Today's second update: Chapter 1624! 2/4!
"Mutual benefit, after all. There are no lifelong enemies. Though the past friction between the human race and the wolf race caused losses on both sides, external pressure—apart from the Myriad Races Battlefield—is what best promotes internal unity. For that reason, certain sacrifices are unavoidable. You can understand that, can't you?"
If Xu Kun had still been a participant caught up in the situation as he was in the past, he truly would not have been able to understand.
After all, in his eyes, if a comrade who had been fighting alongside him fell on the path of charge, then the one who killed him—and the race behind that person—was his enemy.
But if he removed himself from the chessboard and regarded all effort and sacrifice as a battle upon it, with every method merely being how the pieces were meant to move, perhaps it would not hurt so much.
Only... living lives were not lifeless chess pieces after all!
Xu Kun was still incapable of being that cold-hearted!
However, from the perspective of the bigger picture, he could understand what Temujin meant.
"Then what do you mean now?"
"You should be asking what your opinion is!" Temujin replied.
"Mine?"
"That's right. We built the stage, but the future is not in the hands of old men like us."
"Let me make this clear: now that my wolf race is moving west as an entire race, aside from clearing out some fanatical rebel elements for you humans, from this day onward, these western borderlands will be the new homeland of the wolf race!"
"Do you wish to stand alongside the wolf race, east and west, or watch over one another from east and west?"
Xu Kun froze.
One who did not