The Plan

Yan laughed even louder when she heard that. "Hahaha, I just love how hypocritical you are. You're exactly the same as when I first found you. You could even use your most trusted subordinates as ingredients for my medicine. What do these citizens matter now?"

Hanzo turned his head away and did not look at Yan.

He did not know whether it was just his imagination, but he felt that Yan was growing stronger and stronger.

Her strength seemed to change with every passing day. Although Yan herself had never mentioned it, Hanzo could tell.

Sending these people outside to guard the camps was definitely not as simple as sending them to their deaths for nothing.

There had to be something he did not know.

But Hanzo had no interest in investigating anymore.

Just as Yan had said, he did not truly care whether these people lived or died. Power and status were what he had always wanted!

They were also the driving force that had kept him alive for all these years!

The stronger Yan became, the happier Hanzo was, because their odds of victory increased by another fraction.

His chances of regaining power also rose by another fraction.

As long as Torikaze was captured, he could take control of the Rain Country again, swallow up all the surrounding small nations, and become a new great power!

Hanzo's dream was certainly a fine one, but even Yan did not dare guarantee that she could defeat Torikaze without fail.

"The Crystal Flower that covered the entire Rain Country a few days ago—Torikaze was the one behind it, wasn't he?"

Hanzo nodded. He had originally been able to go outside for some fresh air from time to time, but ever since the Crystal Flower appeared, he had felt uncomfortable everywhere.

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