Evenson was not having that. One person wanted to kill the Han envoy, then another wanted to kill the Han envoy. So he had come back to Earth this time just to let them kill him for fun?!
Well, defecting to an alien power and then leading them to attack one's home planet in exchange for wealth, glory, and supreme power... fine, that really was the sort of thing a Sorcerer would do.
But sacrificing oneself as bait for the sake of others was not the sort of sentiment a Sorcerer should have!
So Evenson had no choice but to explain, "Look on the bright side. It's not as bad as you think."
"Isn't it?" Melinda did not believe him at all. She shot Evenson a cold look. "Do you think I don't know what Asgard will become if it implements that reform?"
Melinda knew the Qin and Han legal system all too well. It was a classical militarist system born from mountains of corpses and seas of blood. The entire system existed to serve war, turning a nation into a war machine and pouring all its resources and strength into total war. It strengthened itself by raising armies and conquering other lands. A state employing such laws was a state of tigers and wolves; one who ruled such a state was a ruler of tigers and wolves, possessed of an immense desire to devour all things!
It could be said that war was inevitable for an Asgard transformed by such reforms. The existence of the Xandar Protectorate proved that this newborn war machine had already begun to operate. But could one Xandar satisfy that Heavenly Queen's wolfish ambitions?
From what Evenson had said, Asgard's conquest of Xandar had been extremely easy. Perhaps it had merely been a test of