I believe that i can fix this world, a world who respected strength over everything else, now that think about it, i suddenly got reminded of a sentence that Reince previously told us when we were summoned here, those guys let the one with the strongest fist rule .
which means amusingly if anyone wanted to be the new king then at most, he will just have to beat the current king, but how much of what she previously said was close to the truth was still something left to be seen .
After all a lot of the information she provided us with before mostly turned out to be either incorrect or not the complete truth, intentionally or not, it's fine to still use it as a reference, but i shouldn't completely trust it .
There's also the possibility of her information being quite outdated, or even worse she herself was being manipulated into believing that, there is also the possibility of her being one of accomplices in the manipulation of the information, another possibility would be her excluding me from knowing even the existence of this kind of information .
But this last possibility wasn't very likely to be true, since even if Reince did exclude only me who was a nobody at that time, then she should have told others and others should have spread the word about this too, no matter how hard they tried to hide this information, some of it should have still been leaked or got circled around by some of the higher ups .
And if a retired Adventurer and one that formally served under the King Lotor didn't know much about it, then it would plummet the chances of this possibility being true, it will make its chances close to zero .
But the other possibilities was still there since they all could still be trues and after what happened to me in these last few hours and what i encountered previously, i'm no longer thinking that anything could be just merely a coincidence without going through all the facts surrounding it .
So now, i was beginning to believe that not only one of the possibility could be true, no i'm beginning to believe two possibilities could be even simultaneously be correct .
A clear example of that would be Reince telling us about this dark kingdom being ruled by the person with the strongest fist, but not saying anything about the 13 founding families serving directly under him, who were also demons and these guys were so powerful that even an illegitimate son of them turned out to be an S Rank .
Not to mention that he clearly stated that in the family he belonged to, there were even those who were much stronger than him, so why all of these information weren't even briefly mentioned before .
Another thing, if i went and hypothetically challenged the said King Devos for the throne and he went and accepted my challenge and i ended up being the victorious, does that mean that the 13 founding families and other Demons as well accept me a human as their new king, or will they retaliate against me and plot against me from under the table .
Even though according to the previous explained scenario, i would be without a doubt the one and only legitimate king of the land, approved by only my immeasurable Strength and Valor .
Probably not, after all i need not to forget why were they here in the first place, being under the leadership of a human could pretty much put an end to them using this land as their stronghold and operation center, but that weirdly opened my eyes to a complete different point of view .
In which that king Devos refused to accept my challenge, can't i just storm my way to the kingdom's capital Devon and still beat that king to a bulp and proclaim myself as the new king and if, forcing all the people present to acknowledge me as their new king .
And in this scenario even if those guys from the 13 founding families came to raise any problems or even possibly try to agitate citizens of this kingdom against me, then my strength will keep them in check, so they will either be forced to submit or perish .
A complete and an utter tyranny, something this kingdom was a true depiction of, with all that said, this was nothing but a mere hypothesis of mind, i don't want to be the King of anywhere, not to mention an alien nation that was being plotting against all the people in this land for who knew how long .
In reality, i don't see myself acting as a king and i believe that i'm not befitting to be one either, yes i'm trying to make the world a better place but i'm more entitled to do so by removing the plagues that were haunting it and making it appear as so, not by trying to completely reform it .
Since i had this still existing belief that evil will always be in existence, so the best way to treat it in my mind is by completely eradicating from its source once and for all .
So if this kingdom itself appeared to be the source of all the plagues that were haunting these lands, then i will first assess its situation and collect as much information as i could and then decide whether should it continue to exist or not .
But the main factor in deciding that will still fall on how were humans being treated around here, if there were treated like kettle then the possibility of me putting an end to the existence of this kingdom will be quite high, but if not that will have me do some contemplation before deciding what could i possible do .
How did i got myself in this kind of situation, i was searching for some place to ask about any useful information regarding finding a way back to Troland, but here i'm contemplating whether to wipe out a whole kingdom or leave it as it's .
Is this a side effect of my increased strength, did i became arrogant, being unrivaled does spark some crazy ideas in the person mind, but am i even unrivaled, didn't my encounter with that gigantic creature from earlier confirmed that there are still people out there that could effortlessly wipe me out of existence, even if i forget about my encounter with that blue guy out there .
There is still the looming threat from the so-called Real World and their relentless pursuit of the Shard, willing to do whatever it takes to get hold of it .
To this day, i don't seem to be able to figure how that strange technique of that Bloodlord from before worked, it was able to force my body parts to turn on me, it found a way to hinder me even after i decimated the bloody attack that was coming my way and i'm probably about to face tons of guys who mastered techniques that maybe a lot weirder than even that guy from before .
So yeah, i better harden and strengthen my heart a bit more without letting my strength to go into my head as not to let myself fall a victim to arrogance and by my own hands .
After all, my whole strength is still attributed to my skills, so if there were to be a technique or a skill which acted on negating the effects of other skills, then i don't know what to even do by then, other than to wait for my end and the crazy part that a skill like that did most likely exist .
So if there is the slightest possibility of finding a new way to increase my strength away from the use of skills, might as well held into it tightly, for some reason my gut is telling me that Battle Aura might be a good solution for the problem that i'm having, so i might as well make searching for its breathing method on my priority list .
I'm quite certain that i'm about to delve into a new and strange adventure, one that will require me to be a bit more cautious than before, at least try to adapt to my new surrounding, without making much ruckus or attract any unnecessary attention .
Once again i returned my full focus on the currently folding scene in front of me, that gang leader agreed to have his memories checked or more like forced to agree, as he said with gritted teeth :
I'm ready for whatever will you have me going through .
The gang leader said in a submissive tone, one that held a little bit of grudge hidden pretty deep in it, but since it was still noticable to me, then there was no reason for it to go unnoticed by that bossy and quite arrogant guy, so he must be going to do something about it .
But once again i was proven wrong, the fierce retaliation that i thought will happen, didn't end up occurring, it is either because he found it meaningless to do or him planning another whole thing for the Dorell family member as he once again released a small chuckle and said :
Ludo, check this guy brain throughly, but be careful not to cause him any irreversible damage, he is still a member of one of the 13 founding families after all, even if he was illegitimate member .
The taunting tone in his voice was quite apperant, but the one that was being taunted didn't react as much to that guy taunting, since all what he currently wanted was to get this over with and get out of here as quick as possible, revenge could wait a bit, surviving here was his current utmost and only priority .
That guy Ludo is the one tasked with doing these kind of tasks once again, that guy either have a special skill or talent related to investigation or he has a technique specially for farming information, knowing how bizarre everything was going i won't be surprised to find out that he might have all of that, he made a whole report about me after barely looking at me for only a second .
But now that i was reminded of that guy, i believe he previously said something that i considered to be the most bizarre thing till this exact moment and that was his mentioning of me being real human and not like the others here .
What could he have possibly meant by saying that, am i the only human he saw, no that can't be right, then what could he have meant by that .
He did say that there was something fishy about me, were he talking about my real strength or was he taking about my bizarre power, no he must be left alive for me to interrogate him about what exactly did he meant by that ? .
I sensed the guy called Ludo once again began to take a few steps towards where the gang leader was currently in, he came to stop in opposite to him and a few inches away from being skin close to him, then he said in a commanding and threatening tone :
I believe you already know of the procedures, let loose of any mind barrier you have set and remove any enmity or resentment you have towards me or anyone here as to not agitate The Seal Of The Elders which lies in your sea of consciousness, otherwise you will end up putting the two of us in danger, am i clear ? .
What Seal Of Elders, is that like something they are born with and it actually lies in the sea of consciousness, is that even a real place, i always believed consciousness to be an intangible concept of mind, but from his words, it sounded like if that was really a place in the mind not as i or people in my old world previously thought .
It appear to be corporal enough to even allow the putting of the said seal inside it, a vague concept of the so-called sea of consciousness, that all what i was able to get from the words he just said .
I understand, but could you please give me a few minutes to prepare myself, i really don't want to risk something going wrong with you still inside my brain, i hope you understand .
I believe it is quite clear why he asked for a few minutes to prepare, since he wanted to try and calm the hatred that was currently flooding his heart, i believe it was a beneficial move for both parties, i don't know what exactly was that Seal Of The Elders he mentioned but one thing was certain, it was quite dangerous, something that mustn't be trifled with or triggered .
what will their response be to that, the scene fell into silent then after a few seconds, the voice of the team leader resonated resolutely saying :
You have only one minute to take care of everything you need to, after that we won't be responsible if anything were to happened in the process .
I can swear that i heard a few teeth grinding sounds from the direction of the gang leader, but he hurriedly began to sort it out and regain his calm and composure and hurriedly began to set down in the ground in a cross-legged position and his breathing was beginning to became smooth, so i guessed that the mediation technique was working just fine .
A whole minute passed by easily and in that one minute i was subjected to the frequent and repeated stares of all the law enforcement team other than the guy whose name was Ludo, i believe that i already have garrisoned most of their attention if not all .
After the minute passed, the gang leader was about to finish saying that he is ready to start when the guy name Ludo suddenly appeared behind his head and reached with one hand and put it on the top of the said guy head .
Without any sign or warning, the guy who was being subjected to the memory research suddenly screamed as if he gone crazy then a second later he quietened down as if his suffering had already went away, i wonder whether what he just did mean that it worked or not .
The guy Ludo raised his hand from the top of the gang leader's head and shock his head a few times before marching back to report to his leader, did this mean that it failed, then what is the fate of that guy then .
The moment he arrived by the side of his leader, he was asked :
Did you gain any useful information from that useless guy .
I was amazed at why was he back to insulting that guy and doing this so blatantly too, but the reply that Ludo gave him told me everything that i needed to know, he said :
That cursed demon pig had already planned to detonate the seal of his, the moment i tried to check on his memory, wanting to pull me to doom with him, but he was still a step late, since i'm quite cautious when dealing with these kind of matters .
So the moment i felt a disturbance in his Sea Of Consciousness i got what bits of information that i can and got out of there, but him detonating his seal, broke the Sea Of Consciousness of his, rendering him to lose any bit of consciousness he had and turning him into a fool .
A really silly guy to the end, he really was this accomplice, so were you able to get information about his involvement in all this, him be willing to turn himself into a fool like this could only mean that they had quite the big plot, were you able to safely get this information from him .
An accomplice, it's my first time seeing that guy what exactly is he talking about .
The guy called Ludo shook his head at the words of his team leader and began to say :
Sir, that's the thing ,there wasn't any scheme being hatched here, that guy wasn't taking any part of any scheme or plot at play here .
Huh, what could you possibly mean by that, did you lose your wit or something can't see him detonating his sea of consciousness as to protect whatever secrets was he hoping to hide .
Sir, calm down and i will try to explain everything that i got so far, there's no doubt that this idiot guy in front of us was not partaking in any sort of conspiracies or taking a part in any plot, from the memories that i was able to get from that guy, he really had no clue about how that guy appeared here .
He came here with his subordinates to check on the trap that they have set in the area earlier and they weren't indeed able to check the mark of their catch and even were more unable to move him from his place even an inch, they decided to obliterate it and continue on their way, so there's no doubt about it, those guys were really telling the truth and they had no connection to the statue over there whatsoever .
But then why will he retort to detonate his Sea Of Consciousness like that, since he was really innocent then why did he decide to put such a stunt, trying to harm himself like that, it doesn't make any sense, are you certain of what you saw in those memories .
Ludo then went silent for a few seconds as if was taking sometime to collect his thoughts before he went and said :
I was able to get the reason to why did he made such a harmful arrangement, sir, it is very much related to how much hatred did he have towards us, before he did what he did he kept remembered the scene of us killing his subordinates over and over again and that was the basis that i built my conclusion upon, a truly stupid individual that guy was .
After hearing the possible reason of why that guy did what he did the team leader wasted no time before firing another shot at the last remaining guy in front of him, a moment later i felt another body fell to the ground without even making the smallest voice and already understood the fate of that guy from the Dorell family, the only remark that the team leader gave was :
What a stupid guy that demon was .