While Hervi and the innocents stared at Vicente wide-eyed, the Fairy King calmed down a little, considering the proposal raised by the man who had saved him from certain death.
He lowered his aura, finally letting himself feel the good side of being alive and having been recovered from a near-death situation. The hatred of being betrayed subsided, although it didn't disappear, giving him room to look at Nan and his other loyal companions.
"Sigh... It's a shame my recovery had to happen like this," he said to his people, gesturing as he looked at the many experts surrounding the area where he had dealt with the traitors. "Young Vicente helped me not only by recovering my injuries and saving me from the traitors' poison, but he showed me how I ended up in such a vulnerable situation.
As you saw in the images and audio collected by young Vicente, the dwarves betrayed us by taking the side of the elementals! For that, they deserve death, or perhaps something worse." He cast another killing glance toward the innocent dwarves.
Meanwhile, Hervi was on his knees, not believing everything that had happened. He would never have expected his father to allow his race to betray the fairies!
For millions of years, their races had been friends. How had this betrayal suddenly been considered and perpetrated?
He didn't know how and was still shaking with fear at the thought of how his various race-mates had perished to the powers of the Fairy King.
Nan and the others were shocked too, but in a different way to the innocent dwarves. They had been betrayed and couldn't help but look at this group with a certain antipathy. Even Garnot, who knew Hervi wasn't guilty and was a friend, couldn't help but reconsider the figure of his old companion.
"What a horrible betrayal..."
"I never thought the Dwarves would be capable of that."
"It seems we can trust no one too much. They've thrown away millions of years of history."
Vicente rolled up the sleeves of his shirt, crouching down next to those dwarves as his pentagrams appeared. "Now..." He opened his mouth and 5 contracts appeared from the vacuum of space in front of those 8th stage dwarves. "You must sign this slave contract."
At Vicente's words, the hands, and bodies of those dwarves moved, his eyes widening as he saw their hands begin to sign the agreement with their magical marks, even though they hadn't allowed themselves to do so yet.
Not only the dwarves, but the others in the surrounding forest watched in awe at Vicente's terrifying power, capable even of possessing random bodies and forcing them to do things as serious as signing magical contracts.
The Fairy King saw this with narrowed eyes, but said nothing. Vicente had possessed his body briefly, so he knew how capable this human was.
The five surviving dwarves in the area signed full agreements with Vicente, guaranteeing that they would follow everything he said while he was on the island.
With these agreements, Vicente began his service to the fairy alliance, making himself available to start solving what he had proposed.
"Are you going to solve this?" The old Fairy King finally asked.
"Yes, as I told you, Nan and I have an agreement. I can go ahead with it if you want. I already had an interest in going to their tribe, anyway."
"Hmm, all right." The Fairy King agreed without question, having indeed heard from Vicente about the deal his granddaughter had made with this human.
He was fine with that. He could see that Vicente had already achieved part of his goals on the island, so it was time to let the boy help them even more.
But even if Vicente didn't want to do anything else, the mere fact that he had recovered the Fairy King would be enough for many there to dismiss his help.
Nan thanked him once again, followed by the Fairy King summoning the leaders in the area to meet and define their next steps to follow Vicente's plans!
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