Yu Lin Bloodhawk thought it over, but finally shook his head.
Impossible! This could never succeed! he warned himself silently. Hasn't the racial talent for selfishness bestowed on humans by the mighty Blizzard taught you enough of a lesson? Are you trying to fool yourself? Or do you think humanity's talent for selfishness has turned into a talent for selflessness?
A faint smile curled his lips, though it was really a sneer.
Hadn't Prince Kael'thas's troubled, disaster-ridden fate in history already shown me the terrible consequences of doing this without sufficient strength of my own? Did I really want to try it again?
And hadn't Queen Sylvanas in the original history already given me the clearest possible answer? Hadn't she shown me that if I had the strength to ally with others, even if they never trusted me completely, claiming the seat of Warchief wasn't all that difficult with enough power and force behind me? And if anything displeased me, I could even curse the whole Horde as useless trash!
With such a stark contrast between the outcomes, was I an idiot? Could I really not tell which to choose?
Yu Lin Bloodhawk was certainly no idiot. He was a profiteer! A profiteer who cared only about profit! Naturally, he knew which choice to make.
But although Yu Lin Bloodhawk was merely a profiteer, he also understood perfectly well how to be one whom others respected!
He knew! If you wanted people to respect you in business, if you wanted your business partners to think twice before cheating you, the most fundamental thing wasn't the size of your business or your friendship with some powerful figure! It was having capital you could never exhaust!
*Just like Queen Sylvanas! Hmph! I'm done keeping company with a bunch of stupid pigs. I'll