Chapter 2: Leadership and the Consciousness of Sacrifice

"Really, it hasn't come back yet......"

Hao sent a total of several teams, these teams were similar to the team he led, directly entering the surrounding alliance ruins to search for refugees, some teams were guarding the Longyan Desert, and building and garrisoning the semi-permanent fortresses inside the Longyan Desert, and some small teams were scouting the surrounding area.

After the arrival of the eternal night, most of them have returned to the forbidden land, but there are still a few small troops and a large army that have no news, not to mention the small troops, generally by one or two first- and second-order transcendent leaders, used for surrounding reconnaissance, but the number of troops is very large, and the one that has lost the news is the army led by the demigod magician Edward Knowrd.

Now that the outside world is already in the eternal night, there are dangers everywhere, not to mention a demigod, even the spiritual position is not safe, Hao personally estimates that only the holy position may be able to shelter a large number of people in this eternal night, and a demigod is impossible to protect so many people, and even himself may be in danger, in this case, how can Hao not worry.

Not just the people of the army, the transcendents who accompanied them, or Edward Nolde himself, but the hearts of the entire Forbidden Land, and so on.

Now the people in the forbidden land, basically through the return of the personnel to know the situation of the outside world, the advent of the eternal night catastrophe can not be hidden, the whole forbidden land can be described as panicked, even if Hao has returned, but the people in these forbidden places are still uneasy to the limit, especially those who have relatives or acquaintances to join the army, and it happens to be the people who have not returned, they have been lining up in front of the magic tower since early in the morning, all looking at the magic tower, eager for Hao to come out and give them an answer, no matter when these people return, or the forbidden land is absolutely safe, or the anomaly of the outside world is just some kind of strategic weapon, or racial warfare, has nothing to do with the eternal night, etc., they hope to be appeased.

But Hao is deeply aware of the difference between the regime and the leader, the so-called regime is the ruling order and class, can be regarded as a huge collective with the crowd as the force, for the collective ruling class and the ruled class, order and stability is its first purpose, so lies and concealment, control and harmony are necessary, otherwise it will be unstable, and more people will be harmed.

But the leader is different, if it is a mortal leader, as long as it is the first or second generation that establishes this regime, it is above the regime, and it can even kill anyone other than him, and then the leader of the third generation will gradually fall into the political system, of course, there are also cases where the regime is overthrown by foreign enemies, and thus fails, not to mention, but the demon leader is different, one is extremely long-lived, the other is the power itself, not all of them come by gathering the crowd, in this case, as long as the leader dies suddenly, or the heir becomes mediocre, then basically its position is unshakable, and even the eternal leader situation, then the leader can rule the regime for eternity, as is the case with the Holy Throne and their spiritual religion.

The reason why Hao wants to contain so many people into the forbidden land and shelter so many refugees is to get the strength of their gathering, so he is the leader, not a member of the regime, in fact, it can be seen from the traces of the big lord's past, the big lord first ruled the business alliance and the marauder alliance, he actually does not manage the affairs of the alliance much, and he will not be dragged down by the alliance, whether it is to rule the nine alliances later, or to launch the nine alliances to attack the silver land, and to order the nine alliances as the foundation, used to fight with all races, he is the leader to order everything, all kinds of affairs he only looks at the results, as for the mistakes, they are all the clerks below, and the big lord is not wrong.

For ordinary people who are led, the regime is naturally much better than the leaders of the same civilization level, but Hao is not an ordinary person, he is very clear about his positioning, that is, he has the power, opens the legacy of the great lord, finds the human city, protects the human race, and at the same time finds a way to save the big lord from the low latitude, these are his positioning for himself, there are some goals that still seem delusional now, but the road has to be taken step by step, and he must prepare for everything in the future now.

And he knows how difficult it is all this, the first step, it is difficult to reveal the legacy of the Great Lord, as the mortal enemy of all the holy thrones of all the races, the existence of the name of the Great Lord alone is already taboo, for the remains of the Great Lord, I don't know how many holy positions and races have been closely monitored, and as long as Hao shows a little clue, he will immediately die without a place to be buried, those ten thousand races and holy thrones are absolutely impossible to allow the successor of the Great Lord to appear, even if it is possible to stop the war of all races for this reason.

So Hao had this realization from the first time he took over the clue of this legacy, his life was no longer his own, he had to complete all this, so he could sacrifice his only partner at that time, he could also sacrifice all the people, even if it was himself, it didn't matter, as long as he could achieve the goal of this step, as long as he could make the miserable human beings hold their heads high in this desolate continent, he was willing to erase all his compassion, he was willing to stain his hands with blood, he was willing to sacrifice everything that could be sacrificed, as long as he could achieve this goal。

At this time, too, he naturally has compassion for these people, but he can't make himself a part of the regime in this forbidden land, instead, he must become the leader of this forbidden land, and the leader is infallible.

Now he can naturally go out to the magic tower to say some comforting words, with his current prestige, he can immediately appease these people, but the outside world is really eternal night, and those who have not returned so far are really lucky, he has nothing to say, if it is just a lie, then this lie will definitely be shattered in the future, and at that time, he will be the object of resentment of these people, even if the arrival of this eternal night has nothing to do with him, even if most of those who have not returned are not his responsibility, but the people's hearts will not be so rational.

Therefore, it is impossible for Hao to bear all this, it is he who wants these people to provide him with strength, not that he becomes a public servant of these people, and he understands this order very thoroughly.

Thinking that the Great Lord attacked the Silver Land at the beginning, I don't know how many soldiers of the Nine Great Alliances died, so it can be seen that someone has accused him?

Hao's current thoughts are the same, although he has mercy, but he can't bear these responsibilities for this, this is not his responsibility, his responsibility only lies in the human race, the human city, and the legacy of the Great Lord.

For this reason, Hao has not shown up in the magic tower, since the second day after his return, there have been crowds of people gathered outside the magic tower, and then more and more people gathered, and Hao still did not show up, but issued an announcement on the third day, this announcement straightforwardly narrated what happened in the outside world, whether it was the arrival of eternal night, the destruction of the only remaining cities of the surrounding alliance, and the darkness, there was great danger in the dark, etc., all said, as for those who have not returned so far, although the announcement does not explicitly say that the murder is auspicious, but according to the narrative before and after, everyone who watches knows this。

This made the people in an uproar, and the key is that this announcement even made it straightforward that the eternal night could not affect the forbidden land at present, but as time passed, I did not dare to guarantee the absolute safety of the forbidden land.

This made the people even more panicked, so after the announcement, not only did the people not leave the magic tower, but more people gathered, their idea is very simple, if danger comes, then the closer to the magic tower, the more likely they are to enter the half-plane, so that the greater the chance of escape, they don't want to die here.

And Hao's reaction was to directly let the army disperse the people in the magic tower, and once again directly stated that it was forbidden to gather in front of the magic tower, the work that should be worked, the life that should be lived, and so on.

"Do it...... Is it okay?" Ay couldn't help but come to Hao after a while, and after seeing Hao, she asked worriedly.

And Hao was writing something in a notebook at the moment, and he replied without raising his head: "It doesn't matter, I know what they are worried about, but in this eternal night, no place is safe, no one is safe, I even suspect that the high latitudes are not safe, and the kingdom of God in the Holy Throne is not safe...... So at least for now, the forbidden land is at least safe here, since this is the case, then no matter how worried they are, no matter how much they want me to find a way to solve it, find a way to explain, I can't do it, instead of going to the blame, it is better to let go completely, continue to follow my orders, develop this forbidden land, and enhance the potential of the forbidden land, then I will continue to provide shelter, originally sheltered them, and saved them for this, so they can live in this forbidden land with peace of mind, otherwise ......"

Hao didn't continue, he shook his head slightly, and then said to Ayi: "If it's okay, go and practice more magic, although even if it's a demigod, the spirit position is an ant in this eternal night, but it's always good to have more strength." ”

Ai Yi looked at Hao seriously, looked at it for a long time, and Hao did not avoid it, looked back at Ai Yi, after a long time, Ai Yi bowed his head slightly, and said in an almost undetectable voice: "...... In the future, if there is a need for sacrifice, I will be the one who sacrifices...... What would you do?"

After speaking, Ai Yi didn't wait for Hao's answer, turned around and went to his room in the magic tower, and actually began to cultivate seriously.

Hao still sat upright in his chair, as if he hadn't heard Ae's words, and after a long time, he sighed again, and then continued to write.