Today's third update: Chapter 3055! 3/4!
What Gui Zhi could not understand no matter how hard he thought was this: who, despite clearly knowing of the deep-seated hatred between Xuan Bai and Si Prince, had managed to conceal the truth so perfectly, allowing him to lead the final elite forces of an entire marquisate onto the battlefield and then defect in an instant?
No matter how Gui Zhi racked his brains, he could not see through the mastermind behind it all.
The nominal commander-in-chief of the allied forces, She Tu Renekton, most likely knew nothing about the hidden intricacies involved. After all, this was a tangled feud internal to the Black Tortoise Race.
Then there could only be one truth—someone had cleverly exploited Renekton's ignorance of the situation and deliberately arranged this personnel deployment!
From God's Perspective, the person behind this was actually easy to identify. Other than the "good older brother" of the late Si Prince, who else could it have been but the Black Tortoise Race's Second Crown Prince—Erh?
Sometimes, the gains from painstakingly doing a hundred things right were far less than what a foolish opponent could hand over by making one critical mistake.
In the past, Erh had known very well that he could not compete with his younger brother Si in terms of their father and mother's favor, his own halo, and every other aspect. So he had always chosen to keep a low profile, but that did not mean he had resigned himself to mediocrity.
Long before he met Xu Kun, he had already begun making quiet arrangements in the shadows.
Open recruitment was certainly impossible. If discovered, not only would Si immediately move to suppress him, but Ting Sha Piaoliang, who doted excessively on Si, would never permit any factor that might