Become Tyrant On My Own Way
Chapter 144 – CRUELTY HELIOS
“Ukh. Brother Nunu, Kukuna's knee hurts, sister. Kukuna can't take it anymore.”
“Yosh, a smart kid can't be whiny. Let Kak Nunu cast a spell so that the pain disappears huh. Bad pain, bad pain, get out of Kukuna's knee! Hows it? The pain has appeased, right, Kukuna?”
“Umm.”
In one of the Maosium Kingdom's suburban villages adjacent to the artificial dungeon break created by Helios to keep the Maosium Kingdom busy in order to delay its invasion into the Southern Empire of Meglovia, many residents suffered injuries, both light, and heavy, due to the dungeon break.
The burning charred smell could be smelled everywhere, whether it came from the corpses of monsters, or from the corpses of humans who were victims of dungeon break. The houses in the village were also mostly burnt to the ground, leaving almost nothing to spare.
Even with such severe conditions, it seems that Nunu is trying to be optimistic by keeping a smile to calm the hearts of the villagers who were also victims of the master's plan.
Helios' actions were clearly wrong. However, no life has the right to be sacrificed even if it is to save the nation and its own country. However, he also did not have a better alternative. Nunu was saddened to be unable to help much other than to become his master's piece on the front line.
“Kukuna! Kukunas! Son, where are you?!”
“Madam Tampoe, here!”
“Ukh, Kukuna my dear son, thank goodness you survived.”
“Iya, Mom. Those monsters were truly terrifying. Can the army of His Majesty the King really stop those monstrous monsters?”
Olo came to the middle of the conversation while gently rubbing Kukuna's hair.
“Take it easy. Do you know for yourself how powerful the King is? A crisis like this is definitely nothing to him and his soldiers.”
Olo smiled as he said those words, but his heart was not. How not. The cause of all the disasters was none other than the Emperor Meglovia herself, Helios sun Meglovia, the lord she served.
It didn't take Nunu long to notice Olo's strange behavior change.
“What's up, Junior?”
“Ah, Senior Nunu.”
Short words. Olo just stared at the scene full of destruction. He was relieved that within a day, the soldiers of the Maosium Kingdom immediately came to deal with the disaster. However, there are still many casualties about their inability to protect the citizens.
By order of Helios, Olo, Nunu, and the other soldiers of the Meglovian Empire had to retreat once the Maosium soldiers came so that Maosium's suspicion of involvement in the Meglovian Empire as the cause of the dungeon break could be minimized.
After all, Olo, Nunu, and comrades came to the place with a disguise identity, especially the other imperial soldiers just wearing disguises resembling natives who could just slip away.
Nevertheless, there was guilt in Olo and Nunu's heart as one of the people involved in the dungeon break disaster. Although it was actually Helios who planned it and Helios who executed it alone, the guilt still exists about them already know the existence of the plan of the master, but they did not stop it.
That is currently the reason why they postpone their return to the country where they are now citizens. Minerva's doctors had conveyed their wish to Helios and Helios seemed to have no problem with it. At least, with Nunu's healing abilities as well as Olo's and the other soldiers' strength, they were able to ease the burden of the villagers a little.
But it was also difficult. No matter how big the mana inside Nunu's body was, there was a limit as well so that it could run out. And that's what's happening now, Nunu doesn't have any more strength to heal the wound on Kukuna's knee, but at least he managed to treat his external wounds with the knowledge of his herbal medicines obtained from his habit of disturbing Helios in his laboratory at a time when Helios was still active as a scientist.
“Hey, Senior Nunu. Earlier I didn't think about it, but after seeing it straight away, wasn't Master Helios too ruthless by causing a great disaster like this in another kingdom?”
“And you think Mr Helios doesn't know that more than anyone?”
Nunu looked at Olo with a hint of annoyance.
“Then, he still tried to go against his conscience to do so because of his role as emperor who had to protect his people. If dungeon break did not occur in this kingdom, surely the homeland of Meglovia which has been destroyed by the army of Maosium Kingdom.”
“But there must be a better way..Duh, my head hurts just by thinking about it! Why do the people above love conflict and war?! I like to fight, but with the strong. To think that the weak people should be the victims of the conflict of the ruler.. This is completely wrong!”
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Elsewhere, Luciana was left in the imperial palace as an important guest with the company of a trusted bodyguard named Adam.
-gruduk, gruduk.
Curious about the noise that had been heard beside her room, when the palace was quiet because most of them concentrated on the war situation, Luciana explored the place with Adam, her bodyguard.
“Adam, let's check what's going on in the next room.”
“…”
Adam just nodded silently and then along with Luciana down the room that was right in two rooms next to him.
-Krieeeek.
Slowly, Luciana opened the door of the room which was apparently not locked.
“Aaaaaakkkkhhhh.”
But how surprised he was to find that the room was being guarded by many ice golems smaller than those brought by Helios to the battlefield. There was a golem that acted as a bodyguard by carrying a spear that was also made of ice, and some act as servants who appear to be serving someone who sits on a bed with beautiful curtains with silk sheets.
The figure seemed to show no expression at all. Only occasionally did he seem annoyed by the lifeless servants who served him by slamming the glass or tray he was holding onto the ground.
The figure suddenly looked towards Luciana with a sharp look that looked like a curious ghost figure in his eyes. And maybe that's the main point that makes Luciana scared than the ice golems milling about.
“Ara, ara, there is a beautiful female guest apparently. Are you the new queen candidate who will be married by the unlucky child?”
Tell that figure with sentiment.
“You are?”
“Oh, me? My life used to be so happy when my husband was alive. But the bastard had killed his own father along with his older brother and younger brother. Luckily my youngest daughter was able to save herself from the cruelty of that bastard child thanks to the help of the holy temple. Who knows, maybe tomorrow or the day after tomorrow is my turn to be killed by that bastard.”
The figure did not answer Luciana's question directly. His expression was only flat with the look of an eye that looked like a dead fish lamenting his unfortunate fate. But from his words, Luciana could immediately know who the figure was. She was the former consort of the Meglovia Kingdom, Theia Madama Meglovia.
Luciana looked confused. Indeed Helios could not escape the bad gossip wherever the young man was talked about. However, based on his investigations which he believed to be accurate, Helios was actually a wise and gentle-hearted emperor.
But to think that his mother thought so too, he thought that there was something missing from his investigation? After all, a mother must know more about the true nature of the child she grew up with.
“But as far as I am concerned, His Majesty Emperor Helios is a wise figure.”.
Theia looked more and more at Luciana sharply as if her eyeball was a bullet that could at any time loose hole in Luciana's head.
“That's because the boy was so good at hiding the monsters buried inside him that he managed to deceive himself that he was a good person.
Said the mother telling her own child arbitrarily. Her eyes were without a doubt which made Lusiana instantly convinced by Theia's groundless talk.
“You too, be careful if you get close to him. If you plan to become his second queen, quickly cancel your wish and return to where your family came from, or else your fate will also end unfortunate as I.”.
No more words could come out of Luciana's mouth, only the sound of her saliva swallowing with trembling hands. If there was no Adam standing there beside him, it might have been a long time that the princess had fallen to the ground.
He did not even have time to answer that there had never been any intention at all to marry Helios from the beginning.