[7 Days later: Maw city – Lord's Mansion(Under repairs)]

"What is the meaning of this?!" – shouted the duke.

"What the hell do you mean all forces are to retreat and completely abandon the entire territory?!"

"…"

"What is going on here? We need a proper explanation, now." – said the tall wolf beastman.

"…Its…. The entire territory was just sold to the kingdom of Mowiorano." – said the nervous nobleman that came here as messenger.

"?!"

"Sold?! What the fuck do you mean sold!?" – shouted the general.

"I-I don't know! All I was told that the kingdom needed to repay the official dept between two kingdom and the elven kingdom demanded this territory as their first reward." – replied the nobleman.

"The deal was already sealed and the ownership of the territory was already transferred over."

"…"

"Shit…. It is just as we suspected." – said the general before then smashing parts of the wall with his fist.

"Yea…. The fucking elves know the truth about the dungeon…." – replied the duke.

(Oh god…. This can't be real.) – thought the duke as he held his head.

(We have poured lives of our men, resources and the fucking time…. Only to what?!)

(Leave completely empty handed?!)

(Does that idiot Ash realize what he has done?! Does he realize what kind of loses we had suffered?!)

"…"

(No…. He would…. In fact, he was the one most obsessed with taming the dungeon in the first place.)

(So why?!)

"…Did the elves forced him to take the deal?" – said the duke.

"That would be the only logical reason."

*Sigh*

"…This won't end well…. I mean, the adventurers, the knights and the soldiers." – said the tall beastman.

"They all will expect the payment."

"So…. What do we do?"

"?"

"What do you mean?" – asked the duke with worried yet confused expression.

"Well, the knights and soldiers, we will need to pay both of them…. But the adventurers were only promised payment if they succeed in their mission."

"We will have to give a competition payment to them, since we would be the ones canceling the job…. But then again…. They would have been expecting far better rewards, since… You know… The only reason why they came here was either extremely rich rewards or even noble status."

"I will be honest with you, if we retreat now, we will end up hurting the trust of our people."

"If anything, it could even end up with us losing some of our-"

"And you think we have a fucking choice now?!" – asked pissed off duke.

"I know that it all sound stupid! I know very well! We both fucking know!"

"EVERBODY FUCKING KNOWS!"

"But do you think we have a choice?!"

"Because of those fucking greedy elves we have no choice but to give up this territory, or just fucking go to the war with elves?"

"…"

"So…..Em…."

"You want me the one to tell them that, right?" – said the tall beastman before the nobleman could even ask question.

"I mean… You are the one in charge and everything." – said the duke.

"I'm only temporarily in charge of commanding the army!" – said the tall beastman.

"Yea…. And right now, you have late general authority for the time being." – replied the duke.

"So unfortunately, you have the one to call the shots."

"But – I – wait.... FUCK!" – shouted the beastman.

"…"

"Fuck you." – said the beastman as he gave up the resistance and then quickly left the mansion all together.

Few moments later, the soldiers and knights were ordered to gather up alongside all adventures in order to make an announcement.

And as expected, nobody was expecting what they were about to hear.

"Unfortunately…. The operation is officially channeled."

"?!"

"What? What the fuck is he saying?!" – said confused adventurer.

"…Because of the political situation with the elven kingdom of Mowiorano, the entire territory of the Mevon has been handed over completely to them in a form of compensation."

"Therefore…. Our current operation in this territory has not only been abolished, but they we all have been ordered to completely leave the territory immediately and-"

"WAIT! HOLD THE FUCK UP!" – shouted C rank adventurer Arthur as he suddenly spoke up.

"So, if I'm getting this correctly, you are saying that what? We are just meant to go back home?! Just like that?"

"….No…. You will be rewarded with money as a form of competition." – replied the tall beastman.

"But it won't be as good as completion reward, right? Fuck this!" – said pissed off adventurer.

"My fucking bro died to these golems and now you are telling us to piss off?! Screw you!"

"Shit. I knew the deal regarding the nobility sounded way too good. These bastards never wanted to pay us!"

Even before the temporarily appointed general could even finish his announcement, a commotion instantly erupted amongst the gathered adventurers, accusing the kingdom of Garmfon of scamming and deceiving them with false promises…. And they were the not only the ones who raised the complains.

The soldiers and knights who had been fighting the golems and all the chaos in this territory raised their complains loud and clear, asking the general "why they did anything?"

This sudden order of retreat has severely damaged the trust of both the soldiers and adventurers, just as the beastman and the duke had feared…. But neither of them were really in control as this order was directly made by the king himself.

In the end, the forces of the kingdom had no choice but to completely abandon the territory, while the adventurers themselves had left the kingdom all together, only gaining bit of money that was nowhere near enough to compensation everybody gathered as well as those who had fought the golems during the first battle.

This obviously ended up hurting the reputation of the Garmfon kingdom even further, resulting in the rumors and information spreading around about how the king and his loyalist don't really see adventurers as people, but as nothing more than expendable "dogs."

And that in turn would result in the run-away adventurers that had escaped Garmfon kingdom before to be even more hesitate about returning back to their own nations.

Which in turn would further weaken the order and strength of the Garmfon kingdom all together.

However, the elves? They didn't cared.

If anything, this is what they wanted.

[Current location: Mowiorano kingdom capital city – Throne room]

"…Your majesty…. With all due respect…. I need you to ask something." – said the elderly forest elf.

"Why did you do that?"

"We don't know if the information is really truthful or not…. Maybe that dungeon is not truly worth it…. And yet… You have already did it? Wouldn't they see it as act of betrayal?"

"Ha! Betrayal?! Who did it first?!" – asked the adult male blond-haired forest elf as he snacked on fruit.

[King of the Mowiorano kingdom – Woran Wo'wa'rwa]

"About the fact that their kingdom is destroyed and they tried to hide it from us? Or the fact that they tried to hide the danger that the said dungeon poses?"

"Honestly speaking…. I know that many of you wanted to join hands with Garmfon kingdom, since our own kingdom lacked military power…. But this is unfortunately the current situation we have."

"Our so called 'allies' can't be truly trusted."

"And they had showed us more than one reason to why."

"If anything, we can't be sure that this alliance would even last a decade."

"….Wait, your majesty…. You are not suggesting that we should go to the war?" – asked a worried young-looking elf noble.

"No…. I hope not…. But honestly? I don't trust Garmfon kingdom with all the power it could have once it start recovering." – replied the king.

"So, I'm doing the only smart thing that we can do."

"Weakening our allies and stealing their power."

"True, it will hurt our trust even more, but these bastards made already clear that we can't rely on them."

"So it is for the better if we steal some of their power in order to strength our own nation."

"Simple, isn't it?"

This was the reasoning behind elven kingdom action.

They stopped trusting the Garmfon kingdom and has decided that the best course of action would be to "steal" their ally's power in order to make sure that their allies wouldn't betray them or declare a war on them.

…

However…. This action just ended up making the political situation between two kingdoms just pathetic.

And just like that, the alliance that was made very recently started crumbling, calling each other the traitors and deceivers.

Simple put, the action that the elven king did not calmed down situation one bit and instead straight up poured more fuel into the fire.

And of course, because of how big of a mess the elves made, it was easy for the information to spread around, reaching many ears throughout the kingdom.

Including the forces of the rebel army.

"…"

"What the actual fuck is this?" – asked the ex-general of the Garmfon kingdom Oranox Bearmight, as he and several other knights loyal to the crown were currently hiding in a village located near the capital city.

"You are 100% fucking with me on this one."

"You are telling me…. That the elves just…. Back stabbed them just like that?"

"Well… According to our spies, yes?" - replied the knight.

"The Noble faction's soldiers just left and adventurers just straight up went back to their own countries?"

"…Huh…."

"…"

(What in the actual fuck?) – thought confused beastman ex-general.

(I mean…. This is just…. Plain stupid???)

(We were watching the elves besides these traitorous bastards and we know how strong the elves are…. And yet they do this???)

(I just...What?)

(We spread the information about all the chaos that were trying to keep quiet in order to make sure that the kingdom would turn on that bastard Ash, but also make sure that the alliance between him and the elves would end up taking a massive hit…. But then elves out of nowhere decided to do that kind of…. WHY?!)

(THAT IS JUST STRAIGHT UP DUMB!)

(I MEAN, I'VE MET THE ELVEN KING ONCE, BUT HE SEEMED LIKE A NORMAL GUY!)

(NOTHING BAD OR SPECIAL…. A NOBODY REALLY.)

(But now he does this?!)

(Even if he has some sort of plan, this course of action is straight up stupid!)

"…Did…. Did he just get cocky, realizing that they could…. Nope."

"Fuck it."

"I can't think of anything…. This is way too dumb for me." – said the beastman ex-general.

"…"

(Wait…. Doesn't that situation give us more advantages? I mean, the enemy focus will be now focuses on the elves and the public is already pissed off… With the bastard Ash agreeing to their demands like this as well, it would mean.)

"Huh…. You know, this sounds crazy and stupid right now…. But I think we can do it?"

"The rebellion?" – asked a knight.

"Yea…. I know it sound weird and everything, but think about it." – said Oranox.

"Everything is going in our favor."

"Like way too abnormally!"

"One by one, that shit bastard Ash is suffering from countless ways of accidents and troubles emerging, that not only is weakening him as a king, but his entire faction."

"And this is truly impossible." – said the deer beastman who walked up to the group.

[Dethroned King of Garmfon kingdom – Alex Garmvoar]

"Unless the heavens themselves are demanding us to reclaim the throne from that evil bastard."

"…Honestly…. I was not much of a religious person…. But if I'm honest? The series of the events that this bastard Ash is suffering from is way too unreal to be accurate." – replied the general.

"However? As we can see they are really getting their shit beaten out of."

"And if we add the fact that the elves has straight up just betrayed them on top of that-"

"-It would mean that Ash no longer has any means of protecting himself." – said the king, finishing the general sentence.

"…"

"…Tell me honestly, can we really do it now?"

"…I…. I don't know." – replied the general.

"The flow of information is way too bizarre and it is providing very weird information."

"We don't even know if the elven king really became that kind of dumbass….Then again we do have confirmation that the territory where the golem dungeon is located has been sold off to the elves, against Ash's will."

"The information sound stupid, but there are proves backing it up."

"Kingdom is definitely in disarray right now…."

"Honestly, Ash maybe at this point called unlucky bastard, but we don't know if he will really suffer from some random bullshit again in a future…. So, if you want to do a rebellion, it is now or never."

"….Then how long will preparations take?" – asked the king.

"Between 1 month up 2 months. It could even end up taking 3 months if Ash decides to issue some new annoying laws or temporarily regulation, which could in turn make our agents have harder time moving around." – replied the general.

"The kingdom is in messed up state, but the Noble faction will be desperate to be still in control, so they will do anything in their power to force the people to obey."

"Even if it means with force."

"…Then begin the preparation immediately." – said the king.

"It is time for us to reclaim our lost kingdom."

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