Chapter 842 - 843 – Who is the enemy?

<<This is annoying.>>

<<I've reported everything I've found to the others after meeting the two dragon rulers.>>

<<Obviously, just like me, they didn't trusted anything that the two dragons spoke.>>

<<But… We had problem.>>

<<Their own theories, their information and what not, it somewhat lined up or perfectly connected with the information and theories we had.>>

<<It was way too perfect.>>

<<Obviously I didn't told them everything… But still… This isn't good.>>

<<The picture is forming.>>

<<…>>

<<Let's try painting it with what we have.>>

<<The treason is real.>>

<<However, it is not really conducted by a single clan, but more exactly by possible a single individual.>>

<<The child or the grand child of the current dragon king of the Kai'ku'dan clan.>>

<<It was kept a secret, but the dragon king of the Kai'ku'dan clan is slowly dying.>>

<<But he had yet to name a successor.>>

<<It is expected that there would be a civil war between the possible successors for the battle for the throne.>>

<<The main suspected culprit is one of the successor.>>

<<With their clan's knowledge and power, they were able to create somebody, the "fiancé".>>

<<They may had given her power to brainwash, already power up her already existing brainwashing ability or they may had just manufactured drugs that were used alongside the drug fish.>>

<<Their main plain, according to our speculation, they were planning on using the fiancé as weapon that was meant to disturb trust between the clans and effectively weaken all of the clans in the process.>>

<<Why they are doing that?>>

<<It is simple.>>

<<They don't want to conquer just their own clan, no.>>

<<They want to conquer the entire dragon empire in one go.>>

<<And for that, they are even willing to corrupt and enslave their own people by using the divine artifact that was created by the heavenly dragon.>>

<<[The Glory Of The Heavenly Dragon].>>

<<Apparently the heavenly dragon planned on betraying the dragon empire and was preparing to unleashed the wave of corruption, which would transform the dragons into the demi-angel dragons, which would be a brainwashed servants.>>

<<However, the heavenly dragon was exposed by us, which in turn gave the right for the dragon empire to exterminate the church of the heavenly dragon in their empire, which in turn caused them to find out the hidden scheme.>>

<<They stopped it and confiscated the artifact that was meant for the corruption.>>

<<They didn't destroyed in hopes of turning it into the weapon against the heavenly dragon, if he would ever try to mess with the dragon empire.>>

<<However, the artifact was stolen.>>

<<And the records of it was erased.>>

<<The fact that nobody even had reaction about it tells one thing too.>>

<<Memory manipulation.>>

<<The exact same thing that had happened with Wumi clan.>>

<<The fiancé was involved in the incident.>>

<<Not only that, but we found out why Wumi clan didn't wanted to speak about Wo'won clan.>>

<<Apparently they discovered something.>>

<<The child of the heavenly dragon that had fallen into the corruption, becoming the fallen angel dragon.>>

<<That dragon is present in the empire.>>

<<And to use the corrupting artifact, you need the blood of the heavenly dragon or his direct descenders.>>

<<Still, it is unknown if this child is working for the heavenly dragon or not.>>

<<He is a hypocrite, meaning he will say that he would murder his own child if it were to become a fallen, but at the same time, there is a good chance he may decide to work with one for his own goals.>>

<<If we are understanding this correctly, the enemy's end game plan was simple.>>

<<Conquer and enslave the entire dragon empire.>>

<<…But we had messed with their plans.>>

<<By exposing the conspiracy revolving around the Wumi clan, revealing them to be nothing more than victims, as well as spreading the information as well as theories about the truth, that somebody wants the empire's clans to fight each other, the dragon clans had no choice but to begin at least basic level of investigation.>>

<<But that was alone enough to put the traitor in their place, causing stop in tracks if not completely stop progressing their plans of conquest.>>

<<The enemy cannot move.>>

<<But they had definitely done something else.>>

<<The only way for their plan to move forward would require somebody "helping out" the traitor.>>

<<And that would be the clan.>>

<<Meaning that there is a single clan that are truly traitors.>>

<<They could either be the willing traitors, or the fiancé may had corrupted the head of the clan and took over their mind.>>

<<…And that is it.>>

<<Our nutshell story.>>

<<Honestly speaking, we are not sure if this is a correct story… But then again… The chances of this story being correct is… Around 75%>>

<<It is annoying, and I fucking mean it.>>

<<But there is extremely high chance that the dragon queen and dragon king spoke the truth!>>

<<…>>

["So you are suspecting we won't be able to stop the war?"] – asked ClownFrog via {Chat – Video Call}.

"Honestly speaking, it is annoying to admit it, but if everything we found out is correct, the war may really end up happening at any point." – replied Oron.

"Even if we find out the traitor, they will not go down without a fight."

"Not only that… Heavenly dragon."

"If that fucking god of heavens is really involved in all of this, then we both know much of a mess this bastard will cause."

["Yeah… Out of all the gods in this world, he is the most childish and problematic one."]

["But still, would he really move?"]

["He lost his position as the greater god."]

["His lies were exposed."]

["His connection to this world has weakened signific as the churches worshiping him were burned down, including also the main headquarter that was in the Oin empire."]

["If he were to do something like THAT and he would fail, forget any light punishments, the gods of heaven may straight up completely turn on him and attempt exterminating him."]

"Honestly, that part was also bothering me."

"There is no longer a branch church here in the dragon empire."

"The power of the faith he once had is no more."

"Let's say he uses the cost paying method from his side, it would be too much for him to do anything."

"Honestly speaking, the heavenly dragon has straight up no ability to do ANYTHING in the dragon empire."

"The only thing I can think of would be that gate way that the heavenly dragon church one used to bring out one of the strongest children of the heavenly dragon into the Oin empire."

"But we know that creating that sort of powerful gateway isn't exactly an easy task."

"Then again, the enemy has been preparing for a long time… So there maybe a good chance that the enemy obtained the necessary amounts of materials to create that gate."

["Not only that, but you are saying the traitor is the part of the Kai'ku'dan clan, a clan that specializes in magic and what not"]

["Out of all the clans, they will be definitely most dangerous when it comes to that kind of stuff."]

(Yeah… That is fucking problem.) – thought annoyed Oron.

(We fucking discovered somewhat more about the truth of the situation.)

(But we also understood how fucked we are as well as the fact that we have now even more fucking questions.)

"…"

"So… What now? I can continue the investigation… But I want your honest opinion about something."

["About the war?"]

["Yes."]

["I'm prepared to go for it."]

"…Are you sure? You know the state of our empire."

["I'm aware."]

["But we both know what sort of problem child the heavenly dragon is."]

["The last thing we need is to him possible regaining his strength or maybe even reclaiming his throne as the greater throne."]

(We fought that bastard and his children, and I know fully well how dangerous and annoying they are.) – thought Phantasia.

(If the heavenly dragon had truly gotten involved or if that artifact is truly able to corrupt the whole dragon empire… Then it is not matter of "if" or "should".)

(No.)

(We will HAVE to! It is a straight up "must" against our will.)

(Still….)

"…"

["What will you do now?"]

"Honestly speaking… I don't know."

"There are also the two dragon rulers in the mix as well. I don't know if I should work with them or not."

"I still don't trust them fully."

"But then again, things are so messy that I don't know if I can play a hiding game any longer."

"I will have to make my presence somewhat known."

"Not fully, but still…."

"…"

"Okay, fuck it."

"I won't be beating around the bush anymore."

"Things are fucking fucked here to the point it is so fucking stupid for the motherfucking fuck sake."

"There is so much to do and there is still no fucking telling how much time we have left."

"…"

"I did consider what you proposed, a visit… But now it would really just… Look… Just… Fuck." – said Oron as he didn't knew what to say.

"…"

"I really don't know what to do man…."