The snow, which had monts ago seed to blanket the entire world, was swept away in the blink of an eye by a torrential downpour of teoric fire, falling upon the Sadina City walls, buried under a blizzard.
This morning—
Su Li, having completely adjusted his mindset yesterday to accept all possible outcos of the impending war, was inford early this morning of Ophelia’s arrival.
Ophelia’s arrival was accompanied by Amikbi’s subsequent appearance, with over 100,000 soldiers, as confird by the raven.
Upon receiving this intelligence, Su Li’s first thought was, “It’s finally here.”
But sothing expected didn’t warrant much surprise.
Su Li bundled himself in his coat. While Cyril thought they would walk to the city walls, Su Li swiftly and decisively jumped onto his back.
Cyril yelled in surprise, “Don’t just suddenly jump on like that!”
“It’s fine, I can handle this height,” Su Li said, holding onto Cyril’s neck with one hand and reaching out to catch snowflakes falling onto his fingertips with the other. “I won’t fall.”
But the snowflakes, as if separated by so invisible barrier, stopped a milliter above his fingertips, without lting.
Cyril grumbled, “But you shouldn’t do that! You should at least tell beforehand.”
After saying this, Cyril, like a cannonball, sped towards the city walls carrying Su Li.
Cyril, who never stopped training, possessed not only physical strength far exceeding that of an elentalist of his level, but also parkour-like escape skills.
No matter the terrain or environnt, Cyril maintained his top speed, charging forward.
Therefore, when a large-scale attack, impossible to dodge for ordinary people, suddenly descended from the sky, Cyril’s unforeseen running speed allowed the attack to explode three ters behind him.
Su Li, at that mont, happened to look back. The hurricane caused by the explosion of solidified light elent was whipping his hair.
When the light elent and the dust from the explosion finally settled, Cyril didn’t remain in place like a cannon fodder waiting to be hit.
He continued to carry Su Li at top speed towards the city walls, continuously berating the person on his back.
“Since you anticipated this, why didn’t you stay in a safer place? Why co here…?”
“Because this way, I can buy Egbert more ti,” Su Li shouted back, though most of his voice carried to the rear.
The boy who erged from the dust and the collapsed ground paused for a mont because of these words.
But in that single mont, Cyril had already run more than ten ters.
....
Last night, with even the ninth-level monster beast forced to act as ssenger, the people on the city walls, before the raven even finished speaking, imdiately ordered the city wall guards to stand by while they returned to the small building.
Upon returning, they found Su Li, who should have been asleep by this ti, already dressed and sitting on the sofa, as if waiting for them.
“Su Li, what’s your idea?” Euphia asked imdiately, without even taking a sip of water.
Su Li, a man of directness, imdiately said, “What do you think is the likelihood of Xiao Zuo being deployed again?”
Lan Zhe frowned, pondering, “Based on the facts, Ophelia dared to command Xiao Zuo to assassinate the rcenary Alliance Guild Master before the battle, so Xiao Zuo is definitely not considered a trump card in their eyes.”
“Moreover, the recent assassination was Xiao Zuo’s first appearance. Having survived his ‘first appearance,’ it’s almost certain that he will be used as a weapon more frequently.”
“That’s exactly what I think,” Su Li nodded decisively.
“Putting myself in Ophelia’s shoes, possessing such a powerful weapon that can finally be used openly, how could she treat it as a disposable tool?”
“If I were Ophelia, I would want to deploy Xiao Zuo in every battle, because only then would it create the most oppressive psychological fear in the enemy.”
The oppression of overwhelming force would bring uncontrollable terror to Sadina City, which already feels like an isolated island.
This situation and phenonon must be avoided.
The solution wasn’t difficult; Su Li had already made up his mind.
So Su Li continued, “They have an army whose actual size we don’t know, and ‘Xiao Zuo,’ a single soldier we can’t resist. Therefore, in their view, combined with the cooperation of the Church of Light—this strength reserve ans they have the complete ability to crush Sadina City.”
“Just like no human would deliberately guard against an ant; a human wanting to kill an ant only needs to lift their foot and bring it down—it’s that simple.”
“And that’s what we’ll exploit—that simplicity.”
Su Li adjusted his alchemy armor, which remained silent despite his movents. He took a deep breath and said, “My appearance in broad daylight, without any disguise, has probably already been noticed by the enemy.”
“I don’t know what others think of wearing this, but I know that the difference between alchemy equipnt and ordinary ornants is like a chasm in your eyes. Similarly, those below the city walls can also deduce this.”
“A guy decked out in precious alchemy armor, a mobile defensive fortress, is definitely not an ordinary passerby.”
“‘Should we kill him?’ The mont that thought arises, I’m destined to be a sitting duck.”
“No matter my status in this city, if soone who’s under such tight surveillance can be easily killed by the enemy’s single soldier, wouldn’t it fully prove that all of Sadina City’s counterattacks are just futile resistance?”
While saving lives might not be particularly important to the Church or the royal family, the thought of replacing the dead with new recruits and investing resources in them ans that purely from a “cost-saving” perspective, they wouldn’t easily let their people charge to their deaths needlessly.
Therefore, Xiao Zuo coming to kill Su Li was almost certainly anticipated.
From the enemy’s perspective, Su Li was a dood man.
The value of his death was rely to make the people of Sadina City recognize their weakness early on.
But what if this person, who everyone thought would die, not only survived but also dragged the enemy commander down with him?
Wouldn’t that be interesting?
“I’ll lure Xiao Zuo out and pin him down. Then Euphia will act as soone driven mad by rage, actively attacking the army to divert attention. Finally, Eg will carry out the kidnapping.”
“The Ant’s Struggle is the na I gave to this plan.”
The forr ga planner said with a smile in his eyes.
Then he was imdiately stopped.
“No, it’s too dangerous!”
Egbert’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed. He said, “Xiao Zuo’s strength is sothing we currently cannot accurately assess. I don’t agree with this plan.”
As the Lion’s Club leader said not long ago, assassination doesn’t necessarily require absolute strength. Although without absolute strength, the rcenary Alliance Guild Master wouldn’t have been fatally wounded before anyone noticed.
Because of this, without being able to accurately judge the enemy’s strength, Egbert, who considered himself, and in fact was, the strongest among them, couldn’t believe that the others could protect Su Li in his absence.
This is especially considering the existence of the raven.
Coming ho to find that the enemy is quietly staying in their base camp and being healed by their teammates…
This was enough for Egbert to conclude that his companions were unreliable.
Expecting them to protect Su Li?
Egbert would rather the plan not be implented.
“Then let’s ask it from a different angle.”
Su Li sat upright on the sofa, his posture unusually sharp.
“Do you think I would stand idly by if this city were destroyed?”
Silence.
Endless silence.
While the focus of this almost rent-free small building and everyone present might have always been on Su Li, this city, filled with mories, was definitely not a place to be abandoned.
“Besides, you yourselves said that this equipnt on can withstand Xiao Zuo for three minutes.”
“In three minutes, can’t Egbert capture Ophelia?”
“Or, without this equipnt, do you all lack the ability to protect ?”
The silence was finally broken by the raven’s emotionless “Caw.”
“You seem to have completely ignored my existence.”
The jet-black raven instantly transford into a human form.
Dark elent manifested as a loose, pure black robe. Su Li instinctively covered his eyes. After Euphia reminded him that the raven had put on normal clothing that could obscure vision, Su Li, who couldn’t see or directly perceive elents, opened his eyes.
But he couldn’t stop his imagination.
“If you study light elent, you should be able to obscure vision, creating the illusion of invisibility and transparency. But if soone with that ability appeared in front of … it would be interesting.”
Egbert sneered, “From now on, I guarantee that no light elentalist other than myself will be allowed near you.”
Su Li: ...
The raven’s voice was hoarse, “Don’t ignore .”
“No matter how strong Xiao Zuo is, as long as I’m here, I will never allow anyone to harm Su Li.”
Egbert: ........................tsk.
Su Li cooperated, adding, “If the plan goes as expected, Eg can ask to do anything afterward. Of course, nothing that violates my principles.”
Euphia: “Including petting his dog head?”
Su Li: “..................Including.”
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