Imu and the Celestial Dragons part ways

"Five Elders, Holy Knights, correct!"

Imu sneered like a devil, looking at the Five Elders and the Holy Knights!

In Imu's eyes, the Five Elders, the Holy Knights, and the Celestial Dragons were nothing more than lackeys!

They could be discarded at any time!

Besides, the Celestial Dragons were merely natives of this planet!

They shared no blood ties with Imu's own race. They were entirely separate!

If not for the friendship forged while fighting alongside their twenty [Kings] eight hundred years ago.

And the blood pact the Celestial Dragons had made with Imu, Imu would have long since purged those useless swine who caused trouble everywhere they went.

"Lord Imu... why... why would you do this?"

"They were all Celestial Dragons! Punishing a few, or even a dozen, from time to time was one thing."

"But why would you wipe them all out?"

"They... were the descendants of the twenty [Kings] who once fought alongside you."

"Even if only for the comradeship you shared eight hundred years ago, you shouldn't have been so ruthless!"

"With all nineteen families exterminated, won't the Celestial Dragons disappear from this world?"

"Why did you do all this?"

Upon hearing this, the Five Elders and the Holy Knights burst into tears, even mustering the courage to question Imu!

After all, they were Celestial Dragons too!

The extermination of all nineteen families meant that their closest loved ones—their brothers, parents, sisters, and even children—had all been killed by Imu!

The Five Elders and the Holy Knights were flesh and blood too. They had feelings, and of course they grieved. They even began to resent Imu!

This was the first time they had ever dared to feel resentment toward Lord Imu!

"Five Elders, Holy Knights, who do you think you are?"

"What gives you the right