before."
"Oh, that's quite a good way of comforting me. It makes me feel so happy that all my worries just now have disappeared." Xiao Chen couldn't help but laugh.
"Whether it's a race or a country, it always needs people like this to survive, right? It's just a beautiful wish for everyone to live together in harmony and friendship. The so-called leader is someone who sacrifices the beauty in his own heart to make more people have such beauty in their hearts." Roger said seriously, "You need to think these things through, so that the improvement of your realm will not be hindered."
"I just feel a little regretful, just like when people grow up, they always feel regretful and think they have lost something very precious. Maybe it's the innocence of a child, or maybe it's something else. People are petty animals who are always worried about gains and losses. They always think that what they have lost is the best. I am no exception." Xiao Chen looked at Roger and saw that he was listening to him. "Sorry, I said some nonsense before the war."
"I understand what you mean. But you haven't changed that much. Maybe the way you do things has changed a little, but the things you want to do in your heart haven't changed much. Just like four days ago, you left some food for the village that the bandits had looted. Two days ago, you destroyed a bandit's camp. These are still things that others may not do, but you will do."
"Roger, I think you are really good. You have flattered people so well that it is so subtle and silent."
"Although I don't understand what you are saying, these are my truest thoughts."
"Ha, then let's take action and put an end to this matter once and for all."
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The place where Ordaz lived was not far from here. When they arrived at the door of the Baron's mansion, Xiao Chen released a mental detection magic.
Sure enough, the brightest spot in the whole town is in this house.
After handing over the invitation, Xiao Chen walked past the gatehouse and went straight to the main door of the Baron's Mansion. Before he knocked on the door, he said, "Let's start our war from here."
"Will you start fighting right after you open the door?" Ordaz also prepared the Fire Leaf magic. Since he had sided with the Tower of China, he might as well do it more thoroughly.
"No, we are still short of two companions." After Xiao Chen said this, magic power began to gather in two places in front of him. The magic power had almost no fluctuations, but it formed the outlines of two people, and then the image in the outline became clearer and clearer, as solid as a solid entity.
They were actually two female mages, wearing similar magic robes, one with silver hair and black robe, the other with blonde hair and white robe. Xiao Chen kept taking out equipment from his storage ring and putting them on them one by one.
The black-robed female mage held a magic wand in her hand, while the white-robed female mage wore a bracelet and a small metal rabbit appeared beside her.
"Sir, this is..." Ordaz couldn't help but speak, then realized that he shouldn't ask such a stupid question, and closed his mouth tightly again.
"These are my two friends. Don't worry about how they appear. You can call them Miss White and Miss Black. They will fight with us." Xiao Chen introduced.
"I understand, my Lord."
Xiao Chen said to Tasia and Elaina with a hint of apology, "I'm sorry, I have to drag you into the battle again. But my strength may not be enough today, and I need your help."
Tasia sneered, "This is what I should have done. If you didn't summon us out, do you expect us to pick up shells on the beach every day?"
Elena said softly, "This is the value of my survival, isn't it? Last time everything happened too quickly, and I never used the Jade Rabbit, but today I can put it to use. And I still have a lot of dark magic waiting to test its effects."
After Elaina lost her elven bloodline, she also lost her talent for natural and healing magic. Although she could still cast some healing magic of the elven race, the effect was much worse than before. However, she gained something in return. She felt the process of energy change when she came into contact with the God-Erosion Potion and actually gained the understanding of the team's dark magic. Whether it was corrosion, curse or negative energy attack, she learned it with ease.
Xiao Chen originally thought that as a former Rain and Dew priestess who healed people, she would reject this kind of magic, but unexpectedly, Elaina didn't care at all. Instead, she said that as a spirit servant, attacking is always more important than healing, because her companions in the future will have magical bodies that don't need healing. If she only knows how to heal, she will probably have to stay in the meditation space most of the time.
"Now that the guests are here, let's start by giving the host a surprise."