Ethan teleported in front of the Aurelian Patriarch and regarded him with a faint, knowing smile.
"Do you know what race we are?"
"I… do," the Patriarch answered quietly, lowering his head.
"Then you still dare throw your lot in with us? Aren't you afraid your entire race will be exterminated?"
A bitter look crossed the Patriarch's face.
"Exterminated…"
"If you hadn't arrived, the Outland Beasts would have wiped out the Aurelians today. We wouldn't even survive long enough for anyone else to exterminate us.
"If you leave now, we still won't be able to withstand this army.
"If our destruction is already inevitable, why shouldn't we take one last gamble?
"Save the Aurelians, my lord, and from this day forward, we will obey your every command!" His voice was firm.
