Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army

Chapter 370: bad feeling

The sad awkward silence truly showed what the Yuki thought about the way Yunan would treat them, it was not inferiority, no, it was more like disbelief, the awakened were not treated very well by outsiders, especially by dungeon explorers who had some bad time with any single race inside of Tartarus.

Taking a deep breath to clear his mind, Yunan continued talking just to remove the silence. "You see, I was planning on giving you special rights to conduct trade and act as the kingdom's representatives as well as the domestic counsellors in all manners related to the awakened, as you may already know, we already have an ambassador turned house pet in our midst, we were supposed to be the link to expand the network of the awakened into the mainland, well we are trying to fulfill that role because of a promise made years ago, I have decided to chose your tribe as the main link ever since your kind called me king. The awakening of the scaly tail tribe was just more reason to actually go on with the plan"

"We understand, we as long as you guarantee we are treated the same as any other citizens we have nothing to complain about, as for those extra benefits you mentioned, well, we will see when all concerned parties are together" the seated were really talking with fervour and excitement.

Seeing things go the way he wanted them Yunan had to ask " do you really do not want anything special? The mech is still on the table, anything else you wish for, no matter what, I will do my utmost to make possible". The seated took a long moment to ask their sisters and argue about what they wanted, eventually declining anything more than the equal rights, even after Yunan wanted to write down a magically binding contract, they simply told him they would wait to write that contract in till they finished all discussion and agreed on everything.

Yunan left soon after, leaving behind the coordinates to his own kingdom and along the way made his ministers know about his newest plans, the ministers were as dumbfounded as you would expect, no one in their right mind would actually make the awakened their citizens, let alone give them privileges and parliament seats, Yunan also wanted to be broadcasted across the kingdom, the kingdom has been always accepting of tourists of all races, it was high time they included other races as citizens.

When the royal decree was announced later that night, there was complete silence in the world, only the guild ever dared deal with the awakened, and only sparsely at that, as for the people, the older generation had some reservation about having monsters as neighbours, the younger generation who has benefitted most from the few reforms Yunan made, they were all in favour, especially since they were introduced to the dungeon, as adventurers they welcomed any sort of change.

Even with the reservation of the general populace, after most of the details were released, there came public support for the new action simply because of the king's weird move of granting equal rights to the newcomers, the king was supported for his honest ways rather than the question of the benefits that the Pearl may or may not find in this endeavour.

The guild and the church of light immediately announced their full support for this bold move, they even pledged to help with the enforcement of the agreement as well as protect the new guests from the malicious and evil hands, promising military action against any who dares to harm the awakened. It was another validation for Yunan to be so wholeheartedly supported by the guild and the church, after all, not long ago both heads were present in his wedding.

As for Yunan he was currently sitting and meditating trying to restrain his overflowing aura. He had become painfully aware of it ever since he had his talk with Apophis, it was really challenging to constrain the power, each part of his body was literally overflowing with the aura that he did not know what to do with it, he tried to keep the aura around him instead of letting it dissipate to the world, he even tried to stop his own body from generating said aura, he failed in many ways, thus he chose to try and relax and change his temperament from raging river to calm lake, and so he sat to meditate and try to make his overwhelming power become mild and peaceful.

After a long night of trial and error, Yunan succeded in marginally slowing down the aggression, it was still raging and overflowing, it was just a bit tamer as if it was learning to listen to orders, Yunan did not try to hold his aura anymore, he focused on muffling it, he decided to let the aura flow out but without the fanfare.

As usual, Apophis noticed almost immediately, he gave Yunan the thumbs up discreetly as the family gathered outside Sapphira's lodging, he seemed to be thinking about something and was not completely focused on the gang, he just followed hollow-eyed and empty, although Yunan knew something was up in the eternal domains, he did not use his divinity to check on the communication with the ascended, not unless they called for him.

After stepping inside the great coliseum, Yunan had a bad feeling nagging in the back of his head, to the point he could not get into focusing on comprehending the vast knowledge on display, he finally decided it was time to head home when even Dustan noticed his unusual state. He immediately teleported everyone to the floating battle fortress and from there took everyone to the Twilight Pearl and used the doorway he left inside the bright palace to reach the private dimension, an action that did not go unnoticed by the family.

Lucian and Leader approached Yunan while they were in the fortress speeding home they stood behind the captain seat waiting for Yunan to explain. "I just have this felling nagging at me, I really don't know what is going on but I feel it is wiser to go home the old fashion way". Lucian left the two and Mary sat on Yunan's lap "shall we do some divination?" her reassuring smile as infection and alluring as ever.