A suppressed roar sounded in the tent of the head of the Second Legion, and this roar carried a mixture of emotions such as anger, pain, and helplessness. Like a wounded beast, struggling and howling in the shadows.
Li Ao held his head, and he curled up on the ground. Next to the leader is a piece of scorched black ground, and the ground has crystallized, which is the result of a high-temperature combustion just now. Li Ao was panting, his gray hair, at some point, started to be dyed a layer of delicate red at the root of the hair.
This layer of red seems to want to continue to go up, and rolling red streamers can be faintly seen from every strand of hair. It's just that something is suppressing them, so they don't let them dye Leo's white hair into bright red.
Leo roared and punched the ground with his fist. Immediately, dark flames overflowed from the fist, and the head of the group showed a painful expression in his eyes, with black lines passing by from time to time. If you look carefully, you will also find a figure looming in the depths of the pupil.
If you put this faint figure under a microscope, you will find that it is Gaia!
Next to Leo stood another man.
The man has reached middle age, but he is very strong. With a bald head and a short beard, the muscles on his body are twisted together like steel wires. A scimitar dotted with countless precious stones hangs on his waist, and the pattern of the cloak on his body shows the identity of the ninth regiment leader.
Frank, the commander of the 9th Regiment of the Holy Seal Knights, folded his arms and looked like he had nothing to do with himself. He said to the painful Li Ao on the ground: "Give up, why do you have to struggle with the power of the master. Accept it, feel it, embrace it, then you are like me now, and you will only feel that every cell is cheering. What pain will it be?"
"Shut up! Frank, you're just a coward who surrendered to power!" Leo raised his head, his entire face twisted.
A cold light flashed in Frank's eyes: "You are noble? But in the face of life and death, you still chose to submit. What right do you have to say about me!"
"In short, I'm different from you!" Li Ao called again, the black lines in his eyes gradually disappeared, and the streamer in his hair no longer surged. He knew that once again he suppressed the call of that power to himself, and thus remained himself.
But he didn't know how long he could last, every time he suppressed the call of strength. It will be even more irresistible the next time it appears. And the result of choosing to surrender is to become what Frank is now, a complete slave to power.
No, to be precise, to be a slave to that man named Gaia.
In that dark palace, the man with long silver hair changed them. That man gave him and Frank the power to advance to the ninth level, but this power was full of darkness and violence. Li Ao is an iron-blooded soldier, and he has a lot of lives in his hands. But this is completely different from the nature of that force, which is a completely dark force.
Death, destruction is its constant emphasis on the message. And the source of this information, in the process of resisting the call of power, Leo came into contact with another will.
That is an unimaginably large will, far above Gaia. It asks Leo to give in, and Leo keeps refusing. That will is cold and magnificent, and Leo dare not imagine that once he admits it, will he still be Leo
No, he will be a puppet of that will. That will will observe the world through his body, just like Frank.
The Frank that Leo knew has disappeared, and the present Frank is just a walking body. And the soul in that body is no longer his colleague, but something else.
At this time, the guard's voice sounded from outside the tent: "Report, Commander Yafidi is asking to see you."
Li Ao stood up, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, threw himself into the chair and said, "Let him in."
The tent was opened, and the handsome Yafidi walked in. Intentionally or unintentionally, he glanced at the scorched area next to Leo, nodded to Frank, and then said to Leo: "Teacher, are you in good health?"
Like Lambonis, Leo is also called a teacher by the young legion leaders in the Holy Seal Knights. Li Ao knew that he could never hide his situation from the sensitive Yafidi, but he couldn't reveal anything to Yafidi. Once Yafidi knew that there was a demon hidden in Sauron's palace, the Pope's Hall would have to collapse first before the Sea Gods attacked the city of Rome.
The Pope's Hall could acquiesce in Sauron's rebellion that year, and his rebellion now seems to be in the interests of many people. But the most important point is that Sauron was also from the Knights after all.
Gaia is different. That enigmatic man is definitely not from Rome, or even from the Western Continent. Letting such a person come to power is not what some big shots like.
"I'm fine, thank you for your concern." Li Ao waved his hand, sat up straight and asked, "What's the matter with you?"
"Yes, teacher." Yafidi nodded and said, "As for the suppression of the rebellious party in Canon Fortress this time, after careful deliberation, I have thought of several countermeasures. I would like to propose it to listen to the opinions of the teacher and Captain Frank."
At the end of Li Ao's words, Frank laughed and said, "Captain Yafidi, what are you thinking? Do you mean that the situation where we gather 25,000 troops and a large number of tanks and mechas?" Under the circumstances, what strategy still needs to be carefully played with the enemy?"
Yafidi Jun blushed, with anger in his eyes, but he still said calmly: "What does Captain Frank mean?"
Frank stretched out his hand and said, "Under the absolute advantage of our army, flat push is fine!"
"But as far as we know, there is a group of high-level ability users in the enemy army."
"But we have people!" Frank proudly said: "Seniors are also human beings, and if they are human, they will get tired. I don't believe that they can survive under the fatigue bombing of our army!"
Yafidi's face changed slightly, and he said: "What does Commander Frank mean, that we use the lives of ordinary soldiers to kill the opponent's high-ranking soldiers?"
"Why not?"
"As a commander, doesn't Commander Frank feel that human lives are necessary to win a war? Is it the tragedy of a commander?"
Frank sneered and said: "Captain Yafidi, you also know that this is war. There will be sacrifices in war. I don't think there is anything wrong with taking human lives to pile up the opponent's high-ranking officials. You must understand that an ordinary Soldiers can be recruited as long as they are recruited. Those with potential abilities, especially high-ranking ones, are so easy to appear. If a thousand soldiers can pile up one high-ranking soldier to death, then I think this is completely done.”
"Even if their role is only to consume high-level energy, the value of these soldiers has also been most intuitively reflected!"
Yafidi's lips parted slightly, and finally swallowed the word "crazy" back into his stomach.
Li Ao waved his hand and said, "That's enough, don't argue anymore. I have my own concerns about the suppression."
"Report!" The voice of the guard outside the camp rang again: "The 4th patrol team came to report, they found the eyes and ears of the enemy outside the camp area, and the patrol team has now gone to hunt them down."
"Understood." Leo said casually.
"It seems that some bugs have come to us, that's good. Just to relieve my boredom." Frank went down with a smirk on his face.
Yafidi wanted to say something else, but Leo shook his head and said, "I'm very tired, you can go down first."
Since he said so, Yafidi couldn't say anything, so he could only turn around and leave with a low sigh.
In a jungle not far from the Knights' camp, a figure quickly shuttled through the woods. His trajectory is very changeable, and his speed is fast and slow, making people unpredictable. As night fell, he hid behind a big tree. The man reached out and pulled on the trunk, and a large piece of bark was taken off, which was actually hollow inside. He dodged in immediately, and carefully put the previous bark back in its original position.
In the dark tree hole, only the man's long breathing sounded. After a while, there was a sound of footsteps outside, followed by voices.
"Why is it missing?"
"Did it run away?"
"Shouldn't run far, hurry up!"
After staying like this for ten minutes, it was confirmed that there was no one outside, and the man came out of the tree hole. He breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a sneer, "Want to catch you, Uncle Hanoke? You are still young."
Hanok, a member of the Trident, a sixth-level ability user.
After Zero entered Mesa City, he arranged for some Trident members to scatter to serve as secret sentries near the Bloodstained Road to monitor the situation on the Bloodstained Road. The area Hanock was responsible for happened to be nearby. After discovering that the Knights' army was haunting the road, Hanock secretly observed the Knights' camp. From the size of the barracks and the number of military tents, the number of soldiers can be roughly estimated.
In addition, he also recorded information such as chariots and mechs. It was just that when he was leaving, he was discovered by the patrol team of the Knights. But Hanok himself is an ability user, it is really not easy for ordinary soldiers to catch him. Moreover, during the period of sentry in this area, Hanock meticulously remodeled several hiding places, such as the tree hole where he is hiding now is one of them.
The arrival of night provided Hanok with the best cover. He sneaked into the depths of the woods quietly, and at last came to a cave. The cave was covered with piles of rocks and branches, and Harnok turned them over and went into the cave. After a while, he got out again, with an extra instrument in his hand.
This is a communication device, and the information can be quickly transmitted back to Canon Fortress by using the transit nodes distributed near the Bloody Road. After sending the information, Hanok breathed a sigh of relief. After all this, he was hungry. Thinking of the delicious canned meat hidden in the cave, Hanok felt even hungrier.
He walked towards the cave, and before he could get in, he heard someone whispering from behind: "Since you have sent all the information back, now, you can rest assured and die!"