“Before we go deeper into the meeting, let’s allow Elaine to talk. She was seemingly the one in charge of handling Raze; she was even there with a hero, but then all of a sudden, she and that hero walked away and left Silva alone to do what he did best.
And as such, the result is a war that no one was expecting in any way. I’m sure everyone here is eager to know what happened exactly and why you didn’t stay and watch Silva like you agreed to.
So, Elaine, clue us in on what really happened,” Daegon said.
Elaine frowned. This had always been how Daegon was. He was kind and normal when you spoke to him one-on-one, but when it got to official things like this, he became the dragon that he was. Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire
“I didn’t just want to leave Silva, but I couldn’t stay anymore. We underestimated that kid too much. We don’t understand him, but I got to see a side of that kid that sent shivers up my spine.
We think we are at the top of this world, but that kid sees powers that even we could only dream of seeing.
He was more powerful than I expected. His strength truly rivals the demon king’s already, if not surpasses it, as crazy as it sounds.
He isn’t here with the same mission that we are here for; he has something else to do in this world. His fate lines are already more connected to many lives than ours will ever be, and every day, it gets more and more complex.
He is even connected to all our fate lines, and that is to say that if Silva is removed, this world might collapse or face something extremely terrible,” Elaine said.
“Don’t you feel that’s a bit too extreme, Elaine?” Velora asked.
“You can’t doubt my ability to predict future happenings, Velora. As much as I can’t tell you the details of what it is that I see, Silva is not really someone that our powers and strength can touch anymore.
He fought beings from outside this world, beings that threatened to come to this world and start a war. And before you think my words are lies, White Fang, the hero, also saw it as well. He was there with me.
They are beings so powerful they brought me to my knees. I couldn’t move or make a single attack. I was not to tell of this, but now the situation has become dire, and a great war is at foot,” Elaine said.
Everyone went quiet after hearing what Elaine had to say. There was no way that Elaine would make up such a story.
“You mean to say demon candidate Silva is more than just a demon candidate, and there is more to him?” Daegon asked.
“Didn’t we all already know that? He is a dark dragon, one that spawned from a human parenthood. He was not supposed to have such abilities.
Yet it seemed that the goddess gave him some sort of legacy that made him into a dragon—and a dark one. All of us have access to the history books, and we all know what the first dark dragon was.
He was the first being to become a demon lord, the strongest to exist, and after that, he broke free of this world somehow, and that’s where his story ends.
What if he died somewhere? The world beyond—we know nothing about that. And from what I saw, that world outside had more dangers than we could think.
So it’s very possible that the dark dragon, the demon lord, died. But he was supposedly the strongest, and now the goddess wants to create a new dark dragon demon lord, one stronger than the last.
So that’s Silva—his beginning, his way of doing things, his growth—all this lines up with the possibility that the goddess was simply trying to recreate the dark dragon demon lord and actually make a better version.
So what I think is that it is impossible to actually stop Silva. He would rather die than follow what we have to do because someone stronger and greater has already given him instructions to follow.
Either those instructions are what are driving him, or he wants to go against that person and is refusing to do what she said by doing what he wants.
If any of you had as much time as I have had with that kid, you would know that he has a process to everything. He has some sort of plan that we don’t see,” Elaine explained.
The room went quiet again. No one spoke for a bit, and then Velora spoke up. “We understand what you are saying, and it might be true, but the main issue is that the war has already started.
Let’s leave Silva be and follow the code that we are all bound to. We should fight the war that we are to fight. Silva will become a demon lord in weeks or less, and we will have to pass the responsibility down to him.
Then the code will force him to do what he needs to do. For now, let’s get Silva out of all our minds,” she said.
“That’s true. The war is the most important, after all,” Lilith said.
“Fine, the issue of Silva is set aside for now,” Daegon said. He stood up and walked to the center.
“Now, about the war—you know we already have the lead in it, right? We just have to drag it along until the next generation takes our seat.
When they do, the advantage will be fully in their hands because the heroes will be one person down.
And with some luck, Silva might actually buy enough time to make the demon kings finally win this fight and end the war.
All this is conjecture, but what’s important is that as we leave here today, we all mobilize our greatest armies and start the march. There is no tactic to the great war—well, not in the beginning—so we move out fierce.”