Chapter 987: Deep Camaraderie (1/2)
”I lost two-thirds of my men and this isn't going to bring them back,” Slank said after recovering from the shock. He no longer trusted Logue about anything especially after he admitted to using them as cannon fodder.
”Bryan, the Hegemons are done for and you have been avenged. We should no longer be fighting with each other! The situation now is urgent and we should deal with the remnant godhunters first. What do you say?” Tyre asked, finally calming himself down and spinning the situation around. As expected of a powerful overgod, his attitude immediately shifted the moment he saw that Han Shuo was far more powerful than them.
Han Shuo didn't care about what Tyre's intentions were and looked towards Omphalos coldly. ”My Celestial Pearl Pharmacy was still operating there with many of my subordinates among the staff. You blew up the whole place without giving me any previous notice to get my men out of there and now, they have perished in the explosion. Do you think I'll still be on your side after you just killed so many of mine?”
”Sacrifices are essential for the Fringe's victory! Bryan, you should be more open minded about this!”
”Why do you never have to sacrifice anything?”
”Why are we the only ones sacrificed?”
The other faction leaders complained without restraint, one louder than the other. They had suppressed these dissenting thoughts for quite some time and they came pouring out towards Logue and Tyre in one go after Han Shuo triggered it.
”That's right! Why did you sacrifice our men but never your own? Tyre, you've never cared about our wellbeing!” Karp snapped.
”Hahaha... Sir Logue is even better. He can sacrifice his loyal subordinates with no problem. Remember how he unhesitantly grabbed one of his men, who had served him for many hundred of years, to block a blow from Kauze before sneaking away? If he doesn't care about his own men's lives, why would he care about ours?” Slank said mockingly, having personally witnessed this at Osteoburg.
After witnessing Han Shuo's power, Karp and Slank's courage was inflated. They believed that before his impressive strength, Tyre and Logue wouldn't dare to harm them. However, it wasn't just the two of them.
”What are you guys saying? Do you want to mutiny?” Logue said after noticing that even his loyal followers seemed to be going against them.
The moment he snapped, the others lowered their heads. However, Slank and Karp weren't his subordinates and they chewed him out even more with Han Shuo backing them.
”You have a deathwish!” Logue suddenly lashed out at Slank as his venomous death energy gathered in the surroundings before a bone cage locked Slank up. Han Shuo knew that Logue would act. Watching from above, he unleashed the combined six energies towards them.
All of a sudden, the bone cage shattered apart. A great force pressed down on Logue, pinning him down so fast that he wasn't able to evade it. The force from the push caused him to spit out blood. With but a thought, the new domain sent down an odd power that seemed to entrap Logue like a net. Han Shuo also noticed that Tyre was about to sneak away and laughed. ”Tyre, I won't deal with you now. I would like to see what kind of chaos you can cause with Dhaka and his men.”
When he said that, Tyre's jaw dropped. ”What... what did you say?”
”Isn't Dhaka your elder brother? I bet you have already conspired with him to wipe out everyone else that survived the explosion, right? Two destruction overgods working together is sure to be terrifying. You're trying to count on that to turn everything around, right?” Han Shuo looked at Tyre with a mocking smile.
”What? Tyre's actually conspiring with Dhaka?!” Karp looked at the exposed Tyre with disbelief. ”It's no wonder! Tyre was among those who sold the Fringe out!”
This time around, everyone, not just Slank and Karp, were fueled with rage. The fact that Tyre was Dhaka's blood brother was something they couldn't even have fathomed. That meant that Tyre had been a traitor the whole time at was at least at half at fault for how badly the Fringe was faring against the godhunters.
Even Logue, trapped and as injured as he was, wore a face of disbelief. With a resigned laughter, he said, ”I see... Tyre, oh Tyre, you were planning to wipe me out with your brother Dhaka, huh? Hahaha... That way, you'd stand at the top of the Fringe with nobody being able to threaten your position.”
Tyre's expression was grimmer than it could ever be. He didn't utter a single word.
”Don't bother to argue your way out of this. Dhaka will be here in a moment. The truth will come to light then. I'd like to see if you'll be able to defeat me by working with Dhaka,” Han Shuo said with a smirk as he turned to look in the distance. Someone was coming and it couldn't be anyone but Dhaka.
”What's with that, Tyre? Why did you only destroy a fifth of Omphalos, your fifth of the place too!” Dhaka roared before he even arrived. The Hegemons in Omphalos hadn't all died from the explosion. Dhaka was faring really hard trying to regain control of the situation. His anger was hardly surprising, given how all his efforts over the years had been ruined.
That was all the proof they needed to show that he and Tyre were in fact brothers.
”What?!” Dhaka suddenly stopped. ”Bryan, why are you here?!”
He immediately recoiled at the thought of how powerful he was, still traumatized by the whole incident back at Pandemonium.
”Dhaka, I gave you a chance, but it seems that you don't appreciate it. Since you still haven't left the Fringe, you will never be able to!” Han Shuo turned to Tyre and said, ”Do you have anything else to say at this point?”
”Brothers, we just have to wipe Bryan out and the Fringe will be ours!” Tyre suddenly said as he laughed out of a sudden. Seeing that there were still some people who doubted him, he continued, ”That's right, Dhaka and I are indeed brothers. I have also made use of others. But aren't you all fine? I did this all for myself. In the future, you'll see that the Godhunter Alliance will not be a threat to us with me in charge. Isn't that what we have all been working towards?”
He was still trying to salvage any loyalty he had left. The subordinates who had followed him over the years seemed conflicted, but not one of them promised that they would fight by his side immediately. They didn't seem to be refusing either, choosing instead to remain silent.