But the reaper put out the fire in his heart.

"You are not allowed to go anywhere during this period. You will just stay in the servant camp and practice diligently until the 'Game of the Brave' is over and the Bloodhoof army is assembled!"

Uncharacteristically, the reaper said to the rat boy with a straight face.

"But why?"

Ye Zi really couldn't understand, "Reaper, you are also a rat citizen, and you are so powerful. In the past, you have dismissed the warriors of the Bloodhoof family. Why do you have no regard for the arrival of the horned rat god this time?

Not even interested?

"Don't you want to get rid of the control of those damn clan warriors? Don't you want to serve as a pawn of the Bloodhoof clan for the rest of your life instead of fighting for your own clan and ancestors?"

"I've explained this to you many times."

The Reaper responded to the rat boy like this, "First, the rat people's resistance to their unfair fate and their belief in the horned rat god are completely different things.

"Secondly, even if you believe in the Great Horned Rat God, how do you know that if the messenger of the Great Horned Rat God really comes to Black Horn City, he will be able to save all the rat people?

"Third, even if the messenger of the Great Horned Rat God really comes to Black-Corner City and is willing and able to save a large number of rat people, he will have to pay a heavy price and face a crazy counterattack from the major families, and many people will die.

Right?

"Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt your spirit of sacrifice. It's just that waving your skinny limbs, dragging your weak body, and rushing towards the totem armor of the clan warriors like moths to the flame, this kind of sacrifice is not too big.

meaningful.

"If you firmly believe in the existence of the Great Horned Rat God and desire to change your own destiny and that of all rat people, then you should work hard to practice and become extremely powerful, so that you can play a vital role in the cause of all rat people in the near future.

Important role!”

In order to strengthen his point of view, the reaper also told Ye Zi a story.

"A long, long time ago, there was an extremely powerful and prosperous empire, well, even more glorious than the empire that now rules the Land of Holy Light.

"It's a pity that even an empire as glorious as the stars in the sky will gradually decline and perish one day.

"When the empire reached its twilight years, this once glorious empire was already riddled with many shortcomings that were difficult to recover from.

"The eunuchs in the court and the queen's brothers fought with each other, supporting and killing the little emperors who were still babbling. Natural and man-made disasters continued in the local areas. Some places were flooded, and some were droughted for years.

And almost everywhere, plague is rampant.

"Those tyrannical officers and soldiers are more terrible than floods, droughts and plagues, making the people miserable.

“Although the people at the bottom of this empire are not called ‘rat people’, they actually lead a more miserable life than rats and ants.

"Naturally, unless it is a skeleton soldier who never tires and has no consciousness, no living human being can endure living like a mouse for a long time.

"The people at the bottom of this empire, under the leadership of the gods they believed in, rose up against the decaying and declining empire, trying to find a way out of natural and man-made disasters.

"They dyed the strips of cloth yellow and wore them on their foreheads as a sign of the same hatred against the enemy. They shouted the slogan 'The black night sky has collapsed, and the golden dawn will surely come.' Like a surging wave, they headed towards the high ground of the past.

, the arrogant rulers rushed away.

"They really destroyed the foundation of the empire's rule, causing this once invincible and huge empire to collapse and completely perish soon after."

Ye Zi listened with rapt attention.

The rat boy, who grew up in a remote area with little information, had never heard that there was such a powerful and glorious empire in the world, as well as such a group of... fearless and extremely glorious heroes.

"The black night sky has collapsed, and the golden dawn is bound to come!"

What an inspiring slogan, and how suitable for shouting it out from the depths of the rat people's throats, which are hotter than a furnace!

"and after?"

Ye Zi was deeply fascinated by these "yellow turbans" who were "rats and ants" but could destroy an empire. He couldn't help but ask, "Have they found a way to survive?"

"Unfortunately, not really."

The Reaper sighed and said, "Destroying the old world is one thing, but building a new world is another. The latter is at least ten times more difficult than the former.

"Although the yellow turbans destroyed the ruling foundation of the old empire, the counterattack of the old forces also suppressed them completely. It is obvious that the fragmented old empire cannot instantly turn into a peaceful and peaceful new world, with countless strong men and powerful people.

, warlords, careerists, and executioners all feasted on the corpse of the old empire, like a group of hungry carnivorous dogs.

“When these corpse-eating dogs had filled their bellies a little and regained some strength, they immediately began to fight for each other, killing each other, trying to swallow each other with bones in their stomachs.

"This kind of battle lasted for nearly a hundred years, and the corpse dog that finally managed to steal the victory did not get much profit. The hundred years of war severely damaged its body, so that it could not resist the invasion of foreign enemies.

"When the barbarians marched in from all directions of the old empire, the people who had suffered from hundreds of years of war had no idea that they would continue to endure the darkest and bloodiest torture for hundreds of years! If we say that they had

, living like mice, and in the following hundreds of years of wolves, demons, and hell, they wanted to be mice, but they couldn't!"

"this……"

Ye Zi was keenly aware that the reaper was not just making up a story to deceive him.

Judging from the sighing expression and sad eyes of the Reaper, there was once such a splendid and glorious empire, but it fell into resistance, causing his people to endure hundreds of years of torture.

But the rat boy thought about it for a long time and felt something was wrong.

Since the Reapers have said that the ancient empire is in its final moments, and there are constant natural and man-made disasters, it is not the resistance of the "yellow turbans" that caused the empire to fall apart and fall into hell!

"Reaper, do you mean that the arrival of the Great Horned Rat God may kill everyone? In order to avoid the destruction of Turanze, all the rat people should be honest and let themselves be slaughtered like pigs and sheep?"

Ye Zi said unconvinced.

These days, he followed the reapers and learned many profound new words.

Now, he is using these new words on reapers.

"Of course I don't mean that. No matter what the consequences are, the rat people have the absolute right to rise up against all bullying and enslavement. Even if it really leads to the destruction of Turanze, all the rat people will perish together with the clan warriors. I think,

Many rat people are willing, right?"

The reaper said patiently, "Having said that, 'die together' is only a last resort choice in the worst case scenario. As long as there is a glimmer of hope, most of the rat people can survive and live better than before. We will always

We have to work tirelessly in this direction, right?"

Ye Zi thought for a while and admitted that what the reaper said made sense: "Of course, no one wants to die if they can see hope. After I seek revenge on the Bull-headed Warrior with Broken Horns, I also want to find Anjia and join her...

…Returning to the ruins of the mountain village and rebuilding our home!”

"Then, believers of the Great Horned Rat God cannot be satisfied with becoming the second 'Yellow Turban'."

The reaper said, "Especially you, Ye Zi, are so talented and have consumed so much of my hard work. I really don't want to see you become a little soldier wrapped in a yellow turban, screaming and rushing towards the officers and soldiers, and then

Just to have your head chopped off by an ambitious warlord. I have invested so much time, energy and resources in you, not just for you to squander it like this.

The rat boy was somewhat convinced by the reaper.

"Then what should I do now?" He humbly asked for advice.

"Continue to practice crazily!"

The reaper said matter-of-factly, “Always remember, no matter what you want to do, strength comes first.

"When you are weak, no matter the clan warriors or the horned rat god, everyone can treat you as an insignificant chess piece. No matter how hard you dash left and right on the blood-stained chessboard, you can't escape being controlled by others.

fate.

"And when you become more powerful than everyone else, even if, I mean even if, the legend of the Great Horned Rat God is not true, there is no such thing as the Great Horned Rat God, you can still create a Qianzhen with your own hands.

Absolutely, the horned rat god who is worshiped by countless people!

"do you understand?"

The reaper's words were still a bit profound for the rat boy.

However, two months of getting along with each other made Ye Zi firmly believe that the reaper would never lie to him.

In the next few days, Ye Zi really didn't care about what happened outside the Blood Skull Arena. He just sweated profusely in the training camp and practiced crazily until he vomited to the point of vomiting to fight against the constant turmoil of curiosity.

until today

The reaper is not here today.

In fact, the Reapers are always elusive.

Lord Ice Storm opened a small room for him next to his ace training ground.

He has been hiding in there mysteriously all day long, not knowing what he is doing.

Sometimes, when Ye Zi thought he was not there and wanted to be lazy, he would appear behind Ye Zi like a ghost and hit Ye Zi hard on the head.

But today the leaves are not afraid of being knocked on the head by the reaper.

Because the rat boy's progress was faster than the Reaper expected, he gradually adapted to the ultra-high-intensity training and actually completed the subjects set by the Reaper more than half an hour ahead of schedule.
Chapter completed!