"What if… we surrender?" Malcharon questioned as he stared at Aeliana with a determined look on his face. Malcharon wasn’t a fool. What Aeliana was thinking, he understood as well. With so many eyes, the destruction of Tandris was inevitable. Even if this woman didn’t do anything and left right now, extremists in Velcria would definitely try to get rid of their arch-nemesis. There was no way they would leave an opportunity where they could get what they wanted without having to even lift their fingers. "Huh…?" Aeliana narrowed her eyes. The Nightveil continued. "I do not know which force or faction you belong to, or even if you are truly what you claim you are, mercenaries. What if we swear to surrender, to pledge our lives to you? We will be your faithful servants, ready to be used as you please. As war resources, soldiers, laborers, anything you say, we will do." The Nightveil then suddenly knelt on the ground and, "Please take us in." He spoke. Read exclusive adventures at freewebnovel Inferath, the Infernik, blinked his eyes in confusion, surprised by his comrade’s actions. But suddenly, Malcharon grabbed his arm and pulled him down so quickly that the Infernik fell to the ground, face first. He glared at the Nightveil, only to see the latter glaring back at him. Understanding what that glare meant, he quickly collected himself, knelt down, and bowed his head. "Please take us in." And as if on cue. ""Please take us in."" The Tandris soldiers who were still conscious all knelt down and bowed their heads in front of the Vampire hovering above them. The Vampire was taken aback. She didn’t expect this. Soon, however, she understood. These people wanted to survive and would do anything for it. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮 Aeliana, however, couldn’t help them. But before she could shake her head, "Now this is an interesting development." A voice was heard, and suddenly, the shadow of an unconscious soldier trembled and two beings materialized from it. One, someone nobody here knew, while the other… well, someone everyone knew. "Kaelith!" Inferath shouted as he stared at his ally, whose body was battered up. His limbs were all bent unnaturally, his once scary crimson eyes now flickered, barely grasping life, and the dreadful aura around him that filled all his enemies with dread was nowhere to be found. With that unknown man holding Kaelith by his neck as if he were some sort of bag, the Dreadborn looked pitiful. "Oh?" The unknown man seemed to realize that he was holding one of this world’s leaders, so… "Right, this one was roaming around in a place he shouldn’t be. Had to capture him. No hard feelings though. Here, you can have him back." Nux threw the Dreadborn back to his allies. Seeing his condition and the unknown man’s attitude, Inferath’s anger rose. However, before he could say anything, the unknown man flew in the air and moved towards that truly dreadful woman. Then, every being standing in this place widened their eyes in disbelief as suddenly, the unknown man pulled the woman into his embrace and, with a smile on his face, "You were a little too alluring when you were killing all of them. You are making it hard for me to control myself, Aeliana Ruinous." What surprised everyone even further was the fact that instead of piercing this man’s body with all those weapons around her, that dreadful woman smiled back. "You are doing this on purpose, aren’t you?" Nux questioned, pulling Aeliana even closer to him. "Who knows? Why don’t you try and figure it out?" She replied in a playful tone, and Nux was barely resisting the urge to grab this woman and plunge his teeth into her neck before he burned all her clot- Ahem. Anyways, As Nux controlled his desires, he finally glanced at Tandris’s leaders and, "Some soldiers might come in handy in the future, no?" He spoke out loud, and while his words lit up a ray of hope in the eyes of Tandris’s leaders and soldiers, Inferath suddenly frowned. "Wait, that man… Tandris’s Wil-" "Don’t open your mouth foolishly, Infernik." Before he could complete, Nux interrupted, his eyes staring at the Infernik coldly. "I am not as patient or forgiving as my future wife." ’Future wife…?’ Everyone who heard Nux’s words widened their eyes. However, the ’future wife’ part wasn’t the one they were reacting to. That was only Aeliana, who was trying to hide her smile but was failing miserably. These people were reacting to the word ’forgiving.’ ’Forgiving…? Her…?’ Just staring at the butchered bodies of the Primordials made them shiver in horror. "Inferath, shut your mouth." On the other hand, Malcharon, who got the meaning behind Nux’s words, ordered his comrade. Inferath nodded. He understood what Nux wanted as well. This was regarding their survival. They weren’t planning to do something foolish to mess it up. "You plan on taking them in?" Aeliana questioned. "What do you think?" Nux questioned back. Aeliana stared at the Tandris natives who were still kneeling in front of her. "They would be useful." She nodded, but then, a frown appeared on her face. "But where do you plan to keep them? Tandris will be destroyed. Their cultivation bridge would shatter. Only Sovereigns and above would survive unless we find another world for them and connect them to it." "Finding another world, huh… Hmm, that’s too much work..." Nux shook his head. If they had a free world, he would have devoured it already. Not to mention this wasn’t the first time they had seen ’pitiful people’ who had lost everything due to war, neither would it be the last. This was the fate of the weak. If Nux tried to protect every world he went to, it would simply become impossible, and he would be tied down with too much responsibility. Not to mention Nux was never the Hero. He was just a normal man who wanted to live with his wives for eternity. These people… He never cared about them in the first place. "Alright, fuck it. Too much wo-" "Take the three of us and the Sovereigns." Before Nux could pass the ’judgment,’ Malcharon spoke up. "What…?" Nux narrowed his eyes. "The three Primordials and three hundred thousand Sovereigns, just take us in. Abandon the rest."