"Pfft..." Okrian-Lujin, who had just taken a sip of water with his head tilted back, immediately sprayed it out. His eyes were fixed on Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso, and the finger pointing at him trembled nonstop.
"What? What do you mean, voluntarily?" Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso looked as though he had been struck by lightning, standing frozen on the spot.
"Exactly what it sounds like! What made you think your ancestors, with their pathetic handful of strength, could slaughter two Dragon Kings? And even extract their dragon souls?" Tidal Dragon King Chewu mocked. It was not that he looked down on the Grand Duke of the Eastern Territory of Lagrange's strength, but aside from the imperial family gathering its own Dragon Knight Regiment, no noble could possibly hold back a Dragon King! Did they think those near-divine Dragon Kings were idiots?
"..." Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso fell silent at once. Though Tidal Dragon King Chewu's words stung deeply, once he calmed down, he realized in despair that they were the truth.
"So all of this was fake? Even that war? It was only meant to deceive the world?" Grand Duke Ocrean Yaso found it hard to accept.
"Fake? No, no, no! Other than your emperor, a handful of nobles, and the Dragon Kings of dragonkind, no one knew it was fake! The war was real! Without a real war, how could we muddy the waters and deceive that damned Great Movement? It was the Great Movement that represented the World Will! It could not be deceived so easily!" Tidal Dragon King Chewu's words were incomparably cold.
"Deceive the Great Movement? The World Will? Why deceive it?" Okrian-Lujin asked in confusion.
"What were dragonkind and the empire trying to hide? A secret bought with those lives... was it worth it?" Grand