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Chapter 50 Bronya, what price are you willing to pay?

Perhaps Koklia had some hidden difficulties, or perhaps Belloberg's situation had truly reached an absolute abyss.

The expanding rift, the gradually tightening living area, the slowly disappearing protective barrier, and the depleted earth marrow... all weighed on Cocolia like boulders.

The desperate situation that Beloberg would have faced without the appearance of Su Nian and the Star Train led Cocolia to place her hopes on the Star Core.

The only way is through cooperation between the star cores to create a new world.

However, voting for the Star Core was a mistake. She was wrong from the very beginning, and there is no way to whitewash it.

Cocolia betrayed Belloberg, betrayed Cuanhu, and betrayed Ariello.

No sacrifice is too great to be accepted, and no betrayal too small to be forgiven.

"If possible, I will investigate."

Bronya said with a complicated expression, or rather, without even investigating, she knew that there were many complaints about Cocolia within the Silvermane Iron Guard.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to secure her position as commander of the Silver Mane Iron Guard so easily.

At this moment, Bronya seemed to remember something, strengthened her resolve, and asked Su Nian.

What are the typical consequences of being corrupted by a star's core?

It's hard to believe, but what if Cocolia really was corrupted by the star core...?

For her mother's sake, she had to ask Su Nian.

"What happens if it is fragmented and eroded? It will happen if it is eroded by the star core, only the erosion by the star core will be many times more severe."

Su Nian said calmly, although in his memory, the only known example of someone being corroded by a star core was Cocolia.

"Being corrupted by the Rift... will turn you into a Rift Monster."

Bronya felt her body go limp and she could barely stand.

"If Mother is truly corrupted by the star core... will she also turn into a monster?"

"The rifts are all emitted from the star core, don't you think?"

Su Nian asked a question in return, then stretched and found a place to sit down, leaving Bronya standing there swaying.

He decided to give Bronya some time to calm down and think things through.

Now that things have come to this, shouldn't Bronya be ready to accept reality?

If all else fails, Schwarzroth still has the most crucial evidence.

After a while, Bronya steadied herself, walked to the opposite side of Su Nian, and asked in a complicated tone with a hint of expectation.

"If someone is corrupted by a star's core, is there any hope for her?"

"There's no saving him, he's beyond saving, just wait to die."

Su Nian's three consecutive Bian Que-style slapstick rebuke dispelled Bronya's idea.

Not everyone has the special constitution of a star to become a container for a star core. For ordinary people, coming into contact with a star core usually means only death.

"But I heard before that you can resurrect people?"

Bronya remembered what Su Nian had told her about the origins of those powerful warriors when she first arrived in the lower district—that he had been resurrected to help the warriors of the lower district.

Upon hearing this, Su Nian's lips curled into a mysterious smile.

"That depends on what price you're willing to pay." Cocolia, corrupted by the star core, is indeed beyond saving, but that doesn't mean Su Nian can't preserve her consciousness and create a new body to revive her.

But how could the price for resurrecting a person be so low? And how could there be such a cheap thing in the world?
Even though it wasn't difficult for him.

As Su Nian said this, she crossed her legs and waited for Bronya's reply.

Bronya blinked, looked at Su Nian, and bit her lip.

What price do you expect me to pay?

To be honest, Bronya still finds it hard to believe that her mother, Cocolia, has been corrupted by the Star Core, after all, she is the Great Guardian.

But what if? Although those are all Su Nian's side of the story, she would never admit it until she sees real evidence.

However, judging from Su Nian's expression, it's not that she lacks evidence or certainty.

Moreover, no matter what, Cocolia was the mother who raised her and taught her how to be a person, and she loved her most. So no matter what the cost, she would try to save her mother if possible.

"As for the price, it's a life for a life. Since I resurrected your mother, then you will be the price for that resurrection."

Su Nian pinched her chin, looked Bronya up and down, and then said.

Suddenly, he thought it was quite enjoyable to occasionally play the villain, especially when he saw Bronya standing in front of him with a humiliated and forced expression.

"Of course, you can pay the price after I revive Cocolia."

"But one thing you need to know is that since I can revive her, I can naturally take back the life I gave her at any time."

Su Nian smiled as she looked at Bronya's conflicted expression.

He now understood why some people liked to persuade respectable women to fall into depravity and to persuade prostitutes to reform themselves, because their conflicted expressions were indeed quite interesting.

Bronya looked at Su Nian in silence, her face expressionless.

"I hope you will remember our promise."

Would I trade my body for my mother's life? My mother might... no, she definitely wouldn't be willing, would she?
But for her mother, she was willing to pay any price.

Moreover, the Great Guardian's destiny dictates that she will never marry, so what does it matter?

Or rather, this is already the lightest price to pay.

Bronya bit her lip, trying to comfort herself.

But a glimmer of hope remained in her heart: that her mother had not truly been corrupted by the star core, and that she was still the Great Guardian, only having made many wrong choices.

However, Bronya seemed to have overlooked one thing: Cocolia was destined to die no matter what.

Even if she wasn't corrupted by the star core, just the fact that she caused the deaths of countless Silvermane Iron Guards and sealed off the upper and lower zones, leading to the eruption of the rift in the lower zone, already indicates that she is destined to face reckoning.

That only proves that Cocolia is a true insect, an even more despicable Great Guardian than [The Fool] Hilir, and is destined to be nailed to the pillar of shame.

"Of course."

Su Nian smiled and waved her hand.

"In fact, instead of thinking about these things, you should be thinking about how to make up for the mistakes Cocolia made."

"We are now on the path to saving Belloberg, so what about you? What actions have you taken?"

However, Su Nian made no mention of Bronya's current kidnapping.

(End of this chapter)