I'm a villain, not a devil

Blood dripped from the blade, and the man whose stomach was stabbed was full of confusion and horror.

The man holding the knife in front of him had the same expression on his face.

After all, the reserve is the reserve. There is a world of difference between having weapons or not. Moreover, those who left would never have thought that the people chasing behind would raise their blades against them.

"Why... why..." The man kneeling on the ground was crying and questioning his comrades.

"I... I..." The man holding the knife trembled, but didn't know how to start.

It was obviously death... Why would I be willing to raise a weapon and stab my comrades...

He trembled, and the knife in his hand shook, as if it was about to fall.

Then, a hand held his wrist.

He turned his head tremblingly and saw the man named Sean looking at him with an indescribable look.

"Sir, sir... I can't do it..." He pleaded.

But Sean just shook his head gently, and whispered: "You have proved that you are fearless and brave. Those who stay will become heroes of the entire empire - and you also deeply understand that you are willing to die because of the things you cherish... You understand that when you die, the things you cherish will be truly protected."

"But...but I don't want to kill them...I..."

Sean shook his head again: "The only use of deserters is to be a stepping stone for your glory. Go, use the ritual I taught you."

"I...I..."

Suddenly, the man's sobs were blocked in his throat, and he saw Sean looking at him with an expectant, greedy, righteous, and instigating look.

It seemed that the ground of the entire empire was shaking, as if a magma road leading to glory appeared in front of him.

The voice came from all directions.

"How can a soldier prove his loyalty to his motherland if his hands are not stained with blood?"

The soldier gasped and raised his weapon.

At the same time, the ritual murmurs sounded, and a huge number of crazy beast corpses appeared everywhere. The surging blood rushed to every person whose stomach was cut open by their comrades, and the blood they left on their bodies merged with it.

The bright, red knife was raised again, and the magma road to glory seemed to appear in front of everyone.

However, no one saw that under the magma road, there was a demon crawling out of the magma holding up the road of glory, and only the low murmurs reached everyone's ears.

"Now, you can walk towards the road of glory."

...

The imperial capital, a hundred kilometers away.

If you stand on the city wall, you can already see a dense green in the distance, like lush green mountains.

However, on the green mountains, there are aliens who are eager to kill everyone.

Wu Xiao stood on the city wall, and the generals around him looked unhappy.

"Marshal... His Majesty still hasn't made any statement... The Silent Ones are just blocking the gates of the city to prevent the residents from leaving."

Wu Xiao pinched his eyebrows and turned his head to look into the city.

The Imperial Mountain of the Imperial Capital still stands there, and at the top of the mountain there seems to be a lazy evil ghost watching everything.

And echoing the top of the Imperial Mountain is the statue of the founder built on the original site of the Gate of Dawn.

Now, the statue has basically taken shape-the pioneers who brought glory and territory to the empire stand in place, and even Wu Xiao's appearance is among them, and the statues are surrounded by a person, the one who is watching all this coldly on the Imperial Mountain.

"Your Majesty... No, Bai Wujiu, what do you want to do? Can your aging body really be saved?"

Wu Xiao retracted his gaze and stopped looking, he looked far ahead.

There, most of the Imperial Capital Army has already formed a formation.

"Marshal, they have set off..." Someone came to report.

Wu Xiao nodded, then looked at the recorder beside him, and said in a serious voice: "Write it down, all the plans for today's battle were made by Wu Xiao, the then Imperial Marshal."

The recorder didn't know why the Marshal suddenly added this sentence, but nodded again and again.

Wu Xiao emphasized again: "Record it truthfully, and no changes are allowed."

"Yes, Marshal."

Wu Xiao turned his head, and then his eyes turned cold: "Pass the order down, fight!"

...

Even though they had several times the number of troops as the enemy, the treeman army still did not act rashly.

On the crown of a huge tree, several treemen were sitting on the branches, and they all had a golden leaf hanging on their earlobes. Among them was the seed master who "robbed" Sean of part of the tree heart power.

"The imperial army retreated one after another. It seems that they are going to fight us to the death here?" A treeman said with a smile.

"It's just the last struggle before death. Fertile land belongs to the real people. These thieves are vulnerable in front of our army."

The seed master said: "It's not that simple... I got the news that the imperial army has gathered all the bombs in the armory."

Someone showed a look of realization: "So that's it... The imperial army wants to ambush us on the battlefield?"

Immediately, the other tree people showed a disdainful smile: "Naive."

The seed master also shook his head with a smile: "I originally thought that the other party would have some means, but it was just a last-ditch effort before dying - but thieves will never understand the supreme glory of the God-favored."

As he was speaking, the formation of the opposite imperial army began to move.

The seed master waved his hand: "The whole army moves forward, let the tree stumps extend their roots a little, even those dead bodies should not be spared - hey, find everything that can threaten us!"

The dense leaves shook.

Without too much words, after continuous bombardment, the tree army rushed over.

The imperial army team that originally charged maintained its formation and kept retreating, rushing up to fight every once in a while, and then retreating again.

Lord Seed smiled and said, "Someone in the Imperial Army has outstanding vision and has figured out our army's action pattern so quickly. This fight and retreat has made their artillery array play a role."

"It's useless."

It's indeed useless. Even if there is a breakthrough in tactics, there are too many tree people. In the battle and retreat, the Imperial Army still suffered a one-to-one casualty ratio with the Treeman Army.

However, even so, the Treeman Army was still not anxious. They obeyed Lord Seed's orders and continued to search the ground and corpses with their roots. Sure enough, they found explosives deep underground.

"Hehe, sure enough, let the vines drill in and take away the bombs."

"Yes."

The underground bombs were transported away, the corpses of the Imperial Army were also searched, and the Imperial Army retreated faster and faster.

"Lord Seed, the other side can't hold on."

"Kill them."

The green waves like the tide moved forward, leaving more and more corpses of the Imperial Army.

At this moment, a roar suddenly came from the periphery of the Treeman Army.

"It's the crazy beasts. A group of beasts were attracted here for some reason!"

"Wait, there's an imperial army on the other side attacking our flank!"

Seed sneered: "That's all... Muyuan, you take 50,000 troops to deal with the crazy beasts, Muliu, you take 40,000 troops to deal with the imperial army on the flank."

"Yes!"

The treeman army pressed over the ground and over the corpses. Suddenly, the advancing treeman saw that among the imperial army corpses that had been crushed long ago, a large pool of blood suddenly began to stir.