r18novel Chapter 292 Loki: A king isn't made, he's made!
Chapter 292 Loki: A king isn't made, he's made!
Chapter 292 Loki: A king isn't made, he's made!
"kill!"
Loki remained expressionless, but a glint of light flashed in his eyes.
"If anyone dares to engage in the giant slave trade, my brother said..."
"Go back to the source, kill all the slave groups and those who accept the slave trade!"
"My older brother said that we must go all out at this crucial moment!"
"Kill them until they're terrified, so that countless people won't cause us trouble in the future!"
"Even if it means sacrificing some profits, we're willing to do it!"
"As they say in my elder brother's hometown, if you land a good punch, you can avoid a hundred more in the future!"
"Those who are truly willing to be friends with our giant race will naturally not accept their friends becoming slaves."
"On the contrary, those with ulterior motives can take this opportunity to see their true colors and remove them from our list of friendly nations!"
"We have overwhelming military power and perfect support, Father. I just don't understand why the giants are still so timid!"
"You're old. You've lost your youthful vigor and your courage to fight."
As Loki said this, his voice became deep.
"You've gone down a dead end, my dear father."
"You're thinking about how to protect the giants, and how to protect Elbaf."
"You keep compromising, but you've forgotten that the best defense is offense!"
"Attack! Attack! Attack!!"
Loki glared at Harald, his tone suddenly becoming impassioned.
"Kill them until they're scared, beat them until they're scared, and then give them a sweet treat. That's what Big Brother meant by 'give them a beating and then feed them a treat.'"
"Old-fashioned war ideologies should disappear!"
"War in this new era is no longer simply about fighting and killing, Father!!"
"It's about brains, it's about profit!!"
"To fight within a limited area, and then to expand the influence of our giant race infinitely."
"This is my way of ruling, Loki!"
Finite and Infinite —
Harald stared blankly at Loki, unable to comprehend why his son had changed so much in just one year.
"Loki, you are not yet king here, you are too naive!"
The footsteps and shouts coming from the doorway drew their attention.
Haildin strode over, his expression grave: "This is all your fantasy, a future that will never come true!"
To Harald's surprise, he had expected Loki to angrily retort, or even beat his brother as he had done before.
But Loki only glanced at Haldin indifferently.
"You are truly naive, Halding."
"If it were the old me, I would have convinced you with my fists, but things are different now."
"If I were to get angry with someone as naive as you, wouldn't I become an idiot too?"
Hajrudin glared at Loki, but did not make a move.
"Roads are made by people walking on them. As for where the road ahead leads, who knows? Can you know what the future holds?"
Haildin was speechless; he truly lacked the ability to foresee the future.
"What I described were all things I could do, but you, my dear brother."
"You're all talk and no action, then you cower under your father's wing."
"Learning your so-called way of kingship, tsk tsk."
Loki shook his head, raised his head, and looked disdainful.
"You probably don't know this, but Wang has always been a solitary individual, a unique individual, and a lonely individual."
"You learn how to become a king, but your highest limit is Harald."
"But I am different; I am walking on a path that Harald has never set foot on before."
"I never thought about becoming a king through learning," was the sentence my elder brother said most often when he was teaching me.
[Bazaar: Loki, the unity of knowledge and action. No one can be ready at all times. One must act upon knowledge and know through action.]
"You don't understand, right? That's normal, I don't understand either."
Loki sighed. "It always takes me a long time to understand what my brother says. He says that's normal. He says I haven't seen enough and haven't experienced enough."
"He always said I was a little brat who would never grow up, hey!"
"Even my father has never spoken of me like that, but what you don't know is that I was by my elder brother's side, watching him make plans on the sea."
"Watching my elder brother take over that country without lifting a finger—"
"Halding, my dear brother, I have realized my ignorance and insignificance."
Haildin stared at his brother, unsure how to refute him.
The other party did not criticize him for being incompetent or inadequate.
Instead, he kept talking about himself.
This left him with nowhere to vent his energy.
"In just a few years, even I, who have always been by my elder brother's side, do not know how many trump cards he has prepared."
"Every time a subordinate reports something wrong to the boss, the boss always manages to resolve it with a nonchalant attitude."
"That kind of strategic wisdom is a sight you've never seen before."
"Your mother, Ida, it was I who saved her family, it was I who ensured the continuation of Samwanai!"
Loki staggered forward, walking step by step toward Halding.
His fingers jabbed at Halding's heart again and again.
"We were the ones who first integrated the Samvana giants into the human world, forging an alliance of offense and defense, and a bond of mutual benefit with humanity!"
"It is I, Halding."
"And what have you done? All you do is stay in Elbaf, foolishly learning from your father how to be a proper king!"
Loki points at Harald.
"Let me shatter your illusions, my good brother!!"
"A king isn't someone who learns; he earned his title step by step through his own hard work!"
"The king emerged from mountains of corpses and seas of blood, from countless brushes with death, and he found peace in witnessing human life and death, in seeing a kingdom rise from decline to its peak, and finally vanish into the mortal world!"
"Now, you're calling me naive?"
Hahaha!!!
Loki laughed loudly, tears welling up in his eyes.
"You're naive, not me! You have no idea what a world of great strife is!"
He straightened his body and unleashed his Conqueror's Haki with a wave of his hand.
"Our race of giants is inherently powerful. Even though we giants are favored by the world, if we, their descendants, do not strive for progress, we will still be nothing more than dust in this era."
"All the kings of Elbaf throughout history have wished to be wise rulers."
"I aspire to be a wise ruler who expands the territory and builds a powerful nation—"
"No way! What I want to be is the fisherman who steers the ship of this era!!"
Loki clenched his fists, his lips curled into a wide grin, his expression arrogant and confident.
"I want Elbaf to go with the wind, and this wind!"
Loki lowered his head, using his height advantage to look down at Hajrudin, his tone slightly hurried.
"It is my brother, but this brother is not you; it is that man named Bazel!"
"If I am strong, then the giants are strong."
"If I am weak, the giants will perish!"
"You say I'm naive, that my words are all unfulfilled boasts—"
At this moment, as Loki's tone softened.
Harald and Aruru were both utterly shocked.
They no longer saw the reckless, love-starved Loki, but a towering figure—
king!
"I, Loki, am willing to be a tyrant who kills countless people and destroys nations and worlds!"
"Whoever dares to kidnap my giant brat and dishonor the name of the giants, I will kill their entire family and annihilate their entire nation!"
"It's just a nickname for a serial killer, but so what?"
Loki chuckled, spreading his arms wide, his disdain evident.
"What can they do to me?"
"What can you do to my giant race?"
"You have not seen my brother, whom the world calls a murderous monster, but the name of my brother can stop a child from crying."
"But my brother is still alive and well."
"this!"
"That's the demeanor a king should have!"
"Your gaze can only see Elbaf, but my gaze sees the Red Line, the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, and the four seas!"
"Playing it safe will only cause you to miss fleeting opportunities!"
"If Elbaf doesn't step up, other kingdoms will!"
"This is a new era, a new era where it's either you die or I live!!"
Under Loki's gaze, Hajrudin staggered backward, his face deathly pale.
His eyes were filled with disbelief and horror.
Harald, who witnessed this scene, shook his head. He knew that he, as the eldest son, had lost this battle for the throne.
Loki has already soared to great heights.
"Harald, my dear father."
Loki didn't look at Haldin, whose face was as white as paper, and turned to look at Harald diagonally behind him.
His expression was as calm as still water.
"Loki is no longer the Loki of a year ago."
"Entrust the future of Elbaf to me, and if I, Loki, live, I will restore the glory of Elbaf."
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"If I, Loki, were to die—then you shall pass the throne to that good-for-nothing."
"I can already see the end of his future."
"He may be capable of defending the country, but he is incapable of expanding it."
"And I, if I can live."
"We will make Elbaf a powerful nation that no one can ignore on the high seas!"
Harald did not reply immediately, but simply stared at Loki.
He saw ordinariness, confidence, and the passion and determination hidden deep within the soul.
"Aruru, what do you think?"
Aruru stroked his beard, his eyes lowered: "Harald, I'm too old to get involved in the affairs of young people."
"But I must admit, Loki was right."
"A king cannot be learned."
"Harald, I still remember you, young and arrogant, setting sail and meeting Ida, the woman who changed your life."
"She led you down a path that the capital of the giants had never trod before."
"That woman is a treasure to you."
"Similarly, for Loki now, that man named Bazel is also a master and a treasure."
He paused abruptly, then looked at Haldin, who was slumped on the ground, dazed and confused.
"Halding,"
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Haildin, regaining his senses, looked at Yaruru without saying a word.
"Don't let a temporary setback break your soul. You are you, and Loki is Loki."
"He has his life principles, and you have yours."
"Don't deny yourself, and don't force yourself to accept Loki. A king never accepts the beliefs of other kings."
"All you have to do is wash your face and think about how you want to move forward in the future."
"--I see."
A hoarse voice came from Haildin's mouth, and then...
The man staggered away, his figure appearing dejected and forlorn.
Loki, who caused this outcome, simply shrugged.
"Useless trash, can't even handle this little setback. Luckily I'm thick-skinned, otherwise, if I stayed by my brother's side every day, I'd go crazy from all the setbacks."
"Alright, Loki, you should say less."
With a single, casual remark, Yaruru turned the page on the struggle for the crown prince position.
"If you hadn't met a good older brother, you'd probably be sleeping soundly in some corner right now."
Loki scratched the back of his head and chuckled, his previous domineering aura completely gone.
Harald slowly rose to his feet, looked up at the distant sky, and no one could see the struggle in his eyes.
He was considering whether to do as Loki suggested.
Undeniably, his youngest son had indeed developed the belief and awareness to become king.
But he is not yet the King of Giants, and he cannot gamble with everything the giants have.
Giving up the idea of becoming a member state of the World Government means a complete break with the World Government.
Especially since the partner is the world's most vicious pirate, this will definitely arouse the dissatisfaction of the Five Elders and the World Government.
They might use this against the giant race.
"Loki, I need some time to calm down."
"You should stay home and recover during this time. I'll have someone come to you once I've made a decision."
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