Chapter 198 - I Had Overestimated You (1/2)

”So this war... Is also a mess that I created, isn't it?” Hecathe closed his eyes in defeat as he asked.

”Hecathe, you're the villain here,” The Dorgon spoke with a sigh, ”That's why I decided to join your side. I thought we could take over this land and when that was done, I'd kill you off and rule it.”

”...”

The Dorgon was being a bit too brutally honest and Hecathe didn't know if he was supposed to laugh or cry about it.

”But now-”

Hecathe clicked his tongue and cut him off as he spoke, ”Please don't give me a cliche response and tell me that after you've hung around me for a while, you learned compassion and decided to change your plan,”

The Dorgon chuckled as he heard this and shook his head as he opened his mouth and froze a part of the city down below before he spoke up, ”That's not it. After living with you, I realized that I had overestimated you.”

”...” Hecathe fell a little speechless as he heard this.

”I thought you'd want to overthrow the government and take over the nation but when you revealed that you had no interest in ruling Zeblor, I was proven wrong.” The Dorgon chuckled as he continued, ”It was a bit amusing to know that even after having planned it all out, you were still uninterested in ruling a city that you would have conquered. After that, I seriously thought about what I wanted and I came to the conclusion that it would probably not be fun to rule a city that is filled with you filthy humans.”

Hecathe gulped as he heard this and he didn't know if he was supposed to feel happy about this or not.

”Even revenge appeared to be a bleak desire. Even if I were to wipe out all of humanity, it would not bring back my family that had been ruthlessly slaughtered by your people.”

Hecathe felt a little sorry for the Dorgon as he heard this but he still said nothing as he patiently let the Dorgon talk.

”Do you know how a Dorgon emperor is born?”

Hecathe shook his head as he heard this question, ”I have read that it is decided since birth but I don't know the specifics.”

”A Dorgon emperor is born through the death of a Dorgon. Out of all the Dorgon's that die, there would be one that will be reborn with all of his memories from the previous life and that is how it is decided since birth who would become the Dorgon emperor.”

Hecathe raised his eyebrows and with a bit of surprise, he asked, ”So you're telling me that you died and were reborn to be the emperor...?”

The Dorgon nodded his head as he swung his magnificent wings and flew higher up into the clouds, ”A Dorgon emperor is all-knowing because he has lived for far longer than you'd think. This is also the reason why I was hungry for revenge. In my previous life, I was killed by her and in this life as well, she was the one that captured me and sold me to a wretched auction house.”

Hecathe couldn't help but feel as if he was being fed with a bit too much information for a single day.

The more he learned, the more he felt that he had been living in the dark.

LeiLei had betrayed him, he had been controlled since the beginning by his landlady and Lara had been making use of him to move her own wicked plans. The Dorgon that he had saved knew much more than him and even the Dorgon egg being in the auction had not been there by pure chance.

At this point, all Hecathe could do was admit that Lara was a genius with a wicked mind.

Even Asgarian seemed to have been played by the girl who set him up to his doom.

However, although her actions could be seen as that of a great villain, there was still something that Hecathe was glad about.

If she were to be the greatest villain, she wouldn't have been caught even by the end of it all.

Lara had made a scheme that appeared to be perfect but little did she know that there was no such thing as a perfect crime.

If she had somehow managed to remain hidden till the very end, Hecathe would have respected her for it, but now that she had let her guard down and allowed herself to be villainized, Hecathe was surely not going to back down and accept any of this.

”Eggy, what do you think I should do now?” Hecathe shook his head with a sigh as he questioned.

”Go through with the plan,” The Dorgon wasn't too hesitant as he immediately responded, ”You already know what you have to do. No need to think so hard about it. Do what you believe you should do.”