"... Zelos inherited the throne? He became the Emperor of the Empire?" Zhu Jia murmured in disbelief.
"Yeah, otherwise? After all, he is the only one left in your family. But why do you only pay attention to this? Obviously your second brother betrayed you and killed your father, but you only pay attention to Zelos becoming the emperor things, okay?"
"Yes, sorry..."
Only then did Zhu Jia come to his senses, and lowered his head unwillingly, "... Indeed, I am not reconciled to losing to Zelos. I always thought that if I were given the same opportunity, I would do better than him. In fact, I also complained Despite my father's eccentricity, although he seems to love me the most, in fact he will always care about Zelos the most... "
"Liking this kind of relationship is not the same as responsibility. Your father wants to give you the best and let you live a relaxed and worry-free life, but Zelos shoulders the heavy responsibility of the entire empire. You haven't figured it out yourself. , I must compete with your elder brother."
"..."
What do you know? Zhu Jia almost couldn't help blurting out, but he calmed down quickly. He has completely failed now, and has turned into this kind of monster, controlled by monsters, he will never return to the empire, and he will no longer be the third prince who is expected by the people of the empire...
In the end, Zhu Jia sighed and said with endless regret, "The winner is the king, I lost, there is nothing to say, that fellow Noyce paid the price for what he did, and the father's soul should return to the martyr of the Wang family Tomb. Every king will return there and continue to guard the empire from generation to generation. But I am still not reconciled. Although my body has become like this, if I can still meet Zelos, I still will not give up being with him Compete!"
"... Let's go, chivalry that will never admit defeat."
Lu Ya refused to comment on this, pointing to the pile of materials and said, "Hurry up and start working, if you do a good job, I can consider pleading for you and let the necromancer retain your own consciousness .”
"… is that true?"
Zhu Jia didn't expect that Luya would take the initiative to propose such a suggestion, he couldn't believe it, and looked up at her in surprise.
Why? Obviously her core is pinched by her, so what's the benefit of lying to him
"Why are you helping me?"
He asked with a very complicated mood, but the reason Luya gave him was: "In order to let you understand, even if you reincarnated as a death knight, you will still not be a match for Zelos. Since you are not convinced, then just go Try it, Zelos is never afraid of challenges, he will defeat you openly, and fight until you are convinced."
"..."
Zhu Jia fell silent, and he looked at Luya with complicated eyes, "...what is your relationship with that guy? Why do you defend him like this? And you haven't answered me yet, what is the reason why Gudis is so tolerant to you? What is it?"
"As I said before, I am a friend of Zelos." Luya said, bending her lips, "I didn't deliberately defend him, I just said what I think is right. Compared with you two brothers, although he It seems unreasonable, but it has a lot of responsibility. When you plotted against your elder brother, Noyce, for power, only Zelos chose to fight those forces to the end, because he never gave up , even in the most difficult moment, he never let go of his dignity and begged for mercy from others!"
Luya knew that Zhu Jia was jealous of Zelos, so she told him a series of things that happened after Zelos turned into a dog and returned to the empire. Including the plan of the gods, even Zhu Jia's death was calculated.
"The person you should hate should never be Zeros, but your greedy second brother and the gods who use you as tools."
Lu Ya got the truth out of her words, and she didn't know if he could figure it out, anyway, she told him everything she had to say.
And Zhu Jia clenched his fists, bowed his head without saying a word, his body trembled slightly, and he seemed very shaken.
Maybe all he wanted was to get Zelos to look at him differently, and to get that man's approval.
In the following time, Zhu Jia was very quiet, and he obediently completed the tasks that Luya told him. Give the sorted documents to Lu Ya for inspection, and after confirming that there is no problem, Lu Ya directly binds them.
Luya took a look at the historical documents and found that before the reappearance of the demon eye in the world, the demons lived a very low-key life. Not far from the Great Plains of Zehara, there is a mine rich in ruby, which has been occupied by the empire. They expelled the dwarves in order to extract resources. At that time, Duinbrook had always been an underground city. It reappeared after the beginning of the Dark Ages. It was built by dwarves craftsmen and goblins together, and developed into a paradise for monsters today.
Gudis, as the owner of the city, doesn't seem to be doing his job all the time... Luya also discovered some confidential documents, such as the defense war with the empire, the monster army asked for his help, he only appeared in the battle with the empire Two times, one was to destroy the empire's borders, and the other was to defeat the empire's counterattack.
The rest of his battle records are all battles in Grandi Continent, where he killed five favored ones in total. One of them was a favored person who was possessed by Darius, the god of light. In that battle, the Demon Eye Sect did not give him support, but retreated secretly, risking to push Gudis into a trap. But in the end, Gudis still destroyed the favored person who was possessed by Darius, and also inflicted heavy damage on Darius, spiritually.
... No wonder Gutis and the Magic Eye Order are not on the right track. Luya can also understand the reason why he hates the God of Light who has resurrected the demon eye of the world so much. Gudis is not the type who is willing to be used when the interests are the same.
And the human ranch of the pig people seems to be the proposal of those vampires. Before the establishment of the human ranch, they will capture humans and raise them in captivity, turning humans into their living blood bags.
It is worth mentioning that the vampires here are different from the works she has seen in the human imagination of them in the past. They also like pure girls and deceive them to take them away and give them first embrace and eternal life. . But the reality is that they just completely treat humans as food, they don't have a beating heart, and they will never fall in love with humans. They will only use sweet words to deceive those girls with longings, make them happy, keep the sweetness of blood, and voluntarily become the blood bags of vampires. Until the day they are sucked dry to death, they will not realize that they have been deceived.
After the beginning of the Dark Ages, the vampires realized that they could no longer waste so much energy on deceiving innocent girls. Now their resources are inexhaustible, as long as humans are kept in captivity, they can always have carnival.
So the vampires united with other carnivorous orcs, brainwashed them, and instigated the same kind of pigs who had been enslaved by humans to become breeders and managers. Everything went so smoothly. After multiple races jointly submitted a request for the establishment of a human ranch, Gudis signed it because of the strong will of the demons.
So the human ranch seems to be operated and managed by the pig race, but the real boss behind it is a blood race named Julius. He is the ancestor and a shrewd businessman. He never transforms food. Those who are transformed into vampires by him are those capable and powerful human warriors, and their buttocks are crooked. They are those who want to join the demons but are valuable themselves. people.
... From this point of view, Gudis is a blame man.
Looking at these documents, Luya felt that she really misunderstood Gutis a little bit. Originally, she and all humans thought that the human ranch was Gudis's idea, but the real boss hid behind his back and enjoyed the fisherman's profit. Gudis himself doesn't seem to eat people, he lied to Luya when he said that he likes strong flavors, such as human offal. The tree spirit steward said that he feeds on the soul, and it seems that he does not need to eat all the time. Those monsters killed by him will be devoured by him, so even the demons are afraid of him.
"Well… "
Lu Ya couldn't help but fell into deep thought. She beckoned Zhu Jia who was working, pointed to the material in her hand and asked, "Did you see this?"
"I see, it means that the human ranch is not Gudis's idea."
Zhu Jia seemed to think of something unpleasant, frowned and said, "The human ranch has always claimed to be the property of Gutis's subordinates. At the beginning, the empire was afraid of his power, and in order to avoid a direct conflict with Gutis, they would deliberately avoid going through it. In the area where the ranch is located, although I have led the soldiers to destroy the ranch, I have always been in fear, lest the demon grand lord will suddenly appear and destroy us. If we had known this earlier, we would have gone to blow up the ranch."
"I have an idea."
Luya brainstormed, staring at Zhu Jia whose body had completely turned into a death knight, and said, "Do you want to become more successful than your brother?"
"... It's this time, what are you talking about, even if I make more achievements, what's the point... Wait."
Zhu Jia suddenly realized that he was a smart man and knew what Luya wanted to say. He couldn't help widening his black eyes, looked at her tentatively and said, "You don't mean to..."
Lu Ya didn't answer Zhu Jia, she bent her lips and said, "I heard that Julius is also in Duinbrook, see if you want to."