Chapter 314: Decree (2/2)
”The Decree has served its purpose. From here on out, you're free to decide whether you wanted to go back to your tribes or follow me to repay the graciousness of the Great One I am serving.”
Why can't she name the Great One though? Or is it something that shouldn't be uttered carelessly? But I got Zaraya and Rhellor's name from the mouths of the Mortal Ranks…
”I thank the graciousness of the Great One. I am someone known not to bother with repaying kindness but I don't mind looking for a new place to stay at.”
”This old rug… I will not be able to go back on my tribe at the moment, please let me repay the Great One's graciousness.”
”This… I just want to die. Can any of you kill me?”
Let's ignore Yatapa. Klement and Irja expressed their desire to follow, albeit Klement said it in a roundabout way.
This situation, should I also follow along with them or…?
When I was seen deliberating on how to answer, the Exalted's melodic voice suddenly rang out in my mind.
”Can you follow us for now? The Great One took a huge risk by using the Decree to release everyone locked up in the Irreverent Dungeons to avoid suspicion. I will be in charge of sending you back to a Mortal World.”
With a nod, the Exalted ended her telepathic message to me.
She was really sent by the red-veiled woman... Did this confirm that she's one of the Great Ones?
Because of the usage of Energy to do that, the others noticed it. Irja raised one of her eyebrows while Klement acted as if it didn't concern him.
”I understand. I am concerned about the Monarch I have no idea I offended. Let me repay the graciousness of the Great One.”
Still going with the made-up story I told them, I'm trying to steer their attention away from the use of telepathy of the Exalted towards me. However, I'm certain that they built some doubts about my identity.
My appearance and the Decree happening within a day, it's more than just a coincidence. Add to that the broken Chain and this Exalted's use of telepathy to tell me something.
Only those dumb ones will see nothing wrong with this series of events. Perhaps if one of these three chose not to follow her, they will be executed to silence them. Who knows how far the reach of Worldy and the red-veiled woman is?
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Two hours later, after using four Teleportation Formations which I learned that every town, city and tribal capital has at least one, our group led by Exalted who named herself Alwyn reached the Tribal Capital of Dafirae Tribe. One of the three main tribes under the Great One who sent down the decree.
Compared to the city and towns we passed by, this Tribal Capital couldn't be compared to any of it. There are towering scarlet pagodas in any direction I turn to and there are no more black brick structures, instead, the architecture of this place reminds me more of a Chinese or Korean period-drama.
Because I'm trying to avoid exposing my real identity to the other three prison-mates, I didn't ask them about the common information such as the identity of the six Great Ones or the name of the 30 main tribes. It will surely be interpreted as suspicious if I didn't know any of that.
After arriving, we continued to be led by Alwyn as we passed through houses and structures until we reached a wide square filled with various groups of Dark World denizens numbering more than a hundred.
And just judging by the faint aura they were exuding, everyone was at least a Rank 1 Transcendent. To see this many Transcendents in one place… I finally got a glimpse of the difference between a Mortal World and a Transcendent World.