"You nobles are all the same. Your families give you power, techniques, resources, and a lofty status, but you always forget that all of that isn't part of your strength. My eyes can only see a void man who has deluded himself into believing that his borrowed power belongs to him! You are nothing without your family."
Noah's words were sharper than swords, they stabbed Daniel's pride and continued to injure his belief.
"Y-you are the same! What would be of you without the Hive behind your back? You would still be running for your life, doing the dirty work for some organization to obtain some quick gains before hitting the road again!"
Daniel had to use all his concentration to stutter those words, he wasn't ready to accept Noah's view as the truth.
Then, to his surprise, he felt the pressure that was pressing on his mind disappear.
He raised a confused gaze toward Noah only to see that a slight smile had appeared on his face.
"I see, your birthright made you blind."
Noah's words resounded in the hall, and Daniel felt chills running down his spine.
"You have misunderstood, I didn't reach this rank because the Hive has my back. Instead, it is the Hive that wouldn't be here if I hadn't appeared."
Shocking words came out of his mouth, and Elder Julia's nod further surprised the guests.
Noah was speaking the truth.
Divine Demon's inheritance would have fallen in the hands of an orthodox organization if it wasn't for him.
The Coral archipelago would have never claimed its independence without the copying technique, not so easily at least.
Without independence, there would be no Hive.
One of the underground organizations of the archipelago became the strongest country after the three big nations, and that fantastic growth was connected to Noah's appearance.
Noah had dispersed his pressure because he had realized that he was already too far away from Daniel.
He was a dragon, and Daniel was just a promising noble, why would he even care about his words?
Daniel was speechless, he couldn't believe that a rank 5 cultivator had actually agreed with Noah's statement.
In his mind, something like that was simply impossible!
After all, Noah was only a rank 2 cultivator when he reached the archipelago, how could his arrival influence its growth?
However, his amazement was interrupted since Noah began to speak again.
"You are right about the murder of those two nobles, my actions were evil and ruthless."
Noah wasn't lying, he clearly remembered the events in the Bare Dungeon.
His decision to kill Phoebe and Manuel came from the need to lower the threats in Daniel's group so that he could exploit that situation more easily.
"However, being right doesn't give you any power. Only power can give you power, and you simply don't have it."
Noah raised his hand and stretched his index to point at Daniel when he finished that phrase.
His eyes began to exude a suffocating pressure again, but Daniel felt that it was somewhat different from before.
There was cold anger before, but now Noah's pressure was calm and seemingly inevitable.
Daniel didn't feel that he was the target of that pressure, but he still realized that it could be destroyed in an instant.
That made him feel worse than before because he understood that Noah could kill him without even focusing on him.
Noah's words resounded once again in the hall while his mind experienced all those emotions.
"Answer me. Who would save you if I was to attack now? Would it be your power or your family?"
Chapter end
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