Episode 237
Episode 89. Rugal Raijin (4)
Until now, there was no way to resist Hwa.
Yuma heard those meaningful words and realized that Rugal harbored hostile feelings towards Hwa.
Who would like the master who became an unwilling slave?
‘It feels infinitely strange that a dragon expresses itself as a slave.’
Yuma waited for Rugal’s next words.
[I originally lived with Zeil, the god of light. Hwa took everything from Geil, so I became his property too. After becoming like a black dragon hybrid.]
“Are you saying it was Hwa’s order to take the real Rugal’s body to strengthen the imperial authority and activate the slave market?”
[no. That is my own resistance. It’s like a struggle.] “Resistance. I don’t know in what way that could be resistance.”
[The real Rugal was a crazy warmonger. If it were not for me, the West and the East would have fought a great war.
And Hwa is a god who prefers death even more than Amanzo.] “Does his power become stronger as many people die?”
[Yes. I guess Krysa Ainu told me. I became the emperor of the Rugal Raijin East in order to slow down Hwa’s recovery of power.] The
real name of this Black Dragon, who is now living the life of Rugal, is Soluto. However, after becoming a member of Hwa’s family, the name was meaningless to him.
It was because Zile, who gave it its name, had disappeared.
After becoming a member of Hwa, Soluto wandered aimlessly around the world for a while. Like a disabled person who has lost the purpose of life but cannot die. It was over a thousand years.
The life of a slave with a will was cruel. Hwa tied him up as a member of his household, but he didn’t have the energy to use it properly. During the time he was forcibly neglected, Soluto’s hostility toward Hwa only grew.
Then one day, Soluto had the idea that humans were unnecessarily causing too many wars.
For Soluto, the war was no different from ‘recovery of Hwa’.
Coincidentally, Rugal, the ruler of the East, fell ill and was working today and tomorrow, so Soluto decided to take his body and control some of the human warfare himself.
Soluto didn’t just occupy Rugal’s body. He absorbed the memory and entire life of a human named Rugal with the Dragon Word Magic and became the absolute power in the East, implementing a policy to avoid a great war between the two sides.
The fake Rugal Soluto explained these things to Yuma step by step.
“Lasa describes the real Rugal in her memory as a gentle person.”
[The gaze of blood relatives cannot be objective. The real Rugal took good care of his blood and flesh. And most of the blood relatives were eager to share even a little more of Rugal’s power by winning the ball.]
Of course, the easiest, fastest and most efficient way to build the ball was to win the war. War requires money, so Soluto, who became Rugal, closed the imperial warehouse.
And the real Rugal withdrew all the war plans he was preparing. Absolute power was needed to confront the numerous opposition of powerful subjects, and purges were the best way to strengthen the imperial authority.
[If you kill a hundred servants who are thirsty for war, it’s like saving a million people.] Although the
castle of Eltainer has become incomparably more bloody than before, the people’s lives have become more and more prosperous.
From the point of view of his servants, he was an absolute tyrant, but from the point of view of the people, he was close to a sage.
Of course, Rugal was not really for the people. In other words, he just ruled for the sake of the result of ‘less human beings dying’. He had no interest in human life or values.
‘Well, even before the return, it was strange that the East and the West were not at war.’
While serving as a eunuch, Yuma experienced many wars. Yuma was in the meeting room of the imperial castle even when the Kyle Empire pushed Haseo to the brink of destruction and even when the Helga Kingdom was destroyed.
Even after returning, Yuma himself decorated the end of the war of aggression that made Ahmad kingdom a vassal state of the empire. It is said with Duran Jacques.
Throughout the West there have always been countries at war. At the same time, one thing Yuma realized was that wars continue to break out even for no apparent reason.
It was to the extent that it was considered instinctive for humans to trample humans and put them under their feet. The reason why the West and the East did not wage a great war was purely because of Soluto.
[I will continue to suppress the war as much as possible to slow down the recovery of Hwa.]
“I can see why I said it as my own resistance. Why did the concubine cost so much?”
[To make an excuse. If you show loopholes like a concubine is an incompetent person, there will be servants who step out recklessly. It means that there is a justification for the purge.]
“If that’s the case, there must be people who are properly preparing for rebellion.”
[Do you think it would be difficult for dragons to deal with humans? I have full control over the entire East.
At the same time, the warmongers of the West were preparing to deter them. By using people like Kyle’s Juan Spaser or Haseo’s Hakila.] “Ah.”
[Juan Spaser is originally a war fanatic like Asuka Rosena and Duran Zac. If he had let him continue to play, the West would surely have struck the East.]
“The most likely to cause a war would be His Majesty Asuka and my teacher rather than Sir Juan, but why didn’t they touch…
[King of Knights Duran Jacques. Approaching that grand master is a burden for me too. Besides, there’s even an ogre slayer nearby.
The West was like a bomb that didn’t know when it would explode.]
Master and Director Hugo are amazing. Yuma realized the majesty of the two Grand Masters anew.
Even the Black Dragon showed signs of giving up.
“great. Still, there is one part that doesn’t make sense.
What was it that activated the illegal slave market in the dark?”
[For Zeil’s sake.]
An answer without hesitation.
[All enslaved people were sold to the Zeilgyo.]
“What are you saying! To those pseudos?”
Xilkyo!
Yuma never expected that the name of the pseudo-religion would pop up at this moment.
[The Xyil religion is much larger than you think. Capital power is also considerable. With the money earned from selling slaves to them, you can add money to the rulers of the East and expect the reinstatement of Zeil, so from my point of view, killing one stone.] “What is the life of a human who was unjustly enslaved?”
[That’s none of my business. As the emperor of Kantra, he couldn’t reveal such a dark story to the world. That’s why he activated the slave market in the dark by using a figure like Lung Doge.]
“What is this crazy dragon saying…
Yuma stopped talking until there. Looking back on his life, including his time as a eunuch, he could never be said to be more righteous or good than Rugal.
In particular, after returning, Yuma was a person who enjoyed various privileges in the position of a strong man. Privilege comes only when someone is trampled on, so Yuma was also not free from those who suffered unfair damage.
Yuma kept the cause of the dragon horse war, and Rugal kept the cause of delaying the second coming of Hwa. There is just a difference in the gaze between humans and dragons.
[Yuma Drake. Do you think that Zailgyo is a perverted cult that pursues asceticism?] Yuma didn’t answer and glared at Rugal.
[When Hwa descends, this world is the end. Have you ever imagined a land where every leaf and every drop of sea water is stained with emptiness and no life can be found? The world that became the void itself.]
“Let’s keep talking.”
[The best way to get away from the void is pain. The ascetic culture of Jailgyo originated there. Death wakes up Hwa, but pain wakes up Zeil.]
“Isn’t that incompetent god of light unable to wake up without human pain? That fucking fake was actually an organization working for the world?”
[The light isn’t all that beautiful.]
Shuuuuuu…
Rugal’s huge body was dyed in black light. The body shrouded in light instantly shrank and became my human figure.
“ha.”
Rugal, who transformed into a human, let out a low sigh. Contrary to his miserable true appearance, which had his tongue stretched out and scales dropped, the human form of Rugal looked clean.
However, in the middle of the dragon heart that stood out on his forehead, it looked like a line of thick gold was engraved.
As Rugal swiped the Dragon Heart once with the palm of his hand, the scratches disappeared.
Illusion magic concealed the damaged part of the dragon heart.
“I also think it is infinitely unfair. But you humans die without experiencing this unjust and contradictory world for even a hundred years. But a dragon like me is not like that.”
It was a voice full of deep fatigue. He looked fine, but his breathing was irregular, and he could tell that he was still struggling.
“You have to endure for a long time close to eternity. If human beings are given such a terrible time, they could rather go mad. commit suicide I am a body that is bound to Hwa and cannot die at will.”
“Ha…
“He must be waiting for me to collapse and become a demon. You misunderstood that I got Arilla because you summoned Amula from this dimension of the void.”
There was a long silence between Yuma and Rugal.
“Yuma Drake. I don’t know why you were given the blessing of ‘outside the realm’. And why is that blessing given only to humans? You were given even the sword of death.”
There was a deep sense of defeat in his eyes as he said that. In the middle of the complicated thoughts in her head, Yuma felt a corner of her heart become solemn.
“Kill Hwa.”
Rugal knelt down and pressed his forehead to the ground. He waited in that position for a long time for Yuma’s answer.
“…Stand up. Even if you don’t do that, I’m going to cut off Hwa. It’s the end of the world. Anyone who wants something like that deserves to die.”
Even so, Rugal did not get up and just trembled while lying on his stomach.
“Because you don’t have to do this. Wake up, there are a few other things I want to discuss with you.”
It was to the point where he felt sorry for Rugal. Soluto, the dragon of miserable fate. Yuma hoped that he would wake up soon.
Now, after talking with him about what to do with Amanzo, I wanted to go see Katherine.
“Ah, work quickly…
“My body… doesn’t move.”
“yes?”
“My knee hurts so much. I feel like my back is going to break too. I can’t wake up alone.”
Only the appearance was fine, but the shock he received from being exposed to Hwa was still leaving huge pains all over Rugal’s body.
Yuma reached out and raised Rugal. Rugal struggled like an old man with arthritis and managed to keep his balance.
‘Why is it that all the dragons I get to know are so pitiful that their fates are so odd.’
From Kriesha and Pidgin Carta to Rugal. All of them were masters of fate with many stories and oddities.
“Ugh…. I’d better recuperate for a while.”
“I guess so…
The two of them talked for some more time before closing the dimension and exiting the audience room.
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