Chapter 43: The Price of Victory

"......" Lisanna was silent for a moment, and then the girl raised her head and stared at Nidhogg without flinching, "I don't know what he did, but I know that he was seriously injured in order to repel the tide of death, and I also know that the most unforgivable person is the one who created the tide of death!"

"Do you really think so?" Nidhogg didn't care about Lisanna's rebuttal, he stood up and leaned forward with his hands on the table, "Do you really think that little bastard did a good thing?"

"Yes, he held back the tide of death!" Lisana replied with a nod of her head.

"......" Nidhogg was silent for a moment and said, "Then I'll tell you, that little bastard, he sacrificed all the warriors who fought in Costa Fortress in order to repel the tide of corpses!"

"They all died heroically! they all died voluntarily!" Lisanna stood up.

"I admit their bravery!" Nidhogg admitted, but he continued, "Yes, they all died of their own volition. But what about them, they may not have given their souls voluntarily! And that little bastard sacrificed all their souls to resist the tide of death!"

"What did you say?!" the other three present looked shocked.

"Surprised?" Nidhogg sneered, he waved his hand to summon a curtain of light and continued: "Alexander has long known that Costa Fortress cannot be held by warriors alone, so before the war began, Alexander entered the Order of Tomorrow to pray for the oracle of the sun god. And the sun god did give him a plan. That is to use the souls of all the war dead as an energy source, transform their heroic soul power into the purest divine energy, and play the Sun God Priest's one-hit killing trick - Reckoning!"

"......" Mel, Annelot, and Lishana were all silent, they all knew that this magic was a powerful move, but in order to release this magic spell, the priests had to sacrifice their own life force. And the liquidation released with the souls of more than 10,000 warriors as a source of power is indeed powerful enough to destroy all the necromancers in Costa Canyon. It's just that...... The souls of these more than 10,000 warriors, who are the source of strength, will be completely wiped out because of this.

And the result of soul annihilation is not only that this soul will completely turn into nothingness, and completely lose the possibility of reincarnation. What's more, people whose souls have been wiped out will be completely erased by fate, and the consequence is that people will gradually forget everything about these people, their names, looks, stories, etc., and in the end, those people will be as if they never appeared in the world.

And Alexander, he chose to defend the fortress of Costa at the cost of completely negating more than 10,000 warriors. But...... After all, they were more than 10,000 soldiers who died heroically for the empire! They also had their own families, their own friends, and their own feelings, and in the face of disaster, they resolutely chose to sacrifice for the empire. And now, people don't remember their sacrifices and are often grateful, and people who are alive can't even remember their existence. Isn't it too unfair to those who died generously?

The light curtain was played as Alexander and the priest of the Order of Tomorrow were deliberating. These pious followers of Perro received an oracle and proposed to Alexander a plan to defend the fortress of Costa by liquidating this divine art. To everyone's surprise, Alexander agreed with almost no hesitation when he heard the offer.

"If sacrificing more than 10,000 people can save the remaining lives on the mainland, I'd be happy. Alexander replied in the light curtain.

"Can you still say he's doing the right thing?" asked Nidhogg with a sneer.

Seeing Alexander's performance like this, Lisanna's face turned a little pale. She was silent for a moment, but finally strengthened her conviction: "Yes, he was right. He can't save everyone, so even if he sacrifices some people, even if this part of the people is treated extremely unfairly, as long as he can save more people, his choice is right!"

"So have you considered the feelings of that minority, or if you were one of these minority, you, no, you, what would you think?" Niedhogg asked sharply, glancing at everyone.

"......" Everyone present was silent.

"Sacrificing a small number of people for the interests of the majority may seem like a very simple logic of trade-offs, but the real problem is never so simple, because everyone's ideas are different. And this so-called sacrifice of yours is nothing more than despicable standing among the superior groups of power and forcing the poor and vulnerable groups to pay unconditionally!" Niederhogg suddenly turned his head to look at Mel: "And I, on the other hand, hate this dirty method!"

"Don't think that Alexander didn't sacrifice and didn't pay! he rushed to the front, and he almost died! he will always carry such a heavy fate, and be tortured for it! he also sacrificed a lot!" argued Lisanna.

"I don't care how much he paid, I just want to know what he would do if he had the chance to face the more than 10,000 soldiers who died in battle?" Nidhogg asked lightly.

"He'll be sorry. Lishana whispered.

"Yes, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, what about after it's over? He's still the prince of the empire, and the fate of more than 10,000 people hasn't changed. ”

"Don't put all the blame on Alexander. Annelot took a step forward and said, "You are the cause of all this, and you are the one who really bears these evils." ”

"......" Nidhogg looked at Annelot and said meaningfully, "I hope that one day, when Alexander will apologize to you, you will accept his apology." ”

"......" Annelot didn't say anything more, just gave Nidhogg a strange look.

"Alright, dinner is over, and that's the end of the discussion. Nidhogg took a step forward, and the surging magic spread over the few people present. He glanced at the three of them and said, "I know what you're here for, let's get started!"

The first to react was Lisanna, and as the only warrior of the three, she had to rush in front of the two mages to buy them enough time to cast spells. The wind and phantom in the girl's hand weaved a gorgeous and deadly sword aura, and they formed an impenetrable net and flew towards Nidhogg.

Lishana let out a violent gasp, the move just now was the most lethal sword skill she could unleash so far, and the extremely high speed of the sword swing even caused wisps of white smoke to rise from the friction on the leather armor on her body.

Nidhogg's expression was indifferent, his dark pupils lit up with two bits of dark blue light, and a force field shield was generated, and Lisana's sword qi hit the shield with a sharp sound, but no matter how terrifying these sword qi were, the light of the shield in front of Nidhogg did not weaken in the slightest.

"You're a nice girl. Nidhogg raised his hand and shook it forward, and the next second, he suddenly teleported to Lisanna, and the hand he raised just now pinched Lisanna's neck very precisely: "But you chose the wrong man." ”

Bite!

Nidhogg threw his head back as if he had been shot in the head, and he staggered, but he didn't let Lisanna go.

"Let her go!" Anne Lot said coldly, her ice knife shot at Nidhogg's forehead at an extremely tricky angle, if it weren't for Nidhogg's quick reaction, it would have at least injured the legendary mage just now.

"Rest assured, she won't die. Niederhogg looked at Anne Lot with interest, and he smiled and asked, "Is that instruction given to you still working?"

"Instructions, it's you!" Anne Lott instantly recalled the experience she had repeatedly highlighted in her backup memory, when she and Regnar attacked Ocean Tide City, and on the way back, they encountered a strange legendary mage. It turns out that the mage is Nidhogg!

"That's right, we haven't seen each other in a long time. ”

"Let her go!" Annelot's eyes flashed, a precursor to her opening up the Frost Body and the Extreme Cold Realm.

"Suppression. Nidhogg spat out the word in a flat tone, and then Annelot was surprised to find that the frost elements in the original space that could be mobilized at will were silent.

As soon as Nidhogg's hand was forced, Lisanna fell into a coma due to prolonged suffocation. He casually threw Lishana to the ground, and then said, "I have to admit that you are very talented, but your cultivation time is still too short. ”