The young man was silent, he looked seriously at Arzlan. His eyes flashed hope, so that Arzlan would accept himself as a student, but Arzlan's heart never thought of having a disciple.
"Hom..." The girl sleeping in the cart had woken up from her sleep. SHe started walking towards Arzlan with eyes still half asleep. "What are you talking about?"
"It's nothing!" Arzlan then left the place, he walked into the forest.
"S-Sir, are you really going to leave this place?" The young man wanted to make sure that Arzlan was serious about what he said earlier.
"Yes, I still have many goals! You'd better get out of this village because it won't be safe." Arzlan kept walking, he didn't look back at all, now he just looked ahead without having to pay attention to what happened in the past.
***
The death of the noble and his soldiers has shaken the city.
"What's going on here?" Zuru who was in the city immediately inspected the corpse of the fat man whose body was torn apart by the brutal attack.
Several parts of the man's body were missing. There was no sign that the attack was carried out by a human or other living creature, the attack was exactly that from a beast.
"Hmm… was it yesterday the person who killed the people inside this building? But what is the reason for doing that? No property was taken, is this all based on revenge?" Zuru tried to make sense of all the events he saw.
The news quickly spread until it reached the ears of the other nobles. They thought this was not an ordinary phenomenon because it happened right after the noble made an attack on the Elf village which was north of the city.
"What do you think? Is this matter very natural?" The palace ministerial council in charge of royal matters named Vandoru Inzta is holding a meeting with the dukes of several royal areas.
Vandoru is the head of the duchy in the Scaevola Kingdom, he can't let a small problem befall the country. The principles he always held to have extinguished many fires of rebellion or other events.
He is famous for cunning wrapped in the peace of the kingdom, no matter if it is considered a problem that will threaten the welfare of the people, he will still that.
The other dukes had already gathered and they were looking at Vandoru with fear. Vandoru's mouth determined their destiny as dukes.
"Master Vandoru, don't you think this isn't an oddity?" A southern duke man spoke up.
"Yes, this is no ordinary phenomenon. So far no one has dared to act like this nobles, this indicates that the fire of rebellion has been ignited. If this fire is allowed to continue then the entire kingdom will be in danger."
Everyone completely agreed with Vandoru's words. They thought the same thing, but deep in their hearts, they didn't want to lose the glory and freedom of what they got.
"I thought that this matter was a calamity of empire expansion! This makes the Elf side and the other races take action like this!" The duke of the west poured out his words with excessive worry.
"You don't need to be afraid like that! There would be no way that the race side would act like this, surely they would have to rethink it. If they do this, it means they have challenged the war."
Everyone was silent, Vandoru's words made them realize that this would not be possible.
"Then who dares to do this?" asked the duke of the south.
"This is likely to happen to a race that has no ties to any of the royal kingdoms."
"You mean the civilians living in the wild?" said the duke of the west.
"Yes, that's absolutely true! Because wherever it is thought that this problem might come from the wild elves or the Beast Humans. They hate us so much moreover the expansion of this territory has created unrest for them."
"Then what solution should we take?" asked again from the duke of the west.
"We must immediately make a calculation of all the races living in the area around the kingdom for them to surrender or die by execution!"
Everyone agreed with Vandoru's words. The policies issued are in accordance with their wishes.
In this way they could still gain an advantage over the races who would be willing to submit to their policies.
It didn't take long, after the policy was discussed with Vilion and Aaron, they were in complete agreement.
A large army is prepared. Not only through words, but they will also use violence especially if there are young women in the village.
So this is more called colonization. Those who resisted would be executed to death.
***
Arzlan was pensive under a tree, he was silent staring at the expanse of a very wide green field.
"I don't know, how long has it been since I can see the beauty of this world?" His eyes glanced at the sky, it was very comfortable to see the bright blue sky. "This is apparently what is called freedom."
"Hey..."
From behind Arzlan heard a woman's voice, when he turned around it was the first woman he had saved.
"Why are you brooding here alone?" asked the girl in a friendly tone.
"Why? Am I not allowed to sit here?" However, Arzlan's reply was cold.
"Uh..." The girl felt a little surprised to get an uncomfortable answer from Arzlan. "No, it's not like that. I just want to know why you made what you said last night like it was just a joke playing on their feelings?"
Arzlan was silent as he looked at the girl. He realized that what the girl said was true. Like he had toyed with the feelings of the residents.
"I don't really want to get them into trouble, besides there's no need to involve anyone else in what I'm running, there's no need for anyone to interfere."
"I knew that this man wasn't playing around. His words were very serious!" The girl swallowed her own saliva caused by remembering Arzlan's expression when he spoke. "Oh, I see! Then, after this what are you going to do?"
"I will continue my journey and my goal is only one! That is to become an angel of death to eliminate injustice in this world!"
It sounded very strange and irrational, but Arzlan's words were filled with high conviction that couldn't be taken as a joke.
"Does this man really want justice? But why do I feel like he's not the hero the old people tell me?"
The figure he remembered from his parents' stories. Heroes are people who stand for justice and are very friendly to all races, Arzlan doesn't symbolize that.
There was only a killing aura spreading around him.
___To Be Continued___