Chapter 1268: Discussing the future
Chapter 1268: Discussing the future
After a few days of letting the different races get to know each other, everyone was gathered back once more for another meeting.
This time, it wasn't to determine the terms of the alliance between the different races.
This time, we were talking about one certain race.
The demon race.
It was clear that in this war, the demons were the losers.
That meant that as the winners, it was our duty to decide what to do with the losers.
That was why we were holding this meeting.
"There's no other choice, we have to kill them all and take their lands or else they will do something like this again. Showing the invaders mercy is only causing trouble for ourselves in the long run. It isn't something that we should do."
That was what one of the human representatives said as soon as the meeting started.
It seemed that there was no mercy at all in the heart of this representative.
Though to be truthful, it didn't seem like he had a righteous cause at all.
Rather, it seemed that he had more of a greedy cause than righteous.
The lands of the demons weren't as fertile as the lands of the humans, but it was still land that had all kinds of resources. That was why not just this human representative, but also the other human representatives wanted to lay their hands on the lands of the demons.
But it wasn't as if they would be able to have anything that they wanted.
After all, there were those that had more power than these human representatives.
There were the ones from the empires that were here.
But it didn't even take those from the empire to stop them.
That was because I suddenly said, "No, this isn't how we do things. If we do that, then it'll just make things worse in the future. Destroying the demon race like this will not help any of us."
All of the human representatives immediately narrowed their eyes to look at me.
Even those from the empires narrowed their eyes to look at me.
After all, they all felt that it was necessary to end this war with the demons forever since the demons would always be a problem for the human race.
But I didn't think the same since there was something good about having the demon race still. After all, there was a use to the demon race, so it was better to have them alive than dead.
So that was why I didn't want them dead.
But of course, I still had to explain it.
"If the demon race is destroyed, then the one that sent them will just send something else. Instead of killing them, we should focus on bringing them to our side instead and getting them to work with us against their former master."
There was no one that said anything in response to this.
That was because I could see that they were a bit moved by what I said.
It wasn't that they were fully convinced, but they could see the merit of the plan that I proposed. After all, there was still the fact that the hidden mastermind was still hidden out there.
There was no telling what the hidden mastermind would do, so having the demon race as a buffer was also a good thing.
But would the demon race really be that easy to manipulate?
Even if they wanted to manipulate the demon race into becoming a shield, it wasn't as if they would accept this that easily.
So the only thing that could be done was to take down the demon race while they were in the palm of their hands.
But in the end, the four empires...seemed to consider it.
After thinking about it, they said, "Bring one of the demons over and see if there's anyone that can make a deal on behalf of the demons."
The human representatives didn't seem happy about this.
As for the representatives of the other races, they didn't seem to have an opinion.
After all, they knew that they were all from the other races like the demon race. So if they were to put themselves in the same situation, they had to wonder how the human race would treat them.
They would hope that the human race would have a bit of compassion even if they understood why the demon race deserved it.
But what they wanted was just to weaken the demon race and not wipe them out like the humans were proposing.
After a while, there was a demon that was brought into the meeting room.
This demon was one of the commanders under the demon king that had surrendered.
This demon was actually one of the smarter ones that immediately chose to cooperate with the humans, which was why he was the one that was chosen.
"The demon king's daughter. She's the next strongest person and the person with the second most influence after the demon king. She was destined to become the next demon king and now that her father is dead, she most likely has become the next demon queen."
The demon commander didn't even need that much prompting before giving up all this
information.
But there was one piece of information that was missing.
"Where is the demon king's daughter right now?"
"She's in our territory, watching over the rest of our people while the demon king is at war. If you want to meet her, I'll go back and bring her here right away. I promise that it won't take long, I'll bring her right away."
Everyone narrowed their eyes to look at the demon commander.
The look in their eyes showed that they clearly didn't trust him, but...this was an
opportunity...
After thinking about it, they finally decided, "You have two days. Bring her back to us or else we'll send our armies to raze the land of the demons."
"Yes, yes, two days, I'll be back right away." The demon commander said before running off.
Though it didn't seem like the human representatives had faith in the demon commander.