72: THE DRAGON PEOPLE (6)

THE DRAGON PEOPLE (6)

"You have to save us…" Reynold begged him. "Or else they would use us to go against you." He didn't know what else he should say to convince Torak to save their race. 2

"No, you will not if you are dead." Torak glared at him, this Dragon people really bold to say those words to him. 

"No. no. It's not what I meant." Reynold hastily shook his head, realizing that Torak got the wrong side of his warning. "They will use us to go against you even if we are dead! Don't you remember what they had done during the war centuries ago?! They revived my dead grandfather!"

Torak's gloomy eyes were slightly narrowed by the mention of the war. 

Reynold was not born yet when the war happened, however it was a hereditary story about the mistakes that the Dragon people back then did. And after that time, what was done was done. The remaining living Dragon people who had nothing to do with the sins that their forefathers had committed, had to live and bear the embarrassment while living being branded as a disgrace.

"What will you offer to me for your safety?" Torak stared at the helpless Dragon Lord. He knew his father and grandfather, both of them were the people who had betrayed him and his brothers during the war.

"No, not my safety. I want our female back." Reynold said. It was important for them to save their female in order to carry on their descent.

Torak gave some thought about this before he decided. "Very well." He nodded in agreement. "However, you have to pay the high price for the death of my people."

"Anything." Reynold didn't think twice when he agreed. 

"Anything?" Torak raised his eyebrows as his lips curled in mockery. "I want all your possessions, including your land, estate, and companies, and then pledged your submission only to me."

Stephan's jaw dropped, he didn't believe what he had heard. This Alpha had robbed them in the middle of the day.

"Impossible!" He screamed. "You can't do that to us!"

Reynold also was in shock, if he agreed to give him everything, then what was there left for him? What is the meaning of being the Lord if he had nothing?

He was flabbergasted. 

"That or I will exterminate the remaining of the Earth Dragons." His voice sounded like a final verdict for them. He was as ruthless as the king of hell, who wouldn't bat an eye when he looked at the downfall of his enemies!

Any creatures in this realm must think twice before they mess with him. Only because he stayed low in the past years didn't mean the beast inside him was dead.

"Alpha… Supreme Alpha…" Reynold stuttered. "If I gave you everything… What is left for me and my people? We had been living in disgrace because of our predecessor's betrayal. We can't live lower than that…"

It was a deep humiliation, and as a haughty creature, Dragon shifters couldn't live that way. If it wasn't to save their race, they wouldn't have ever stooped that low.

"It's not necessary to do it like that, after you have transferred all of your assets, you will run your business like usual under my consent. I will still allow you to hold your title as a 'Lord' and stay in your manor." Torak said all of those things as if he had thought about it thoroughly. No one could understand the way he was thinking. "Or… I will finish you all, right here, right now."

Torak spoke with no room for negotiation. Moreover, they were not in the position to negotiate anything with the furious Alpha. 

One stupid decision Reynold made with Belphegor, cost him everything.

They had no other choice. Reynold had no other choice. "I will abide by your decision."

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