A full moon crept out from behind the dark clouds at some point, the stars sank into the darkness, the white moonlight gently sprinkled from the sky to the earth, and the darkness beside the fire was expelled by this omnipresent silver light, making the world in front of Leo gradually become clearer. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Here—isn't that the pit?" Leo, who was finally able to see his surroundings clearly, suddenly realized that although he was knocked unconscious by Anthony's bodyguard, Ada, he had never left this place from the beginning.

However, understanding this did not help him in any way, but made his heart half cold again. If you are in a clearing in the middle of the forest, you may be able to find an opportunity to use the complex terrain in the dense forest to block the sight of Anthony and the others and wait for an opportunity to escape from the darkness.

But since he was located in this large circular pit with a diameter of 100 meters, there was nothing in the pit that blocked his vision, there was a moon on his head that illuminated the ground clearly, and there was a fourth-level mid-level cultivator behind him, and he was just a magic apprentice who was not even a first-level cultivator, how could he escape?

Leo couldn't help but reach out again and touch the lump on his cheek, and rubbed his temples with the trend. My face doesn't hurt anymore, but I have a headache.

Anthony's tone had always been the standard aristocratic tone—flat and unhurried, but now his voice suddenly rose several octaves: "To hell with that bullshit oath of guardianship and the glory of a golden lion that is worthless in copper!" By the Holy Radiance of the Supreme God of Light, there is nothing more stupid than these things! ”

Anthony stood up suddenly, his originally chic and handsome face suddenly became distorted, and the moonlight plated his face with a layer of silver white, as if wearing an extremely ugly mask, looking like a desperate ghost, which made Leo's heart couldn't help but be slightly shocked: "This guy is going crazy again?" No, you have to protect my face this time. Leo put his hands in front of him and took a defensive stance.

Anthony stood up suddenly, "Whew! Leo couldn't help but widen his eyes as he heard a cracking sound in the night sky, not because he had been insulted, but because the sight in front of him was something he didn't expect.

"See?" Anthony, whose neckline was almost completely open, exposed his chest, but unlike the chest of an ordinary aristocratic child, which was so white that it could even rival the chest of a beautiful woman, Anthony's body was covered with large and small scars, as if it had been torn by dozens of hungry wolves with their claws, and as if he had been whipped hundreds of times by an iron whip, Leo stared at the deepest scars and couldn't help but take a deep breath - he couldn't even imagine how Anthony had survived such an injury.

"Scary, isn't it?" Anthony laughed to himself and said, "I think even if I get the most despicable beggar from the side of the road and strip me naked, I probably won't find anything uglier than these scars on my body." And this is the great family of the empire that is comparable to the royal family, the source of my noble bloodline, and the plan prepared by the great Lion family for us, the orthodox golden lion heirs, the 'precious memory' brought to me by the Lion King Project. ”

"The Lion King Project?" Leo couldn't help but ask, at this moment, the curiosity in the hearts of the magic apprentices even overpowered the idea of survival - not only women gossip, men may not have any interest in the romantic history, but they are also eager to hear about how a great family like the Lean family cultivates a family heir.

Leo stared at Anthony's scar and imagined what it would be like if he were injured like this, but his thoughts didn't even take more than two seconds before he stopped - because if the scar he saw in those two seconds alone was on Leo himself, he would already be dead.

"That's right, Project Lion." Anthony repeated it in a very resentful tone, he tried his best to suppress his heaving chest, and after a few heavy breaths, he calmed down a little, and continued: "Most of the fiefdoms of the three counties of our Li'an family are located on the Aidares grassland in the northwest of the empire, and the golden-maned lion is the king of the grassland, and it is also the banner and totem of our Li'an family. ”

"Golden-maned lions have always survived in small groups on the grassland, generally speaking, there are about a few to a dozen lions in a community, the male lion in the community - that is, the lion king of the community is responsible for hunting, the female lion is responsible for watching and caring for the cubs in the community, and the semi-large golden-maned lion in the community has been out of the cub stage but has not yet fully reached adulthood, both male and female must follow the lion king to hunt together.

At the end of the hunt, the lion king will distribute food according to the performance of these half-large lions in the hunt, a hunt without the slightest contribution to a half-large golden-maned lion means a day of hunger, if this behavior continues, the lion king will not give food to the half-lion because it has its own blood, but will only let the half-large lion die of hunger - because this lion king has too much blood. ”

Leo wasn't stupid, and of course he could hear the metaphor in Anthony's words, so he looked at Anthony in surprise as he was talking: "What do you mean—"

"That's right, of course, the lion king is the current Duke of Lean, and these half-sized lions are heirs like me." Anthony's expression slowly became calmer, and bitterness crept up on his face: "But that's not the most terrible thing, the most terrible point is that if this half-sized lion is really hungry and unbearable, then it actually has one last way that is also tacitly approved by the colony and the lion king, a bloody and cruel way - to snatch food from the mouth of a half-big lion like himself."

You may ask me, a lion who does not contribute in the hunt cannot outperform a lion who contributes in force in any case, right? That's true, but don't forget, although the Lean family is known as the Golden Lion Family, every member of the Lion family is a living human being, and humans are the most intelligent creatures in the world, so-"

Anthony's face at the moment was extremely calm, without any expression, his eyes looked into the distance with some hollowness, as if he was muttering to himself: "It doesn't matter if you can't beat it, you can frame it and poison it to assassinate you." ”