The Holy Maiden turned to look at Li Wei.
"Is there a problem? Are you saying you care more about the lives of the people in the City of Flowers than the entire world?"
"From a humanitarian perspective, every life is precious."
Li Wei offered a platitude to make his position clear. And it really was a platitude-from a humanitarian perspective, he shouldn't have gone to war either, yet he'd served in the vanguard plenty of times.
"But before we get to that... you just said the seal is in the City of Flowers. Aren't you afraid this explosion will blast open the seal on Hell's Gate?"
"The seal doesn't exist on a physical level. If it did, those demon worshippers would have dug up every inch of Hell's Gate long before I had to act."
That was true. After all, the Holy Lord Church had operated in the City of Flowers for so many years, even moving its headquarters there. If this were some kind of physical seal...
"Then what would doing this accomplish?"
"It's very simple."
The Holy Maiden blinked.
"This will become a tremendous disaster. Then we can declare that it was all the work of devils and tell the entire world that demons caused it. After that, we can produce some frozen demon corpses as evidence, overturning the Holy Lord Church's claim that demons are simply heretics and thereby stabilizing the seal on Hell's Gate."
This was what happened when smart people turned evil. She really had thought of everything.
Or perhaps this didn't even count as turning evil. After all, in the Holy Maiden's era, no one even knew how many people died in a war... Perhaps, in her eyes, a mere million people were an acceptable sacrifice for the sake of the world.
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