World’s End: My Keyword is One More Than Others

Huangfu Yue's mouth formed an 'O' shape.

Then.

She blinked a few times forcefully, looking at the martial arts field where several Prenatal Realm experts were left in just their underpants, and involuntarily swallowed.

It was confirmed!

He Xu was indeed the Heavenly Demon, and a perverted one at that—not only towards women but also men...

Luckily, there was water in the moat that night. The water snake He Xu controlled stirred beneath her clothes, unseen by anyone.

Otherwise, in front of so many soldiers, if her clothes had been stripped off...

Huangfu Yue's heart skipped a few beats. She quickly pushed the image out of her mind, thankful once again for the water.

...

What just happened?

In the blink of an eye, the clothes of those seemingly formidable Prenatal Realm experts were torn off.

Wasn't the imperial teacher a sorcerer?

How could his martial skills be so absurdly high...

To instantly strip the clothes off more than ten Prenatal Realm experts—even if he wasn't a grandmaster, he was close enough!

Is this the Heavenly Demon?

"Gentlemen, my apologies!" Du Ge smiled, tossing the clothes in his hand to the stunned men. Now that he had a clear understanding of his own strength, he felt completely at ease.

The anxiety brought on by days of busyness vanished along with the clothes he had stripped off those men.

After experiencing the joy of stripping enemies on the last Alien Star Battlefield and perfecting it in the last Simulation Field, Du Ge had grown fond of this combat style that could instantly conquer hearts.

And Leng Shi's expertise in lightness skill and assassination perfectly complemented the stripping mode.

If you could strip someone in battle, you could take their life.

Moreover, being stark naked would deliver a strong psychological blow to the enemy, making them feel exposed and vulnerable. This would make them tense, embarrassed, and even flustered in battle, significantly reducing their combat effectiveness.

Once his reputation spread, female experts would often be intimidated before even fighting him... In short, it was all benefits and no drawbacks.

The more than ten Prenatal Realm experts took their clothes, bowed to Du Ge, and silently retreated to the side.

The sense of superiority they had felt, thinking they could control the lives of He Xu and Luo Shuang at any moment, was completely gone.

They even felt a bit of lingering fear, realizing that they had been walking on a knife's edge all this time. If the prince had given the order to harm the Fourth Princess, they would have been dead on the spot.

He Xu's challenge to a martial arts contest was probably a warning to them!

...

Du Ge stepped forward, standing in the middle of the martial arts field, and looked around at the shocked soldiers. He said loudly, "Comrades, I know the rumors about my identity have made you anxious these past few days. I also know that the pincer attack from Wei Tingjiang and Cao Lin has caused panic.

Fear of death is normal, I understand. If you weren't forced into a corner, who would want to go to war?

In war, the higher-ups give you weapons, the wealthy provide money and food, and the children of the poor give their lives.

If we win, the emperor gains more land, the generals earn merit, and the wealthy continue to make money. And you? You might just be lucky enough to come back alive;

If we lose, the emperor might lose some territory, the wealthy some money, but all you leave behind are lonely graves or a lifetime of disability;

From beginning to end, you are the ones who give the most and gain the least.

After a battle, the history books will only record that in a certain battle, the Chongming Kingdom suffered a great defeat, with fifty thousand casualties among the officers and soldiers. You will be part of that fifty thousand, and apart from your parents, wives, and children, no one will remember your names..."

Silence, a long silence. The already desperate morale now carried a hint of sorrow.

Huangfu Yue frowned, completely unable to understand what Du Ge was doing.

Controlling these low-level soldiers with food and military law should be enough. Why tell them all this? Wasn't he afraid they would rebel?

Luo Shuang also frowned slightly.

"Are you unwilling? Are you in pain?" Du Ge's eyes slowly swept over the soldiers below. With his true energy enhancing his voice, it reached every corner of the training ground, clearly entering everyone's ears.

Du Ge clearly saw many soldiers clenching their fists, their eyes reddening, and even their breathing quickening in his ears.

"The wealthy have accumulated their fortunes over generations, possibly being deceived and taken advantage of along the way, but they persevered and accumulated their wealth, passing down their experiences bit by bit;

The generals have also killed enemies on the battlefield, stayed up late studying military books, and practiced martial arts at dawn, achieving their accomplishments." Du Ge chuckled and continued, "But what do you have? No accumulation from your fathers, not as much effort as others, and when faced with danger, you only think of retreating, of getting by. Just one Cao Lin scared you out of your wits. You can't blame anyone for your current fate."

The soldiers were deeply stung by these words.

Boom!

The suppressed resentment and anger erupted instantly. Many soldiers turned their hateful gazes towards Du Ge on the platform, gripping their weapons tightly.

If not for Du Ge's powerful display of force earlier, they would have already rushed up and torn him to pieces.

"Do you want to change your fate?" Du Ge restrained his smile and took another step forward. "Today, I tell you clearly, your opportunity has come. In a peaceful Chongming Kingdom, you will never rise above others in your lifetime. Your children and grandchildren will forever repeat your lives..."

"Think about such a life, how tragic and hopeless it would be." Du Ge took a deep breath, raising his voice, "But a chaotic Chongming Kingdom is different. With your own hands, you can break free from everything that confines you, and everyone will have a chance to rise above others.

Most of you may not become generals or prime ministers, but if you fight, you can live better than most.

When the Fourth Princess conquers Chongming Kingdom, its wealth will be distributed to you; when she conquers Qingwu Kingdom, its wealth will be distributed to you.

It all depends on whether you are willing to fight! You are not fighting for the Fourth Princess, you are fighting for yourselves, for your descendants.

To put it nicely, we are helping the Fourth Princess reclaim her throne. To put it bluntly, we are a bunch of rebels. How can rebels survive? By snatching meat from others' mouths, by seizing territory from others' hands.

Today, let me tell you the essence of war.

The essence of war is a process of resource redistribution. Perhaps most of you don't understand what resource redistribution is?

Let me explain. Resource redistribution means turning the wealth of the rich into ours, making them poor while you gain land and money, becoming the new rich. As long as we win, you will be the new nobles, the new generals..."

The soldiers' agitated emotions gradually stabilized, their gazes locking onto Du Ge.

"Are nobles and generals born to be different? The ones who should worry about me being the Heavenly Demon are not you, but those high and mighty, idle lords! The prime minister is also a Heavenly Demon, yet the Emperor of Chongming still uses him. The concubine of the King of Chu is a Heavenly Demon, yet the King of Chu still * her in bed...

So what if I'm a Heavenly Demon? What the gods can't give you, the Heavenly Demon can. What the emperor can't give you, the Heavenly Demon can..."

Du Ge raised his sword high, his voice powerful and resonant, full of infectious energy, "Future generals, future landlords, future wealthy men, tell me loudly, are you willing to follow the Heavenly Demon, are you willing to fight for yourselves?"

"Willing." The soldiers' emotions were fully stirred. They raised their spears and pikes, their eyes bloodshot, like bloodthirsty wolves.

"Tell me, are you willing to rise above others?" Du Ge asked again.

"Willing." The soldiers' roars echoed to the heavens, deafening.

"Good, then fight, then seize, then risk your lives to win battles." Du Ge smiled, his voice growing even more powerful, "Remember, you are fighting for yourselves, not for the Fourth Princess, not for me.

You are different from those soldiers fighting for Chongming Kingdom. They live for others, you live for yourselves. If we win, we win the future, we win the glory and wealth for our descendants. Shout with me, live for yourselves."

"Live for ourselves." The soldiers shouted in unison.

"Fight for yourselves." Du Ge said.

"Fight for ourselves." The soldiers' shouts shook the sky.

Huangfu Yue looked at the soldiers, now as if injected with adrenaline, in astonishment.

Luo Shuang was deep in thought.

Du Ge pressed his hand down, and the training ground fell silent again, but the soldiers' momentum was now completely different from before.

"Of course, asking you to fight is not asking you to die." Du Ge's gaze swept over the excited soldiers, "Today, I displayed my martial prowess not for anything else but to reassure you that Chongming Kingdom has its war gods and grandmasters, and so do we.

Soldiers will fight soldiers, generals will fight generals. The Cao Lin you can't defeat, I will fight. The tough bones you can't chew, I will chew.

I will show you how I strip the war god of his armor on the battlefield and trample him underfoot. From now on, in every battle, as the main general, I will charge at the front, living and dying with you..."