Chapter 774 - A Change in Stance (1/2)

In Underground Greater Rat Kingdom.

In the side hall of the palace, Demon Rat King Ba Shixin was silent after hearing Vigilante A’s request. Unlike before, its behavior was not as obedient.

A wise man would always have a tendency to overthink. It was thinking if it should switch allegiance and jump down from Vigilante A’s boat…

There was no strategic problem with its previous choice to be tied to humans, because humans beings were very resilient.

There were a lot of individuals with high moral character. For the sake of individual dignity, they would rather die in glory than to live in dishonor.

As a collective, they would think of all ways possible to reproduce and grow their community.

As long as they could continue living, nothing else mattered, even if they had to be a servant.

It never despised the idea, because it would do the same as well.

It came from the Upper Realm, and it clearly knew that all the deities and buddhas from the Upper Realm would never choose to wipe out the human beings on Earth. On the contrary, some of the deities hoped for as many mortals as possible.

That was because they needed a lot of loyal servants to worship them, to collect resources, to build pavilions, to clean their yards, and to maintain their honor.

Perhaps some of the deities enjoyed solitude, and hope to live a carefree life. However, the majority of them were pretentious and preferred extravagance.

It chose to obey Vigilante A because it feared his strength. After all, he was the one with the strongest combat powers on Earth two years ago.

The situation had now changed. The almighty Gods from Upper Realm were starting to descend to the Lower Realm.

If it chose to stand together with Vigilante A, it would be extremely dangerous.

Powerhouses were everywhere in the Upper Realm. Vigilante A took advantage of the right time and the right place, and relied on some of his own strengths. He might be able to defeat some of them, but there was no way to counterbalance the situation that was unfavorable to him.

Just like Monkey King when he went against the heavenly palace, his strategy had already determined his fate of failure.

He might have extraordinary supernatural powers to oppress Yama and Dragon King, and to defeat all the troops and generals from heaven. However, in the face of the enormous sacred deity system, he could only be crushed, suppressed and transformed.

“You’ve not spoken a word. What do you think? You must know that you colluded with the beings from the Upper Realm, and changed the flow of vitality without authorization. That was going against the orders of heaven. I’m only asking you to make up for it by providing me manpower, what’s so difficult about this?” Vigilante A said coldly.

Bai Shixin smiled and shook its head, “The Venerable One, you shouldn’t impose this on me. Most of the deities from the Upper Realm are unforgiving and narrow-minded. Our Greater Rat Clan was newly established, and we couldn’t bear the huge consequences. I hope you seek help from someone else.”

Bai Shixin pondered over this, but it decided to decline Vigilante A’s request.

After all, Vigilante A was a heroic man, always living by his chivalrous principles. Even though it rejected his request, he would never exterminate the Greater Rat Clan. At most he would torture it and let it suffer a little.

As for the holy deities and Buddhas from the Upper Realm, their so-called mercy was just a facade.

Anyone who disregarded their will would be labeled as a defier of the heavens. “Disrespecting the saints” would be one of the reasons, and genocide was a common operation.

Hundreds of millions of races from the Upper Realm disappeared because of this.

They did not even have it do it themselves, all it took was a natural catastrophe or a human disaster.

The choice that had to be made was apparent.

“Oh, I see. That’s what you’ve decided at last. Be careful in the future, the punishment from heavens is not fiction,” Vigilante A was not angry, nor did he lose his temper. He just turned around and left.

“Wait a moment, the Venerable One. Don’t resent me, we’re just a minor clan and I had no other options. The impact of providing manpower would be huge since we don’t have much to begin with. However, I can still make some contributions in funding.” Bai Shixin was intimidated after hearing that. It put on a wry smile on its face, and then it handed over a Interspatial Ring.

Needless to say, it must be filled with lots of gold and jewellery, or even just a huge amount of cash. However, cash would take up a huge amount of space, so it was highly unlikely.

Vigilante A reached out his arms to receive the Interspatial Ring, then he nodded and left in a flash.

Surviving was hard when one was caught between both sides. As a king, one should have the awareness to endure everything. Otherwise, one would not be qualified.