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The alien Draco punched away Tallulah's arm that was blocking her, and the dragon head in his other hand was like a living thing, biting Tallulah's neck tightly.

The Time Saber flipped over and slashed from the side, but was grabbed by the wrist by the Alien Draco. Purple-red flames rolled on the dragon's head, and a loud explosion raised waves of smoke, dust and snow. This time, it was no longer the Alien Draco who flew into the sky, but Tallulah.

"This body is so powerful, but you, my daughter, can only exert less than two-thirds of its strength. How pitiful! It's a complete waste of nature's gift."

The flames burned on the dragon's arm and quickly spread throughout the entire arm. The scorching heat caused the surrounding snow to melt quickly, revealing the dark land underneath.

"You told me to give up, but it's you who should give up, my daughter. Give me all your strength. I will restore the glory of this land, of Ursus. The great Snow Country will return to its place. And you, with my help, will lead this glorious country, and let the glory of Ursus radiate to all of Terra. Other countries will be moved by the greatness of Ursus, and the people of Ursus, regardless of race, infected or not, will unite under the name of Ursus and be brothers and sisters to each other. Isn't this what you want to see?"

Tallulah fell to the ground and struggled to her feet. The same flames burned through her body, flickering through the cracks in her armor, scorching the surrounding tundra wind. The roar of a dragon gradually became audible in the flames. Tallulah roared, and quickly rushed towards the Alien Draco. Amid the latter's wild laughter, Tallulah's hands collided with the Alien Draco's claws, and the wrestling between the two dragons made the earth tremble.

"Stop your monologue, you're just a rotten old antique from the past, thinking you can turn everyone into puppets in your hands to achieve your disgusting and sinister plan. You treat everyone as expendable resources, just for the glory of a ridiculous bygone era. Old man, times have changed. Those you despise and cast aside will overturn all your plans and burn them to ashes!"

Fighting spirit burned in Tallulah's words. She seemed to see the disgusting black snake through the twisted steel bars and the pupils behind them. The fire in her heart continued to burn, causing the strength in her hands to increase continuously.

"The glory of an era always belongs only to the people who created it! Not to exploiters and oppressors like you!"

The alien Draco could no longer suppress Tallulah's power, and both sides let go of each other amid roars.

The dragon head pattern on the arm flickered, and flames burned on it. The red dragon head, similar to but different from the alien Drake, spewed flames and collided with the former's dragon head. The dragons bit each other's mouths, and flames exploded and burned each other's arms.

The burning pain from the flames burning her armor disturbed Tallulah's mind, but what gleamed in her eyes beneath the mask was only the determination to do her utmost to blast the long black worm in front of her into pieces!

"That's a very high-sounding statement, Tallulah. But my daughter, even if you remain steadfast and unaffected by my curse, overturning my plans, overthrowing those oppressors, and even overthrowing the Ursus Empire, what will happen next?"

One of them punched the other in the face, and both sides stepped back to create a certain distance. Under the terrifying skin of the alien Draco, Kosice's disgusting voice sounded again.

"You ushered in a new era. You hoped that a country would emerge on this land that would be friendly to the infected and the lower classes, and that it would belong to the people. But what happens after that?"

"Those people ultimately need a leader. Who will be this leader? Who will be the ruler of these people who are equal in your eyes?"

The alien Draco's red eyes are captivating.

"Answer me, Tallulah! Will that ruler be you?"

Chapter 48 Let me take a look!

"Who will be the leader? Who will be the ruler of the people? Tallulah? Is it you?"

Kosice's question caused Tallulah, who was confronting her, to pause briefly. During this period, Kosice did not take advantage of the opportunity to attack, but looked at his daughter with interest.

Tallulah gasped and stared at her adoptive father.

"The people do not need rulers. The people will rule themselves. Everyone is the ruler of his own destiny. They are free and do not need others to lead them!"

Kosice laughed. He couldn't help laughing, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

Naive. Even after several years, his daughter was still so naive, so naive that he couldn't help but laugh at her words. He felt that Tallulah had not grown even a little bit in these years.

"Tallulah, Tallulah, have you been wasting your time these past few years since you killed me? Have you been reveling in the glory of slaying your oppressors? On this vast snowy plain, after becoming an infected, haven't you grown at all? Why are your insights and thoughts still so barren?"

"The people should lead themselves, Tallulah. You will only lead your people to self-destruction."

"What did you say?"

"My dear daughter, self-rule by the people will never work. I have witnessed too many people in this world. They are greedy, jealous, and harbor endless malice towards others. If you let them go, hoping they can restrain themselves, all that will result is the decline of morality, the loss of order, and the destruction of the country."

Kosice stood in the snow, his eyes on Tallulah but also around him.

Wendigos, shield guards, Carters, strange inner guard shadows, and unknown helmeted men.

When I was fighting with Tallulah, these people did not step forward to stop him and did not lend a helping hand at all. So, were they expecting my stupid daughter to defeat him on her own?

"You are far too naive and immature. You cannot see the evil that exists at the root of humanity. This ineradicable evil is precisely the root cause of humanity's inability to govern itself. If we allow them to govern themselves, as you imagine, without the supervision and restraint of powerful authorities, they will only become a cancer that harms society and the country."

The fist of the Alien Draco was placed on Tallulah's face. The latter took two steps back and roared with her powerful fist wrapped in flames, blasting away the Alien Draco's malice.

"No! You are wrong. No one is born evil. All tragedies and all the evil deeds people do are simply because they have not received a good education. It is you, the oppressors and rulers, who take advantage of their ignorance, stimulate their extreme emotions, and distort their values, causing countless tragedies!

As long as people receive proper education, are provided with an environment free of exploitation and oppression, and are given the opportunity to choose, the vast majority of people on this earth will become kind people, rather than the unforgivable villains you describe them as!"

Tallulah punched the alien Draco away, and the latter took two steps back and laughed as he stepped forward to tangle with the former. The roars of the dragons intertwined, and the collision of flames made the snowfield no longer cold.

Human nature is evil and should be restrained by power and terror.

People are born good and should enjoy freedom and equality.

Yes, this is one of the fundamental conflicts between Tallulah and Koschice’s ideas.

All philosophical thoughts in this world can ultimately be summarized into answers to human beings.

What is a human being? Where do humans come from? Where do humans go?

Kosice believes that humans are inherently evil, and this evil is absolute and unprovoked. People don't necessarily need a reason to do something; it's simply that their deepest thoughts are revealed and vented at the right time.

Because of the existence of this evil, people have absolute and structural errors that cannot be eradicated, so people do not deserve freedom. Therefore, people need power, they need supermen, and they need a strong ruler to restrain and regulate people's behavior in order to curb absolute evil and ensure the survival of society. Freedom is actually the cradle of absolute evil.

Tallulah believes that people are kind and should be free, but in reality many people are evil and selfish. Tallulah also recognizes and acknowledges the existence of these phenomena, but she believes that the reason these people deviate from their true selves is because they are distorted and shaped by this society.

As she said, as long as people receive a good education, as long as they are not exploited and oppressed, and as long as they have the opportunity to choose, the vast majority of people will become upright and kind people.

If the harvest is good enough, farmers are happy to share their food.

If not forced by life, writers would take it as their responsibility to reveal the world as it is.

If educated properly, corrupt officials can become honest officials.

If there is enough propaganda, cruel officials will not be so brutal.

In short, Tallulah firmly believes that human nature is inherently good, and that evil acts are directly or indirectly caused by a distorted society, and there must be reasons and hardships behind them, so Tallulah can tolerate this kind of evil.

She can forgive the traitor who escaped, forgive and even sympathize with the patrol team that hunted them, and even forgive the villain who killed Alina in the original book just for some property and food under the latter's persuasion.

In Fang Ark's eyes today, the conflict between Tallulah and Kocety is precisely the collision between liberalism and conservatism mixed with superman political thought.

Fang Zhou looked at the red dragon who was still arguing with Koschei and roaring angrily.

She is actually stronger than many people think, and she is also more correct than many people think. She can correctly look at the good and evil in the world, and can distinguish between specific hatred and distorted hatred. She understands that what she should hate is not those specific people, but the deep suffering of this land itself and the Ursus Empire system and the social environment under it that constantly breeds suffering.

But even if Tallulah was right, at the end of the original story, she still succumbed to the black snake's curse.

Is it because Tallulah is wrong? No, Tallulah is right, but she is not right enough. There is still something missing in her thinking, but it is that small omission that is fatal.

Fang Zhou, who had fully understood the reason, looked at Tallulah and Black Snake who were in a stalemate again, and realized that the time had come and there was no point in continuing the stalemate.

Turning his head to look at Bozhukasti and Froststar and the others, Fang Ark nodded, and they also nodded to show that they understood.

call----!

There was a sudden whistling sound behind her, and before the alien Draco could react, several pitch-black spears had already hit her back!

"Um--!"

The bombardment of the spear brought more than just a muffled groan. The hands that were in a stalemate with Tallulah suddenly lost their strength, allowing Tallulah to find the right opportunity and directly raised her hand upwards to break the stalemate. At the moment when the alien Drake was wide open, she flew over and kicked him several times, causing him to retreat repeatedly.

The alien Draco flew backwards away from Tallulah, trying to steady his trembling body. He felt that his body had been seriously injured due to the attack from both sides. The situation was no longer optimistic, but he was still mocking.

"What? Are we finally going to attack together? You still can't refute me on your own, Tallulah. With you like this, even if you defeat me today, you will definitely end up on that so-called ideal path you're on. Unreasonable malice will tear apart your pure dreams, and those incorrigible vices will prevent you from clinging to your ardent ideals. Tallulah, your future has never changed!"

"shut up!"

"Lock On!"

"Freeze!"

"Flame Arms! HiHiHiHi! Blazing!"

The two cold fire blades in the hands of the Knight of Living Flame burst out with scorching flames. As she rushed towards the alien Draco, the evil spears in the hands of the three ghost guards in her shadow were already ready.

The evil breath rushed past, and black smoke left a trail in the air.

With a piercing sound, the demonic spear pierced through the chest of the alien Draco.

Ice condensed beside Frost Star. The dark black ice was entangled by the remaining evil aura around it the moment it appeared, and it flew through the limbs of the alien Drake at a high speed.

"Mera Mera Squash!"

Pushing down the blade-shaped push rod of the War Driver, the flames exploded and wrapped around the cold fire ice blade to form two beams of hot flames. The next moment, Frost Star appeared behind Alien Draco, and the two beams of flames whipped Alien Draco in an X shape on his back.

"boom----!"

There was a loud explosion, and the alien Draco flew back with a cry, while at this time Tallulah slowly landed on the ground after recovering from a flying kick.

The dragon landed on the ground, touched the snow with his toes, pressed the button on the Draco driving watch head with one hand, and pressed the button on the top of the driver. Amid the sound effects of "Finish Time" and "Time Burst", flames were burning, and the leg with the letters "rider kick" interspersed in it kicked the alien Draco in the chest counterclockwise.

At that moment, time seemed to stop.

The knight's power rushed into the body of the alien Draco. In the chest area of the latter's body, the control watch containing the power of the alien Draco was shattered by this force!

boom!

Transforming into a wisp of purple shadow, the Alien Draco flew into the snow forest, crashing into and breaking trees. Finally, the snow waves flying in the distance announced the end of the Alien Draco.

"Hu-hu-hu-"

Tallulah breathed heavily, slowly stood up, removed the Draco control dial on the driver, and the majestic knight armor turned into illusion and disappeared, and Frost Star also lifted the transformation.

"it's over?"

The snow waves in the distance gradually subsided. Tallulah looked at her hands and couldn't believe it. She had just defeated Kosice!

Although she hadn't defeated him mentally as Alina had hoped, didn't this mean that she was finally free? Could she finally move forward confidently? No longer needing to be so timid as to not even dare to reflect on herself?

"It's over, Tallulah."

Fang Zhou came to Tallulah's side, his tone filled with sincere congratulations and joy.

"Congratulations, you have gained true freedom at this moment."

Tallulah's eyes flickered, and she slowly looked around her: Froststar, Alina, Bodracasti, the shield guards, and...Ark.

She defeated Kosciuszko and her own nightmare, but Tallulah did not feel as ecstatic as she had originally imagined. Instead, she felt calm, as if defeating Kosciuszko was not something worthy of praise, just like kicking a pebble on the side of the road casually.

"You're wondering why you don't feel joy."

Ark spoke out what was in Tallulah's heart.

"Yeah. I thought I would be happy after defeating that long black worm, but in fact, I don't seem to feel that way. Instead, I feel quite indifferent."

"this is normal."

Fang Zhou said with a smile.

"Because defeating Kosciuszko is only a small step for you. The most important thing is, as we said before, you only defeated him, but not his ideology. Tallulah, your future mission is to correctly refute the poison in Black Snake's ideology. Use your theories to refute him, and then lead the Reunion Movement into the future with new ideas."

Fang Zhou was holding the "Demon's Advent Calendar" in his hand, and it seemed that speaking like this made him feel particularly special.

"Tallulah, you are blazing a new trail. The future of the infected and the oppressed still has a long way to go, but on this land, in the history of this Terra, you will eventually leave a mark of unparalleled significance."

There was a gleam in the red dragon's eyes. She looked up at the bright sun in the sky. The sunlight was not dazzling in this northern tundra, but it was still enough to dispel the haze in people's hearts.

The sunlight hit Tallulah's face, and she smiled and nodded slightly.

"Well, Kosice is just a small milestone. There is still a long way to go in the future."

The wind blew through the red dragon's hair, which was silvery white and looked beautiful in the sun.

"But speaking of it Fang Zhou, have you forgotten something?"

"what?"

"Old stubborn man, what do you think of Tallulah's performance just now?"

"……very nice."

"So, now you can show us your face!"

"No, you're still thinking about this?!"

"Don't talk, take off your helmet and let me see it!"

"Wait, wait, don't force me! I'll take it off, I'll take it off!"

A rustling sound was heard beside Kosice, who was already on the verge of death.