CHAPTER 11

Dominic walked towards the nobles he expected to help him as they were savage in one manner or another. It is not that easy to find some nobles who are interested in killing anything other than humans than living in debauchery of sex and wine. But it is often those who hold more resources as their forefathers who worked hard to earn whatever they had inherited would not use it often.

So, as they still had some value to him, he mingled among them, debating with some lords and flirting with some ladies. He did enjoy it as he never held himself back from enjoying. Anything and everything he had done or he had planned to do was to make himself happy. His missions were to make him happy, not to demand him to work hard.

So when a really pretty lady snuck close to him and asked for a dance, he gracefully bowed to her as she bowed to him and danced with her. Her graceful smile when she snuck closer to him without showing any desire in her eyes, her desire to devour him when she was farther away from him, her words about the world that praised him without praising him was something that he liked about her.

So when she asked him, "How about we take a walk in the garden?"

He nodded and said, "Yes, my lady. Let us have some lone time all to ourselves."

They entered the garden as they were not stopped although he could feel many gazes on him. No protocol worked for him who was considered one among them but was not one among them. That virtual authority, now extended to the lady by his side.

They entered the garden filled with flowers that were filled charm. The energy emitted by the flowers and plants synchronized with the lady by his side.

"The flower was made as such and was one of the harshest flower to be taken care off as was intended by the makers. Anything commissioned and made by nobles has to be made complex so as to increase its cost. Otherwise, how can nobles be different from commoners?"

"That is true Ella, but you should consider the fact that all humans are evil. Even the weakest person commits evil acts when they can. So just because we are nobles, we do not need to care for such people as they all are as evil as us. The only thing holding them back from committing as high evil as we could is that they are not capable of committing such evil."

"I agree to your ideas but the fact remains that the choice to be good or evil always exist. One cannot be eternally good as long as they are not eternal. As, if anyone is eternal, he will be strong enough to take the risk for anything he believes in. But the nobles like us are strong and should choose to be good as the weak cannot challenge us and their misery does not help us. We can simply choose to be good."

"So you are okay with all nobles doing something evil to what you call the commoner class if it is to their advantage."

"Yes. How else are we nobles the nobles? Even the very legislative law that the traitors and their whole family shall be killed is enough to show that we are evil as we deprive life. The fact that we have deprived life will not change, no matter whatever the noble reason is spoken or positive impact it had on the world."

"I am against your idea. One cannot say that people needs to be good. One only needs to be within the framework of the law and if your reason against my argument is that laws can have loopholes, since we are speaking theoretically, the law mentioned should have no loopholes. I will be evil to others if that is what I need as I will only need it if it will help me gain something I want or help me avoid what I do not want. As for being good to others, humans fought till now by killing other races. Most nobles have blood of their compatriots on their hands. The very framework of nobles came into establishment to teach people laws without teaching them laws. As for your idea of good, is just because you nobles have nobles above them who have more nobles above them. Then there is a deep fear within you that you or your loved ones might fall one day from nobility. Karma is nothing more than a word coined to make someone stronger than you fear as if otherwise, they should have simply spoken of cause and effect."

"Why do you men care about reality too much? Philosophy should be about ideals."

"Ella. There is a reason why many lords look down on lady but when the very lady takes the path of a knight they respect them. You do not know the cost of food. You do not know the cost of clothes. You do not know that a single gold coin is the pension given to the family of an injured soldier and ten is enough to be given to the family of a dead soldier. Your ribbon is made of blue jute made using plants made using water attribute energy. That is about 4000 gold I suppose and it is not even a magical item or artifact. It is not a blessed item. It is a simple material used to highlight your beauty and your authority over control over resources. This is the reason why everyone likes such saintly nuns but do not want to be them as they live in poverty and for others. This is the reason why everyone hates nobles but everyone wants to become nobles."

"While everything that you have said is true, I am a noble and I shall enjoy everything as a noble as when I am to suffer for being a noble whether it be dying at the hands of those commoners or to be married off to someone stronger than me, I would have no resentment for being a noble which would invalidate my own very existence from a mental level as my very own logic of existence begins from me being taken care of as a noble child."

"Not everyone can see as far as you. If you are willing to slaughter a tribe to death, I am willing to accept you if you want it. You will surely have to marry one day and I do not care if you love me or not as I do not love you and have no plan to seek your hand in marriage. But you might need my name as your husband if you want to stay alone in your own path. Not everyone with status as me will be willing to lent you their name."

"True. But I have taken a liking to you."

"I do like you a lot. I can indeed imagine a possible lifetime with you where we both complement with each other and shall take care of each other. But I know myself that I believe in pure killing for any race other than humanity. When humanity shall be the only race, I shall ensure that my nation is the only one. But I would not care for the latter too much as I would just want to ensure that I am one among the top as I never liked to bow. But you would not want that. The very moment when the humanity is strong enough to destroy all other races without consuming much and the world knows it, you will want to enslave them. You will want to control them. You will want to let them live. We cannot be together if our very idea about politics is different as I cannot leave the internal governance to you then."

She smiled as she looked at the sky and said, "They are life. It is better to enslave them as we have morally enslaved the commoners. Even the knights who rise from them and become semi-nobles nor the mages who become the nobles can break from that mental enslaves as that is what makes them. They would need higher level of knowledge and philosophy to break through that logical problem or they would need to accept it and want to change. What are the chances of that? Once enslaved, we can ensure that they will not betray."

Dominic shook his head and said, "Their very essence is different. While we humans can only live for a maximum of 100 years for commoners, 400 years for knights and 10,000 years for mages, the very most basic elves could live for 1000 years and the elf queens can live for 500,000 years. While we humans can see seven spectrums of light, the elves can see 11, the dwarves 4, the orcs 3 and the dragons can see even space and time rather than just sensing it. Orcs do not have the concept of eating as they are fed energy from the source of sun due to their innate talent while humans die from hunger. Dwarfs resonate with metals while we humans do not. Fairies are born from wishes and desires condensed by the energy and fairy plane while women die while giving birth to humans. Elves have it better as they are born from the mother tree. Demons find extreme pleasure when they find being hated by any other life while gods find extreme pleasure when they are worshipped. Both races are willing to do anything for such pleasure. You should have heard of goddess Agrat Bat Mahlat who was born innocent but just because a man who first met her liked her and inadvertently spoke of his wish to have physical intimacy with her, she fulfilled his wish and wish of all males, becoming the goddess of prostitutes. We humans are not like that. So it is indeed my creed that all that is not humans shall die as they are not humans and they never will be humans."

Ella chuckled and said, "While that is true. You are not strong enough to do that. Nobody is strong enough to do that. So what if humanity is strong. There are many who are married to other races, many who still worship gods even when gods are weaker than them. There are those who have left this material plane and entered the demon plane for whatever their reason was. So humanity cannot destroy other races even if it is really strong. I even doubt if humanity will be willing to enslave all other races as many would want to make them subordinate race rather than just enslave them. That is why, even though I look up to you who is living for your ideal, I cannot come to love you. My heart yearns for safety rather than freedom. I fear your enemies as even if you are strong, you behavior will get you many more enemies."\

Dominic sighed in sadness without showing any external action. His heart ached slightly as he did like this woman. It was one thing for him to reject her but being rejected hurt, even if he had not proposed to her in any manner. But he knew that it would only take some time before the world was his and as he was a human, shall belong to humanity. But her words did make him wonder if he should act to be a partial pacifist rather than a pure radical.

But when it comes to the women he is going to marry, she was not one for her. His eyes showed a trace of ruthlessness that was not caught by Ella as she gazed the heavens. He had got the trace of affection he had and could have had for her then. She is not worthy. If in the future she changes, he will like the women who she is then and not the women who she is now. He also planned to not lend his name to her if she needed as they had not signed a contract nor had he taken an oath using his magic an attributes. A simple speech has no value in the political and social arena.

So when she came near him to show her the heavens, he did not hold himself back from taking full advantage of her as unlike before, he was not looking for pure love in her. She would only be a woman he had slept wit if she is willing to when he wants to. But fate had other plans as both of them heard the sounds of moaning which suggested something vile when done in public.

So she with a blush and he with deep disgust not shown outside returned to the hall. Her brother came and took her away while he kept talking to other lords and ladies.