Chapter 128: Chapter 127: Lagus Aman, Part IV (1/2)
Chapter 128: Chapter 127: Lagus Aman, Part IV
Translator: HunterW
Editor: RED
There were a huge number of Ravi Guild members surrounding me, but I barely noticed them. I just glared at the Aman family with my spear held tightly in my right hand.
At that moment, Lagus fell to his knees in front of me and bowed his head. ”I'm terribly sorry about this. I was the one who invited you… this is entirely my fault.”
”Ah…” Muskan dropped to her knees as well. ”I apologize as well. I just…wanted you to help me free my friends and family from oppression…” she said, tears streaming down her face.
Watching them beg for my forgiveness somehow cooled down the anger that was boiling up to my eyes. The two people who pissed me off the most just threw themselves at my feet; it'd be wrong if I stayed angry and started killing everybody. The glass had already been spilt; what else could I do?
”Ha….” I sighed as I returned my spear into my inventory.
At Akashwi's signal the guards left the tent and closed the flap. It wouldn't be right to show the entire guild Lagus on his knees. I sat back down on my chair.
”Please forgive me. I was only thinking about myself. I just…”
A thought crossed my mind as I watched Muskan cry. How did someone like her obtain the Descendant of the God of Destruction? As far as I knew, random skills could only be received by devas who had fulfilled certain requirements. Random skills were something of a badge to prove to others just how strong someone was.
A random skill as powerful as the Descendant of the God of Destruction must have had some crazy requirements that only a powerful deva could fulfill, but I couldn't see any sign of that powerful deva in the crying Muskan. She looked more pitiful than anything else.
Muskan's will to better the lives of the Shudras and the Dilats was unchanging. I wasn't scorning that will; I just disregarded it, as I was thinking only about myself. I put myself first, even though I had no idea what would happen to millions of people.
”Can you really not undo it?”
”No… I can't.”
”Why didn't you make a guild master of either the Sahtashwi Guild or the Beni-Kinant Guild a comrade?”
”They would have to be within three meters away from me… they would have also had someone else kill me, even if it meant they would incur a significant punishment. I am that much of a threat to them!”
I sighed heavily. ”Then what's this about a punishment.”
”I don't know about that, either.”
A vein pulsed on my temple. ”Then do you know about the reward?”
”I don't…”
This woman was dead weight. Hell, she was useless from the start when she couldn't keep quiet about her skill. She could have kept quiet about this whole thing and lived on a mountain in solitude until the skill was completely activated, and she would have been fine.
”I know what you're worrying about, but I can assure you that everything will be taken care of.”
”You know what I'm worrying about?”
”Yes.”
I doubted she even understood why I turned her down in the first place.
”I won't be able to do anything to you even after the skill is completely activated.”
”...”
”The same goes for Master Lagus here.”
”Because of the Comrade effect?”
”Yes. It is because of the Comrade effect and… anyway, it's the truth. I won't lie to you.”
I could see in her eyes a resolution I didn't see before in her. It was pretty overwhelming.
”Mr. Lee, I trust Muskan with my life. If it turns out she is lying, then I will serve you for the rest of my life as your slave.”
”What are you saying, my son?!” Sandip shouted in shock.
”Brother, no!” Akaswhi stood up too, incredulous at what his older brother just uttered.
I was taken aback, as well. I knew the kind of man Lagus Aman was in the past. He would never go back on his word. It was only with that honor that Lagus could create and lead the Liberation Army to such greatness. It was that honor that made Lagus the Alpha and Omega of the Liberation Army.
”Our plan is to use the Manori Creek as the final line of our defense. We have nowhere else to go if we get pushed back farther than this point. We will hold out here until Muskan's skill activates completely. It would be best if you leave this place now, Mr. Lee.” Lagus took a sip from his tea before continuing, ”Should we lose, we will compensate you for whatever loss you incur from the Comrade effect. Should we win… well, you'll get your reward either way.”
Lagus's calm words made me feel a bit sheepish for getting that angry. However, I didn't fully trust either of them yet. Muskan made a mess out of something so simple when she couldn't protect her precious secret. Her head was too high in the clouds for something so serious.