It was so dark that I didn't know how long I was unconscious, and when I opened my eyes again, there was a sharp pain in the back of my head that made me completely awake. I reached out and carefully touched the numb pain, which was swollen with a large bag.

"Damn, it hurts Lao Tzu to death!"

The slightest touch hurt me like I had been cut, and I struggled to my feet and looked around.

"Anai!"

I suddenly remembered that Levi was trying to take Anai with his minions, and I was resisting, but I was knocked unconscious. I was unconscious, and in a meadow by the roadside, I guess Anai had been taken away by Levi.

"This bastard!"

I gritted my teeth and secretly said in my heart that I would be inseparable from this thousand-knife killer. Bowing his head, there was no one around, nothing but the large horse's hoof prints on the road that attested to what had happened this morning.

"You're awake, Luga."

Andrew's voice came from behind me, and I looked back to see Andrew, who was in tattered clothes and covered in scars. He sat behind me, leaning against a tree, looking at me, his face covered in blood.

"How are you, Andrew!"

The way he looked frightened me, I didn't expect Levi and his men to be so ruthless. I walked and swayed, and the after-effects of the stick made me dizzy and unsteady to walk.

I crawled up to Andrew's face with my hands and feet, and took off my shirt to wipe the blood off Andrew's face. Andrew gritted his teeth, and when I wiped the wound on his face, I could clearly see the throbbing ground of his face, and he was in pain, but he couldn't make a sound. Very strong, but the more he did this, the more guilty and sad I felt, and if I hadn't deliberately tried to find Ana, he wouldn't have ended up in the same embarrassment as I did.

"I'm sorry, Andrew." I lowered my head and whispered to him, "If it weren't for me coming to Anai......"

"Smack!"

A slap in the face and a slap on my face, and for a split second, I felt a burning pain in my left cheek.

"You coward!"

Andrew yelled at me with the pain he was in, and he was so angry that he pushed away my hand that was wiping his blood. My red eyes glared at me, and I looked down, knowing that he was furious at the cowardly apology I had just made, and I didn't know why, I would say something like that.

"Originally, Levi was going to kill you and me!" Andrew stared at me and said slowly, "As a result, Anai was forced to die to save our lives, but the premise is that you and Anai will never see each other!" ”

"Never see each other!" I repeated, feeling the pain on my face, and laughing, because I was too weak to protect even a weak woman, and now I want Anai to protect my life. "So, Levi took Anai away......"

I lost my mind, and I don't feel like the wound on my head hurts as much as I did at the beginning, because I guess it's because of the loss of consciousness. I stood up and looked far away in the direction of the horseshoe prints, where the horizon was Ludinand, and I knew that Anai must be there. She was rightfully imprisoned by Levi, and I'm just an ordinary person who can't do anything about it.

"Where's the coachman?"

"He? Scold! Andrew sneered, then said, "Can you still count on that old thing groveling?" I looked back and saw two gold Oren coins lying in Andrew's outstretched palms. He continued: "The old fellow scolded me as soon as Levi and them left, and cursed me for not dying well. Hehe, if I still have the strength to stand up, I will definitely kill him, but fortunately he is also a character who is afraid of yes, so before he left, he returned all the Oren gold coins we gave him. ”

"It's humiliating, it's embarrassing, and I find that after we come down from the position of centurion, we can't even keep the most precious things." Andrew slapped his thigh hard and said, "We're nothing now, today it's you, tomorrow maybe it's me?" I've been in touch with Quinta for a long time, what if I go back and find something I shouldn't have discovered? I don't even have the right to defend my dignity. Is this ordinary? Unable to do anything, doing nothing, and being slaughtered by others? ”

"No, it's not like that!" I gritted my teeth and held back my tears, and at this moment I suddenly felt that I was connected to the soul of Arecio, and how sad and angry he was when he lay in the carriage and caressed the brass mask. Ordinary made me lose the right to resist, just like Arecio was robbed of his beauty and wealth by Aetius, Levi not only took away Ana, but he ruthlessly destroyed my dream, my dream that was willing to be ordinary and tried to fight with the world.

"Luga!" Andrew looked at me with a very serious expression. "Do you want to save Ana? Even if she made a vow never to see you again. ”

"Oaths? It's just empty talk! ”

I had a thirst for revenge in my heart, and it burned like a flame in my heart, and it began to remind me that I wanted revenge, that I wanted to take back Ana.

"So what are you going to do? Now desperate to kill back? You know you can't do anything, not even the soldiers guarding the city at the Ludinan Gate, you can't beat it! ”

"So, I want to become stronger, but it's not that my body becomes stronger, even if my body is strong, I can't change anything!" As I spoke, I clenched the blood-stained garment in my hand, as if it had become a sharp sword. "I want to be a warlord above the entire empire, to lead an army strong enough like Aetius to make the emperor willingly ally with me, and to make Levi humiliated and powerless like me! In this way, I will be able to reclaim Anai and fulfill all my wishes! ”

I lifted my clothes high and slashed at Ludinand, it felt like I could split Ludinand in half, but it was just a "whirring" sound from the friction of the air, nothing else.

"Luga." Andrew hesitated for a moment, then said to me: "Actually, Anai asked me to bring you a message before leaving, I don't know how you will react if you listen to it now." ”

"Say it, Andrew!" I clenched my fists, "Did you tell me she would wait for me?" ”

"No!" Andrew shook his head, "She asked me to tell you, forget about her, anyway, although last night was short, but she was very happy, she asked me to tell you that no matter what others say, you will always be an upright man, at least in her heart, you will always be a hero!" ”

"Hero," for some reason, at the mention of this word, my tears fell uncontrollably, and Anai still thought that I was a hero, that I was her knight, that she was my princess, but I was powerless before the danger, and I had the strength to stomp my feet and scold in place, but I had no ability to save the woman I loved! What is such a hero?