Desert edge.
Desolate path.
Two horses walking side by side.
"Baxter, do you think the desert is beautiful?"
"Beautiful."
"What makes it beautiful?"
"The solitary smoke of the vast desert, and the river where the sun sets round."
"...Interesting, but isn't the desert's encroachment due to human deforestation and erosion the evil of mankind?"
Shen Ye gradually came to realization.
It seems—
This Valhado really wants me dead.
Just now, he left me surrounded by Eight-legged Life-devouring Demon Spirits and Professionals, all for this purpose.
It's understandable.
According to the Ancient Times sequence, its only weakness is "it cannot allow anyone to know it is 'evil' and intends to destroy everything."
And I am that person.
Yet it's bound by some rule, unable to kill me directly.
For example, if I comply with its demands not to use force or kill—
It can only kill the Eight-legged Life-devouring Demon Spirit.
Because the Demon Spirit is "arrogant."
