Stannis tapped his helmet again, and the Dark Armor retracted again.

"How?" Stannis asked defiantly, with this armor, he could kill both the smiling man in front of him and the demon in the town.

Kovo didn't look as frightened as Kimberly, he just said calmly: "You are indeed much stronger than I thought, but it is clear that you have overlooked an important issue. ”

Stannis chuckled in his heart, he knew that what the other party said was not wrong.

"That is, under the suppression barrier of demons, no matter how much power is hidden in your body, you can't release it. ”

The lord sat down in his chair in a daze, and the other party's words made him lose hope for a moment, he knew that without the dragon's roar and the dark armor, he was just an ordinary human who was a little more powerful.

"That's why I've always said that young people nowadays don't pay attention to the tempering of their fists and feet, and they always want to rely on the power of the outside world to become stronger overnight, and this idea is wrong from the beginning. ”

Kimberly echoed him sarcastically, "That's the only way to become stronger, as long as you have nothing to do when you were young, splitting rocks with your hands is the only way to become stronger." ”

Stannis raised his head sharply and said to Corvo, "Since you are so powerful, if you join forces with me to kill them, you will definitely be able to destroy the pumpkin!"

But unexpectedly, the smiling man shook his head firmly, "This is impossible. ”

"Why!" cried Stannis, "don't you want to save this town?

Surprisingly, Corvo still refused: "Yes, I have never cared about the life and death of this town, it is because of Kimberly's repeated begging that I came to save you, don't be mistaken, otherwise why have I never faced those demons head-on?"

His words made Stannis completely stunned, yes, from beginning to end, Kimberly said what kind of savior he was, if Corvo really wanted to save people, there could not be only so few survivors here.

But Stannis can't control so much, Anya is in danger, he must use all means to save her, "I am a lord! As a civilian, you must obey my orders!"

But Corvo was unconcerned about his threat, "I'm sorry, Your Excellency, do you think what you said in this extralegal land still has any effect?"

"Then how much do you want, what kind of official position, land, house, I can even give you my own castle!" Stannis sent to kneel for the other party, for the sake of Anya he no longer cared about any dignity.

However, Corvo still refused to let go, "Your Excellency, I will make it clear to you here. Even if I wanted to help you, it was still impossible for the two of me to do it, as Hayley said, that pumpkin was as hard as steel, and it couldn't be destroyed by the current means, not to mention that the town was full of demons, and we couldn't break through at all, so I don't want to let my death be meaningless, please understand. ”

With that, he walked out, and Kimberly gave the lord an embarrassed look, and walked out of the room as well, leaving Stannis alone in the middle of the room.

After a long time, he raised his head and looked at Evelyn who was sleeping deep on the bed, and now there was a seriously injured Yoyo in front of him, and next door lay an Anya who was about to die, this plot was very familiar, and he could also feel the despair of being a male protagonist.

Sasha...... Please tell me, what am I going to do?" he muttered to himself, expecting the woman's soul in his body to help him once again.

Outside, Kimberly catches up with Covo, who is ahead of him.

"Is this really good, old friend?" he asked, with some reluctance, even if he thought that Corvo was too ruthless.

"If he has to back down even this little difficulty, it means that he is not the person we are waiting for, and he will not be able to complete this mission, so why should I waste time on him?"

Kimberly couldn't refute Corvo's theory, so he had to persuade his old friend from another angle, "But we don't have time! You know that monster can burst out of its shell at any time, and we can't watch them destroy Oaktown." Since that man is willing to take the risk, we should let him try it, do you still doubt the prestige of the dragon terrorist?"

But Corvo still shook his head insistently, "Courage and force alone will not do, this path must be chosen by him voluntarily, because what he will endure next is far more than the suffering in front of him." ”

Kimberly no longer argues with him, and if there's anything he's learned from forty years with Covo, it's this guy's unusually stubbornness.

Although the smiling man always has a 'smile' on his face, those who know him well know that he never smiles. Kovo had these two scars on his mouth at a very young age, rumored to have been left on his face by his drunken drunken father with red-hot iron tongs, while the bastard man also beat his wife to death in front of his children, and since that day, Kovo has never laughed again.

His miserable appearance makes people stay away just by looking at it, and after losing his parents, he has become a wandering orphan who is made fun of by the children in the town, and at the same time, in such an indifferent town, the adults do not hide their spurning for him, so Corvo has to rely on theft and robbery to survive since he was a child, no one knows how much he suffered growing up, and as his only friend in the town, Kimberley, can also feel that Corvo is always full of hatred for the world.

When Corvo turned 18 years old, he was as attracted to a girl as all boys, but like all unfortunate people, the love ended in tragedy.

In order to escape the troubles of his hometown, Corvo took the initiative to join the army, and it happened that Garcia, who had just entered the Duchy of Tanis, needed to form a baseless army, recruiting all orphans whose parents died, with this mind and body honed since childhood, Corvo was appointed as the captain of the detachment as soon as he entered the army, coupled with his ruthless and cruel efficiency towards the enemy, he quickly stood out from a group of outlaws, everyone knew that this smiling man had an almost hateful hostility towards humans, but no one dared to ask him why.

With this, Garcia would have chosen him to be the first commander of his most elite unit, Black Watch, when he was only twenty-five years old.

Under his rule, these black-armoured killing machines performed their dirtiest deeds, slaughtering families who dared to rebel against Garcia, and now some of the older nobles shudder when they hear the name 'Smiling Man'.

But one day fifteen years ago, the Black Watch Commander Corvo, who Duke Garcia regarded as his right-hand man, suddenly disappeared without leaving a word, making it the second largest disappearance of the year after the previous duke's only son.

Kimberly, who had just succeeded his father as the mayor of Oak County, was surprised to find that his old friend, whom he had not spoken to for more than ten years, suddenly appeared at his bedside and begged him not to tell anyone about his return.

Later, the magistrate helped him build a wooden house deep in the deserted forest, and the name of the smiling man disappeared from the land completely.

Until the arrival of Stannis.