Novel Full Chapter 495: Use of a Traitor.
Chapter 495: Use of a Traitor.
“This is not how we treat traitors.”
Ravon blinked at those words and raised his head with a confused look on his face.
“We have better uses for them.”
“Better… uses?”
Ravon looked up slowly.
And Kael nodded—
“The enemy does not know you are captured, does he?”
The moment Ravon heard this question, his expression changed as he realized what Kael was trying to do.
“You… you want me to…”
“You betrayed your own people once, now it is time to set things right by betraying the people you betrayed your own for.”
“…”
For an instant, Ravon turned silent, and Kael raised his eyebrow at that.
“What? Have you grown attached to the new friends you’ve made?”
“I did not make any friends.”
Ravon was quick to deny those accusations as the look in his eyes changed.
“I did not do what I did because I wanted to make friends or survive or some other thing I do not understand. I did it for revenge, I did it to annihilate the Velmourns because I believed this blood does not deserve to continue—even if it meant that me too, as the one who carries the same blood, shall end together with them.
I wasn’t scared of death, neither did I try to coax the Stormcallers to get them to accept me as their own.
I have not grown attached to anyone; the Stormcallers were just tools for me to achieve my goals—the goal I would have still pushed for if it weren’t for you.”
He explained himself with conviction.
“Then why the hesitation?”
Kael asked with a curious look on his face.
“It’s because I fear I am not the only traitor on their side.”
Kael narrowed his eyes, and Ravon continued—
“There are times where I purposefully withheld some information, but when they moved, their movements were… complete. As if they already knew what I did not tell. I didn’t put much thought into it back then, but now…
If I betray them, they will know.”
Ravon answered, and once again, Kael just shrugged at his words.
“And?”
He asked.
“So what if they know? Why do you care? At worst, they simply won’t listen to you and our plan will fail; doesn’t mean it isn’t worth a try.
Or are you scared that they might come after you?”
Kael questioned as he looked into Ravon’s eyes, wanting to observe his reaction.
And Ravon did not disappoint.
“No.”
He shook his head.
“The worst they can do is kill me; I have long abandoned the fear of death.”
“Then good.”
Kael praised.
“From this day forward—you have a new role in this game.”
Ravon stayed silent, listening to Kael’s words seriously, as if they were divine messages he couldn’t possibly ignore.
“You will be the Traitor turned Traitor, a Sergeant who gives ’information’ to the enemy—’information’ that I tell you to deliver to them.”
“…Sergeant?”
Ravon’s expression changed as he stared at his body.
It was ruined; because of everything he had been through, it would be impossible for him to return to his position. Even if the soldiers who caught him remained silent, others would know eventually, and the news would sprea—
“Stop worrying about your injuries.”
While Ravon was thinking all of it, Kael spoke up. The man looked at the God with a confused look on his face, and the God—
“You can recover.
We now have a way to heal you.”
“A way to… heal me?”
Ravon blinked. Soon, however, he just shook his head. The man in front of him was a God who knew it all, a being who was here to bring change and had already solved the problem that ruined his life before.
It wasn’t impossible for someone like him to know healing magic, so instead of being surprised or awed, Ravon simply accepted what was happening and nodded.
“Yes, Lord Kael.”
Kael nodded back.
He did not know what Ravon was thinking, neither did he recently learn healing magic. He was simply relying on the ’prisoners’ he had captured.
He remembered there were three healers in that lot alone, and one of them was quite strong, so instead of letting them waste his rations, he would make them work for it.
Not just Ravon, Kael had planned to make the healers heal every single Velmourn who had even the most minor injuries or health issues.
And it wasn’t just the healers he was eyeing; the rest of the force—Kael was thinking of a way to put them to use as well.
Yes, the prisoners… they wouldn’t be spending their time here inside a cage; they would… work.
“Good.”
In the end, Kael nodded at Ravon.
“I’ll have someone free you from this place.”
Then, his eyes turned frostily cold and—
“This is the only chance you will receive, Ravon.
If you betray me—
I will make death look like mercy.”
“I will not fail your expectation, Lord Kael.”
Ravon answered with a solemn look on his face.
Kael nodded as he then turned away.
’I will keep ten Ants just on him.’
Imperia, who was currently inside his Sanctuary, spoke directly in Kael’s mind, at which Kael nodded lightly, agreeing to her words.
After all said and done, Ravon was a traitor; they would be fools to blindly trust him no matter how genuine his words sounded.
Not to mention… now that they had so many Ants, splurging a little wouldn’t be a problem.
“Kael!”
Kael walked out of the room with everything in his mind. The next instant, he heard a voice, and his eyes fell on Korvath, Lavinia, and five other soldiers who were on standby, ready to move the instant something unexpected happened.
The group, with Lavinia at the front, rushed towards him—
“Are you alright?”
The Mage asked, grabbing his hand as she began looking for his injuries, and Kael just smiled and patted her head.
“Lavinia, he was a Fifth-Stage Warrior; he cannot hurt me even if his life depended on it.”
“Shut up.”
Lavinia cursed as she hugged him tightly. She could tell she had been more sensitive than usual these past few hours but…
It wasn’t something she could control.
She had become too habitual to Kael always being around her; the moment she realized that the two of them could actually be separated, her mind had turned into a mess.
In the end, only when Kael hugged her back and began gently rubbing and patting her body did her mind calm down, and she closed her eyes, not thinking too much.
“What happened inside?”
After a momentary wait, Commander Korvath asked.
Kael looked at him and—
“Stormcallers.”
He answered.
“He was in contact with the Stormcallers?”
Korvath’s expression changed.
“For more than a year.”
Kael nodded.
“What…? That would mean…”
“Patrol routes. Supply numbers. Council movements. Troop shifts. They know everything a Velmourn Sergeant would.”
“That bastard!”
One of the soldiers standing behind Korvath cursed, wanting to go in and bash the bastard’s head, but others held him back.
Kael’s gaze lingered on the soldier who overreacted for a while longer than others, something that the said soldier noticed and instantly stood straight after a flinch.
Then, Kael turned back to Korvath and—
“You still have the communication artifact you took from him, correct?”
“Yes.”
Korvath nodded.
He obviously wouldn’t throw away such clear evidence; he was planning to use that and have Ravon executed, but then—
“Return it to him.”
Kael ordered.
“What…?”
Korvath blinked in surprise.
And not just him—the five soldiers behind him were the same. Even Lavinia, who was busy hugging Kael, momentarily froze, seemingly surprised, but she just shook her head. She wasn’t thinking straight about the situation to begin with, so there was no need to give her input here.
She would let Kael deal with it how he saw fit.
“Return the artifact to him and prepare to release him—
I’ll have the Sky Kingdom healers heal his injuries.”
“Kael, what are you talking about? He’s a traitor.”
Korvath obviously didn’t just do as Kael told. Kael then stared at the five soldiers standing behind the Commander and nodded at them.
The soldiers flinched; all of them understood what Kael wanted, but they still waited for the Commander’s command.
“Leave us.”
Only when Korvath gave the orders did the soldiers finally leave, and Kael began explaining his plan.
…
“What if… he betrays us again…?”
After hearing everything Kael said, Korvath had a single question, and the answer to his question was simple.
“I’ll know.”
For a moment, there was silence. Lavinia was smiling, nodding with a satisfied look on her face. Korvath too didn’t disagree with the plan, and after hearing Kael’s answer, he nodded.
“Alright then.
I’ll arrange his release. I will also make sure the news of his arrest does not spread. You bring the healers.”
“Yes, Commander.”
Kael nodded as he, together with Lavinia, walked away.
And Korvath, who was now left alone, stared at Kael’s departing figure and decided to go have a conversation with the Sky Serpent General after this.
He…
He wanted to know what happened—in detail.
Because today…
He felt like he wasn’t talking to the same Kael he was used to…
He barely held back from bowing his head and nodding to every word he said, and it—it definitely surprised and overwhelmed him.