Free The Rising Sun: Episode 3 by J Hawk

world would rejoice under a greater
golden age than the one we face now. I find that,” The man clucked
his tongue. “slightly hard to believe.”
     
    “Believe what you want.” Redgarn’s voice
turned very mildly rough. “There are facts that slip the capture of
less minded. And this is one of them. If you want to continue being
less minded, go on and wipe the soles of those Kings who’ve held
our brotherhood back for millennia!”
     
    “Kings who’ve held back our brotherhood, but
have managed to keep up peace and stability for millennia.” quipped
the challenger.
     
    Ion sensed fury loosening on Redgarn’s face
slowly. But when he spoke, he managed to hide his anger behind the
same smoothened etiquette that his words flowed with. “All I’m
saying, good friend, is that the world was meant to be as such. It
was meant to be the way I now declare it. The pyramid of power is
built with us on top. The power to rule is our right. But this
right is not for us, but for the sakes of the people we live
amidst. Because they need our light and our guidance.”
     
    “Well as an eye opener,” said the other man,
his challengeful tone just as smoothened as Redgarn’s. “to guide,
and to shower light upon our people, we serve them. Not rule them, and as a member of the Nyon, you must have
clearly studied the difference between them in depths. Because
ruling them implies that we are greater than them, and that is a
very sadly misplaced lie. We most certainly are not. We are equals
with the rest. And we will behave as such.”
     
    Redgarn stepped closer to the face of his
challenger. His voice was now washed of all smoothness, and now
came as a deadly hiss: “This is how deluded you have been made to
become. You chew and digest utter humbug that the Kings weave to
keep you under your control!”
     
    The escalating tempers now begun to loosen
control over the two of them: when the challenger replied, his
voice was teetering on the edge of an angry outburst. “We choose to be under their control, fool! The Nyon do not
answer to anyone but themselves … to their own conscience. And we
know what we do is but the highest nobility. The empire is the
highest nobility, and its Kings have proved their nobility to us.
If they had not, we would not serve them. We serve goodness,
justice. And your words show us that you’re nothing but a deluded,
twisted little fiend. You consider your mystic powers as some sort
of right to rule? Some kind of weapon with which you can subjugate
the world to your will?”
     
    “We subjugate people to our will because we
were meant to!” growled Redgarn, the fury rising dangerously in his
voice. “Because we were marked by creation as greater minds, and we
fail to accept and embrace the fact that the world is less in
evolution than we are! Well, enough of equality. It’s time to show
the world that we’re not equals any more than ants are equals with
lions. Lions rule the jungle!”
     
    “This is not a jungle,” said the other man.
“This is an empire. An establishment of men. Not savages .”
     
    Redgarn took a step forward, his eyes boring
lethally into the other man’s. The first, faint traces of madness
were now seeping into his youthly features, distorting them …
turning them almost bestial. For the first time, Ion could identify
a creature that had enslaved the world and ravaged it as he looked
at the man standing in the centre, glaring at the man opposite to
him.
     
    “If you don’t mind me pointing out,” came
the voice of one of the other men, as he stepped out of the circle
and paused to turn to the others. “We don’t have the luxury of time
to spend all day sitting here in this debate. We have a schedule to
keep to.”
     
    That seemed to knock the rest of the
youngsters into reality as well. Together, the circle disbanded and
the entire lot of young students filed out of the room through the
door across it. As the crowd drained, two men were left standing in
the