A dragon devouring faeries (TOME 15 of the TIAMAT'S WARS SERIE)

Heads are rolling

I ended up going back to the base, the shuttles having been returned, having nothing left to defend.

I had a lot of wounds, arrows and tiles embedded under my scales and one of my heads was shattered.

Immediately, some kobolds came running, drago kobolds... females.

They washed me and removed the embedded arrows and shards of projectiles.

My regeneration closed the healthy wounds and bandages were applied to my wounded head, which grew back quite quickly.

Within 2 hours I was like a new hydra again.

I thanked the drago kobolds with a few affectionate licks but I was now inconsolable.

I was also afraid of Kabal's report.

The elves had suffered a crushing defeat but the price was terrible.

I had only a tenth of my strength left... and almost no ammunition.

Yet the factory was running at full capacity, but something told me there was a problem.

Kabal...

Kabal didn't respond to my orders. The monitors were turned off...

"Kabal???"

Star was next to me.

"Star??"

"Yes, master?"

"Why isn't Kabal responding?"

Star: "Most of the drones are disabled...I can't access the network anymore, Cabal is hacked and disabled."

I knew it!

Tyrant and his clique...

Then a video appeared on my screens, all over the base...

"Hello dear Professor Reinhardt... or more simply, Carnage!... I don't think we know each other, but my name is Yuri. I am the commander of the human rescue mission but as you know, sacrifices had to be made and luckily... you saved the sacrificed... I suppose you already know Captain Bello, Chancellor Sarah and General Mondeville.

I am amazed at your resilience to survive and your demonstration of power in the face of empire. I admire your efforts to rebuild the old world, but as you can imagine, in your time, as in mine, rebuilding the Roman Empire makes no sense... as does rebuilding the US Empire... nation states have ceased to exist...

It is true that I was tempted to rebuild the Soviet empire without the US by their sacrifice but here it is... everything has changed...

Let me introduce you to Admiral Minos, from the Ummite Empire, whose guide (or emperor) you all know: Tyrant.

He proposes to stop all war and that we, humans and legitimate inhabitants of this world, participate in the reconstruction and evolution of the races so that the earth becomes officially part of the Ummite empire and allows the chosen ones their spiritual ascension.

You, as a dragon, will have to live as such and leave your technological toys aside. Since you and your descendants will be intelligent, you will be among the candidate races for ascension.."

I had heard enough. I cut the monitors with my fist through...

"Who do these assholes think they are! ????"

"Star... are you still loyal to me?"

"Yes, master..."

"Then why did Cabal let me down?"

"Cabal was afraid of you and didn't follow you... you are too advanced for a machine, you are visionary and Kabal cannot assimilate these principles..."