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**Chapter 815: I Am Doing Something Insatiable**
Just as Isis and Kaiba were astonished by the Deserter who came from the Royal City suddenly accusing Seto of a crime, at the same time, within the Royal City.
"No, don't come near me!"
Amidst the wails of a Prisoner wearing shackles on his hands and feet, a beast-like monster in front of him stepped over the corpse of another monster on the ground and approached him. The monster on the ground seemed like it was summoned by him before.
Across from the Prisoner, there was another man dressed as a Soldier. After hearing the Prisoner's wails, a hesitant expression involuntarily appeared on his face, and the beast monster's movement also slowed down slightly.
As a Soldier, he was quite clear that the man standing across from him was not a "Prisoner" at all, but merely an ordinary person who had been captured under a fabricated crime. If you were to ask why he knew this, the reason was that he himself had put the opponent in the prison cell at that time.
Protecting the people should have been his duty as a Soldier, so why had things become like this? The Soldier's gaze involuntarily looked towards the figure sitting on the Throne nearby.
Priest Seto...
Seto on the Throne also noticed the Soldier's line of sight. Because the opponent's movement was too slow, Seto felt a bit impatient and furrowed his brow. Behind the Soldier, another Soldier noticed that Seto seemed dissatisfied with the Soldier controlling the monster, and quickly nudged the Soldier in front subtly.
"What are you Kid still dawdling for? Take action quickly!"
"But, he is..."
"Then do you want to be captured yourself?!"
Seeing the opponent was still hesitant, the Soldier reminded him, "Think about your family first!"
Hearing this sentence, the Soldier controlling the monster froze, clenched his teeth, looked at the Prisoner who had fallen to the ground in fear, and swung his hand.
"Crack"
A crisp yet chilling sound of bone breaking rang out. The Prisoner was killed by the monster without any resistance, and Seto consequently shifted his line of sight. After that, the Soldier commanding the monster dejectedly put down his arm, as if his essence, qi, spirit had been completely drained.
Seeing Seto on the Throne shift his line of sight and look elsewhere, the person who had reminded the Soldier controlling the monster couldn't help but let out a breath: "Phew, I saved your life again. Remember to treat me to a meal."
"Captain, what we are doing is wrong." Turning his head to look at the Captain who had reminded him before, the Soldier's eyes were lifeless. "Our duty is to protect the country and the people, we shouldn't..."
"Are you mistaken about something, Kid?" The Captain looked at the Soldier who was clearly in a state of confusion and sighed. "Our duty has always been just to follow the Important Figure's order and do anything. Are you feeling guilt for taking action against insignificant people?"
"I shouldn't need to say more about the consequences of disobeying Lord Seto."
As the Captain spoke, he pursed his lips to the side.
Along with the Captain's gaze, the Soldier saw dozens of "living people" who had been hung up and exposed to the sun. They were called "living people," but actually, they were no different from corpses. The wounds all over their bodies, inflicted by swords, had stopped bleeding after a day of sun exposure, but the life force taken was real. At the same time, the dry bloodstains had attracted countless mosquitoes and insects.
Just this morning, Priest Seto, who had left the Royal City with the Pharaoh before, returned to the Royal City alone. As soon as he returned, without waiting for Priest Simon, who was concerned about the Pharaoh's safety, to ask him about the Pharaoh's situation, he suddenly launched a preemptive sneak attack on Priest Simon and imprisoned him.
And Priest Shada, who had also remained in the Royal City, was similarly caught off guard by Priest Seto's sneak attack, being subdued immediately and imprisoned together with Priest Simon.
Facing the restless Soldiers in the Royal Palace, Priest Seto declared that he, like the Current Pharaoh, possessed the same royal blood and the same qualification to become Pharaoh. Because the Current Pharaoh's performance was too disappointing and his power was too weak, he decided that from today onwards, he would be the Pharaoh.
To be honest, it didn't really matter to the Soldiers whether Seto could provide a reason or not. Although the education they received from a young age was filled with loyalty to the Pharaoh, faith couldn't feed them. As long as Seto could provide the same treatment as before, being a Soldier was still being a Soldier, no matter who they served?
Although there were still some Soldiers who couldn't accept that Seto, a guy with a Commoner background, would suddenly usurp the Throne with fabricated reasons, and under the instigation of some Noble Factions within the Royal City, attempted to kill Seto for his disrespect towards the Pharaoh, when they stood across from Seto, they remembered something.
Monsters like Demon Gods descended at Seto's order, taking only a few minutes to quell the rebellion that the Nobles had plotted for several dozen minutes. Moreover, unlike the previous two Pharaohs the Nobles had experienced, Seto carried out his actions with the decisive and ruthless style he had as the Army Commander. No one survived that rebellion.
Under such a method of making an example, Seto took only a few hours to become Pharaoh. At least this Royal City was completely under his control.
However, after the New Pharaoh took office, Seto's first order was for the Soldiers to capture the people within the City to replenish the quantity of Prisoners in the prison cell, and there wasn't even a reason given. He simply randomly marked out a few zones and had the Soldiers indiscriminately capture people on a large scale.
While having people replenish the quantity of Prisoners, Seto also used a magical means/method to have the Soldiers he had arranged awaken the monsters within their hearts one by one, and had the Soldiers slaughter with the 'Prisoners' who had also awakened monsters.
Seto's actions could be described as gradually pushing his boundaries. After he had the Soldiers massacre the Prisoners who were originally innocent Commoners, he met with a second wave of backlash.
However, because of the precedent set by the Noble rebellion before, this time they chose assassination as their means/method. They would take action to kill him when he was careless, and end this nightmare-like rule.
The first half of the assassination plan was a success. With the help of several Court Magicians, the Assassin carrying out the assassination plan immediately destroyed the Duel Disk in Seto's hand, which had the ability to summon stone tablet monsters. This prevented Seto from summoning his great power monsters immediately.
Then, several Assassins swarmed forward.
Then, 【White Dragon】 appeared beside Seto and killed all the Assassins. And seemingly feeling that his means/method of murder before, although great power, was not cruel enough, Seto hung up everyone who had provided help to the Assassins, to make an example of them.
Which were the 'corpses' the Soldier saw at this moment.
"Second group's training is complete, switch."
An Officer called out. Hearing this, the Captain quickly pushed the Soldier to have him return to the team. Their group's quests were temporarily complete, and it was time for the next group to go up. As the Captain of the small team, he naturally had to quickly arrange for the Soldiers' rotation, so as not to influence the quests issued by Seto.
However, 'training'? The Captain glanced at Seto on the Throne, a trace of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, but he didn't know how much bitterness and contempt was in this smile.
During his time as the Army Commander, Lord Seto was strict, but he always gave clear rewards and punishments. Because of his Commoner background, he never had the flaws of those Noble lords. Although his reputation among the people was not considered good due to his own temperament, he was quite popular within the Army.
What exactly made you become like this, Lord Seto...
And Seto naturally wouldn't know what one of the many Soldiers before him was thinking in his heart. However, even if he did know, the current Seto wouldn't take it to heart.
"Aknadin's approach is to make power flow towards the direction of the strong player and the winner through the slaughter between people, gathering countless power into one person, attempting to arrive at the domain of God." Sitting on the Throne, Seto looked at the slaughter in front of him with an expressionless face. "And my naive idea before was to let people awaken the power of spirits as much as possible, to increase the overall power skill level."
"However, both of these ideas were too immature. With the former, once the power obtained in the end experiences a slight incident, it means all the effort before was wasted, unable to withstand accidents; while with the latter, because each person's talent is different, the strength of the spirits that can be awakened varies, making it difficult to form a stable military force."
"However, as long as these two powers are combined, you can obtain more than one great power. Everyone can increase the power of spirits through 'training', and eventually everyone can have great power like a giant dragon, everyone like a dragon!"
"This is what I want, the power that can protect this country!"
"Hehehe, hehe, hahaha!"
Beside the Throne, looking at Seto who was letting out a standard three-stage laugh like an antagonist, Kisara, who was seated beside him due to the opponent's arrangement, felt a moment of unfamiliarity towards Seto.
"Seto, but if you do that, you will sacrifice many people who shouldn't die..."
In Kisara's impression, Seto was someone who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, a bit tsundere and unapproachable, but actually quite friendly, and wanted to become an Ally of Justice. That's the talent he was supposed to be. But now, what did she see? She saw that Seto was actually commanding Soldiers to kill the very people they were supposed to protect.
Having only not seen him for a single day, what exactly happened on his body? Was he still the Seto she knew?
After hearing Kisara's words, Seto turned his head and looked at the conflicted expression on Kisara's face, as if he saw the distress in the opponent's heart. Subsequently, breaking all precedent, Seto made a movement that the before him would have absolutely never made.
He suddenly grabbed Kisara's soft hand, lifted up the opponent's hand and placed it against his own face, feeling Kisara's delicate, fair, and smooth skin. Seto smiled gently: "You are truly beautiful, Kisara."
"Se-Seto!?"
Suddenly having her hand grabbed by Seto, and hearing Seto say such direct words, a flush of crimson climbed up Kisara's fair face. For a moment, she was at a loss, and even what she had just now thought in her heart was instantly forgotten.
Seto, what is he doing suddenly saying this to me?!
"Your hand, your joints and skin are very soft, and your fingers are fair and very cute. Rubbing them on my face makes me feel quite calm in my mood." Seto looked at the blushing Kisara and continued, "Kisara, I am very clear about the irreversible matters I am doing in order to obtain power."
"But I am also very clear about the consequences that will come if there is no power. This is the 'necessary evil' that must exist to protect this country. As long as this country can be protected, let me bear this sin. My heart and actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is justice!"
Seto, with a face full of justice, said this, and then looked at Kisara even more affectionately, continuing: "This is even more so to protect you."
"Seto!"
Kisara felt like she was about to be overwhelmed. To actually say he wants to protect me, what Seto said is too, too... But, he said he wants to protect me, wow, that feels so touching.
Looking at Kisara, who had been more or less won over, Seto smiled again and continued: "However, I am a bit insatiable. Can you lend me your power again, Kisara?"
Kisara, who completely could not cope with Seto, could barely think much. She nodded, stood up, and walked two steps forward. Under the watching gaze of the Soldiers below the platform, Kisara spread her arms, emitting a holy white color radiance all over her body, transforming into the **Blue-Eyes White Dragon** filled with sacred aura.
And Seto looked at the white spirit dragon before him, revealing a dazed smile, bathed in the sacred power transmitted over from the White Dragon.
Although the usurpation initiated by Seto looked like it was somewhat impromptu, his logic when implementing it was quite clear. The first step after returning to the Royal City was to control Priest Simon and Priest Shada, who had not yet regarded him as an enemy, by leveraging the discrepancy in their understanding of each other.
Priests who could summon stone tablet monsters were top-tier battle power with huge influence. Although Seto was confident that even if the two of them teamed up, they would not be his opponent, having obtained power from the Demon God, it was best to have less trouble.
And without the Priests, merely being able to summon stone tablet monsters gave him absolute force within the Royal City. However, this was still not enough. He needed great power that he could exert even if he didn't have a Duel Arena, which was Kisara, whom he had targeted long ago.
However, Seto did not select to kill Kisara to take the power of Blue-Eyes White Dragon within her body. Instead, he selected to keep the opponent by his side, using words to make the opponent willingly hand over her power for him to use.
Because Kisara was far from crowds and inexperienced in the world, she was not too difficult for the current Seto to handle. Before, too, Kisara had stored a portion of the power of Blue-Eyes White Dragon within Seto's body, which successfully served its use during that time's assassination. And it was the same now.
The **Blue-Eyes White Dragon** changed back into Kisara's appearance, falling back in front of Seto with a weak expression and being supported by him. And feeling the power that was filled up again within his body, Seto's corner of the mouth kept rising.
Stone tablet monsters, Demon God, and the power of **Blue-Eyes White Dragon**! I, Seto, am already invincible in the world! Who can kill me?!
Just as Isis and Kaiba were astonished by the Deserter who came from the Royal City suddenly accusing Seto of a crime, at the same time, within the Royal City.
"No, don't come near me!"
Amidst the wails of a Prisoner wearing shackles on his hands and feet, a beast-like monster in front of him stepped over the corpse of another monster on the ground and approached him. The monster on the ground seemed like it was summoned by him before.
Across from the Prisoner, there was another man dressed as a Soldier. After hearing the Prisoner's wails, a hesitant expression involuntarily appeared on his face, and the beast monster's movement also slowed down slightly.
As a Soldier, he was quite clear that the man standing across from him was not a "Prisoner" at all, but merely an ordinary person who had been captured under a fabricated crime. If you were to ask why he knew this, the reason was that he himself had put the opponent in the prison cell at that time.
Protecting the people should have been his duty as a Soldier, so why had things become like this? The Soldier's gaze involuntarily looked towards the figure sitting on the Throne nearby.
Priest Seto...
Seto on the Throne also noticed the Soldier's line of sight. Because the opponent's movement was too slow, Seto felt a bit impatient and furrowed his brow. Behind the Soldier, another Soldier noticed that Seto seemed dissatisfied with the Soldier controlling the monster, and quickly nudged the Soldier in front subtly.
"What are you Kid still dawdling for? Take action quickly!"
"But, he is..."
"Then do you want to be captured yourself?!"
Seeing the opponent was still hesitant, the Soldier reminded him, "Think about your family first!"
Hearing this sentence, the Soldier controlling the monster froze, clenched his teeth, looked at the Prisoner who had fallen to the ground in fear, and swung his hand.
"Crack"
A crisp yet chilling sound of bone breaking rang out. The Prisoner was killed by the monster without any resistance, and Seto consequently shifted his line of sight. After that, the Soldier commanding the monster dejectedly put down his arm, as if his essence, qi, spirit had been completely drained.
Seeing Seto on the Throne shift his line of sight and look elsewhere, the person who had reminded the Soldier controlling the monster couldn't help but let out a breath: "Phew, I saved your life again. Remember to treat me to a meal."
"Captain, what we are doing is wrong." Turning his head to look at the Captain who had reminded him before, the Soldier's eyes were lifeless. "Our duty is to protect the country and the people, we shouldn't..."
"Are you mistaken about something, Kid?" The Captain looked at the Soldier who was clearly in a state of confusion and sighed. "Our duty has always been just to follow the Important Figure's order and do anything. Are you feeling guilt for taking action against insignificant people?"
"I shouldn't need to say more about the consequences of disobeying Lord Seto."
As the Captain spoke, he pursed his lips to the side.
Along with the Captain's gaze, the Soldier saw dozens of "living people" who had been hung up and exposed to the sun. They were called "living people," but actually, they were no different from corpses. The wounds all over their bodies, inflicted by swords, had stopped bleeding after a day of sun exposure, but the life force taken was real. At the same time, the dry bloodstains had attracted countless mosquitoes and insects.
Just this morning, Priest Seto, who had left the Royal City with the Pharaoh before, returned to the Royal City alone. As soon as he returned, without waiting for Priest Simon, who was concerned about the Pharaoh's safety, to ask him about the Pharaoh's situation, he suddenly launched a preemptive sneak attack on Priest Simon and imprisoned him.
And Priest Shada, who had also remained in the Royal City, was similarly caught off guard by Priest Seto's sneak attack, being subdued immediately and imprisoned together with Priest Simon.
Facing the restless Soldiers in the Royal Palace, Priest Seto declared that he, like the Current Pharaoh, possessed the same royal blood and the same qualification to become Pharaoh. Because the Current Pharaoh's performance was too disappointing and his power was too weak, he decided that from today onwards, he would be the Pharaoh.
To be honest, it didn't really matter to the Soldiers whether Seto could provide a reason or not. Although the education they received from a young age was filled with loyalty to the Pharaoh, faith couldn't feed them. As long as Seto could provide the same treatment as before, being a Soldier was still being a Soldier, no matter who they served?
Although there were still some Soldiers who couldn't accept that Seto, a guy with a Commoner background, would suddenly usurp the Throne with fabricated reasons, and under the instigation of some Noble Factions within the Royal City, attempted to kill Seto for his disrespect towards the Pharaoh, when they stood across from Seto, they remembered something.
Monsters like Demon Gods descended at Seto's order, taking only a few minutes to quell the rebellion that the Nobles had plotted for several dozen minutes. Moreover, unlike the previous two Pharaohs the Nobles had experienced, Seto carried out his actions with the decisive and ruthless style he had as the Army Commander. No one survived that rebellion.
Under such a method of making an example, Seto took only a few hours to become Pharaoh. At least this Royal City was completely under his control.
However, after the New Pharaoh took office, Seto's first order was for the Soldiers to capture the people within the City to replenish the quantity of Prisoners in the prison cell, and there wasn't even a reason given. He simply randomly marked out a few zones and had the Soldiers indiscriminately capture people on a large scale.
While having people replenish the quantity of Prisoners, Seto also used a magical means/method to have the Soldiers he had arranged awaken the monsters within their hearts one by one, and had the Soldiers slaughter with the 'Prisoners' who had also awakened monsters.
Seto's actions could be described as gradually pushing his boundaries. After he had the Soldiers massacre the Prisoners who were originally innocent Commoners, he met with a second wave of backlash.
However, because of the precedent set by the Noble rebellion before, this time they chose assassination as their means/method. They would take action to kill him when he was careless, and end this nightmare-like rule.
The first half of the assassination plan was a success. With the help of several Court Magicians, the Assassin carrying out the assassination plan immediately destroyed the Duel Disk in Seto's hand, which had the ability to summon stone tablet monsters. This prevented Seto from summoning his great power monsters immediately.
Then, several Assassins swarmed forward.
Then, 【White Dragon】 appeared beside Seto and killed all the Assassins. And seemingly feeling that his means/method of murder before, although great power, was not cruel enough, Seto hung up everyone who had provided help to the Assassins, to make an example of them.
Which were the 'corpses' the Soldier saw at this moment.
"Second group's training is complete, switch."
An Officer called out. Hearing this, the Captain quickly pushed the Soldier to have him return to the team. Their group's quests were temporarily complete, and it was time for the next group to go up. As the Captain of the small team, he naturally had to quickly arrange for the Soldiers' rotation, so as not to influence the quests issued by Seto.
However, 'training'? The Captain glanced at Seto on the Throne, a trace of a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, but he didn't know how much bitterness and contempt was in this smile.
During his time as the Army Commander, Lord Seto was strict, but he always gave clear rewards and punishments. Because of his Commoner background, he never had the flaws of those Noble lords. Although his reputation among the people was not considered good due to his own temperament, he was quite popular within the Army.
What exactly made you become like this, Lord Seto...
And Seto naturally wouldn't know what one of the many Soldiers before him was thinking in his heart. However, even if he did know, the current Seto wouldn't take it to heart.
"Aknadin's approach is to make power flow towards the direction of the strong player and the winner through the slaughter between people, gathering countless power into one person, attempting to arrive at the domain of God." Sitting on the Throne, Seto looked at the slaughter in front of him with an expressionless face. "And my naive idea before was to let people awaken the power of spirits as much as possible, to increase the overall power skill level."
"However, both of these ideas were too immature. With the former, once the power obtained in the end experiences a slight incident, it means all the effort before was wasted, unable to withstand accidents; while with the latter, because each person's talent is different, the strength of the spirits that can be awakened varies, making it difficult to form a stable military force."
"However, as long as these two powers are combined, you can obtain more than one great power. Everyone can increase the power of spirits through 'training', and eventually everyone can have great power like a giant dragon, everyone like a dragon!"
"This is what I want, the power that can protect this country!"
"Hehehe, hehe, hahaha!"
Beside the Throne, looking at Seto who was letting out a standard three-stage laugh like an antagonist, Kisara, who was seated beside him due to the opponent's arrangement, felt a moment of unfamiliarity towards Seto.
"Seto, but if you do that, you will sacrifice many people who shouldn't die..."
In Kisara's impression, Seto was someone who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside, a bit tsundere and unapproachable, but actually quite friendly, and wanted to become an Ally of Justice. That's the talent he was supposed to be. But now, what did she see? She saw that Seto was actually commanding Soldiers to kill the very people they were supposed to protect.
Having only not seen him for a single day, what exactly happened on his body? Was he still the Seto she knew?
After hearing Kisara's words, Seto turned his head and looked at the conflicted expression on Kisara's face, as if he saw the distress in the opponent's heart. Subsequently, breaking all precedent, Seto made a movement that the before him would have absolutely never made.
He suddenly grabbed Kisara's soft hand, lifted up the opponent's hand and placed it against his own face, feeling Kisara's delicate, fair, and smooth skin. Seto smiled gently: "You are truly beautiful, Kisara."
"Se-Seto!?"
Suddenly having her hand grabbed by Seto, and hearing Seto say such direct words, a flush of crimson climbed up Kisara's fair face. For a moment, she was at a loss, and even what she had just now thought in her heart was instantly forgotten.
Seto, what is he doing suddenly saying this to me?!
"Your hand, your joints and skin are very soft, and your fingers are fair and very cute. Rubbing them on my face makes me feel quite calm in my mood." Seto looked at the blushing Kisara and continued, "Kisara, I am very clear about the irreversible matters I am doing in order to obtain power."
"But I am also very clear about the consequences that will come if there is no power. This is the 'necessary evil' that must exist to protect this country. As long as this country can be protected, let me bear this sin. My heart and actions are as clear as a mirror, and everything I do is justice!"
Seto, with a face full of justice, said this, and then looked at Kisara even more affectionately, continuing: "This is even more so to protect you."
"Seto!"
Kisara felt like she was about to be overwhelmed. To actually say he wants to protect me, what Seto said is too, too... But, he said he wants to protect me, wow, that feels so touching.
Looking at Kisara, who had been more or less won over, Seto smiled again and continued: "However, I am a bit insatiable. Can you lend me your power again, Kisara?"
Kisara, who completely could not cope with Seto, could barely think much. She nodded, stood up, and walked two steps forward. Under the watching gaze of the Soldiers below the platform, Kisara spread her arms, emitting a holy white color radiance all over her body, transforming into the **Blue-Eyes White Dragon** filled with sacred aura.
And Seto looked at the white spirit dragon before him, revealing a dazed smile, bathed in the sacred power transmitted over from the White Dragon.
Although the usurpation initiated by Seto looked like it was somewhat impromptu, his logic when implementing it was quite clear. The first step after returning to the Royal City was to control Priest Simon and Priest Shada, who had not yet regarded him as an enemy, by leveraging the discrepancy in their understanding of each other.
Priests who could summon stone tablet monsters were top-tier battle power with huge influence. Although Seto was confident that even if the two of them teamed up, they would not be his opponent, having obtained power from the Demon God, it was best to have less trouble.
And without the Priests, merely being able to summon stone tablet monsters gave him absolute force within the Royal City. However, this was still not enough. He needed great power that he could exert even if he didn't have a Duel Arena, which was Kisara, whom he had targeted long ago.
However, Seto did not select to kill Kisara to take the power of Blue-Eyes White Dragon within her body. Instead, he selected to keep the opponent by his side, using words to make the opponent willingly hand over her power for him to use.
Because Kisara was far from crowds and inexperienced in the world, she was not too difficult for the current Seto to handle. Before, too, Kisara had stored a portion of the power of Blue-Eyes White Dragon within Seto's body, which successfully served its use during that time's assassination. And it was the same now.
The **Blue-Eyes White Dragon** changed back into Kisara's appearance, falling back in front of Seto with a weak expression and being supported by him. And feeling the power that was filled up again within his body, Seto's corner of the mouth kept rising.
Stone tablet monsters, Demon God, and the power of **Blue-Eyes White Dragon**! I, Seto, am already invincible in the world! Who can kill me?!
