TOMWDET Chapter 185.1

God-Making Chapter (1.1)

Rota County.

After Cyril arrived in this city, he seriously gathered a lot of information. The monster beast that had come to deliver intelligence was treated by him like an encyclopedia, being grabbed and questioned about all sorts of things.

The latter uncontrollably showed an expression of utter despair for a moment.

Joel and Julius, who were observing everything, both trembled slightly, deeply feeling Cyril’s intense hunger for information.

But later, Joel, who was somewhat afraid that even his childhood embarrassments of wearing split-crotch pants would be dug up by the dragon-blooded youth, swallowed his saliva when facing Cyril’s questions and couldn’t respond for a long time.

His two friends sat behind him respectively, and seeing this, they both rolled their eyes.

Cyril’s question was clearly just: “Are you planning to compromise and be treated as human resource reserves by the monster beasts, or have you decided to resist? If you’re planning to resist, have you come up with clear plans and follow-up strategies?”

This kind of question that immediately pointed out future development directions easily left Joel confused.

It wasn’t that he didn’t know, but that he didn’t know how to express it in words.

And at times like this, the two friends who were being looked to for help only wanted to throw this unlucky kid out the inn’s front door.

…In the end, they could only ignore his existence and start explaining.

“The Winged Tribe has recently been attacked by the Beast Tribe. Asgari probably can barely protect himself, so this intelligence line can be considered non-existent from today onwards. Besides that, Rota County indeed has no way to provide new intelligence lines. After all, we only managed to break free from that deep-seated mental control after Su Li came here.”

“Besides that, we have already prepared to wage war against the monster beasts as humans.” Friend Number One took a deep breath and said with determined eyes, “Perhaps this might seem like a reckless act without any prior preparation to you, but for us, it’s an indispensable and unstoppable firm goal.”

“Being influenced in consciousness like dogs, with memories like silent films, and emotions that had less impact than the morning dew on grass… I don’t think anyone would want to experience that feeling a second time.”

“Besides that, compared to people who came to live in this city and later formed bonds, we also had our respective identities before our memories were affected.”

“I’m not too clear about Joel’s past, but I can tell you mine without reservation.

I have a younger sister. She’s a child whose elemental affinity isn’t very high, and she’s currently studying at the Elemental Academy. Most of her tuition needs my help to pay.

Otherwise, without schooling and systematic conditions to improve her elemental power, what she would face someday would be the path of becoming a noble’s slave.

After all, I can become a mercenary myself, but I don’t want her to become a mercenary… Mercenaries have always been a cruel profession that accompanies death to earn money.”

“I hope she can live well.”

“But now, under the kidnapping and manipulation of these monster beasts, I have forgotten everything about depending on each other for several months… For me, this is pain that cuts deep into my heart and bones.”

When Joel heard this, he couldn’t control his tears. “You never told me any of this…”

“What would be the use of telling you? Relying only on humans, I don’t think we have any ability to escape monster beast society at all.”

Friend Number One was different from Joel – he felt he could see the world clearly as an adult.

During those years of depending on each other, he had long become familiar with society’s cruelty.

He felt he should take responsibility, but he also clearly knew he didn’t have the corresponding ability to bear responsibility.

But after new intelligence was brought, Friend Number One could be certain that things had taken a new turn.

He held the parchment scroll with various intelligence written on it, forcefully tapping it twice with his fingertips, then said, “Su Li, that child we met before, injured the Beast King in the frontal battlefield where the Beast King participated in attacking the Winged Tribe…”

“That’s one point. Another point is that he took away the Winged Tribe Queen…”

“Whether that Queen is now dead, no one can confirm, but as humans, we can actively try to contact the Winged Tribe with the same human identity as Su Li.”

“This is a combination that has great potential to unite the forces of both the Winged Tribe and humans. What humans need to bear is merely the possibility that the Winged Tribe, as the defeated party, might strike first against human transformees with Winged Tribe monster beast characteristics in order to absorb fresh blood.”

“No!” When the possibility was voiced by Friend Number One, Joel blurted out.

“Doing this would clearly be oppressing those people who trust us to lead them out of their current terrible situation.”

“That’s exactly why I didn’t want to tell you…”

Friend Number One’s voice was somewhat bitter. “Without bearing the costs that adults should bear, the only one with power we possess or can count on is Su Li, who attracted attention from multiple parties in that previous battle.”

“How old is that child? Thirteen or fourteen? Honestly, he’s not even as old as my sister, and my sister has already passed fifteen.”

“Or do you think, Joel, that a child who possesses sufficiently powerful strength should bear responsibilities that should originally be borne by adults?” Friend Number One didn’t mind at all tearing away the fig leaves covering their hearts.

They were very incompetent, and could even be said to be useless.

“This is reality, not some fantasy story from the mouths of wandering poets who love to make up fairy tales about brave youths defeating powerful demons.”

“Not considering reality, not taking responsibility, just waiting for others to save us… We might as well not have had our emotional seals broken by Su Li and the others. But go out and ask around – walk a circle around this city and ask if there’s anyone who would willingly become human resource reserves in the eyes of monster beasts.”

Human society was indeed garbage, but no matter how garbage it was, that wasn’t a reason for humans to become inhuman.

The heroism that Joel had been consciously protected by his friends had reached the time when it needed to be shattered.

This mindset of his could provide support when everyone was confused, but it could also become an obstacle when everyone wanted to move forward.

His friend was a realistic person. Whether Joel could accept it or not, he actually wouldn’t compromise.

He had already prepared to establish relations with the Winged Tribe.

This decisiveness made Cyril thoughtful.

Having understood this city’s current situation and human nature tendencies, Cyril didn’t hesitate much before directly telling the people in this city about humanity’s current power development.

“What do you think of my strength?” This strange question made Friend Number One pause for a moment.

But he quickly answered. “Very strong. I’m not sure if it can compare to those monster beasts, but stronger than me.”

“Then if I told you that now, eighty percent of people in all of Amikbi have strength infinitely close to mine, and there are even people specifically managing and training armies… would you still think humans really need to accept risks just to discuss so-called cooperation?”

Everyone present except Julius opened their mouths wide.

Julius also sighed without any additional meaning. “I really don’t want to admit that the so-called ‘key’ that the two people who indirectly created me sacrificed everything to create will ultimately be mass-produced directly through the development of technological research.”

Looking at it this way, wouldn’t the death of the Pope of Light and Xiao Zuo’s tragic past from birth become laughable jokes?

Julius’s melancholy hadn’t lasted three seconds before he saw Cyril, sitting in his position with an increasingly straight posture, saying, “According to Su Li, that means humans always possess developmental possibilities with neither lower limits nor upper limits.”

“As long as we have capital, we won’t need to make those transactions that might involve costs.”

“Humans don’t need to surpass any life forms, but as humans, if we want to have equal dialogue with any non-human life forms, we must at least have the qualifications for equal communication. Power isn’t everything, but as a power holder, I will definitely have the qualifications to support Su Li in equal communication with those existences as powerful as monsters.”

“This is the reason I came here.” Cyril’s tone was decisive, without any hesitation.

The others only said after a long time: “Never thought… humans outside Rota County would know about the existence of monster beast society.”

“…How exactly did Brother Eg and the others get along with you? Didn’t they explain such things?”

Julius said, “Perhaps they assumed that some things didn’t need to be said aloud and could be discovered from life’s details.”

Cyril: “That kind of assumption really isn’t friendly at all.”

The unfortunate friends who knew about this but never had clear awareness: …………

Joel: Oh ho!

This feeling was like a poor intern working hard in a big city, earning three thousand a month with half going to rent, worrying that his elderly parents back home had to eat chaff and swallow vegetables every day, when the latter called to tell the former: “Son, Mom and Dad really have money. Enough money that if you don’t want to work someday, we can directly start a company.”

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Ignoring this strange feeling, the two friends directly ignored Joel and began asking about humanity’s current development status.

Cyril, who had previously focused on gathering intelligence without revealing much human information, also felt the bewilderment and awkwardness that the monster beast experienced when being pressed for various information.

But it wasn’t a big problem – he just needed to treat the group in front of him like his past self.

At first, who would have believed that after the Dark Pope, that old bastard, stood openly through the Grand Judge’s connections after the Dark Church came to the surface, he had already begun gradually eroding the Church of Light’s control over various cities and quickly united with Castor to develop [Individual Elemental Strength Group-Oriented Development Comprehensive Planning].

Damn it.

At that time, everyone in the Mercenary City became country bumpkins, and Cyril was no exception.

But now, it was the people in Rota County who had become the country bumpkins.

Hilarious…

No one could escape the oppressive force brought by new worldviews.

Fortunately, everything was developing in a good direction.

Just as Su Li was by the seaside, so tired from not sleeping well for several consecutive days that he could barely keep his eyes open and was being forced by other humans to rest, Cyril and Julius directly stood shoulder to shoulder with Joel, bringing the two unfortunate friends, and with the help of that monster beast that had barely recovered some flying ability, they went directly to the Winged Tribe that hadn’t completely fallen.

In this conversation, after Cyril clearly demonstrated humanity’s overall strength, Asgari was the first to vote in agreement to cooperate.

Then came Adonis and Adison.

The Gray Crane had somewhat complex feelings toward the Winged Tribe Queen, but compared to the monster beasts who had pointed out his situation early on, he was indeed more inclined to trust the humans who were of a different race from him.

Adison was easier to understand – no matter how much he wanted the Winged Tribe Queen to suffer, he never wanted Matilda to die directly in war. Su Li had saved Matilda, which could be considered as preventing the pain that would have tormented Adison for quite some time after the Queen’s death.

Perhaps under such pressure… the butterfly spirit would have no way to bear the psychological predicament and would directly choose suicide.

No one knew.

But the agreement of the three ministers meant nothing to the Council of Elders.

The real old fossils, just from seeing humans sitting on the original forms of Winged Tribe monster beast wings, were already uncontrollably furious.

They were clearly a group of transformed monster beasts whose appearance wouldn’t change much after becoming monster beasts, yet these old things could still manage to show the decayed appearance of blowing beards and glaring eyes.

“Mere humans – how could they possibly have the capital to cooperate with the noble Winged Tribe.”

“If what you say is true, how could Rota County still exist?”

The elders who couldn’t witness humanity’s rapid short-term development weren’t like the other three who chose to believe after comprehensive consideration of various factors. They didn’t believe humans’ claims about human group strength from the beginning.

They even mocked: “Even if it’s really as you say, that humans possess sufficiently powerful group strength, how could you humans possibly guarantee that every human with powerful strength would obey orders from others with similar strength?”

Individual strength development being average would only immediately shatter class divisions that had been established for various reasons in the past.

Nobles and commoners all getting along harmoniously like one big family?

The Council of Elders didn’t believe it.

But Julius nonchalantly dropped a bombshell.

“Of course ordinary humans and nobles can’t get along harmoniously. After all, few normal people would choose peaceful coexistence when the latter points fingers and curses, saying everyone is lowly as beasts.”

Even saints couldn’t be saintly to that degree.

“First attempt at education – the latter doesn’t listen; second attempt at education – the latter is unwilling; third attempt at education – still resisting… Then it can only prove that this portion of people have no need to continue living.” Julius calmly stated facts that were extremely cruel, whether for certain humans or monster beasts.

“Current humans consider not only the present division of patterns between themselves and monster beasts, but more so the future. Monster beasts have blocked humanity’s development path toward a beautiful future, and foolish nobles only want to maintain the old ways. Those idiots who are just wasting air by living would naturally be better off dead…”

What good could the Pope of Light be? Having many of his memories, Julius, even with Xiao Zuo’s memories combined, might look somewhat like a Ky spirit youth on the surface, but actually, his inner depth and darkness were not lacking at all.

“What do you think?” This sentence was filled with undisguisable bloodthirsty aura.

Though also appearing as a youth, Julius seemed as if he had already experienced countless wars.

Julius possessed all of the Pope of Light’s calculations and Xiao Zuo’s indifference to killing people as easily as chickens.

“At least in my view, the Winged Tribe also needs to consider the future, doesn’t it? The Beast King… I think he’s called Clemens. I don’t think Clemens would choose to attack the Water Tribe immediately after just defeating the Winged Tribe.”

“Whether returning to Beast Tribe territory or consolidating the seized Winged Tribe territory, what that Beast King will do after resolving those small matters will only be to exterminate the remaining monster beasts of the Winged Tribe completely.”

“You must know that humans are still being viewed as human resource reserves by monster beasts in the current situation.”

Julius’s seemingly random topic change left the Council of Elders’ monster beasts momentarily confused.

But immediately Julius continued. “Under circumstances where humans are viewed as human resource reserves by the Beast Tribe, why would Clemens need to win over the remaining Winged Tribe that has already suffered more than half casualties?”

Like a judgment, and like absolute confidence in having the future completely under control, Julius raised his chin, but his eyes were extraordinarily cold as he said, “Your ending is like something already written in a storybook – besides destruction, there are no other possibilities.”

The Council of Elders refused to believe. “This is just your one-sided story!”

“The Winged Tribe has wings – how could we possibly be completely exterminated!”

“Stop deceiving the Winged Tribe here, weak humans! Where do you get the capital for equal dialogue with us!”

“Moreover, even if it’s cooperation, it should be you humans begging us Winged Tribe to cooperate. Acting high and mighty while begging for cooperation – you’re utterly ridiculous.”

These words made all the humans except the two youths uncontrollably furrow their brows.

Unpleasant and foul-smelling.

But having already learned from both humans and monster beasts about what the Winged Tribe had done to the Dragon Clan… Cyril, who identified himself as human, naturally couldn’t empathize exactly with the Dragon Clan, but this didn’t prevent the dragon-blood youth from using the scales that appeared on his face to provoke that group of ignorant Council of Elders.