I tried my best to restrain my impulse to kill him on the spot, blue veins standing out on my hands. “Do you really think that I won’t kill you?”
“Try me. I’m in charge of the three packs here. As long as I give the order, reinforcements will come storming in from the other packs. The troops you brought are no match for me at all.”
As Geoffrey spoke, he winked at an injured subordinate nearby.
The soldier immediately took out a signal flare gun from his pocket and intended to fire it.
“Damn it!” Harry rushed to the soldier and tried to grab the flare gun from him, but it was too late.
A violent sound shook the earth and bluish, purple smoke soared into the sky.
Geoffrey chuckled complacently. “Just wait. My men will be here soon.”
I took a deep breath and reluctantly let go of Geoffrey’s neck.
Flora, on the other hand, was so angry that she picked up a stray brick from the ground and threw it at Geoffrey. “You bastard! You’re so annoying!”
Geoffrey awkwardly dodged the flying brick and almost stumbled to the ground. Seeing him fumble, the crowd burst into laughter.
This obviously angered him, but there was nothing he could do but wait for his reinforcements.
I cast a cold glance at him whilst racking my brain to come up with a solution.
The situation was getting worse. Once Geoffrey’s reinforcements came, the tables would turn in his favor.
“Why are you so damn stubborn? Why do you cling to this wall of sin?” Warren asked with disdain.
After hearing that, Geoffrey suddenly burst into laughter. With a mocking expression on his face, he looked around us one by one and asked, “You actually call it ‘the wall of sin’? That’s hilarious! Do you think I was the one who built this wall?”
“Who else? Wasn’t this wall built to satisfy your ambitions?” Flora pursed her lips and looked at Geoffrey with disgust. “We have seen through your tricks. Drop the act. Nothing you say can offset what you’ve done. Although it was vampires who killed those werewolves, their blood is on your hands.”
“Yes, I might be guilty of that!” Geoffrey’s eyes turned red and he grew very agitated. “But it wasn’t just me. You should look more at the werewolves standing in front of you. I couldn’t have built this wall alone. It was built by all the werewolves here, and it took more than a hundred days and nights. You know nothing”.
Geoffrey’s POV
Seeing the frightened looks on the faces of these young werewolves from the imperial capital city made me inexplicably happy.
This group of self-righteous, arrogant werewolves thought that they could just interfere in other people’s business.
How ridiculous!
“Look at each and every one of them carefully. They’re the so-called culprits you keep accusing me to be! I’m not the only one who made this city into a living hell!” I threw my head back and laughed like a madman. “Everything has its cause and effect, but you only chose to look at the surface.”
I said this not only to buy time for the reinforcements to come, but also because I wanted them to know their folly. These naive, hypocritical imperial city-dwellers probably had never seen real suffering in their lives.
“You said yourself that since the vampire race and the werewolf race signed the truce agreement, vampires stopped invading the territory of the werewolf race. So why would the werewolves build this wall?” Rufus asked in a low voice.
I snorted. “Okay, then. Since you asked, I’ll tell you. Yes, it’s true that the werewolves ‘won’ against the vampires, so the two races signed a truce agreement. But what you don’t know is that, in fact, the werewolf race had been defeated. The three packs in the border area were ceded and ruled by vampires for three years as the price of the defeat.”
“How come we’ve never heard of this?” Warren looked at me with a dubious frown.
“Because the lycan king covered it up, of course. He needed to stabilize the nation and if the people knew about our defeat, it’d only stir up trouble for him,” I explained coldly.
I felt suffocated whenever I recalled those dark days.
“For three whole years, we were ruled by vampires. Do you know what kind of life we had? At the time, the hunting ground was not limited to that area outside the wall. All the packs at the border was a hunting ground for the vampires. They hunted, killed, bullied, and spat on werewolves in public here. For three whole years, we were helpless, hopeless, and powerless. Trust me, it was much more miserable than it is now.”
I closed my eyes and winced in pain at the memory. When I was young, I wanted to stay optimistic and was determined to work for the empire.
But the empire only brought me endless disappointment and despair.
Tears welled up in my eyes as I spoke of my parents. “My father was still alive at the time, and he was still the Alpha of our pack. He was the first one who found out that this place was going to be ceded. He could’ve escaped with our family and avoided all the pain that was coming. But he loved the werewolves here as much as he loved his own son. Even though the royal family had given up on us, he refused to do the same.”
As I spoke of this, my voice was choked with sobs. Even though I had been in office for many years and experienced countless dark moments, I still couldn’t control my emotions when it came to my father and mother.
If only they had lived…
“So what happened later?” Flora asked anxiously.
“In the end, my father only had the time to transfer a small number of werewolves. Our family and most of the werewolves were intercepted by vampires. We couldn’t escape. My mother… She was captured by the vampires,” I said with resentment. “In the end, my father and werewolves of the pack had no choice but to build a high wall in the city to protect all the weak werewolves, and the other young and strong werewolves guarded outside the wall to resist the vampires who came to attack. Those vampires certainly wouldn’t have allowed the wall to be built, so they kept attacking and harassing us, even threatening us with my mother’s life.”
Rufus’ POV
Geoffrey’s story left me shell-shocked.
I only knew that this place had once been ceded because I had accidentally overheard my father, King Ethan, talking about it.
But later, Leonard and I launched a war against the vampire race and won. Our victory let us successfully take back the ceded territory from the vampire race.
At the time, the royal family had sent envoys to check on the state of this place, and we had received a report that the life here was in order. It was said that the vampires hadn’t treated these defeated slaves too harshly, and that the werewolves here lived and worked in peace after we retrieved the lands.
This later become the foundation for the peace agreement between the werewolf race and the vampire race.
But what Geoffrey was saying now was completely different from what the royal family knew.
What the hell had happened?
“For the sake of the rest of us, my father had no choice but to turn a blind eye to my mother’s situation. The vampires ended up torturing her to death. Then, everyone worked together to fight off the vampires desperately until the construction of the wall was finally completed. This hard wall is easy to defend and hard to attack. That was why we had a little breathing room for a while.” Geoffrey’s voice became lower and lower, as though retelling the tale of this pack’s history was slowly suffocating him.
“Why didn’t you ask the royal family for help?” I couldn’t help but ask. “We never gave up on you. Even now, we were sent here to support the border and make it better.”
“That’s right. We really don’t know anything about what you said. If you didn’t tell us just, I’m afraid we still wouldn’t have known anything,” Flora added with a frown.
“You hid the truth and kept playing dirty tricks on us. Even if you encountered hardships in the past, that doesn’t justify your crimes today,” Harry shrugged unsympathetically. “If there was a problem, you should’ve just said so. We came here to solve the problems. We just wanted to help you. So why didn’t you ask the royal family for help from the very beginning?”
Geoffrey seemed to have heard a hilarious joke because he broke into a wide, sarcastic grin. “Do you really think we didn’t ask the royal family for help? My father never gave up asking the royal family for help. But guess what their response was?”
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