Chapter 1909: Hero or Sinner
Along with Gu Shao Yu's heartfelt indictment.
Scenes so clear they seemed like yesterday rose in Meng Chao's mind.
He seemed to see himself personally leading the Canxing, Superstar, and Martial God Corps, fighting time and again at the very forefront against the Holy Light Faction.
When the enemy came surging in from all directions like a blazing tide, those fine young men whom he had personally saved from the Slums and piles of corpses, whom he had spared no expense to nurture for decades, all clustered around him. From their thirty-six thousand pores bloomed flames called courage and glory; from their heaving chests burst battle cries powerful enough to shake mountains and shatter magic; with arms cast in bronze and forged in iron, they swung War Flames-wreathed weapons into storms of death, until the corpses of friend and foe piled into mountains, until seas of blood were baked dry and mountains of corpses burned to ash, until even the black clouds formed from swirling ash were torn apart; until their last bone broke and their last drop of blood ran dry; until even their final wisp of soul was swallowed by the Stormy Waves raised by holy light—yet not one of them retreated half a step.
Yet the reinforcements from the Nine Super Enterprises had always looked on coldly from a safe distance, or else used the time Meng Chao was tangling with the enemy's main force to wildly expand their territory, reap tangible profits, and build independent kingdoms of their own.
He seemed to see himself, covered in wounds and caked in blood, having just returned from the front lines, storming furiously into the Survival Committee and lunging at the councilors from the Nine Great Families.
However, these ruddy-faced, potbellied, imposing councilors first