After taking her time to phrase her response, Leislet took a deep breath and began.
"I came here to neither accept nor refuse your proposal."
The man seemed to be slightly surprised as he raised his eyebrows slightly before making a light sound of astonishment.
"Then, what do you want to say?"
Leislet rested her back against the chair before explaining.
"From what I saw, I can tell that you want to avoid a pointless war with us, am I correct?"
"Pretty much." He said.
"So, how about instead of shedding blood, we could come to an agreement over something else we can give you instead of this invasion? Something like money, weapons, soul stones. Anything you want." She replied.
Then, weirdly, the man didn't reply at all. Instead, a weird silence took over the man. Leislet couldn't discern anything from his expression at all.
After an unknown amount of time, something unexpected happened.
"Pfft!" The man spat out as he started laughing hysterically.
"Hahahahahahahahhahahah!!" His laugh echoed in the room and made Leislet wince slightly from the loud sound.
Then, after a long time of him laughing as he grabbed his stomach and bent his head forward. Leislet couldn't know how to react to this reaction at all. She expected all kinds of reactions from him, but laughing was never something she expected especially from a calm person like him.
"I-I can't breathe. Damn! I didn't laugh this much in a long time." He said as he took a couple of deep breaths before wiping the tears from his face that came down because of his excessive laughing.
"Could I know what made you laugh that much? I didn't say anything funny, did I?"
The man shook his head and replied.
"Oh, for sure you did. That was the funniest joke I have ever heard."
"Joke?"
"Yes, a joke. What you said is even lower than a joke. It's a complete mockery. I think that you guys are misunderstanding something. We are not here to negotiate with you. Have you ever heard of a predator negotiating with its prey to not eat it? It never happened!" He said with a wide, creepy grin.
His eyes shined with a weird light that sent a shiver down Leislet's spine.
Leislet felt herself fall deeper and deeper into despair with each word he said.
"Negotiate? What a stupid idea you came up with. Is the level of intelligence in this world that low? Why would we negotiate with you guys when we could just simply take everything we want and you won't be able to do anything about it."
He then took a deep breath and added.
"Anyway, I will give you an official answer so that the paperwork I would do later won't be very hectic. We, The Land Of The Reincarnated, refuse your attempts to negotiate and we officially announce the start of the war. One side shall come out as the winner."
Leislet didn't wait any longer as she immediately stood up and unleashed her full aura before looking at him with a weirdly calm face.
"I should've predicted this from the beginning. You lot think that we are weaker than you and that's true. But, a cornered mouse will always bite back." Then, as fast as the wind, she disappeared from her initial position.
Instantly, multiple individuals appeared beside the man. One of them looked at the man and asked.
"Should we kill her?"
The man shook his head and rested his back on the chair casually.
"Don't. It's pointless to do it now. Her death is set in stone anyway."
After that, he stood up and walked to the door. Before he left, he said.
"Start preparing the clones for the war. And, keep searching for the origin warrior. I don't care if it's inside the planet's core. I want it back no matter what, understand?"
All of them nodded their heads politely.
"Yes sir."
"Now, move." He said.
After they left, the man also walked out of the room and walked in the corridors with his hands behind his back.
His previously calm eyes had a weird look in them. Far from calm, his eyes had this deep madness and cruel insanity in them that no one could fathom at all.
"Lower World'. What stupid, disgraceful name for a lowly place like this. It's worse than a trash can." He muttered to himself.
No one was there to hear his words or they would've frowned at him.
"I don't even understand how we are from the same race. The difference between us the chosen ones and these insects is like the heavens and the mud. Wasting my time on butchering these insects is indeed quite unpleasant. But, that's fine…No, it's actually pretty good."
His mouth then drew a wide, monstrous smile that lacked any human emotions in it. It was the most terrifying smile any person could show. No, it was way worse than that.
"Killing these weak, puny humans. Ah! Seeing the despair in their eyes. Ah! I can't wait to see their blood and organs fill up every corner of this world. Then, I will create a river of blood in the middle of this planet. Ah! I can't wait to see them suffer and cry like the lowly monsters they are."
His hands rubbed against each other swiftly. Then, in the darkness of the corridors, he disappeared completely. Only leaving behind a sinister laugh that resembles that of a devil. A laugh that could tell a thousand words about the Land Of the Reincarnated and show their true, devilish ideologies. A true picture of hell born in the heart of Ecrasia.
At that exact moment, a new piece of history was getting shaped in the Lower World. A war of blood and cries, a war of hope and dreams.
A war that will shape not only the future of the whole world but of the whole universe. The War Of Reincarnation has begun!
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