"You can't do that." Xin Ning urged anxiously. "The Visionary won't let anyone in our fleet or ground forces order an attack, and that burning monster doesn't look like it will strike first either."
Ether merely nodded at Xin Ning's warning.
Xin Ning continued persuading him. "The order from the Supreme Ether is to find a way to make The Visionary die. I would never question that, but I think it would be better to use the humans to kill The Visionary rather than let that monster kill him, because..."
"Because a monster that can roam among the stars and make an entire planet tremble merely by descending upon it is even more terrifying, right?" Ether said what Xin Ning had wanted to say. He knew this old friend and longtime subordinate far too well.
Xin Ning nodded.
He had expected the wise Ether to change his mind, or at least explain why he believed the risk of having the burning monster kill The Visionary was lower than the risk of having the humans do it.
But Ether merely said calmly, "If the humans launch an attack, they will need to have their fleet and ground forces fight ours. It will be a long process, no matter how powerful they are. And during the war, The Visionary will have plenty of chances to escape, or the humans may find him useful and deliberately keep him alive..."
"But that monster is different. It can kill everyone in an instant. The Visionary's chance of dying is one hundred percent."
"So I think the risk is lower if we let that monster kill The Visionary."
After hearing Ether's words, Xin Ning felt something explode in his head.
He had never imagined that when Ether said they did not need to bear the risk