Learning on the Spot

Silver Eagle took the Old Khan King's head, hoping to remind the Northerners that their great enemy remained unavenged. Instead, he met with a crushing defeat.

The princes and nobles who had once racked their brains for a chance to see the Old Khan King more often were now rushing even faster toward the still-unsettled title of Khan King. The coldness and ruthlessness revealed in this left Silver Eagle deeply shocked.

He had thought he had escaped that world of mutual exploitation and utter hypocrisy, only to fall into an even deeper one.

Reflecting on his limited experience of the martial world, Silver Eagle reached a conclusion: the princes would never sincerely avenge the Old Khan King. Even after the new Khan King ascended the throne, he would only use the opportunity to eliminate his rivals, showing no concern at all for the true culprit.

As for the ordinary soldiers and commoners, they were becoming increasingly enthralled by rumors of miraculous deeds. If someone said that the Old Khan King had been killed by several ordinary mortals, all it would provoke would be furious denunciations, or even beatings.

Silver Eagle had already sensed this when he took away the head that night. After hiding it, he returned home and ordered his wife and children to flee with their valuables and livestock. "Just pretend I've already died. To me, you are nothing more than a dream. Now that I've awakened, I won't remember you."

The cries of his wife and children did nothing to change his ruthlessness. More than a decade of experience truly seemed like a dream. After waking, all that remained was a heap of incomplete, fragmented shadows. The young son he had once adored had suddenly become a strange, sobbing child.

Silver Eagle summoned the other four Wing