Chapter 241: Froggertos Mistake (1/2)
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A young and arrogant prince had proclaimed something that would end in the ultimate demise of an entire civilization…
Growing conceited and having security as a given, the Kingdom of the frog-kin grew with a corrupt aristocrat family, which turned into some sort of royal family where a governor was selected sometimes.
The prince named Froggerto Von Swamp VIII ended learning about the guardian's egg, and decided to take it for himself so he could raise it as a pet, and then have a massive frog as their guardian.
Of course, there were those that tried to stop him, specially the shamans who said that would only enrage the guardian and this would be the demise of their civilization.
”Stop at once, prince! If you do this, you'll risk all of us dying…!”
”Nonsense! That giant frog won't even realize, it is simply sleeping there in the water, what can it even detect? I will take whatever I want! Hehe, I will raise it into a strong frog, and them, I will mount it one day! It will be glorious!”
Of course, it ended badly, and it was all due to his stupidity… they should had raised him better, less conceited, but he was a lost cause at the end, and what he did ended ruining everything.
They had somehow managed to steal the egg while the frog slept at night, but when the prince finally saw the egg and the little tadpole inside opened its eyes and saw him, was when things began.
The mother woke up that morning, desiring to groom her beloved egg which she had been taking care for dozens of years. Every morning she took it out of the water and licked it, taking out any algae or critter that might try to grow over it or take advantage of it, this way, it was always clean.
However, to her surprise… there wasn't any egg in her usual nest which was filled with grass. It was a small pond above the land where she protected it… but it was gone…
Her presence and power was so strong that no predator ever got near, they knew that if they ever dared to touch her or the egg, they would be as good as dead, every animal knew this innately.
Yet… the most stupid of them all did not, the frog-kin, which also resulted to be the most intelligent.
Ignorant as they were, the frog-kin didn't deserved such fate, but their stupid and arrogant prince ruined their peaceful nation, and everything they had ever built.
Enormous tremors came that day, like they had never felt before.
The mother followed the scent of her egg, and reached the civilization that had been growing at her side, which she had mostly let it be, as it was of no importance or annoyance to her.