“What?”
Levi’s words stunned everyone, and that included those who were on his side.
Everyone stared curiously at Levi.
Is he going back on his words? That’s… not right.
“You lied! You…”
Bruce roared because he knew that he was conned.
“What’s wrong with you? When have I ever promised that I’d set your brother free? All I said was that I won’t kill him,” said Levi.
“That…”
Bruce thought about it and realized that Levi was right. The latter never mentioned anything about setting Byron free.
“You despicable, shameless assh*le!” shouted Bruce angrily.
Levi grinned and added, “Awh, let me tell you something even more despicable and shameless.”
“What do you mean?”
“I am a very reasonable man. I killed those traitors because they betrayed Erudia and planned on murdering their own people. That earned them the death penalty.
“Your brother is an entirely different case. He is just a thief, so the worst punishment he’d get is decade-long imprisonment. Death was never on the table. You may have sent someone to rescue him from jail, but that sin falls onto your shoulders. It has nothing to do with him, so I never planned on killing him.”
Everything Levi shared was true, and he was infuriatingly honest.
“Urk!”
Everyone was flabbergasted.
So he had no intention of killing Byron? This is all just a setup to con me?
One con was all it took to kill off all fifty thousand men the Medical Elite had with him. The Ruling Union suffered a sizable loss as well.
The mere thought of it broke many hearts.
That assh*le!
“I have never seen anyone as calculating or as despicable as you!” insulted Bruce furiously.
The martial artists were innocent idiots when compared to a commander with sharp and diligent planning.
Anyone who knew Levi would be aware of how reckless his fighting style was.
He had always been aggressive and assaulted his enemy endlessly.
In fact, he would make it an all-out fight, even if there were only two people on the battlefield.
However, that didn’t mean that he was an idiot.
He was still a commander who would strategize and could see the bigger picture, and he would minimize casualty as much as possible.
All was fair in war.
Levi treated friends and family with sincerity and honesty, but when faced with enemies, he would do anything to eliminate them.
That was the only way to survive, and that was how things were on the battlefield!
What happened earlier was a great example.
He didn’t need to sacrifice a single soldier to kill over ten thousand of his enemy.
To top it off, he got the Ruling Union to reveal almost all of their trump cards.
That was how Levi was.
No one was happy, even though they dealt with the traitors. They knew that they would be facing the Ruling Union’s wrath soon.
Everyone stared at the army spread out in front of them.
Fighting against them is equivalent to dying…
“Fine, well, congratulations,” said Bruce sarcastically before he added, “You have successfully infuriated me and will die now!”
“Listen up, boys. You are to attack and breach the fourth defense layer within the hour and break through the fifth defense layer in three hours,” ordered Bruce.
“Attack!”
Over a hundred thousand martial artists marched forward, and their number was so overwhelming that even heaven would bow down to them.
Their combined aura was enough to make the Earth beneath their feet tremble.
Seeing that, Levi put his smile away.
He turned to his men and shouted, “This is it, boys. The battle of our lives is nigh. If we lose, Erudia will most likely fall. Our homes will be demolished, and our family will be separated and homeless. Our lands will also become someone else’s property. So I ask you this. Will you allow them to breakthrough?”
“Hell no!”
All it took was a few words to inspire everybody and get them fired up.
No one was scared anymore.
Instead, they were ready to go all out.
“It’s like they say. Only the brave will win a war!”
That was a battle where the discrepancy in strength and number was too much, but it was also a battle destined to happen.
“Attack!”
