Chapter Eighty-Six: The Stone and the Cogears
"A true strategist will even calculate his own death, and use his death to create maximum benefits. β
The dove let go of his hand, and the unsupported Nightmare collapsed in a pool of blood, his body pierced by countless arrows, his eyes wide as if he were trying to repel this mortal end. The dove's arms had turned blue-purple, and the toxins in the Nightmare Seal were converging with the blood towards his heart.
He slumped to the ground, letting his pants be soaked in nightmare blood.
"You who follow Prince Dima and are immersed in the slaughter will never understand this...... Nightmare!"
The poisonous blood attacked the heart, and the dove suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood. The soldiers on the eaves hurriedly jumped down and came to his side anxiously.
"Lady Hado, are you alright?"
"Escort Hato-sama to a safe place!"
The dove slapped away the hands of the soldiers and ordered: "The mission is over, go to the royal city immediately and assist Judith and others in attacking the city!"
"But, Lord Dove!"
"Leave me alone!" the dove stopped everyone: "Everything is in my plan, do you think I don't have the antidote ready?I'm just suffering from heat stroke now, I'll catch up with you in a whileββ it's an order!"
The soldier glanced at the dove again hesitantly, and then turned around and ran towards the royal city in the distance.
Hado-sama's plan has never been missed, so this time it won't be ...... With this in mind, they quickened their pace, and after a while, more than a dozen soldiers disappeared around the corner of the alley. These people are all subordinates who follow him, and they are also the last elite in the hands of His Majesty.
The messy footsteps faded away, and the dove's vision became more and more blurred.
There is no antidote, his subordinates should know in their hearts, the so-called antidote is just a statement that can make each other feel at ease, as for whether he can keep up with the team in the end, it doesn't matter anymore. Dove's gaze moved beyond the motionless corpse of the nightmare, and finally rested on the pile of rubble that had formed after the house had been broken.
In the immediate aftermath of the Hundred Years' War, the royal capital was a small loose but humane city, but that changed when Dima returned. In Dima's eyes, there is no concept of people, all his subordinates are a small cog that makes up the steel city and the iron-blooded army, and the others are no different from the stones on the side of the street.
Objectively speaking, under the rule of Prince Dima, the eastern part has indeed become unprecedentedly powerful, surpassing the central part in one fell swoop, and in terms of military strength alone, it has become the second military power after the imperial capital.
This is the blueprint that the old king once had in his heart, he once thought that only a commander with an iron will, not swayed by any children's personal feelings, and absolutely cold-blooded, could forge the most invincible army, so from the moment Dima was born, he worked hard to train Dima to be such a successor.
And when he really succeeds, what he gets is not joy, but fear.
When the prison-like steel city was built, the disadvantages of being covered up by the old king were revealed to him one after another.
The dove witnessed Dima's upbringing, so he felt that His Majesty had to pay a great responsibility for the reason why Dima became what she is today.
When he threw Dima, who had just learned swordsmanship, into a forest infested with monsters, when he sent Dima to a prison full of felons, and when he sent Dima, who had just read a few books of war, to the cruel battlefield, today's end was already doomed. The current Prince Dima is just imitating the treatment that was once imposed on him.
It must have been the venom that made him a little confused.
The dove smiled self-deprecatingly, he actually sat here alone and counted all kinds of things that His Majesty had done, and if this was spread, I am afraid that he would be charged with disloyalty and injustice again.
"Look, there's someone over there!"
"Come and have a look!"
"It's a dove!"
"Kill him, traitor!"
The alleys resounded with the shouts of the guards of the Steel City. The doves that the guards were quickly seated against the wall surrounded them, but for a moment no one dared to come forward. The corpse of the Nightmare was not far in front of him, and the sight of blood dripping it undoubtedly deepened the fear in their hearts. The fear of every guard is deep-seated, and Dima inflicts his brutality on those around him, and the people around him perpetuate this brutality, and they maintain the rule of the east in this strange way.
Subordinates have no loyalty to their superiors, only fear.
However, in this reincarnation, there is only one person who is an exception.
"What are you still stunned about?" the dove grinned suddenly, and the guards shuddered with his purple face and blood-stained shirt. At first, they just didn't dare to step forward, but now under the dove's gaze, they couldn't even hold their swords steadily.
"What exactly should I do when you encounter an enemy on the battlefield - do I want to teach you? If Prince Dima finds out, you will all be punished!"
Thinking of Prince Dima's horrific punishment, several guards walked towards the dove.
It's just that they no longer shout about traitors and the like.
"Offended, Lord Dove!" the guard raised his sword high and aimed it at Dove's neck.
I can finally rest for a while.
The dove slowly closed his eyes, and the guard gritted his teeth and swung his sword down.
"Stop!"
The next moment, the silver light flashed, and the falling sword broke in two, and everyone saw the comer, and they all took a step back: "Zero...... Zero adults!"
The little girl who was carried behind Zero jumped down, she shook around a few times in a daze, and ordered the house with a missing corner in the circle: "I, Angel, order you to stop as a princess!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she crouched on the ground with her stomach in her hands and retched as if no one was around.
Even on the night of the fugitive, she was not carried around the house, her heart pounding, and the slightest increase in her voice immediately intensified her nausea. Angel retched for a while before she could barely stand up, feeling dizzy and feeling much better, and she finally realized that she was shouting in the wrong direction, so she turned her head and said with a red face: "Put down the weapon in your hand, I am here to calm this dispute." β
The guards were full of black lines, they didn't take Princess Angel seriously at all, and what really scared them was Zero, who didn't say a word. At this time, they looked at the dove as if asking for help, and the latter raised his hand helplessly and said, "Run, you will not be able to pay for your lives by doing it with this woman." β
The guards dispersed.
When the people who had lost their armor ran away, the dove looked up at Zero: "Really, I thought I could finally rest for a while." β
"You have no power to breathe until your wisdom is drained. Zero stared at him coldly and threw the pill in his hand in front of him: "Although it can't be deciphered, at least it can hold you up for a while." β
"What a vicious woman. The dove put the pill in his mouth and commented.
Zero-for-tat: "This is the price to save me." β