Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2572

2572 Changed Man (Part 2)

"Without my plan, the monsters would have attacked us on sight. They had no reason to trust a bunch of strangers and would have tried to kill us to keep Zelex's position hidden. There would have been no dialogue because they would have refused to listen.

"You may not like my methods, but you can't argue with my results."

Kamila opened her mouth to talk, but nothing came out.

She was aware of how many people the monsters had killed during the raids. That their corpses would be eaten like cattle that very night, without leaving anything behind for the families to bury and denying them closure.

As a Constable, she knew that letting the monsters go out of pity would have been an act of treason that would cost even more lives in the future. That the Undead Courts couldn't be allowed to get their hands on the Harmonizers.

The most important cities of the Kingdom were built upon mana geysers, making them easy prey to the undead once the artifact made their blood cores perfect.

She knew all that yet her heart ached anyway for the hapless creatures that Lith had slaughtered in order to turn the survivors into pawns that would take their place on his board willingly.

Lith and Kamila remained silent for several minutes while she raked her brain for a different, humane way to start the negotiations with the monsters. Yet like the others before her, she found none.

Every possible scenario she could think of ended up the same way: with the complete extermination of the children of Glemos.

The only differences between the various outcomes were the number of casualties among the human cities and whether or not once cornered the monsters decided to trigger Zelex's self-destruction arrays.

Without Lith's ruse to gain Syrah's trust, the Tyrant's bloodline legacy would have been lost forever and Garrik would have probably starved to death while waiting for his mother to return.

No one would have rescued him simply because no one would have known of his existence.

"You are right, this is exactly like the mission with the warg in Maekosh but this time, you found a solution." Kamila said after a while, her lips slowly curling up in a thin smile.

"You have indeed changed, and I'm proud to see how much. You've gone a long way from the broken man who landed on Mogar and wasn't capable of forgetting about his brother's death.

"I'm glad to see how you haven't let your new wounds fester, learning from them and finding a way to keep the warg massacre from happening again.

"The fact that you empathize so much with Morok's feelings for Garrik proves that you're not avenging Carl's death anymore. You are honoring his life. Yet..." She fell silent, afraid that speaking the next words would make them true.

"Yet what?" Lith asked.