Chapter 120 The Conspiracy
Nevare woke up with heavy eyelids, she try to open them but her body is so tired. She sees the familiar ceiling in front of her. She woke up inside her carriage.
"Did I hit you too hard?" came a familiar voice from next to her. Nevare turned and saw Moku sitting while peeling an apple in his hand.
Moku gave a piece of apple to Nevare, and in a slightly guilty voice he said "Are you okay?"
Nevare smiled, there was a feeling of happiness in her heart because Moku still loves her "I'm okay" said Nevare in a hoarse voice.
Nevare tried to push her body up but she seemed to be pushing herself too hard in their Palaka fight. Moku put the knife and apples on the table and then helped Nevare to sit down. Nevare missed her husband's smell, she leaned her head against Moku's chest and Moku hugged her tightly.
"I'm sorry that I force you," he says.
Nevare takes a long sigh "It's okay, but Moku you must remember that you are not alone anymore." Nevare said.
Moku flinched for a moment before falling back into silence not knowing what to say. All his life he was always alone, no one understood what he wanted. However, it seems that the reality is not like that, maybe he just closes his heart from the help of others who care about him.
Nevare got up from their embrace, looked into Moku's eyes, and asked seriously "So, where do you want to take this monster kingdom? What do you really want to do? I deserve to know your plan right?"
Moku smiled bitterly and replied "Yes, you are! But before I explain it, we also have to invite some other people to listen"
"Who?" Nevare tilted her head.
Moku smiled and looked at the carriage door then said in a commanding voice "Come in!"
The carriage door opened and 3 people of different races entered, to be exact, elves, goblins, and sylphs. They are Nezena, Ez, and Iathra.
Nevare was astonished to see them, she understood why Ez also came in, but she didn't expect that Nezena and Iathra would also come.
Nezena is an elf, she has a bad and dark past that is not worth telling. As a result of this past, Nezena became a very obedient person when she learned her way of life as The One's preacher. The One was directly promoted by Moku and became a god worshiped by all monsters. Moku uses The One as legitimacy and strengthens his position as a god-appointed king.
However, when viewed from a different perspective, it can be said that The One is something that can limit Moku's power. By saying he was appointed by The One, Moku clearly said that he was under The One. Although religion can be used to legalize one's power, if the king wants absolute power then he must separate religion from the state. Because if not, then someday the religious organization will be an obstacle to the absolute power of the king.
That's why Nevare thought that if Moku would use The One just to legalize his power then after all the monsters recognized him as king, Moku would distance himself from religion. Nezena's arrival at this time showed that Nevare's estimate seemed to be wrong.
However, she could still predict this, but Iathra's arrival was completely beyond Nevare's expectations. Sylphs are a race of monsters whose usefulness cannot be replaced by any other monster race. They were the king of espionage, almost all the movements and strategies of the orcs against the two mages came from information obtained by Nerphyl and the other sylphs.
Nerphyl's ability to receive information from all living sylphs no matter how far was the key to their victory. If not then maybe the goblin tribe was destroyed before they knew it. So it was only natural that Sylph was also invited into the conversation this time.
However, Nevare never thought that it would be Iathra and not Nerphyl. Did something happen to Nerphyl? Or does Moku have another purpose in calling Iathra instead of Nerphyl?
The three people sat cross-legged in front of Moku. Before Moku could start the meeting, Ez opened his mouth to ask "Moku, isn't there one more person you should invite? I've spoken to her before and I think she has a very rare intelligence maybe even more than me" said Ez indicating someone.
"I didn't invite Luna because of a certain reason. After all, the intelligence you mean is academic, she's not very good at strategizing" Moku imagines Bulan who is only smart with her books but is always deceived by someone's fake kindness.
"Iathra, do you really mind coming to this place? What we will talk about after this can be categorized as a betrayal for Nerphyl" Moku turned to the smallest monster in the carriage.
Iathra nodded "I'm fine. Nerphyl is someone who cares more about sylphs than herself, even though for us she is more important than any other sylph. I just don't want Nerphyl to be faced with the choice of committing suicide again" she said with a gloomy face.
"Hm.. I'm sure what we will do after this is not only aimed at the welfare of the Sylphs but also all the monsters. Well then let's start the meeting.
Maybe now there are only five of us, but I'm sure in the future our number will increase. I will share the tasks for each of you and remember this task aims to create a prosperous monster society" Moku started by establishing a goal for them.
Creating a country is not as easy as ordinary people think. The fact that a nation is not created just like that, Crawford, an academician of nation governance, said that there are four elements of the formation of a nation;
The first is permanent residents, a country will not be formed without a group of people who have attachments and relationships both socially and philosophically. This society will become the pillar of a country, in this case of course the residents in question are the monsters.
The second is the territory, the existence of an area that is controlled is required for the formation of a state. Territory and natural resources in it will be the support of the country. So if a community is still in another territory, then the community is not worthy to be called a state. This is one of the reasons Moku decided to migrate to Wolf Slope Mountain.
Although the Bog forest is still not included in human territory, its location is very close to human territory, making the utilization of the resources in it hindered and dangerous. Especially the Bog forest is one of the sources for humans to get rare plants and mutated animal organs. That's why Moku doesn't want a resource struggle between monsters and humans for a while, at least until he feels that if the monsters are stronger, maybe then they will reclaim their homeland.
The third is a sovereign government, a country will not be formed if no one organization controls it. This organization can act under or above the laws established in that country. This organization will also regulate the system of the utilization of resources and community governance in a country.
However, the formation of an organization must be based on a clear goal or ideology. If the purpose of this organization does not exist, the regulations they make can conflict with each other and can create a legal vacuum in the state. For that Moku invited everyone who he felt was intellectual among monsters to discuss this.
Moku is not without a goal that he wants to make the ideology of the country he will create. However, he could not arrange the implementation of the ideology alone, that's why he gathered these five people. Of course, the ideology that Moku was referring to was orc supremacy.
To realize this ideology, Moku must change the mindset of the monsters through various fields.
The first field is education, Nezena as a preacher has managed to gather several goblins as maids who have obedience to The One more than others. Then they would start teaching the classes that the young monsters participated in. There Nezena and her maid will try to brainwash her students so that they become obedient and submissive to the law of The One.
The One religion which teaches to be strong, diligent in training, and likes to fight will make the young monsters worship the strength. This will also indirectly change their thinking and idolize the orcs, who are the strongest monster race.
The second field is the family, after successfully separating the children from their families, the next target is the women. In a country where natives are monsters, other residents who are not monsters are second-class citizens.
Nevare has been proven that mana species, especially humans, can turn into monsters after getting pregnant with an orc child. This is most likely the case with the monster race as well. Therefore Moku prepares Nevare to be the spearhead of this policy.
He wants Nevare to change the minds of women so that they also have aspirations to be strong. If this is successful then the number of women who want orcs as husbands will increase. As a result, the number of orcs will continue to increase until it may come to the point where there is only one race of monsters, the orcs.
Of course, this ideology should not be known to the other monsters, not even the orcs. Moku didn't ask for understanding from the orcs and expected it. For that Moku invited Iathra as a supervisor, not to spy on humans or any other species but to spy on the monsters. Especially in this case is Nerphyl where she can receive news from all sylphs.
As Moku said at the beginning, their number will increase, as the number of monsters increases, the work they have to do will also increase. For that, there must be a regeneration system that can sort out anyone who can know this secret. This is where Ez's real job is, someone who Moku admits can read facial expressions and circumstances beyond himself who uses his inner eye.
There is still one last element in the formation of a state, namely the ability to maintain relations with other countries or the ability to diplomacy with other countries. However, for monsters, there is only one way of diplomacy, namely war.
They kept talking late into the night and beyond. By the time the sun rose the main draft of the state constitution had been made. Only the execution will be matched according to the circumstances.