Chapter 20: Power and Money
In this chapter there will be the point of vief of the hero and the main character about their visions of the world, justice and others, it will be mostly a chapter to set up a good base for their "rivalry".
Pov of the hero :
All those nobles who now tried to attract my attention, to win my favors, to marry me to their daughters, to make friends with their children, to support them from near or far.
It just disgusts me, yesterday I was a peasant, someone who doesn't exists, someone that live to serv, now I more powerful than any of them.
Guard : "Just see that I wish I could be the hero to be treated that well"
Guard 2 : "No all those annoying nobles who just suck on you to win somethong, it's just disgusting"
Guard : "Don't say that, we could be heard"
Guard 2 : "And what, even they know it's true"
Guard : "Shh"
But I didn't want to do something with that, I never by my upbringing sought revenge nor used my power to do something with it, so I may aswell let them waste their time in silly things.
It wasn't so bad in the end that everything I wanted now could come true, the king really needs me to stay to be his weapon of war, so he will do everything not to upset me.
Gilfard : "You know sir Arther I wonder if you wouldn't be better off not obeying the king who just intends to use you in every possible way"
Arther : "He can use me well, as long as humanity in general improves it's fine with me"
Gilfard : "You are way too kind with humanity, sometimes I doubt if we deserve it"
The general always had a deep thought about war and peace, he obviously knew that some wars couldn't be evaded but he wished that it could be the less possible.
He also knew that even if the king now is much better than the others it doesn't change the fact that he will also use me for everything not just for the progress of humanity.
Knowing that, their was always a principle for every hero to never join other wars than the ones against the demons, else, it could really damage the balance and make humans too powerful.
Gilfard Soldier: "Sir you can't say that, you still don't want humanity to perish under the army of evil"
Gilfard: "When I see the battlefields I sometimes wonder who the army of evil really is"
I'm not saying anything, for me, even though I had suffered a lot in the past, even when I found and still find the world unfair, I can't help but think that humanity in itself is not that bad.
Arther : "Their is always hope"
Gilfard : "Hope is always betrer than reality that's the problem"
My warm family, my kind friends, even the few meetings with others I had always taught me to cherish and protect those I love.
Arther: "If he tries to make me attack another country for their ambitions, they will go without me"
Gilfard Soldier: "The hero must protect humanity..."
Gilfard: "To protect does not mean to invade"
Gilfard even if he seems very attached to the royal system, he was clearly against any invasion war, so he was content since his beginnings with the defense and elimination of monsters.
He made it clear several times that his loyalty did not go to the king but to the kingdom and therefore to its inhabitants, his lineage, his power, his army, made the king even if bothered by it not being able to do anything about it.
This world is definitely governed by power, if it were a baron who dared to disobey the king's orders, he would be executed or banished, here the king does with it, puts him on the border and leaves him there.
Gilfard: "But you should never underestimate the demons, they are ready to do anything for their goals, even your incredible power would not overcome an army of you alone"
Arther: "I don't intend to underestimate them, all the generals only consider them as a setback before continuing their conquests over the elves or the orcs, but that's not my case, I will prevent them by all means from doing harm"
Humans could be evil or do evil but it could be changed as for demons it is their nature to want evil, to kill human beings.
They had no intentions for generations to stop his bloodshed, they are not beings with whom we can reason.
Even the orcs who are nevertheless a very sanguine species can be reasoned and know when to stop, the demons, we know, will only stop when the inhabitants are crossed off the map, nothing less, nothing more.
In this world, god seems to be playing around with us, he gives us powers to fight and therefore also puts us in danger, I might have preferred not to have any power and that there would be no more calamities, no more danger to humans, but of course it was just an unrealizable dream.
Lucian's Pov
The hero had just allowed me to stay at the academy, I don't really know if I'm supposed to thank him, from what I was able to gather as information, he had thanks to his great influence collected a lot of money and gifts from the various nobles that he had offered to the poor.
He was also the one who had tried to make the academy more open for commoners, even if the ambitions of the nobles were opposed to him, his power was so great that he could make things change.
All the heroes throughout the ages had to gradually change the world and develop kingdoms to make the general life of humans better.
But for what result, the nobles are still vomiting as much, of course the living conditions have generally increased, but apart from being a weapon in the service of the annihilation of the army of evil.
Lucian: "Finally, he may be the most pitiable person"
Eudeon: "What are you talking about Darthos? »
Lucian: "No nothing, I'm just thinking about the hero"
Eudeon: "You know Darthos, I know you can't stand him because of his 'luck' to be the hero, but now you'll have to at least thank him"
Since I learned that the hero had taken advantage of his connections to let me and others stay, I don't know what he saw in me but hey, it suits my business well. This being contrary to what Eudeon thought, I had not the slightest intention of thanking him for it.
Between him and the examiner who since that day has been training me while repeating to me 24/24 that the hero and not so bad it only gives me one desire, to kill him even more.
Thanatos will be there he would probably ask me why I am trying so hard to kill him, even if the demon king has total authority over me, I am not afraid of dying either, no rather I have nothing to do with life.
--- In the past (it reminds me of the messed up summaries mdr) ---
The only thing I've never had is my parents, we've never had an easy life, I've always been pretty poor, my father having an accident at work and my mother just being at home.
Father: "My feet hurt, hurry up and massage my feet"
So I had to take care of them from a very young age, look for food, work as a waiter, really do everything.
I was looking for something in them, love, that they would look at me and that they would consider me, that they would give me a little attention.
But over 15 years I have never had anything but contempt and hatred, as if I was just their servant, even more their son, just a tool.
I don't know why they hate me, but one thing is for sure they hate me, they deal with it because I serve them but as soon as that is no longer the case, I no longer exist.
To sometimes manage to feed the three of us, I sometimes had to steal, suffer the consequences, the blows, just so that in the end all my efforts were thrown in the trash without any consideration.
Lucian's mother: "More bread soup, what's the point of us educating you so much if it's just to bring it back"
She slapped me, looking at me askance, how dare she when all she did was spend her time chatting with other women in the village, especially to say bad things about us.
It is even said that she spends part of her days in the company of other men just to pass the time (this is not an impression she deceives him).
As for my father, he couldn't work anymore but he was at least pretending, he was trying to help the neighbors a little and do things maybe out of pride.
He had become worse and worse over the years, and it hadn't gotten any better with our banishment. The terrible rumors about our family and about others had facilitated the work of the nobles.
Father: "All this is your fault, if you work instead of spending your time in the arms of young men"
Mother: "You have to, you almost can't move, I'm not going to stand here watching you"
Mother: "I knew well that you were stealing to feed us Lucian, how dare you be so much shot in the side"
She slapped me as usual, accusing me of all the problems in the house over and over again.
Of course I had sometimes had to fight, steal, or even hunt to feed us but I was never caught, I knew anyway that the nobles had just put their crimes on our backs all this to avoid any rebellions.
Father: "If you still had good power, but no, you're just useless, I regret giving you life"
It was the first time that my father had actively been against me, I who had then hoped that he at least had at least some appreciation for me, my hope then had been crushed to smithereens.
So we started our life in the lands of darkness where my life had not changed, the only thing that had changed was me, instead of focusing on them I focused on myself, I took advantage of this opportunity to improve and become stronger.
So later and already being almost consumed by demonic mana, the demon king came to look for us, offering me a new path, his goal to occupy me finally, I had no reason to live just an objective that occupied my mind towards which I was heading, empty, without any rest.
Anyway I will force them to recognize me, I will force the world to finally look at me and consider my efforts, if this world only works through power, then I will have enough power to make this world work for me, maybe then I will find a real reason to live.
Next chap: we'll see idk