"Ah? So that's how it was?!"
"So you never actually intended to target Ragnar? You'd been sincerely cooperating with him all along?"
Sun Ying's worldview was rebuilt once again, and her opinion of Li Yun rapidly began to change.
"What else would it have been?" Lu Li placed the newly resealed Nine-Colored Lotus Dais into his stomach pouch, then took out another demon corpse and began sealing the Deception Cube's counterfeit inside it as well. "Though 'sincerely' isn't quite the right word. 'Fawning compliance' would be more fitting."
"I really did want to kill Ragnar and take the equipment and items on him, but the Oath Contract limited me. At most, I could only think about it."
"If you'd actually put it into practice, your little life would have been forfeit."
"By then, Evelina might have ended up crying."
Sun Ying froze, suddenly coming to a realization.
Right...
She had signed an Oath Contract with Ragnar!
During their cooperation, neither party could betray the other.
If they violated it, they would be directly crushed by the power of the rules, body and soul annihilated!
So from beginning to end, Li Yun had never "betrayed" Ragnar through any actual action.
It was only because the opponent was too strong to deal with that he had come up with a series of methods, attempting to relieve Zhao by besieging Wei.
It was just that Ragnar had not been saved in the end. Instead, the three of them benefited from it.
On the surface, this scheme was nothing special if one did not think too deeply about it.
Nine parts coincidence, one part planning.
It had merely been luck.
But upon careful thought, one could sense just how terrifying it was!
This demon named Li Yun had not only considered the strength of