When Tang En and Elsa returned to Gunther's side, Gunther had basically recovered, and his injuries were almost healed.
The stronger a Seer was, the weaker the effect of the Goddess' Blood would be. However, Tang En had prepared a high concentration of it for Elsa and the others, so the effect was still very good.
"Your Majesty."
Gunther knelt on one knee in front of Tang En and said with an ashamed expression, "This subordinate did not succeed in killing Stanley. Please punish me."
Tang En waved his hand and said, "It's fine. I also met him just now. His power is a bit strange. Describe to me what happened when you fought him."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
So, Gunther retold everything that happened in the domain to Twain without missing a single word. After listening to Gunther's description, Twain frowned. "In other words, Stanley made a deal with the demon? He obtained the special power of the Kamala Bloodthirsty Demon? "
"Yes, he revealed it himself. But his power is obviously not complete, so he can't kill me directly. He needs to injure me first to obtain my blood."
Gunther smiled bitterly. "I didn't expect him to have such a method. I was almost killed by him."
"I understand. You go rest first."
Tang En let Gunther rest while he stood there in a daze.
Stanley actually made a deal with a demon just to obtain power? Or is there a deeper reason behind this? Is this a test of the surface world by the demons? Do they want to return to the surface?
After pondering for a moment, Tang En's gaze fell on the most conspicuous castle in Bloody Rock City.
It seems that it is necessary to investigate there.
Elsa could not bear to see those people die meaninglessly like this, so she whispered, "Your Majesty, we don't know whether Stanley is dead or alive. This war should be over, right?"
"Yes …"
Tang En looked at the battlefield and muttered to himself, "These people died for nothing …"
It was not that Twain was cold and heartless, but his mission forced him to measure the value of these lives. Now that these Grays had died here, they did not contribute anything to Prandal. It was obviously a worthless death and exhaustion.
Even if these people were treated as slaves, sent to the mines as laborers, trained to be workers on the assembly line, or even farmers, it would be more meaningful than dying on the battlefield.
But now, these strong laborers who should have been useful had all died here.
What a waste, what a waste.
In fact, there was no difference whether this' war 'stopped or not.
The powerful lethality of the magically modified weapons had completely destroyed the 500,000-strong army that Stanley had gathered. Now, there were probably less than 10% of them left. These people were obviously frightened by such a cheap death. The soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit were frantically running away. Sacrificing for King Stanley, sacrificing everything for the future of Gras, became insignificant under the threat of their lives.
Under Tang En's command, the earth-shattering sound of artillery fire gradually subsided. The soldiers of the Irus Empire formed groups with tanks as the core and slowly advanced towards Bloody Rock City. Not long after, they arrived at the center of the battlefield filled with smoke.
Looking at the broken limbs on the ground, the excited Ilrus soldiers gradually calmed down, and one by one, they couldn't help but tremble.
These were all lives that had died under their control. They did not even see the faces of these people clearly. They only moved their fingers …
Killing had never been as simple as it was now.
It was also because of this that they felt incomparable fear. If these weapons fell into the hands of others, would they be the ones to die here?
War, why was there a war?
The soldiers, especially the new recruits who did not have much combat experience, suddenly began to hate war like never before.
War was the root of all evil. There was no such thing as victory or defeat. Both sides of a war were losers.
On the battlefield, a soldier resisted the urge to vomit and muttered to himself, "This war should not have been fought …"
A veteran soldier snappily said, "Don't be silly. When Solant returned to the Irus Empire, this war with Gris was already destined to happen."
"But this is too cruel …"
"Cruel? When the Gris people massacred the Sila Duchy, were they cruel? "
"But the ones who massacred the Sila Duchy were not necessarily these people. They were innocent. Perhaps some of them were moderates who did not want war. The truly cruel ones were the radical Gris people …"
"In war, no one is innocent. When these so-called moderates enjoyed the fame, wealth, and status brought to them by the radical Gris people, they were already the same kind of people. They did not oppose the war, but tacitly agreed to it. They are also sinners."
The veteran soldier paused for a moment and pointed at a corpse on the ground. "He may have a wife and a child. As you said, he may be a moderate who wanted to live a peaceful life. But now, he has fallen on the battlefield. Why do you think this happened?"
"Because of what?"
"Although the main reason is Stanley, but, is there no reason for him to not have his own reasons?"
The veteran soldier asked the new recruit. "Every Gris person knows that they are enjoying everything that the Gris soldiers pillaging and burning outside. But they just silently accept it all and take it for granted. No one stood up to question whether the soldiers were in the wrong. No one stood up to reprimand their actions. No one spoke up for the innocent people who died."
"When the Sila people protested against the Gris people's cruel actions, they turned a blind eye."
"This kind of tacit acceptance is the biggest sin. When they don't care about the lives and thoughts of others, why should others care about their thoughts?"
"When the Gris people were surrounded by the flames of war, when Stanley, who they worshipped, asked them to stand up, they might not have been willing to do so. But in the end, they had no choice but to stand up. This was the price they had to pay … Although this price came a little late, at least the innocent souls of Sila and Ivalan can rest in peace."
The new recruit was silent. He felt terrible.
The veteran soldier patted his shoulder and said earnestly, "Take it easy. This is war … Someone has to die. If the enemy doesn't die, then we die. Only the victors have the right to live."
The new recruit couldn't help but question, "But why is there war? Why can't everyone sit together peacefully and share this world together? "
The veteran soldier laughed. "You haven't studied, have you? Once upon a time, humans were a unified country. All humans were one family. The only empire was the Irus Empire. "
The new recruit was stunned. He really didn't know about this.
"And the three kingdoms of Solant, Lonitant, and Gris, as well as those duchies, all took advantage of the second war of Chaos to break away from the Irus Empire after the Irus Empire fell into a weakened state."
The veteran soldier said sarcastically, "So strictly speaking, these countries are all traitors of the Irus Empire. Now, they are paying the price for their ancestors' ambitions."
"Traitors …?"
"Yes. Moreover, isn't the Tang En Majesty working hard to achieve this goal now? Solant has already returned. Although Lonitant hasn't changed much, with its military strength, it is impossible for it to resist the general trend. Sooner or later, these countries will return and become a complete country. "
The veteran soldier said straightforwardly, "You should be glad that now we have the Tang En Majesty. That's why we have to recover the Gris Kingdom, instead of waiting for Gris to come knocking on our door and turn Alinx into a dead city."
"So that's how it is …"
"That's how it is. Fighting with the Tang En Majesty is the greatest honor in your life. You must remember this."
The veteran soldier pointed at the heavy armored tank beside him. "Do you see that? What else on the battlefield can give you a sense of security like that? But it was created by the Tang En Majesty! "
"The Tang En Majesty gave us the Blood of the Goddess and powerful weapons and equipment. He hoped that we would become powerful and invincible. But he was never a warmonger, never!"
The veteran soldier said firmly, "If the Tang En Majesty wanted to conquer the world through force, he could have done it long ago. But he didn't do that. He just made our lives better step by step, made the Irus Empire stronger, and attracted those people to take the initiative to return to the Irus Empire."
"Now, even the Ronitans, who used to be the richest people in the world, are always envious when they talk about the Irus. How could such a thing happen in the past? And the reason why we can feel proud to be Irus is because of the Tang En Majesty, isn't it? Have you ever seen a more benevolent and greater Majesty than him? "
"No …"
"So, believe in the Tang En Majesty. He would never attack the Kingdom of Gris for no reason. This war shows that the mistakes made by this country can no longer be forgiven so easily. They must pay the price with their lives."
After the veteran soldier finished speaking, he patted the recruit's shoulder and continued to patrol the battlefield.
The recruit silently pondered the veteran's words in his heart. His chaotic and complicated thoughts slowly became clear, and his tangled and heavy thoughts were finally cleared. He looked at the corpses on the battlefield and could finally face them calmly.
The sin of killing? If this slaughter can make this world a better place, then let us bear this sin.
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