Dragon Genesis: I Can Create Dragons

Chapter 384: Is he truly… that overwhelmingly strong…?

“Hahahaha!!”

Henry laughed out loud, his laugh echoing throughout the Wall, almost as if he wanted every soldier to hear it.

It was such a random action that for a moment, James was confused. Soon, however, his frown deepened and—

“…did you finally lose your mind when I told you to sing?”

He questioned.

The rest of the soldiers seemed quite confused as well, but then—

“You sure are coming up with random bullshit!”

Henry laughed even harder.

“Why didn’t you tell us you had such skill!? You could have become a top-notch jester!”

James didn’t lose his temper, rather—

“Trying to insult the other is what people usually fall to when they have nothing to say.”

He spoke calmly.

“You have been manipulated so deeply that your eyes do not even wish to see the truth. Instead of trying to make your point, you laugh at others who have the ability to think.

I am glad not all of us are like you, else we would have collapsed a long time ago.”

He shook his head, expressing his disappointment. The fact that almost no soldier was laughing together with Henry gave him more confidence.

It was his victory.

Or that was what he believed…

But—

Just as James turned around, not wanting to waste his time on these fanatics—

“You are mixing coming up with random bullshit with thinking.”

Henry spoke up and James paused.

He turned around again, facing Henry, and the soldier continued,

“You come up with all these theories, but did you for once, think through it?

Lady Lavinia and Lord Kael are together with the Stonefangs? They informed them about the weakened state of the Wall?

Why would they do it?

And if they did, why would they stop them?

To win our trust?

Our trust?

What are they going to do with that?

What value do you think our trust has?”

Henry questioned and for an instant, all of the Wall turned silent.

“The only value we have is our resources, our food that was stored in our granary. That is all the Stonefangs and all the other tribes outside care about.

And if Lady Lavinia and Lord Kael hadn’t acted, all that value would have been plundered. And do you know what would have been left?

Our people’s bodies, bodies that were starved to death, unable to survive the winters.

Because let me tell you this now, James, if the Stonefangs had taken our food, we would have no way to retrieve it, not when we were already a hundred men down and Lord Kael and Lady Lavinia were on their side.

Because no one—not Young Patriarch Kayden, not Commander Korvath, not the Matriarch—none of them would have been able to defeat Lord Kael even if they went against him together.

Because mortals simply cannot stand against a God.”

Henry declared confidently, and none of the hundred soldiers who had seen what Kael did in the battle thought those words were false or exaggerated even for a slight second.

It was a confidence so unshakable that even though these soldiers were in the minority, their eyes flared with such intensity that other soldiers faltered.

And Henry did not stop there. He stepped forward, getting close to James and—

“You say the two of them are with enemies and we are too blind to see it?

Does this mean you believe Lord Commander and the Matriarch are blind like us as well?”

James blinked at those words.

“I—”

He tried saying something but—

“I can assure you, James. Your thought process isn’t unique. The Drakthar Princess will be everyone’s first suspect if they were told to guess the traitor.

Do you think Lord Commander and the Matriarch did not think of that?”

“…”

James opened his mouth and no words came out.

He… could not come up with a retort. None of the soldiers who were on his side all this while could.

There was no way Lord Korvath and Lady Morvain wouldn’t have thought of that…

Then…

“Do you know why they didn’t say anything?”

Henry questioned and James gulped and shook his head with an uncertain look on his face.

“Because they saw.”

Henry answered.

“The two of them saw… what we saw.

The two of them saw what Lord Kael did.

And they knew…

If Lord Kael and Lady Lavinia were indeed the enemies like you think they are, they wouldn’t need such trickery to destroy us.

With two hundred and fifty Stonefangs behind them, they would have all the power they wanted to level our army, and there would have been nothing me, you, or they could have done to stop them.”

Henry spoke, his voice echoing throughout the Wall as a heavy silence fell on the place. James seemed to have frozen on the spot; he couldn’t even believe he was talking to his comrade right now.

It… it felt like he was talking to an entirely different person.

Henry, on the other hand, stepped even closer to James, looked into his eyes and—

“James, what we saw was not an illusion, it was not a trick or a manipulation.

What we saw was the raw display of Absolute Power.

Power that does not belong to humans.

Power that… burned the mighty Stonefang warriors till not even their ashes were left.

As to why he didn’t annihilate all of the Stonefangs?”

Henry paused for a moment and…

“We call it the Dragon God’s mercy.”

He spoke, his eyes once again showing absolute reverence as he stared in Kael’s direction.

“He did not kill because he did not want pointless death.”

Henry spoke, and once again, the entire area turned silent.

It wasn’t just the soldiers—Kayden, listening to Henry’s words from afar, slowly turned towards Korvath and—

“Lord Commander…”

He called out.

“Is it true?”

He questioned.

“Would we… really not be able to stop him even if all three of us fought together…?

Is he truly… that overwhelmingly strong…?”

Kayden asked, his voice full of uncertainty, and Korvath…

He stayed silent for a while and then—

“Yes.”

He gave a simple answer.

I am officially 23 now.

Just one more year before I truly relate to ’24’ by Sundial.

Ugghhh…

I am getting closer and closer to death…

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