Chapter 262 Just because
He didn’t want to waste too much time far away from his base, not if someone might be there making trouble.
It would be a shame if his effort and the arduous work of his people would be destroyed, just because of some stupid evil Ascenders, who thought that they were important.
‘I should call Bianne tonight, as well as tomorrow to make sure everything is fine…we really need a fourth communication device…’
Dilan was annoyed, but that was clearly visible to everyone.
pA?,??.?0? He knew that the reports of the scouts might not even mean anything bad. There could have been a group of Ascenders, who were passing by without bothering about Dilan’s group.
It was also possible that all of them had already been killed by monsters as well. They didn’t seem to be powerful enough to roam through the dangerous Shikan plains without suffering any casualties.
All of this was more than enough to reassure Dilan, it was enough to make him stay in the Blue Star camp for the time being.
It wouldn’t take long before he would leave either way.
“My name is Jennifer, but most people call me Sheriff Jennie. Pleased to meet you.” A hand suddenly reached out to him. Sheriff Jennie smiled at him as her dark brown eyes scanned him from head to toe.
She ignored the blood splattered all over his body, even when Dilan’s hand grasped hers.
“Dilan.” He merely called out to him before letting go of her.
“I’m Jared, Hunter Jared. We didn’t plan on eavesdropping but I could hear a bit through this…device you’re using. You seem to have your own group. Did our scouts already find your base, and is that why you’re here?” Hunter Jared had great instincts.
That was why he could tell that something was odd about Dilan’s sudden appearance at the Blue Star camp. Dilan must have heard about them from somewhere!
“You could say that, but my group is not exactly on friendly terms with your scouts. Some of them tried to **** a precious member of my group when I was generous enough to invite them into our base.” Dilan’s voice held no emotion, and both Hunter Jared and Sheriff Jennie began to frown after hearing what he said.
They couldn’t believe what Dilan said, at first, knowing that their soldiers were disciplined.
Meanwhile, Mayor Clerens could only flinch. ‘Does he really want to say it out loud? Right here and right now? Is he really a fool, more honest than required, or just crazy??’
“The Soldiers belonging to our camp…the Blue Star camp? Are you sure you mean us, and not another group?” Sheriff Jennie asked, only to receive a nod from Dilan.
“Yes, exactly those soldiers.”
“That cannot be. Please tell me the name of these soldiers! We will question and punish them if they really did what you just said.” Hunter Jared seemed to be more agitated at the accusation hurled at his soldiers than anyone else.
However, Dilan could only give her a rueful smile.
“There is no need to punish them any further, they’re dead.” His voice was cold, and there was no trace of pity. Rather, it was almost as if he enjoyed the fact that they were dead, and as if they received the punishment they deserve.
“Dead? But there was no report about the death of our sold–….A-Are you the leader of the g-group in Shiron, by chance ….” Sheriff Jennie stammered, only to recall something she had almost forgotten. She began to stutter and her eyes involuntarily trembled while looking at Dilan.
“So you guys didn’t forget about my group. I almost thought Felia didn’t report about it.” Dilan replied honestly, with a smug expression on his face. Meanwhile, Mayor Clerens wiped the cold sweat from his temples upon realizing the truth.
‘He is really a maniac…’
By now, Mayor Clerens was sure that Dilan was a madman, that he was actually trying to challenge the Blue Star camp to fight them, and that the Blood Legion was just an excuse to approach them.
He frowned deeply and felt like beating some sense into Dilan. But that seemed impossible.
“You killed our soldiers just for attempting to **** someone?!?” Hunter Jared asked in an indignant voice. His tamed wolf growled out, and it was about to pounce upon Dilan when the surrounding atmosphere turned more pressurizing.
Dilan’s heavy killing intent was released, and he stared deep into the eyes of the wolf, who gave a yelp before it lowered its head in a submissive manner. It lay down on the ground and didn’t dare to move anymore.
A moment later, Dilan’s sky blue eyes that were filled with wrath turned toward Jared.
“Just for attempting to **** someone? Are you dumb or just acting like a braindead idiot?” Dilan asked in a rhetorical tone, not expecting to receive an answer.
His killing intent intensified, preventing Hunter Jared from moving a single inch.
“I saved your soldiers from getting killed before I invited them to my base, CLEARLY telling them about the rules of MY base. I gave them more trust and respect than the military deserves in my opinion. But what did I get in return?! YOUR people tried to **** one of MY people, they tried to create chaos in my group and influence MY people to become accomplices in their henious crime of attempted gang ****,” Dilan’s voice was cracking with rage and he kept stepping closer to Hunter Jared with every spoken word.
Dilan’s voice was ice-cold and filled with anger. Chills ran down Hunter Jared’s spine and the Ascenders around them began to step back without realizing it as well.
“Your ‘lovely’, ‘disciplined’, and ‘respectable’ soldiers broke MY rules, in MY base, showing no respect, or any sign of being a human. They were punished according to the punishment everyone receives for trying to **** someone, or actually raping someone. I don’t differentiate between attempting and actually doing it. After all, both criminals who do that are the same, trash of our society!
If you have something against my rules, fight me, and die at my hands. After all, the two of us know that I’m the stronger one here. So don’t try to talk to me about shit, such as ‘democracy’, that every human life is worth the same, that murdering is bad. I don’t give two cents about that. I will do whatever it takes to protect my people!” Dilan ended his short lecture while clenching his fist.
He released some of his anger, straight at the leader of the group, who had been incapable of disciplining their soldiers properly. Their soldiers had induced trauma on the mind of Marie, one of his people, and Dilan didn’t like this at all.
Dilan was very possessive when it came to protecting the loyal people in his group. Everyone, who trusted Dilan, and who would stay by his side, even if hell would open right in front of them, was worth being protected.
And Dilan would give his everything to protect them.
He didn’t realize it yet, but his possessiveness over the people he led had begun to resurface ever since he became the leader of his group.
It had only been weak and barely noticeable before, but after a month had passed, it was already strong enough for him to feel like someone had knowingly attacked his family, the moment they dared to try doing something funny to his group.
His reaction was the strongest and the loudest when it came to someone trying to **** women in his group.
Dilan’s sisters were beautiful, and whenever he thought about someone trying to **** women in his group, he asked himself how his sisters must have survived in the world, Milarn had turned into.
‘Will they be fine? Are they protected, desperately struggling to survive, or…are they already dead?’ All of those were things Dilan asked himself whenever something happened to his people.
He didn’t want to think about it, but those thoughts wouldn’t leave him alone no matter how hard he tried.
It was as if something wanted to force him to be reprimanded that he had sisters, who loved him, and that he had to reunite with them to figure out whether they were fine or not.
Life was not easy to live, whether it was before the Primordial Ascension or after. However, Dilan thought that his sisters were strong enough to overcome the Primordial Ascension’s first days.
‘If we could survive our father, the Primordial Ascension is nothing in comparison!!’