"Is there really nothing left to negotiate?" Cha Huan sighed.
"Negotiation won't make you face reality. Only despair can." Smile spoke calmly. "Not pain, not sorrow—true despair. It will calm your heart, make you humble, make you bow your head, and make you kneel."
"What you can choose isn't your fate, but your dignity."
Cha Huan said, "I'm sorry. After all, this may be my only chance to leave my name in history."
"Don't worry. You'll be remembered forever." Smile spoke proudly. "As the first Martial Pillars to lose to me, your deaths won't be meaningless. They'll serve as the tolling of the bell for a new era, awakening humanity from its dream of being the spirit of all creation."
"Come! As the Radiance Martial Pillars, die an honorable death with your heads held high!"
However, Cha Huan shook his head and said something strange to the other two.
"I'm ready. What about you?"
"Principal, you really are still going strong in your old age." Yu Ke wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and spun his twin guns with a laugh. "I'm fine too."
"If I hadn't been waiting for you two, do you think I would've chatted with this demon clan member?" Xie Chenyuan said blandly.
"Since you're both ready, let's discuss our strategy." Cha Huan motioned as he spoke. "Do you still remember Chapter Sixteen of Art of War Theory?"
"How could I forget? That was your class, Principal." Yu Ke smiled. "But I studied the 2067 ninth revision, the Elegy Edition. What about you, Xie Chenyuan?"
"Coincidentally, I studied the 2070 tenth revision, the Elegy Edition." Xie Chenyuan said, "I wonder whether there were any major changes."
"Don't worry. I presided over the tenth revision. I only corrected a few typos." Cha Huan said,