Chapter 14 Who Are the Shepherds?

"Three thousand gold coins for a partner? This is certainly not a bad thing! Can you use 3,000 gold coins in exchange for becoming a puppet yourself? So who wants to do this loss-making thing? Augustus sneered.

Augustus' knightly mentor, Gulliglan, once commented on Augustus as a coward in thick armor. Augustus did not deny this, he was indeed a coward. Three Iron Oak Medals, containing untold blood and miracles. Some of them, in the eyes of ordinary people, can definitely be regarded as typical actions of Augustus's crazy events: such as the raid on Sark City, such as the incident in Belic City, where Augustus led a cavalry of less than 100 men to face the fierce 5,000-strong dreadnought legion of the Demacian Empire, and finally forced the dreadnought legion back, and so on.

These almost impossible miraculous events, which only a madman is willing to do in the eyes of ordinary people, have already gone through tens of thousands of times of reasoning, analysis, and deconstruction in Augustus's mind, and finally determined the probability of success, and Augustus decided whether he was willing to be a madman in the eyes of everyone to carry out a desperate crazy verification.

Augustus, who has a serious realist pessimism, never believed in miracles and the like, he only believed in the information in his hands, the information in his control, and through the information in his hands, the information was then thought through the brain, and finally decided how to choose the next step.

Details are devils, and Augustus, who has a serious control of details, is the closest to the devil, so Augustus can survive three years of holy wars, seven or eight battles that are almost certain to be killed, and finally received his three Iron Oak Medals, although two of them are still stored in General Burnham Darkwell. And one of them had no hope of getting it back because of an incident.

In front of the coward, who likes to study the odds of danger if he has a choice before doing anything, the woman who sat in the iron cage and calmly asked Augustus to buy her back, faced the woman with a mysterious temperament and calmly terrifying. Augustus didn't have the confidence or ability to control that woman, and that woman didn't show her indispensable value, so Augustus decisively left in the face of danger and chance.

He didn't want to be a puppet in the hands of that woman.

Augustus then joined up with the Sain and Alista Minotaurs who had come out of the Colosseum. The three of them walked around the Finn Slave Exchange, and finally used all the remaining 6,700 scattered gold coins to buy twenty knights with mid-rank strength and two maids who were still outstanding in appearance and had some martial arts skills.

General Burnham Darkwell waved his hand at the Imperial Treasury to get back the 8,000 scattered gold coins, and the Fern Slave Exchange and his party were directly used by Augustus to only 500 scattered gold coins.

Among these knights who were enslaved for various reasons, the most expensive was not Don Quixwell, who could step into the high-level knighthood with only one step, but Alista, a minotaur who was only in the middle of the middle. One Asta directly cost Augustus eight hundred gold coins. It's a lot of money.

Although Augustus was heartbroken and scattered the gold coins like flowing water, he was not a pity. If a Minotaur who is born a warrior grows up, the profit in it is more than just a few times. Although Alista is no more than a mid-level knight, his true strength is enough to trample on Don Quixwell, who is only one step away from stepping into the ranks of high-level knights.

"Berserk", a talent that only a few orcs such as minotaurs and werewolves possess, is the mystery of why the Minotaurs tore apart a powerful army of light knights alive in that era when the orcs and humans were in conflict.

There was one more thing that Amused Augustus.

Among the twenty median knights, including Don Quixwell, five were actually Demacian knights who became slaves for various reasons because of the holy war launched by Noxus, and two of them turned out to be knights who were taken captive and became slaves because Augustus indirectly led Sain and other knights to break into the Dawning Legion alone.

Looking at the two knights of the Knights of the Dawn who had made no secret of their hostility towards him, Augustus smiled slightly, disapproving, and did not have any intention of making a move.

Theon, who carefully examined the slaves brought by Augustus, also discovered this shocking information, which made him a little uneasy when he was about to rush to Sak City, and looked at the two knights in front of him with undisguised murderous intent in his eyes.

The ghost knows if this group of knights, who are extremely hostile to Noxus, will choose to betray at some critical moment. Slaves betraying their masters are not uncommon in the Valoran continent.

Eventually, Sein expressed his concern to Augustus when he left the Fin Slave Exchange, and whispered to Augustus that he kill the two knights who had belonged to the Knights of the Dawn.

Augustus smiled faintly and glanced at the knights behind him who had been weakened by slave life. He said softly: "The nature of the jungle is also the nature dominated by the strong!" What is the fastest way to become stronger? The only way to push the limits is to push the limits. The teacher who taught me knightly skills had spent four years of practice conveying to me an important message that nothing that pushes the limits can be heavier than death. In the face of death, human beings with ease and inferiority will truly burst out of their potential. ”

As he spoke, Augustus' eyes swept sharply over the group of downtrodden knights in front of him. Sneered: "I already knew one thing when I bought them with a mountain of scattered gold coins: maybe they stepped on my corpse to the top, maybe I took a step further and became an existence that they could only look up to but could not touch." There are only two possibilities. ”

"Squeeze your own potential with death!" Augustus couldn't have made it clearer. Sain looked at Augustus, who was sharp at this moment, in a daze. The choice remained silent. Sain looked stupid but not stupid, when he and Augustus came to the imperial capital, Augustus had gone alone to meet with General Burnham, who held the power of Noxus, and perhaps because of General Burnham's arrangement, Augustus, who had always been cautious, had to make such a masochistic arrangement, which could even be called suicidal.

Sein guessed right, but only half of it. He had guessed correctly the reason for Augustus's unusual initiative, which he had always liked to face in the face of impending danger in a solid castle, but he did not know that the situation he had guessed was not the worst that Augustus had faced, and the conversation between Augustus and Burnham Darkwell was far more thrilling than Sain had imagined.

A sentence from Burnham in St. Peter's Castle at that time can be used to tell the scale of the conversation at that time. Burnham said: "I was going to give you ten years to develop, but now I can only give you three years!" In three years' time, if you're still a pawn in my Burnham Darkwell's hands, then discard it! ”

Augustus smiled slightly, and immediately glanced at the group of knights who were carefully looking at him, and finally turned his eyes to Alista, looked at Alista condescendingly, and said coldly: "As long as you can come out of the Colosseum, then I will appoint you as their commander, as for whether you can conquer your men, it depends on your own ability." ”

Since leaving his hometown and falling to the Valoran Continent, the burly body of the minotaur Alista, who has been subjected to white-eyed contempt and other treatments, trembled violently, and a pair of eyes twice as large as ordinary people bulged slightly forward in the eye sockets, and the originally godless eyes suddenly burst out with two unusually bright lights.

Alista, who had changed into a new suit, did not speak, but her raised head couldn't help but bow down.

Augustus, who turned back after saying this, didn't notice this scene, he didn't pay attention to Alista's thoughts, he looked up and squinted at the brilliant sun hanging in the sky, his face was calm, and he muttered in his heart: "Three years? General Burnham! Let's see who is the real shepherd between you and me. ”

"A man's success must be accompanied by looking up at the back of another strong man, but a man's greatness must first conquer a great woman!" The master who uttered this phrase, which has been circulating on the continent of Valoran for hundreds of years, faced this situation in the Ionian Imperial Capital.

In the end, the man who is now the Ionian faith was very successful in conquering the strong man he had looked up to for many years, but he did not conquer the woman who could be called great in his heart, and the man who had always been the faith of Ionia said the last words before the temporary: "I have been doing two things all my life, one is chasing the back of a strong man, and the other is to conquer a great woman!" The former symbolizes success, and the latter symbolizes greatness. Unfortunately, I can only do the first thing in my life, but I can't do the second! So I'm just a successful person, but not a great man! This is the biggest regret of my life. ”

Today, Augustus seems to be facing the same situation as the powerful man of Ionia hundreds of years ago. There was a strong man he looked up to, and a great woman who vowed to spend his life conquering.

But can Augustus accomplish both of these things in this lifetime, or only one thing, or nothing? This may be known only to God Almighty. (To be continued.) )