Chapter 421: Chapter 317: Reason
Karl was inwardly rejoicing originally, for he happened to glimpse into Long Yi’s plans at this moment. If he could take away some of the Golem’s technical documents when leaving, it would be an immeasurable help to the Black Dragon Empire!
However, Long Yi suddenly turned hostile!
Karl was not a fool. He could tell that all the female demons surrounding him were perfectly evolved. No one could lie under such high-level female demons! He was hoping to free himself first, then blame it on the fear of the female demons, and subsequently control a dean to escape from here.
Unfortunately, there were too many female demons here, and all he could do now was to be pinned down here.
"Listen to me! Listen to me! I can explain!" Karl hurriedly shouted, he still had a chance, the black wormhole scroll was in his bosom. If given the slightest opportunity, he could escape immediately.
"No need to explain, we’ll ask ourselves."
The female demon floated gracefully behind him, her hands already on his forehead. Then, his vision turned white instantly. Afterwards, scenes of him pledging loyalty to the emperor in his youth; scenes of suppressing his mana by drinking the potion; and scenes of secretly recording the technology of the White Dragon Empire started to emerge one by one. Karl understood that these scenes were being narrated by him!
It was all too late!
When Karl awoke, he was completely stripped naked, crouching humiliated in the corner, everyone around him glaring at him, with the black wormhole scroll in Little Zi’s hands.
"Angidd...For the sake of our many years of friendship, please don’t humiliate me like this." Karl knew that all hope was gone and he was doomed.
"You’re mistaken, this isn’t to humiliate you. How could I have known where you hid this thing if I hadn’t stripped you?" Long Yi spoke first.
Karl shook his head and said in despair:
"Hah, Long Yi, you’re truly powerful. If it hadn’t been for you, the White Dragon Empire would have perished in that Black Dragon Empire operation, what a pity. A talent like you should have been in our Black Dragon Empire, not in this outdated White Dragon Empire. Look at these decrepit people around you; no matter how you help them, they’re still just a group of pitiful fools who only know how to follow the playbook! In fact, I’ve also thought, ’why can’t I join the White Dragon Empire?’ This place has my friends and my career, I even decided to turn over the Black Dragon Empire’s Dragon Breath reincarnation. But when I proposed the Dragon Knight modification plan, from the emperor to these researchers, they all opposed it! Ridiculous! How could there be such fools in the world? The Dragon Knights are trained for the sake of victory, what’s wrong with making them stronger? So, I knew that this stupid country, the White Dragon Empire, even if given another hundred years, would never be able to defeat the Black Dragon Empire!"
Everyone listened quietly, staring at each other. Several deans bowed their heads, they felt a sense of shame.
"Hey, I say old masters, you’re not really feeling shame, are you?" Long Yi suddenly laughed.
"Well, what he said, it does make some sense though." said Angidd.
"Sensible my ass!" Long Yi yelled, "Traitors will find ten thousand excuses to betray, but patriots only need one reason to remain loyal! As you mentioned, the Black Dragon does seem more powerful. If I were to go and side with that idiot Kaniel now, I really don’t think the White Dragon Empire could last much longer. But why didn’t I do so? Because I am of the White Dragon! Damn it, you fool. If you shout ’Long live the Black Dragon Empire’ a few times, I might even commend you a few words. You’ve been in hiding for thirty years, didn’t manage to leak a single secret, and was captured by me when you were ready to return! Just thinking about it is a tragic story, but your previous speech was just too nauseating. In fact, the deans here wanted you to stand trial, but evidently, I believe that keeping you would just lead to more trouble. So, thanks for your dramatic speech, but, it’s time to say goodbye."
A female demon suddenly approached, smiling at Karl. Suddenly, she screamed at Karl.
The horrifying scream of the female demon shattered Karl’s soul in an instant.
Angidd could only sigh.
He looked at Long Yi, then suddenly asked, "Long Yi, if one day, your friend betrays you, just like now, what would you do?"
Long Yi looked up at Angidd with his gloomy face and said, "I am a man of clear grudges, so from the day he decided to betray me, he is not my friend anymore. If it doesn’t influence the general situation, I might spare him for our past friendship. But if his existence is not allowed, I will make him disappear from this world without hesitation."
"You, are really cold-blooded." Angidd commented.
"Yes, you can think of it that way. I will cherish our past happy times, but when I stabbed the knife into his neck, I didn’t hesitate at all."
Long Yi confessed.
Angidd froze, evidently, Long Yi’s sentence was grammatically incorrect. Long Yi was also taken aback for a moment, then chuckled bitterly: "Ah..."
In the past, during the war, Long Yi was shot down by the enemy and landed behind enemy lines. He barely escaped alive but managed to extract accurate information from the enemy commander—that his best friend betrayed him!
When Long Yi returned to the base, he held his favorite Brandon M2 and said only one thing to his friend, "Do you deserve to die?"
At that time, his friend simply knelt on the ground, not saying anything else.
Long Yi, without any hesitation, slashed his throat.
Long Yi was detained for a week, during which he hardly ate anything, lost a lot of weight, and was mentally at his worst. It took him a whole month to recover.
The evidence of the man betraying Long Yi was found, and Long Yi, who should have been sent to a military court, was only punished with a severe demerit, and the matter was handled quietly internally. That was the first time that Long Yi, as the ace of the team, was disciplined in the army.
So, Long Yi had indeed experienced such a situation before.
Seeing the expression on Long Yi’s face, Angidd immediately understood.
"Alright then, congratulations to all of you, you have all passed the test," Little Zi clapped her hands and announced suddenly.
Everyone present was taken aback; clearly, the test had ended while they were still stunned by what was occurring before their eyes.
Long Yi swept a glance over the room, and then continued, "A special mental suggestion has been planted in each of your minds. When you leave here, you will immediately forget everything that has happened here. You will only remember the need to find your most reliable assistants to complete a highly confidential task. After choosing your assistants, you will return here. The instant you step through this door, your memory of this place will continue. However, when you leave, the memory of this place will stop, and your memory outside will continue."
The deans present looked at each other in surprise; evidently, this level of secrecy had reached the most extreme limit imaginable to humans.
However, they could also understand. After all, what people referred to as golems in their research were really just suits of battle armor—weapons used to deal with humans. But now they had seen a real golem, a weapon designed to fight the Dragon Clan!
In today’s world, the Dragon Clan has already infiltrated every aspect of human life. To most people, the Dragon Clan are their closest comrades in arms. They maintain a neutral stance and serve different countries according to different Dragon Knights. The only ones who can fight the Dragon Clan are obviously the Dragon Clan itself. But now, with the appearance of the golem, the Dragon Clan’s status would be enormously challenged. What if the Dragon Clan suddenly turns hostile, and all the Dragon Clan members in the White Dragon Empire are recalled, and only a few golems have been built? What then?
Of course, this was Kirei’s biggest worry, hence he specially requested Long Yi and Little Zi to devise this particularly unique confidentiality plan.
In fact, even if Kirei had not made this request, Long Yi would have done so anyway. Because he was unsure about what the golem signified to the current Dragon Clan members. If Long Yi were to consider the golem as a weapon against the giants as he had in the past, it would spell disaster.
At least for now, when the line between friend and foe isn’t clear, it’s better to proceed with caution. The Dragon Clan is simply too mysterious, and until their current state is clarified, it’s best to adopt a cautious approach.
Meanwhile–
Outer Sea.
Dragon Island.
This is a place filled with mystique that no human has set foot on. Humans have, on many occasions, conceived various images of Dragon Island based on their imaginations. In their mind’s eye, Dragon Island is a small island where tens of thousands of dragons are soaring through the skies every day. The island might also contain volcanos, waterfalls, rivers, lush forests.
However, they were all wrong.
Dragon Island is not a small island, but a huge archipelago composed of more than seventy islands. The total area of these islands far surpasses any country on the continent. Almost a million members of the Dragon Clan reside on these islands, and their dwellings are not in the form of caves as humans imagine, but various beautifully-designed, tall buildings.
"It’s a pity that none of these buildings were built by the Dragon Clan itself," Tyl remarked disdainfully as he flew overhead.
At the center of the archipelago, there was a massive floating island that was thrice the size of Academy City, with complex machinery covering its surface. On one side of the island, enormous characters were carved.
’Great Explorer.’
It was in the language of the Giants.
Tyl shook his head without a word and flew straight towards the landing site on the side of the floating island.
This place served as the nerve center of the entire Dragon Clan.
The location of the Dragon Clan Council.
The Dragon Clan Council was composed of three chairmen and one hundred councilors. It was said that those three old dragons who served as chairmen have been around for more than ten thousand years. In order to serve the Dragon Clan forever, they had acquired immortality through special means. The hundred councilors were elected from among the Dragon Clan. To become a councilor, one basic requirement was the ability to transform into a human.
This hard criterion ensured that councilors would have a sufficient lifespan and a rich store of knowledge, effectively preventing greenhorns from possibly becoming a councilor.
Tyl, many years ago, had already become a potential councilor, but he had always been in the White Dragon Empire, so he had never officially taken up that role. This time, before returning, he had already applied to the Council to become a regular councilor.
As such, today, the councilors convened to discuss the potential of Tyl becoming a regular councilor. They would review Tyl’s merits, character, and his perspectives on the Dragon Clan’s future.
Right now, Tyl, in his human form, stood in the middle of the spacious council. He had arrived quite early, and he was the only one in the huge conference room. Tyl closed his eyes without uttering a word. Through his eyelids, his continuously-moving eyeballs were discernible, revealing his anxiety and unease.
He was trembling.
Having fantasized about this day for so many years, now that he was finally standing here, Tyl felt strangely nervous.
Ha.
Turns out, I am not as strong as I thought.
Tyl took a deep breath and then, his eyes filled with determination. (To be continued. If you like this novel, we welcome you to vote and support us on qidian.com. Your support is our greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
