"This..." Ryan seemed very hesitant about Ghalib's strange request. Out of respect for the teacher, Ryan knew that he should unconditionally agree to his only request, but Catherine was Ryan's most powerful enemy at present. Ryan had absolutely no confidence in defeating this opponent, so how could he deceive himself into agreeing to Ghalib's demands that he simply couldn't meet
Ghalib obviously knew that his request was too weird. Seeing the embarrassment on Ryan's face, he sighed and said, "Okay, I know my request is a bit unreasonable, so just Pretend I didn’t say it, well, if you have time, why not listen to me tell a story.”
Ryan was secretly amused. In his heart, Ghalib had always been an independent person with a strong personality. He didn't expect that he would show such contradictory feelings in front of him now. Obviously, his heart had been broken for some reason. It was a mess, which also aroused Ryan's interest. He was looking forward to Ghalib's story even more.
"Well, I used to wander around the continent, wandering around and taking risks. For me, this is probably a pretty good way to pass the time." Ryan quietly listened to Ghalib telling his past events. This was also the first time he heard Ghalib talk about his past.
"In fact, there is almost nothing particularly exciting for me to do in this continent. No matter how difficult the task I receive is, for a legendary strongman, it is not a piece of cake. This kind of thing already knows the outcome before it starts. The adventure is basically just to pass the time.”
"It's easy for me to get bored in such days, so sometimes I will find a place to live in seclusion for a period of time. This is also the reason why I am in Nongwu Town. In fact, if it weren't for the simple folk customs of Nongwu Town, I would I wouldn’t have stayed there for so long if I couldn’t feel the intrigue between people and the hypocrisy of smiling in front of others and stabbing them in the back.”
"Ryan, you just said to Alan that you want to be a senior. In fact, this sentence is not correct, because you are not my first student, so the title of senior is not your turn." Ghalib said this, There was a slight smile on his face: "Actually, this is not the first time I have come here. About a few hundred years ago, I also lived here for a short period of time, and during that time, I collected my first a student."
"Ryan, maybe you would never have imagined that your appearance, expression, and words when you originally wanted to learn martial arts from me were exactly the same as my first student. The only difference here is probably that your origins are different. Hehe, you guys The two subsequent choices were almost the same, you chose magic, and he chose the path of power."
When Ryan heard this, his head buzzed. He suddenly remembered something, so he asked Ghalib in a trembling voice: "That person, is his name..."
"Yes, he is Andrew, the later king of Alexander's Third Empire, the guy who almost unified the entire continent but disappeared inexplicably in his later years." Ghalib said calmly: "I know you have seen him before, but I I always thought it was just a coincidence, but when I saw Catherine, I suddenly realized that she should be related to me, because she looks so much like the same person."
"Well, I seem to have digressed. Well, let's continue talking about Andrew." Ghalib patted his head and fell into endless memories: "I still clearly remember that little guy. When he was 7 or 8 years old, this was his fiefdom, and he was not the eldest son. Unless all the heirs to the throne in front of him died, his father's throne would not be his turn. Therefore, Andrew was extremely naughty. They play and play all day long, but for the king, the heir to the throne, and the ministers of the country, such princes are the most ideal, because they have no ambitions and no threats."
"Although I don't want to admit the so-called fate, I have to agree with the term luck. I live in seclusion in the mountains and forests near Cassano, and Andrew lives on the mountain of Iron Fist Castle. It was impossible for us to meet, but Andrew A whimsical idea made him come to my secluded place to hunt. When I saw him for the first time, he was followed by a level 4 spotted black panther."
"This level of monsters is as no threat to me as the velvet rabbit, but it's different for a 7 or 8-year-old child, especially when the child is alone. Although I don't care about secular affairs, , but you can’t just ignore it, not to mention I was very curious at the time, because I didn’t see any expression of panic on Andrew’s face, all I found was indifference.”
"Afterwards, I asked him if he was scared when he was separated from the guards and fled alone. Andrew told me very plainly that he had been surrounded by countless people with ulterior motives since he was born. The spotted black panther on the top of his head Eat more of his body and flesh, and those guys with ulterior motives will not even spare his soul, which is why Andrew looks like a playboy."
"Ryan, do you know how shocked I was at that time? A 3-year-old child already understood his situation, and when he came to his own fiefdom at the age of 5, he tried his best to disguise himself. Even an old man who has experienced many vicissitudes of life may not be able to do this."
"Perhaps because I saved him, Andrew's attitude towards me is unusually respectful, but I also understand in my heart that this is probably because I have no plans for him. Maybe there are other uses for him. Sure enough, , Andrew asked me for martial arts advice, hoping to learn how to protect himself, and I agreed."
"When Andrew rode back to the Iron Fist Castle on his own, others thought he had escaped danger, but they didn't know that I existed. In order to cover up my existence, Andrew got several women from somewhere. , placed her in the castle, and brought all kinds of outrageous tools over every night, making others think that he was obsessed with the woman's plump body again, but they didn't know that he was actually looking for me who was hiding there. Learn martial arts.”
"About two years later, Andrew's martial arts skills were enough to defeat any guard around him, but on the surface he was still the same dandy as before. Once, the horse was even frightened, and Andrew deliberately fell to the ground heavily. And he lay in bed for several months on the pretext of being injured."
"After recovering from that 'injury', Andrew used the excuse that the guards around him were incompetent, fired many people, and then replaced the positions of these guards with orphans he adopted. These orphans were only a few years older than Andrew. , all lost everything due to various reasons. If Andrew hadn't adopted them, these people would have died long ago. Hehe, if Andrew hadn't told me personally, it would be really hard for me to imagine that he had learned to cultivate cronies at a young age."
"In the next two years, Andrew simply built a large residence somewhere outside the Iron Fist Castle, and stuffed all the beautiful women he had collected from all over the continent into it. From the outside, This ten-year-old prince is getting more and more desolate, but Andrew stayed there all day long and besides continuing to learn martial arts from me, he also began to teach the guards around him in a planned way."
"Ah, after such a long time, won't any news leak out?" Ryan was quite curious. After all, what Andrew did was really surprising. He couldn't help but ask Ghalib: "Those guards, the women who live there, and other servants and cooks who may have access to this secret... It is incredible that they are all loyal to a ten-year-old child."
"Of course it's impossible, but dead people don't leak secrets, and those high-level magicians who can restrain souls naturally won't come to question a down-and-out prince who only has a small fiefdom." Ghalib smiled slightly, but his face was full of confusion. He showed a cruel expression: "You don't think that those women are really just here to enjoy themselves. In fact, they are Andrew's tools for training guards, and they are very useful."
"What is the name of that female thief under you?" When Ghalib said this, he suddenly asked Ryan,
"Sophie." Ryan didn't understand why Ghalib asked this, but the most powerful thief under him, and also a woman, was the former shadow killer Sophie, so he said the name,
"Actually, her name doesn't matter at all. I just want to tell you that if you have time, you can talk to her about the past, and you will understand how those killer organizations train cold-blooded killers. Although Andrew's method is better than It's much worse than those big killer organizations, but the nature is still very similar."
"The servants there are replaced every few months, and then they will quickly disappear from people's sight. As for the guards who received training, as long as they fail to meet the training requirements or have the slightest deviation, even the bodies will not be found immediately. Under this high level of pressure, the women who go in usually turn into corpses in less than half a year. Their corpses are also covered with traces of abuse. This is caused by the guards trained by Andrew in order to vent their violence. Yes, so do you still think that someone will leak the secret?"
"This, this is too cruel." Ryan stared at Ghalib dumbfounded, and the latter shook his head at him and replied: "You have no consciousness of being a superior at all. You have to know that anyone holding People with great power must achieve one word, and that is 'tolerance'. They must learn to tolerate when their strength is insufficient, and learn to be cruel to their enemies. The only consequence of not being able to do so is to become a stepping stone for others, but not every lord They all have the strength of a legendary magician, Ryan."