Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

“does not exist. I don’t know why I should make excuses.”

“what?”

“Isn’t an excuse the reason for a mistake?”

I tilted my head and asked.

“What did I do wrong?”

“…”

Silence fell.

Several pairs of wide open eyes stared at me, staring at me.

Did I hear wrong?

However, as soon as I realized that it was not an illusion, it changed rapidly.

bang!

“If you’re trying to talk nonsense again, hit me up!”

“It’s nonsense. I am telling the truth.”

“Is it true that you did nothing wrong?”

He put the tobacco in his mouth and patted the attendant.

The attendant showed displeasure on his face, but silently lit the fire.

I inhaled the tobacco several times and exhaled one long one.

“The things you listed as my sins. It was just something I had to do to protect myself. Are you going to let the arsonist run into the house with a torch?”

Hmm, with a snort, Vlad exposed his fangs.

“Do not rationalize sin with lofty metaphors. Did Ughdash cross the mountains and invade your land, or did he announce that he would kill you? What actions do you have to back up your suspicions?”

“well. Setting up a garrison in someone else’s land, gathering troops, and inciting humans to attack… that would be a truly peaceful act.”

Vlad clicked his tongue as I lit a cigarette and smiled.

“The garrison existed before handing over the land to you. withdrawal was delayed. Also, what’s wrong with gathering troops? It is common for orcs to fight among their own kind. How did you think I was targeting you?”

Bang, bang, he hit the table and pointed his finger at the orc sitting in front of him.

“Even more so, saying that the orcs instigated the humans only makes me laugh. Do you think they have that kind of head?”

The designated orc ambassador looked at Vlad with a displeased expression.

“Did you make fun of us because we got some land with three tongues? Not even a single grain of land can be increased without the permission of the representative system…”

“done.”

I waved the hand holding the tobacco.

“I will give you the plains of Nehrup. Ginoric of the Black Sun Tribe.”

The orc ambassador hardened his expression.

“You didn’t come to ask for responsibility for Ughdash’s death, did you? On the contrary, I’d be glad he died. Am I wrong?”

“…”

The orc ambassador, or rather, the tribal leader Ginoric swallowed his words.

I looked at the guy’s level.

【Lv. 87]

A higher level than Ugdash.

Originally, it would have been reversed in the future.

With Ughdash dead, that was no longer the case.

‘Chief who is no different from the king of the Orcs at this point.’

It is also the target of Ugdash’s usurpation.

Ginoric would be willing to let Ugdash die, who was his enemy.

‘Even in my previous life, they tried to intimidate me to kill each other.’

It’s obvious how vicious the relationship between the two is to the extent that they ask a person they regard as a monkey to kill someone.

“You came here probably out of interest in the man who killed Ugdash and fear that I would pose a threat to you by using his territory as a base.”

“…”

Ginoric didn’t answer.

But the trembling eyes expressed an affirmation.

“Take it.”

Ginoric shook his shoulders.

“I am not interested in the land beyond the Gray Mountains where your group lives. If you don’t disturb me, nothing like this will happen to me either. Are you okay?”

All eyes in the venue were focused on Ginoric.

Ginoric hit his chin with his fist and fell into trouble.

Vlad was watching from the front, but there was no effect.

Ginoric is also the strongest of a race.

It was not an opponent that Vlad could easily deal with.

“I will accept it.”

Huh, a sigh spread throughout the meeting room.

No matter how beggarly the land is, land is land.

From the area, it was larger than the land I got from the Daejeonje.

I had said that I would gladly give up such land.

And Ginoric was something he got for nothing.

‘I can’t manage it even if I have it, and I’ll only live on your guard, so why are you holding it? Such garbage land, even if it is given to me for free, I don’t need it.’

It needs plunder, slavery, and overwhelming fertility to survive.

Even Ughdash, equipped with all three, was a land that was difficult to maintain.

To me, that land was nothing more than a punishment beyond trash.

Better to hand it over and let Ginoric wash his hands.

Vlad, who set the agenda, is not an orc, but a vampire.

If Ugdash and his kin, Ginoric, step down, the talk is weak.

cringe…

Vlad looked at Ginoric fiercely.

Vlad couldn’t have known my intentions, so I looked at him in protest.

Ginoric snorted and rested his chin on his fist to avert his gaze.

‘The Orcs must reorganize the power structure after Ugdash dies. I can’t afford to care about monkeys.’

I laughed inwardly.

“What are you going to do with Wallochia?”

“That is a different story.”

“what?”

“The plains of Nehrup originally belonged to the orcs. That’s why I just returned it to my owner. But what about Wallochia? Aren’t they human?”

“…”

“My relationship with Wallochia is human to human. Are you even going to interfere in fighting against your own people? Also, since they invaded my territory, the dispute is clear.”

I pointed at the map spread out on the table.

The river that forms the boundary between Wallochia and the Great Plains of Oroko.

The place where the Iron Fog tribe and the northern lord’s army were destroyed.

I gently pressed it with the beginning of the year.

“In the first place, you guys got the order wrong.”

“order? what are you talking about.”

“Before you put me in this seat, you should have checked if I could sit in this seat.”

Vlad made a strange expression.

The expression of not being able to understand what is being said at all.

“Didn’t you let humans be the representative race? I am human. Why should I, who does not belong to the representative system, have to abide by the agreement?”

The conference hall was abuzz.

“An insignificant human…”

Vlad clenched his fists.

The table was held in his hand and bent.

It released the suppressed mana and put pressure on me.

“You speak arrogantly without knowing the subject. You don’t even know that we have mercy on you. Representative agreements are the law of the world. Even if you do not belong to the representative system, you must keep it.”

Red, bloodshot eyes glared at me.

The eyes filled with the magical power of a vampire fascinate opponents.

To get the prey to let its guard down and stick out its own neck.

There was a sound of breathing from all sides.

Even if you don’t make eye contact, you’ll be affected by magic.

“Originally, there’s no need to call four bastards to this place. Who do you think would say anything about stepping on monkeys that don’t belong to the representative system by force?”

“is it?”

I took a deep inhalation of tobacco and looked at her calmly.

The moment our eyes met, his focus shifted.

“Then take it away.”

“what?”

“You can take it by force, but you said you were talking with mercy. I don’t need that mercy. If you can take it by force, take it.”

The tumultuous atmosphere quickly subsided.

Shutting their whispers, everyone looked at me and Vlad in turn.

“why? Are you afraid? It must have been because he was afraid that he called me to this place. For fear of fighting with me, to intimidate them with words and take away what is mine. Otherwise, would you have made room again for the subject of the land taken from me by word of mouth?”

“dog sound!”

“Then let’s check it out.”

I got up and took the dirty glove from my pocket and threw it on the table.

“I challenge you to a duel. Vlad von Holstein. Giving everything we have to each other.”

Bluff

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‘This… damn blood bag!’

Vlad looked down at the glove that had fallen in front of him.

His expression was calm, but his insides were bubbling.

‘duel? How funny are you looking at me!’

I wanted to jump over the table right away and bite the cheeky kid’s neck.

Can he be as arrogant as he is now, even in the face of death?

‘I tried to take care of it to the extent of taking my hands off Walochia.’

Vlad has two purposes for putting a formal agenda in the representative system.

To make Edar withdraw from Wallochia,

To find out whether Edar’s actions were bluffing or not,

In the process of achieving these two goals, he did not even think of a duel.

I just thought that if I put pressure on it, it would bend on its own.

It seemed like an easy idea, but there was a reason for it.

‘This is a lie. It’s a bluff.’

Edar has been monitored since the emergency call.

It was Vlad who brought up so many familiar words.

From the moment he first met Edar, he had been wary of him.

The other members just passed by and cursed at me.

Vlad was once a human, so he was extraordinarily wary.

‘A human being can put such pressure on me?’

It couldn’t be, and neither was it.

The human race is fundamentally inferior.

He abandoned his race and became a vampire, saying that he is an existence that transcends species.

It was Vlad who believed so much and was proud of it.

‘There can be no There’s no way he’s human.’

So, at first, I watched with that thought in mind.

Like the dragon lord, who knows if the human form will be mimicry?

Or the source of power could come from something else.

‘what?’

As the surveillance continued, Vlad noticed.

Edar never used his body directly.

At best, to the extent of demonstrating the technique.

He never stepped forward directly against the enemy.

Always standing behind me and watching me from afar.

‘It’s strange.’

Of course, there is a lower one, so why is the upper one stepping out?

However, Edar’s attitude was particularly excessive.

‘Either I have to hide my power, or I have no power in the first place.’

Vlad’s intuition pointed to the latter.

Because there’s no way humans could be on the same level as him.

‘How could a human being have the same power as me? It must have been nothing more than tricking us by taking advantage of the atmosphere.’

When I thought about it like that, my actions so far made sense.

Looking back, I never actually exercised my skills.

Didn’t it all end when the other side took care of themselves?

‘Let’s see.’

Vlad expected as he presented the agenda.

He said he would take off his mask in front of those gathered at the formal convocation.

As a human subject, I will be punished for daring to deceive the representative system.

‘I’ll take off your mask and chew on you right here.’

It was nice not to have to take off the mask.

Because there are few resistances that a powerless person can do.

At best, he had to spit out the northern wallokia he had occupied.

And he had to occupy the place he had withdrawn.

‘if. Really, it doesn’t matter if it wasn’t a bluff.’

This call was different from the last call.

There were people whom even Vlad could not easily deal with.

There will be no such thing as being swayed like during an emergency call.

After reminiscing, Vlad hardened his expression.

“duel?”

“Didn’t you tell me? It can be taken away by force, but talking with mercy.”

Edar snorted.

“Do not hide your ambition under the cover of benevolence. Mosquito.”

“What…”

“Did you know I didn’t know? What you care about is neither Nehrup nor Ugdash, but Wallochia. Did you think I would not know that you were afraid that I would invade the country where your blood relatives live as parasites?”

Startle

‘How does this guy do that?’

Vlad hardened his expression.

It was a secret that only Vlad knew that his blood relatives had established themselves in Wallochia and other principalities and were increasing their power.

It wouldn’t matter if they traded like Ugdash, but it was clearly an act of violating Mishu’s agreement for the different races to directly establish themselves in the human world.

‘How far do you know…!’

“Stop talking bullsh*t!”

I groaned before being looked upon with suspicion.

“Are you trying to slander me with words without even a handful of evidence!”

Edar let out a low laugh at that response.

“There is nothing to be ashamed of. There is not a single person here who has not done something like you.”

The ambassadors who caught attention averted their eyes.

“Therefore, I have no need for your insignificant mercy. If you are going to call me with a lie of mercy and fulfill your ambitions, take it by force instead.”

After looking through the lines, Edar faced Vlad for the last time.

Vlad trembled for an instant.

‘Damn it… these are really dirty eyes.’

It was a bar that I felt even in the first meeting, the depth of the eyes that I couldn’t read.

The depth was deeper than before, and it gave me goosebumps when I looked at it.

“I am here to show that I do not need mercy. I will prove that I am worthy to sit on an equal footing with you. I will prove that humans are not inferior.”

bang!

Edar hit the table with his palm.

At that moment, Vlad felt intense dizziness.

He supported his body with his hands on the table.

‘what···?’

All of a sudden, why am I getting dizzy right now?

Unable to hide his embarrassment, he raised his right hand and pressed the goal.

As a vampire, he shouldn’t have health problems like the living.

Also, he wasn’t the only one who felt dizzy.

Moans flowed from the audience as well as from the ambassadors who were seated.

‘Magic interference?’

No, absolutely not.

Magic did not shake them.

If magical powers shook them, someone would have noticed.

But none of those present knew the cause.

No, I guessed the cause, but I didn’t want to be sure or believe it.

‘Nonsense.’

I looked at the human standing in front of me with wide open eyes.

Only the person in front of him stood calmly.

‘Something like humans overwhelms us?’

Vlad thought it was ridiculous.

The momentum of a mere human overwhelms everyone in this place?

It was an outrageous thing to even think about.

Only one person in his entire life was able to do that.

‘A load… is that a being close to a load?’

Memories that I thought were too old and shed into oblivion came to mind.

A memory of the old days, when he had just earned his place on the agenda.

The existence of the Lord who sat in the seat of honor after setting up a representative system.

I recalled the pressure that made it difficult to even dare to raise my head.

And the memory whispered that it was the same then and now.

gulp···

The sound of someone swallowing saliva echoed through the venue.

Few of the people in this room had lived as long as Vlad, but anyone strong enough to sit here had no choice but to intuitively realize.

That the human dignity overwhelms them.

“What are you going to do, Vlad?”

Startle

Vlad bit his pale lips.

‘Wasn’t it a bluff?’

The plan went awry, so it was smashed.

The place to unmask the impostor became, on the contrary, a place to prove that he was superior to anyone else in this place.

Edar raised his chin and spread his arms to turn his back.

He looked at the audience and raised his voice.

“Anyone else is fine. Anyone can prove that the representative system requires nine chairs, not eight.”

Everyone caught their breath.

‘Eight chairs to nine?’

Chairs meant members of the representative system.

A race or civilization that constitutes a representative system.

Elves, Dwarves, Vampires, Orcs, Goblins, Nagas, Lizardmen and Dragons.

Since the representative system was established, only two have increased.

None of the members of the Eight have changed in nearly a thousand years.

But now, Edar said let’s add humans.

Let’s add a human to nine chairs.

“…”

Unpleasant feelings boiled from all sides.

But no one was willing to step forward.

Edar’s arrogant remarks only boil his anger.

The eyes that had been focused on him turned to Vlad.

Since he sowed the seed, it means that he will also reap the fruit.

‘Damn it…’

Vlad spat out curse words in his eyes.

He did not think that he would lose in a duel.

But I didn’t think it would be safe.

‘He’s not alone.’