There were eight people when Xiao Chen and his group entered the Arena. When they came out, only four people were able to stand. Marcus died, Metatron, Cynthia was seriously injured, and Stuart was asleep. The remaining Gabriel and Weber were also injured, and only Xiao Chen and Ye Zi were relatively intact.
However, when they reappeared at the location where Ye Zi opened the space, they found that the surrounding scene had changed drastically. They looked down at the ground from the air and found that it was no longer a situation of confrontation between the two armies. It turned out that Huang Zheng's assault team had already broken through the opponent's defense line. The enemies on the left, middle and right had all been repelled.
Now even Chang Yujie's regiment has followed the assault team and pushed the front line to the middle of Heimu Pass, engaging in street fighting with the enemy's rear troops.
The artillery regiment and the second regiment led by Wang Jiyuan had also begun to enter the pass. They began to re-erect artillery positions inside the pass, preparing to attack the enemy's troops inside the pass.
Looking up at the sky, the battle for air supremacy over Heimuguan has ended. Lorenzo, Gordon, and Dining are escorting a large number of captured imperial wizards down from the sky.
Xiao Chen and several others landed near Wang Jiyuan's new command post with the wounded and prisoners. Someone immediately ran up to treat the wounded and took the prisoners away.
"Metatron is so seriously injured, is he in danger?" Wang Jiyuan said.
"When we came out of the Arena, the arena had already absorbed the power of the dead Duke Stuart and treated the injuries of Mei and Master Gabriel. Although Mei's wounds look scary, she is no longer in danger of life." Ye Zi said.
Xiao Chen said: "After all, the four enemies are all genuine masters. If we hadn't taken the initiative and hadn't had the advantage of the field, causing two of them to surrender, I'm afraid we would have suffered even greater losses."
"But it seems it's worth it. No matter what, we have already surpassed the opponent in high-end power." Wang Jiyuan said.
Xiao Chen said: "I hope so."
At this time, the officer in charge of escorting the prisoners came running to report: "Chairman Xiao, the prisoner named Weber has something to say to you! He said this is a very important matter, please be sure to listen to him."
Xiao Chen said to Wang Jiyuan: "Let's go and listen to what else he has to say."
Duke Weber was a little depressed now. After all, his hand was almost cut off by Gabriel, and his body was hit by Marcus' positive energy. If he didn't have positive energy blood and a strong resistance to positive energy, he would probably have fallen down like Cynthia.
However, when he saw Xiao Chen coming, he forced himself to cheer up.
"Is there anything you need to tell me?" Xiao Chen asked.
"Sir Xiao Chen, I want to write a letter. Please find a way to give it to my son Gram." Duke Weber said, covering his arm. "If possible, I want to write it now."
"Give him paper and pen." Xiao Chen said.
Duke Weber took the paper and pen, and began to write furiously with his relatively intact arm. However, Duke Weber wrote very slowly, and seemed to be thinking about something while writing. It took him a full ten minutes to finish the letter, which was no longer than one page. He then handed it to Xiao Chen and said, "Mr. Xiao Chen, please have a look."
Xiao Chen took the letter and read it. The content was ordinary. It simply described the Duke's experience and asked the other party to prepare money to redeem him according to the normal conditions for nobles captured in war. However, the words seemed a bit cumbersome and used some relatively uncommon words.
"What does this mean?" Xiao Chen asked. He believed that Duke Weber would not specially ask him to read such a letter full of nonsense.
The Duke first read out a string of numbers, "Please select the words in each line in the order of the numbers and then read the letter."
"Hmm? According to the secret letter, you actually asked your two sons and their families to come to us?"
He handed the letter to Wang Jiyuan, and Wang Jiyuan also stared at Duke Weber with wide eyes.
Xiao Chen asked: "Are you serious?"
"Of course I am serious. This is a choice I offer to my son. I believe that as long as this letter reaches him, he should give the right answer."
Xiao Chen asked: "Why do you think your son would make such a choice?"
"When I fell from the air just now, I saw the battle situation of various troops on the ground. Gram led the army to retreat slowly at a very normal speed. However, there is a big problem here. Let's not talk about how he performed in this war and what the emperor would think. At least this slow behavior shows his attitude. He no longer obeys the emperor's orders and doesn't want to participate in the battle of the Tower of China at all." Duke Weber said.
"Even if what you said is true, it doesn't mean that he is really willing to give up his position in the empire and join us." Xiao Chen said.
"Gram and Franco are both my sons. No one knows them better than me. Although Gram is a man of few words, he is very capable of taking action. And although Franco is the older brother, he is willing to listen to his younger brother's opinions."
Xiao Chen said, "But as for your family, you should have a large number of people and a great foundation, right? There are many things that cannot leave the empire. When it comes to joining us, your family may not have the same opinion, right? It may not be easy for Franco and Gram to get everyone to join us in such an environment."
"Mr. Xiao Chen, you misunderstood. I didn't ask the entire family to come over. I just asked my two sons to make this choice. As for the others, it doesn't matter what they choose. For the blood nobles, where the purest blood is, that's where the family's foundation is.
Therefore, as long as my two sons come here, the Bright Lion Family will actually belong to the Tower of China.
Just like the Kingdom’s unicorn bloodline, it originally came from the Empire, and even now there are still branches of it on our side, but since the purest bloodline is on the Kingdom’s side, everyone thinks that unicorns belong to the Kingdom’s bloodline.”
Xiao Chen said: "I didn't expect you to make such a decision."
Duke Weber said: "Through this war, I have seen a lot of things. From the aspects of organization, weapons, technology, and the training of masters, it can be seen that although your strength is not as good as the Empire now, it will not take too long for the gap between the Empire and you to be gradually narrowed. I can even imagine that in the near future, the Empire will not be your opponent. So I think I made a wise choice."
(To be continued)