Long Mei Er smiled when he heard that. "Of course it's a suggestion, Wizard Richard. I still prefer reasoning with my subordinates."
Richard felt slightly relieved at those words, but after hearing Long Mei Er's addition, his heart sank again.
Long Mei Er paused and added in a low voice, "You know, only when my suggestions are not accepted do I resort to force before issuing orders to my subordinates."
Uh, this...
Richard fell silent.
His brows knotted together, then gradually relaxed.
The instant his brows smoothed out, Richard blinked and turned to Long Mei Er. "What if I can hurt you?"
"Hm? What?" Long Mei Er looked somewhat puzzled, as though he had not heard clearly.
Richard looked at Long Mei Er and said, "Supervisor, you said before that as long as I could hurt you, even just a tiny bit, it would prove my strength. Then you would choose to reason with me. Not only would you not stop me, you would even help me. I want to ask, do you still stand by those words?"
Long Mei Er was initially somewhat surprised, then laughed. "Of course I do. But are you serious?"
"Yes. I am serious," Richard replied.
"Interesting. Ha, interesting. Wizard Richard, I truly haven't seen an organization member as courageous as you in a long time." Long Mei Er said, "If you really can hurt me, even by the tiniest fraction, I can certainly reason with you properly.
"Or, to put it more plainly, I can stop preventing you from doing anything that does not harm the organization's interests. I can give you the third Book of the Void, and I can even take you somewhere so that you can properly learn about this world in advance—after all, by then, you will have proven that