Chapter 19: Celebration

Chapter 19: Celebration

After a few minutes of following the security personnel as what they called themselves, we finally reached the venue.

And oh boy, I think all of the citizens of this faction's territory are here!

The celebration was taking place in the middle of a huge road under the moonlight. Lights were everywhere with the crowd of people cheering at me.

And there's a lot of them!

From the crowd, Leo came out and raised his wooden cup. "And here comes the star of the night!"

He walked towards me and handed the cup containing booze to me.

"I didn't expect it to be this extravagant."

"Aren't you underestimating the weight of being a faction leader a little bit too much? You are now the most important person in this place, it's the least thing that we can do to congratulate you." He walked back and waved his hand. "Let's go in here, everyone wants to see you."

I shook my head and turned my gaze to Misha, she responded by smiling at me.

It's quite overwhelming, especially knowing that it is just the beginning of what I really want to accomplish.

"Let's go, big bro Casimir." Misha pulled my hand while sweetly smiling at me.

One down, 2 to go.

We entered the crowd of the people cheering for me while I was walking through them. Most of them were looking at me with happiness in their eyes, but there was also an abundance of them who's glaring at me with such jealousy. I think most of them were newbies who may or may not have challenged Leo before and didn't manage to win.

There were tables scattered throughout the place, with waitresses serving booze for everyone. One of them immediately attended me and showed me the way.

"Demi-humans and humans. This is the only place where you can see them living in harmony." Mehrad commented while his eyes were still in the crowd.

I stared at Mehrad. "I heard about it. Why can't every race live in peace, what we're seeing right now is apparent proof that everyone can live in harmony as long as they want to."

Mehrad shook his head. "It has something to do with humans seeing us demi-humans as just inferior races, they disdained us so much that they even attempted to wipe us all out, the good thing is they didn't succeed."

"Wow, that's a lot to absorb."

He chuckled. "Don't worry about it."

"Ah, now that we're at it, I have been seeing some human slaves shop around the marketplace, are you the one who established them?"

Leo who was watching the crowd veered his gaze at me. "I did. Why? Are you interested in one of them?"

So it's really him.

I chugged the booze from my cup. "Not really, it just makes me wonder. How come you are operating human slave shops in a place where humans can peacefully live with other races? Where do you get those human slaves? Because something is telling me they weren't a citizen of this place, just based on what I'm seeing on the humans happily living in here. Or maybe, my assumption is wrong."

He poured another full in my cup. "No, you're right, none of those slaves are citizens of this town. It's one of the main rules of this town to never hurt the citizens as long as they're following the rules. Maybe we are not a bunch of benevolent heroes, but we are not pure evil as well."

He drank the cup of booze in his hand and looked at me with his eyes filled with pain. As if he recalled something he shouldn't.

"And besides, All the human slaves we have are just scum who enslaved, abused, and killed demi-humans and I mean all of them, none of those captured human slaves is innocent. Don't waste your time sympathizing with them. The demi-humans who went through their wicked hands suffered more than those humans ever will. I'm just giving them a little bit of a taste of their own cruelty."

Hatred and pain, his voice was full of it.

I nodded. "I see."