Chapter 15 - The Villain Doesnt Have A Purpose! (1/2)

With immense power came immense responsibilities. The one who has the power to save humanity, would also have the power to destroy humanity.

How could the people rest assured knowing that there was such a person?

With the death of the three Zelium water elemental users, people's opinions on Alphius Edler changed drastically.

They asked him how he considered a person worthy of owning a mecha suit and to that, he confidently shrugged his shoulder and responded, ”Nobody can be sure if you're worthy enough. I just give people what they need, not what they necessarily deserve. I give them a place to belong in this society, I don't guide them and show them what's right or wrong.”

People who called themselves a part of the righteous movement grew angered as they heard this and so they asked another question.

”How can you give them a weapon of mass destruction without making sure that they won't use it for evil?”

Alphius laughed in turn, ”Tell me, what is it that you consider evil, and is there a way to guarantee that a person won't turn evil in the future after being proclaimed a hero?”

Everyone was silent as they heard this.

To think that a growing fourteen-year-old had such thoughts was truly shocking and made people wonder.

If he could think like this, who was to guarantee that his thoughts wouldn't evolve into something eviler in the future?

His differentiation in the concept of right or wrong was pretty vaguely defined. Murder was wrong but if you murdered someone who murdered another person, it was considered as vengeance. Stealing was wrong but stealing from a rich man who stole the money of the poor was considered to be righteous.

By inventing the mecha suits for the people without abilities, Alphius wanted to slim down social disparities, however, his invention had only backfired on his beliefs.

Fights between ability users and mecha suits started becoming common and when the mecha suits started winning against the ability users, the social seats of the people shifted.

The Mecha suits started seeing themselves as more powerful and when this got to their heads, they started oppressing the ability users.

Centuries after Centuries of bullying done by ability users had finally shown the aftereffects.

The Mecha men were angry and their anger was directed towards the ability users.

The world changed for the worst and this change was blamed on Alphius who refused to do anything about it.

He had only created a machine, the ones who used it to terrorize people were the ones at fault, however, since he was the one who created it, people naturally held him responsible.

Blaming the one who made the gun instead of the one who used it: This was the mentality of the people here.

Soon, the old system of governance died down and what rose was the reign of the three willows of spring.

The three willows of spring were the strongest ability users in the whole world, hence no one except for the mecha men questioned their supremacy or power.

The three willows of spring tried to suppress the mecha suits once and for all, however, they miserably failed.

The Mecha suits weren't easy to beat and they hated the ability users.

The ability users were also not friendly towards the mecha suits and due to both sides being at such odds, the world was divided.

One side was ruled by the ability users while the other side had no rulers.

By this time around, Alphius had already built a small city under the ground and seemed to be living in peace, devoid of the chaos going on above ground.

Since he was the creator of all the mecha suits, it came as no shock that when people elected someone as their leader, that someone was Alphius Edler. At that time, he was fifteen years old and would've been the youngest ruler this world had ever seen. However, he laughed at their faces and refused to become their leader.

The mecha suited men pestered him for days that turned to weeks and further turned to annoying months. After a few months, Alphius finally gave in to their demand and became their leader who soon got to be tilted as the Captain.

Now that he was officially their leader, he was responsible for whatever the mecha-suited men did. It was a trap that he had knowingly walked into.

One day, one of the three willows of spring came to visit Alphius and this would also be the unfortunate day when the man was killed under the orders of Alphius.

Although the man's little sister soon took her brother's throne as the third willow of spring, the ability users were not happy with the cruel act done by Alphius.

All the man wanted to do was visit him, but Alphius had sent back a beheaded body and a detached head of the man.

People thought their fear was coming true. Alphius was truly a madman who had no sense of right or wrong.

Hecathe could only sigh in frustration when he read this part cause the story known to the outside world was much different from the reality of the situation.

The reason why Alphius killed the man was simply because the man was the one who tried to kill him first. The third willow of spring offered him a drink; a toast to their new budding friendship. Alphius was a stupid boy who easily trusted the man and as a result, he coughed out a mouthful of blood.

The drink was poisoned.

The man looked to really happy as he saw Alphius coughing out blood and in his state of happiness, he blurted out a secret that Alphius should have never heard.

A secret that shook Alphius to the core and made him unable to control his anger.

The man proudly blurted out that the one who killed Hecathe was none other than him.

Alphius only ever had two friends in his life. One was Marvin and the other was Hecathe.

When Alphius heard the man's confession, in a fit of rage, he decided to avenge his friend and beheaded the man right then and there.

The three willows of spring were just starting out and they couldn't afford to go on a war against Alphius who had an army much stronger and hence, even after killing one of the three willows, Alphius was still allowed to go free.

When Hecathe had read this part, he was quite shocked to see his name there, but the shock soon sunk in when he guessed that this was probably the case if the world he was currently in was a parallel universe.