Looking up at the pitch-black general's armor towering into the clouds, Cheng Yu felt nothing but helplessness.
He glanced at the surrounding high-rises and the panicking civilians, then asked Evil Shadow in bewilderment,
"Do you no longer care about the lives of Ping City's people, General? If we fight here, the casualties won't be a small number."
Evil Shadow said quietly,
"Subjects are subjects, after all. Against a formidable enemy like you, sacrificing a city's worth of subjects is quite a reasonable price."
Cheng Yu choked on his words.
He had never expected his fight with Evil Shadow to reach this point. Even less had he expected this seemingly trustworthy general to move their battlefield straight into Ping City. Hadn't he promised that former director of the Special Affairs Bureau that he would protect Ping City?
Was he abandoning even his own persona just to wipe Cheng Yu out?
Cheng Yu murmured mockingly,
"You're nothing but a poor imitation after all. If you were truly His Eminence the God of a Thousand Faces, you wouldn't abandon your persona even if your avatar were destroyed."
The system replied at that moment,
"But if he really were the God of a Thousand Faces, we'd have packed our bags and run long ago." ╮(๑•́ ₃•̀๑)╭
Cheng Yu gave a helpless, bitter smile.
"Yeah. And whether we could even get away is another question."
Then Cheng Yu looked at the surrounding people of Yingzhou again. He closed his eyes helplessly and sighed.
"I'm sorry... but when you chose to pledge allegiance to this general, you should have been prepared for a day like this. I can't bear it, but... I'm sorry."
Cheng Yu began converting all the remaining Weird energy stored in the Pure White Emissary into life force. When the Ghost