Lord of the Truth

755  Another point of view

”No, he… His Excellency does not think that way.” Jabba looked down, his forehead filled with sweat

Until this moment, he thought that the Burton familyʼs merchants were exaggerating prices in retaliation for the Nihari Union Sectʼs betrayal in the past, and because he had severed his relationship with him as a disciple, it never occurred to him that Robin was trying to drain the planet in this way... He knew that his master had a mission from someone called the All-Seeing God, but wasnʼt the mission to confront the invasion? No, what if heʼs lying? What if he had the same mission as those snakes and had come to empty the world of its riches?!

”Hmm, what confuses me is this whole thing about predicting the arrival of invaders. Itʼs too accurate to be a coincidence, the fifty-year time limit has already passed and more than a year has passed since the first arrival of the *invaders* he spoke of, so itʼs safe to say he means us... This is definitely not one of the capabilities of the Master Law of Truth, whatʼs going on?” The Dark Soul Shard completely ignored Jabbaʼs collapse and gently patted her chin, and then her aura changed to become a little turbulent, ”This lofty and long-term prediction ability... Could it be that this has something to do with one of them? Hmph, if they think Iʼll back down just because of their status, theyʼre dead wrong!”

Then she turned back to look at Jabba angrily, ”Hey, pull yourself together. This is no longer about you, your master, or my foolish followers. You, a local, are now standing in the middle between two great powers that want what you have, and today you will choose a side!”

”I am taking the side of my homeland. I will fight to the end. I will not let any invader come and take anything... whoever he is!” Jabba shouted forcefully

”Idiot! Whatʼs a homeland?” The dark soul shard raised its voice slightly, ”Is the soil and treasures, or the people who live in it? If everyone you know moves to another place? Will you stay here calling a handful of dirt your home, or will you go after them?”

Jabba calmed down a little, ”...Whatʼs your point?”

The dark soul responded directly, ”My point is that I value talents, and I want to have a Master Law User by my side. Your master already has an Overlord so I will settle for you for now... Accept me as your Overlord and help me subjugate this planet. After the war is over, I will have the Great Serpent Empire retreat, and I will teach you how to refine the planetʼs spirit so that Planet Nihari is yours. I will pass on to you techniques and weapons superior to the ones I gave to the Great Serpent Empire to form an empire of your own, and most importantly, I will give you security over everyoneʼs lives and provide you with a foothold in the middle planetary belt... and in exchange for all this, you will only send me 95% of any energy pearls you find, The rest I will leave with you to develop your Empire.”

”At least I am honest with you. After we win the war, I will do with you as I did with little Pythor. I will give you all the information and techniques you need. Then you will come to me every few years to give me what is mine and leave. I will not interfere in anything else. You will also have a strong supporter who can protect you and offer you what you lack... I see that you are human, I can solve this problem for you, and this time I will provide you with the blood of a primitive beast that is at least 50 million years old and I will do it with the blood-changing device that I use on my close followers and not the garbage that I left with Pythor.”

Then the dark soul shard smiled slightly, ”Now letʼs see what happens if you continue siding with the other player, oh relax, no need to guess or even threaten you... What are they doing on your planet right now? They are stealing energy pearls by selling you things at ridiculous trifles you can find lying around the roads on any planet in the middle planetary belt, this is of course without mentioning what they did in the rest of the regions where they collect all the pearls and resources day and night without even the need to sell any garbage, and on top of all of this they want to exterminate your race and use the rest of the races to fight under their flag in the name of defending their world when they themselves are invaders.”

Then she looked away as she continued her words, ”Suppose they prevail thanks to their advance preparation and my foolish followers are defeated, what will be the results? The Great Serpent Empire will continue to exist and provide me with what I need, I will just pretend that I never saw this planet before. But what will happen to you? They already control more than half of the planet and have strong momentum, will you stand up to them and tell them to leave Nihari? Or will you say that the eastern region belongs only to the locals and just let them plunder you through trade, or will you perhaps lower your head to them and become just another local vassal of a planetary empire? The same thing you think you are resisting me for...”

”...” Jabba opened his mouth to speak, but there were no words to say.

There was not a single word he heard that he could refute, they are already being robbed and he knew it, The giant race is being annihilated and he knew it... What could that dark shadow do to Nihari that the True Beginning Empire had not done yet?!

After a full minute of silence, Jabba had nothing to say except: ”...And if I refuse to join you?”

”Oh, Youʼll join.” The dark soul shard responded quickly and with absolute authority, ”The breath I wasted talking to you has a price, and its price is submission or destruction.”

Jabba stood up and took another step back, the words coming out of Shadowʼs mouth as if they were absolute truth.

”I gave you excellent terms, if you want more, it means you are overestimating yourself in front of me, and I donʼt like that...” Then he heard her speak with some anger, ”Donʼt let being a user of the Master Law of Truth get over your head, if we are talking about Master Laws then the Master Law of Truth is the most widespread in the universe in terms of the number of users, and the number of those who have been able to obtain a good position among the Truth Chosen is very small, even throughout history. You are just workers that we Overlords can depend on, good followers who complete the work that takes a year in just a month. But thatʼs all...”

Then she took two steps toward him, ”It is true that I would be happy and proud to have a Truth user by my side, but this is no different from me bragging about a fine vase or a carefully trained dog. You will be just an additional ornament on my inevitable throne, was that clear?”

”...What is required of me?”