Chapter 822: Chapter 823 – Dragons. Allies or traitors? – Part 4.
"..."
"I’m going to give you 5 fucking seconds." – said the dragon king Goror as he gotten ready to fight, causing the plant life around him to start moving around and sharpening itself into a weapons.
"Who the fuck are you?"
"And I’m going to ask you this." – replied Oron.
"What is more important to you."
"Your pride?"
"Or clearing up your son’s name?"
"If you like, I can just leave this place."
"I could had just slaughtered your soldiers and force my way in."
"Yet I didn’t."
"But if you like, I can just leave this place by force and you wouldn’t stop me."
"So I’m daring you."
"What do YOU want?" – said Oron as the dragon king wasn’t stopping his preparations, to the point he was ready to unleash a massive barrage of plant based spells.
"Or maybe."
"You wish to have your own clan murdered by the traitors of the dragon empire?"
"..."
"What do you mean?" – asked the dragon king as he finally stopped in tracks.
"What I just said." – said Oron.
"There is a traitor amongst the dragon clans, aiming to overthrow the whole empire and conquer it."
"..."
"And how can I believe your words?" – asked the dragon king.
"How can I be sure that you are not just trying to fill my ears with poison and lies?"
"That is why we will play a game." – said Oron.
"And then you can decide."
"Interrogation game."
"We will ask each other a question in turns."
"How about it?"
"..."
"And how do I know you are speaking a truth?" – asked the dragon king.
"And how do I know you are speaking a truth and you are in reality the traitor of the empire?" – asked Oron.
"You shameless bastard! You dare to accuses me!?" – shouted the dragon king.
"Yes, I do." – replied Oron.
"I shall not tell you my name nor from where I’m."
"But I will tell you this."
"If you are truly the traitor, you will be purged."
"..."
"And now you dare to threaten my life?" – asked the extremely pissed off dragon king.
"Yes, I do and I will again and again, no matter what." – said Oron.
"So I’m forcing you to play this game."
"You want some info from me, while I want some from you."
"What will you do?"
"The choice is yours."
"You don’t really need to take part in this game."
"The trust I’m giving you is the option to choose."
"So do it."
"Make your decision."
"..."
(Who the fuck are they?) – thought dragon king.
(No matter how I look at them, they are lizardman.)
(Everything about them is telling me that they are lizardman.)
(...All expect one thing.)
(My smell.)
(My clan’s specialty is our sense of smell.)
(We can take detect many things with it.)
(Be it people or even magic.)
(We can smell it.)
(However, this guy... He is hiding his smell way too well, to the point I can’t tell what he is.)
(I can only tell that his current smell is fake.)
(Not only that, he was able to go past all the guards?)
(What is he?)
(...)
"I smell something burning." - said the dragon king.
"Is this your doing?"
"Yeb." – replied Oron without hesitation.
"I did needed to create a little distraction in order to meet you."
"But don’t worry, it won’t be much, since I didn’t wanted to cause any casualties."
"..."
(They were able to plant some kind of explosives without being noticed... How do I know that there are no more explosives hidden somewhere?)
(Should I use [Wind Talk]?)
(I could give message to my servants to search the castle.)
(But I need to speak in order to use it.)
"..."
"Can you wait outside for 5 minutes?" – asked the dragon king.
"I want to make my decision."
"Sure." – replied Oron as he turned around.
"By the way, if you are wondering about the bombs. I only planted one. So, you don’t need to worry about any more." – said Oron as he left the room.
(Fucking bastard. He knows what I’m trying to do?) – thought the dragon king as he then began speaking into the wind, letting it carries his words which flew silently throughout the castle and reached one by one each of the knights.
"INSPECT THE CASTLE. FIND ANY MORE BOMBS AND DEAL WITH THEM. IF YOU FIND ANY, GO TO ME AND WARN ME."
(This should do it.)
(Still... What the hell are they playing at?)
(Should I just bombard them?)
(....No.)
(Something is telling me that he would escape my grasp.)
(I don’t know who or what he is... But I do know this.)
(He is dangerous.)
(Too dangerous to say the least.)
(...But is he baiting me?)
(Why did he mentioned the traitor?)
(Is there really....)
"..."
[5 minutes later.]
"Huh. You didn’t tried anything?" – asked Oron as he returned to the room where the dragon king was waiting.
"Shut up and lets do it." – said the dragon king.
"I will play your fucking game, but I want to ask two first questions in the row."
"Oh? And why is that?" – asked Oron.
"Because I said so." – replied the dragon king.
"..."
"Fine. But then I will ask my two question afterwords in the row myself." – said Oron.
"So, go on. Ask your questions."
"..."
"You said that there are traitors in the empire." – said the dragon king.
"Who?"
"..."
"I don’t know.... But there are 3 suspects we are suspecting of the treason." – said Oron.
"First suspect, the Wo’won clan."
"The second suspect is Pyrgos clan."
"And the third is Pindon clan."
"We don’t know if they are allies or not though, nor we have a direct confirmation that any of them are truly traitors."
"But based on what we had gathered so far, they are our main suspects."
"But again, there is a chance that there could be somebody different throwing faked evidence at these clans."
"..."
"So you don’t really know who is the traitor?" – asked the dragon king with anger in his voice.
"No." – said Oron.
"But I can tell you this."
"The war will come."
"As for how you trust my words, it is up to you."
"..."
"Then my second question is this." – said the dragon king.
"What did you meant by wishing to find out who framed my son?"
"This should be self-explanatory; shouldn’t it be by now?" – replied Oron.
"Bastard! DON’T AVOID THE QUESTION AND ASNWER ME!" – shouted pissed off dragon king.
"You fucking idiot. Your clan is your own answer if you didn’t realized it now." – said Oron.
"..."
"What are you talking about?"
"Look at the state of your clan." – said Oron.
"It is once was mighty and powerful."
"But now it is nothing more than a shadow of its former self."
"And in this state, you are easy to anger."
"Easy to have somebody manipulate your people and have them do stupid shit."
"Or maybe even join the treason."
"You-"
"Before you shout again, fucking listen." – said Oron as he cut off the dragon king.
"I’ve investigated your son, the mad prince."
"However from what I found out, he was acting completely normal before he freaking committed the genocide."
"Why did the prince suddenly went mad?"
"Was it truly to keep the balance in check?"
"Or maybe somebody manipulated them? Expecting that your clan would end up in this state."
"?!"
"Wait.... Are you telling me... That somebody may had-"
"Played you like buffoon." – said Oron.
"And that is what I want to know."
"Why the prince has changed?"
"Was it truly HIS doing? Or somebody else?"
"That is the main reason why I’m here."
"Are the ones who aims to commit the treason? Or are you just the victims?"
"That is the purpose of this game."
"..."
"And you are just revealing it like that from the start?" – asked the dragon king.
"Well, I need to make the game fair, don’t I?" – said Oron.
"So yeah."
"Do you want to continue playing the game?"
"..."
(I honestly don’t know.) – thought dragon king.
(Everything he said so far could had been very well a lie.)
(....But I need to play it just a bit more.)
(Just enough to see what truly this bastard is aiming for.)
"Ask your question." – said the dragon king.
"..."
"Who was the fiancé?" – asked Oron.
"Who was the fiancé of the mad prince?"
"?"
"His fiancé?" – asked confused dragon king.
"Yes." – said Oron.
"What was her name?"
"..."
"Fiancé?" – said the dragon king as he grabbed his head.
(My son’s fiancé?) – thought the dragon king.
(He.... No.... Yes, he did had one...)
"..."
"What is her name? I’M ASKING AGAIN!" – said Oron as the tone of his voice changed drastically.
"Or by any chance, you don’t remember it?"
"Of course I do remember her." – said angry dragon king,
"Its...."
"...."
"Its....Emm...."
"..."
"Wait."
(Why I can’t remember her name!?)
(Did I really forgotten her name?!)
"..."
"What about her appearance? Her face? Do you know about it?" – asked Oron as he realized that the dragon king’s behavior changed after he was asked the first question.
"Face? Appearance?" – said the dragon king as he started searching his mind for the answers.
(Face.... Appearance?!) – thought the dragon king as he started acting even more conflicted.
"..."
"Why...."
(WHY I CAN’T RECALL ANY OF THESE?!)
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