Then he smiled and said, "Of course you can avoid that by giving up your right and position. I'm sure that if you allow the boy to enslave you, there won't be a problem. He will become a god king quickly, and natural order will be restored."
The more he spoke, the worse her facial expression became. By the time he suggested that she allow herself to be enslaved, her face was as if she had eaten the most sour lemon in the world.
She said, "What I do is none of your business."
He actually agreed with her. "Indeed, you're right. It wouldn't have mattered if I had interfered or not. The outcome is set."
"But that outcome is boring and repetitive. I have seen the potential for a different and more interesting outcome, so I nudged him in the right direction."
"If there is one thing that we can agree on, it is that the boy has immense potential. I wonder just how far he can go with the ability to steal destiny if given the right motivation.
Wrath didn't like what he said at all. So she made up her mind to put an end to it.
She said, "I will report you to the Council of God Kings for messing with the paragon."
Aganju stopped smiling or sneering. His face became solemn. Then he disappeared.
It appeared that she had won that exchange, but didn't have it within her to be happy. It is because she understands that things can become worse than Kelvin not trusting her.
The way she was looking at him changed. He is no more the boy that wouldn't trust her. He has become the boy that she has to be suspicious about.
She thought to herself, "I am regretting picking him for paragon. He has too much potential."
If he had just two fixed abilities, there would be nothing to worry about. She would know exactly what he is capable of. But that is not the case here.
She suspects that nothing really happened and Aganju is just sowing the seeds of distrust between them. But she still can't help being suspicious about what Kelvin is planning.
It didn't help that Kelvin didn't come clean about what it was that Aganju really told him. Over the next few days, he was just focused on cutting down trees.
He was much happier, though. That is one thing that she noticed. But she didn't know why he would be happy, so she was suspicious.
While things looked like they had calmed down, at least temporarily, between the two armies, this was far from the truth. The invaders and defenders were still trading blows. The blows were only hidden and quiet.
The undercurrent started with the human army sending spies into the territory of the elves, infiltrating their army, and trying to convince powerful elves to betray their world.
The elves caught some of the spies, but not all of them. However, they too began their own round of retaliation.
As it was, it turned out that the human army was not the only one that could have the great idea to scout and infiltrate the enemy. The elves also had this idea.
Unfortunately, the elves couldn't sneak into the human army no matter how much they tried. They didn't have the mark of Yggdrasil that identifies them as soldiers and couldn't bypass the surveillance of the sentries.
When Kelvin heard about their attempts to infiltrate the army and acquire information, he shook his head in pity.
He was pitying the elves because he didn't think they would be able to succeed even if every soldier didn't have a mark and the soldiers and robots didn't have infrared, sound, and smell detectors to find hidden, camouflaged, and invisible figures.
He just doesn't think the elves would be able to bypass the senses of a bored god watching the minds of everyone around. So he was willing to bet money on them failing.
It didn't come to him as a surprise when the elves gave up after a few days of failure. But he was surprised when they began kidnapping soldiers and torturing them for information.
He said in surprise, "Who would have thought that the least dangerous mission would suddenly become the most dangerous mission?"
It was the soldiers at the edge of the elven camp that were being kidnapped. These soldiers were there to scout and watch for enemy movements.
Unfortunately, this has put them in a situation where they can be surrounded and escorted away to a secret location against their wish.
He was surprised about it and felt lucky that he didn't take that mission. But he didn't think too much about it. He just shook his head and continued felling trees.
But the matter escalated when Command began issuing rescue missions. Many soldiers began signing up to form rescue squads.
Command also automatically added the kidnapped soldiers and those who would rescue them to the infiltration mission and began rewarding them with merit points for each minute that they were behind enemy lines.
Of course, only soldiers in the second and third divisions who had at least two stars in the army were eligible for rescue missions. One-star soldiers don't qualify for rescue missions since their presence in the army won't be missed.
As for soldiers of the first division, they are fodder, bait, and meant for sacrifice. So they won't be rescued or rewarded with merit points no matter how valuable they are.
Yggdrasil would rather spend energy to resurrect them than divert manpower to rescue them. No one was thinking about them.
The ones that Kelvin was thinking about were the soldiers that were qualified for rescue missions who were now earning merit points for infiltration after being given free rides past enemy lines.
This made him surprised again. He said, "Now I'm not sure if they are lucky or unlucky."
Wrath shook her head and said, "It is not certain yet. Let's wait until they return before we judge. But in the meantime, I won't get my hopes up because nothing is free."