Kill the Sun - Chapter 769

The atmosphere in the room changed drastically, and the Champion glared at the Left Arm.

"Are you suggesting I am working with the Specters?" he asked with his dark voice.

"Of course not," the Left Arm answered calmly. "You are Aegis. If you were working with the Specters, Aegis wouldn't be making any progress. You could kill Julian right this instant, and we would be without a proper weapon again."

The intensity of the Champion's aura lessened significantly.

"What I am saying is that this approach is too complacent. I understand that the backlash has been quite strong, but if Death is breaking the agreement, why can't you?"

"You said neither you nor Death want to provoke a final battle. That is still the case. If Death wanted a final battle, it wouldn't have attacked the Protectors but Aegis' headquarters directly."

"The only thing that happened is that Death has become desperate enough to push the envelope a little bit, knowing that this action won't provoke an immediate retaliation."

"Yet, if we just accept this, it will have the advantage. If we don't strike back now, Death will just do it again, pushing us into a sunk-cost situation. Us grinding our teeth and enduring will feel meaningless if we retaliate when it happens again, forcing us to keep grinding our teeth."

"Before we know it, we will be at a severe disadvantage. Death will keep taking advantage of our weakness while we watch Aegis becoming weaker and weaker."

"We can't hold back any longer. Politeness and civility will be seen as weakness by our enemy," the Left Arm said.

The Champion calmly looked at the Left Arm.

"Your words have merit to them," he spoke, "but I do not see a way to make them applicable to our situation."

"If I leave to deal with the Specters, Death will destroy our headquarters, and compared to the Specters, humans have a base of operations."

"Our Protectors have to come here since over half of our Fallen are here,and if we disperse them across the strongholds, this will give the Specters a greater incentive to attack them."

"If the Fallen regularly ventured to this place, I could do the same thing as Death, but that's not what's happening."@@novelbin@@

"There is no reason for the Fallen or Adversaries to come to this place, and since I can't leave, I can't deal with them."

"Entering such a battle will end with many dead Protectors and no dead Specters," the Champion explained.

"That is true," the Left Arm answered, "but what if we had a way? Would you be open to helping humanity?"

The Champion's brows furrowed.

The way the Left Arm worded this made it sound like he wasn't contributing anything.

"Do we have a way?" the Champion asked.

"This is just a hypothetical," the Left Arm said. "If we had a way, would you be willing to battle a powerful Specter?"

The Champion seemed a bit annoyed.

'Or, more precisely, she knows where my ability comes from!'

The old Champion of Light had made some comments on Nick's ability, and with the Left Arm's intelligence, there was a chance that she deduced what Nick could do.

To a certain extent.

Additionally, Nick managed to lure out two Corruptors and was even able to tell the Right Arm where one of them was, despite it still hiding.

'She knows that I can sense things, and she probably knows where my ability comes from.'

'Since the Null can sense anyone who knows anything about it, she most likely believes that I can also sense something like that.'

'Maybe she believes that I can sense that she knows my ability.'

'Sadly, or luckily, that's not how it works.'

'Nevertheless, she is right that I can sense the Envious Researcher.'

'She also knows that the Envious Researcher is a gigantic problem for our underground researchers.'

'She's planning on using the Champion to deal with it.'

'I thought that was impossible, but she drove the Champion into a corner.'

'But that's not enough!'

'He can attack the Envious Researcher half-heartedly and then make it seem like the Envious Researcher is just too strong.'

'We can force him to act, but we can't force him to be serious!'

Nick took a deep breath, and the two looked over.

It was clear that Nick was about to say something.

'But I trust the Left Arm. She isn't somebody who just does something without a plan.'

'If she thinks she can make the Champion of Light act, there's a high likelihood that he will do just that!'

"There might be a way," Nick said.

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