398 Chapter 397 (2/2)
In the end, it wasn't that surprising... they had the numbers and people could get powerful even without fighting a single monster. So, it was only evident that something would happen sooner or later. The chances of the lizard not being involved in the fall of both China and India were big, but Leon would never be one hundred percent sure.
”Some individuals managed to seize power for themselves in China and India, so both countries were divided into many parts,” Ryoko said. ”Those who didn't want to take part in any more conflict between humans fled to other countries. However, even after fleeing to other places, many of them got kidnapped and brought back to their countries, they also kidnapped many civilians of other countries to use them.”
”It has been so long that I even forgot about them...” Ren said. ”So, that battle started like that, huh.”
”Yes, same here...” Yuki nodded. ”After so many years, my only memory remaining of that time was the cowardice of our pathetic allies.”
”I am expecting to hear details of this...” Leon said.
”Although many people got kidnapped, many managed to escape and get rescued...” Ryoko furrowed her eyebrows. ”At least that was we thought... we ignored those confinements camps for a while because they had unexpected powerful soldiers. So, the allied nations worked together to free them in quiet operations. We succeeded so many times that many started to worry that something was wrong, but we never figured out what it was... until some people started to get sick.”
”Sick?” Leon frowned.
”Yes, forty years after the new monsters appeared, people started to collapse,” Ryoko answered. ”They had symptoms of ordinary flu... but suddenly those sick people started to explode, and one could compare the damage of such explosion to strategic missiles. In the beginning, we thought that was an alien disease. But after suffering many attacks at the same time several people exploded, we understood that wasn't a disease. It was a spell that was put on some survivors that makes their mana concentrate for a few days at a small point. After the mana reaches a certain level, it would explode.”
”Let me guess, those who seized power to themselves after the unrest in India and China caused that,” Leon said.
”Yes, since they have the power to erase memories and control people, we would only notice who was being used by them when it was too late,” Ryoko explained. ”After suffering many losses, Your Majesty decided to exterminate those people and their small kingdoms.”
”I didn't think you would be able to take such a decision,” Leon looked at Yuki.
”I still remember that time,” Yuki closed her eyes. ”I endured my anger even when some of my most loyal advisors died, but after seeing kids exploding and survivors losing their friends and relatives in front of them and like that, I made my choice. I will never let terrorists make my people suffer ever again. I decided to crush them to bits, and so I did.”