Lord Of Puppets

Chapter 73 – Inner conflict – Part 3.


[Current location: Royal castle]

"You were attacked!?" – asked worried king as he rushed to infirmary where the bear general was staying at.

"Yea…..Fuck me." – said general Oranox as he was getting treated by the healer and nurse.

"They were waiting for me... And they prepared some nasty poison for me."

"Honestly, if it wasn't for the enchantments and arts, I would probably stopped moving ages ago."

"You should had ran if I'm honest." – said the nurse who was treating the bear beastman man wounds.

"You have unimaginable amount of poison in your body AND it is everywhere."

"And I mean it."

"These wounds alone are nasty, but the poison is the biggest problem…."

"Honestly, how did you not even passed out from all of this is beyond me."

"Meh." – replied bear.

"I've been hunting countless criminals and monsters throughout the years."

"This isn't first time I've got deep wounds like this or where I was left filled to the brim with poison."

"So, knocking me out with the pain alone isn't enough really."

"Anyway, about noble faction."

"I would never expect them to pull out assassination attempt as their next try at destroying us."

"Did they went mad?"

"Honestly, this feels- "

"Rushed?" – said the king, finishing Oranox's sentence.

"Yea! Rushed!" – said general Oranox.

"In past year they had been gaining more and more power as well as support from public."

"And in the recent months, they were gaining power at alarming rate."

"And yet.... And yet, they freaking trying their luck with assassination!?"

"AND NOW OF ALL THE TIMES AS WELL!?"

"True…. This is beyond abnormal." – said king Alex.

"Pretty much everybody knows about relationship between royal and noble faction... And if the news of the attempted assassination were to go public, then situation could end up completely wrecking up the façade that the noble faction had been building."

"Not only that, we have a head AND one of most wanted criminals in our custody."

"Which only makes the statement about assassination much more believable."

"This is extremely big slip up that will destroy the entire noble faction momentum."

"And yet they still went with this plan?"

"Even if they did succeed in assassinating you, this would only make things…. Self-destructive for them."

"Just what is he thinking?"

[Meanwhile]

"YOU DID WHAT?!" – shouted duke Ash.

"P-please sir! Hear me out!" – said the panicking beastman nobleman.

"I FUCKING HEARD YOU OUT ALREADY!" – shouted completely pissed off duke Ash as he approached panicking noble.

"You not only ordered assassination of that fucker Oranox, but you used MY name in order to have a guarantee chance at hiring two of most wanted criminals our kingdom is hunting?!"

"WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING!?"

"B-but if they succeed in their operations, then we will- "

"What fucking exactly?" – said duke Ash, interrupting the nobleman.

"No matter if it succeeded or not, you had straight up betrayed us."

"You two. Take him away and lock him up."

"I can't have pull out some other shit next."

"Yes sir." – said two beastman knights as he approached the nobleman.

"!?"

"D-duke A-Ash!? Please! Stop! What is going on?!" – the nobleman trashed around as he was forcefully taken away by the two knights, while he continues begging and screaming for forgiveness.

"…"

"I don't get it." – said the beast-human nobleman.

"Wouldn't assassinating duke Oranox improve our situation? Or just attempt would at least put some pressure on royal factions?"

"No." – replied duke Ash.

"If anything, this is worst possible thing that could had happened!"

"If assassination would weaken them even a bit, I would had done it ages ago, but there is god damned good reason why I didn't do it!"

"They were fucking peaceful!"

"The royal faction was all about keeping kingdom secured and peaceful."

"Their image and actions proven it to the people."

"And that became their shield."

"If we were to raise our hands on that kind of people, what kind of reactions people would have!?"

"We would lose both trust and support of the common folk!"

"That is why we played it politically."

"That is why we wanted to make people think that we are dealing with terrorist that were sent from other kingdoms!"

"By doing so, we would easily take over the kingdom AND have no problems afterwords."

"But now!?"

"NOW THAT IDIOT WENT AND DID THAT BULLSHIT!"

(Fuck.)

(I knew a lot of bastards joining our faction from the noble sides are complete morans, who are only thinking about easy money and power.)

(But to think one of them would do "THAT" behind my back while also using my name!?)

(He wanted to "assassinate" the general Oranox in order to deal "devastating hit" to the royal faction, WITHOUT EVEN CONSIDERING THE REAL FUCKING CONSEQUENCES!)

(I've fucking repeated that over and over again to them, no stupid shit like that!)

(And yet they did THAT when we were starting to winning!?)

(At the rate things were going, our faction would take over the kingdom!)

(But now?!)

(Now things will change for the worst for us!)

"…"

(And the reason why the fuck he did it was simple….. He got fucking overconfident.)

(He just got FUCKING overconfident and thought that all we have to do is to just finish it!?)

(A single FUCKING idiot did all of this!?)

(I knew sooner or later one of those idiotic nobles would do something stupid, but I didn't got rid of them since I needed their support.)

(But now they are starting to act out of the control?!)

"To add even more problems, we will be the main suspect."

"If the terrorist were to really attack, then they wouldn't aim for some guy that wishes to keep military power 'tamed'."

"It would just wouldn't make any sense."

"And if it wouldn't be terrorist, then the next most likely candidate would be us."

"Which put us in annoying position."

"Why?"

"Because of a simple idiot mistake, the royal faction can do an official investigation on us."

"Even worse, if that bear bastards survives, we won't be able to stop them one bit….. And if he were to capture at least one person….. Shit."

"They may use that investigation as excuse to destroy us in the eyes of the public."

"…"

"Should we dispose of him?" – asked beast-human noble.

"No. Not yet." – replied duke Ash.

"If he were to 'disappear' now, it would only cause us problems."

"Just 'look him up', got it? I don't want him yelling stuff out or having people find out that he was behind the assassination attempt."

(But what do we do now?!)

(Right now we are the main suspects and no matter how we look at this.)

(And if they launch their investigation, they could possible "lie" in order to "expose us" about the past attacks on the dungeon and such.)

(No!)

(There maybe some other stupid idiot trying to pull something!)

(I need to investigate these idiotic nobles!)

(But there is no time!)

(If they are really doing something and investigators get to them, they will just get more dirt on us!)

(What do we do?! What do we fucking do!?)

"…"

"…"

"Tch."

"Fuck it."

"Give order to those guys."

"Destroy the golem dungeon."

"?!"

"Wait, what!? Where the hell did that came from?!" – asked confused and alarmed beast-human noble.

"Because we need diversion! That's where this is coming from!" – said pissed off duke Ash.

"If we don't divert attention from us, we are fucked."

"We can't be the first suspect on the list, no matter what!"

"I know this sounds like a total desperate move, but we don't have time!"

"We need to create chaos as soon as possible or we are fucked!"

"We need for the people think that it was a 'terrorist' attack!"

"That somebody from 'outside' did it!"

"Get it!?"

"Relay my orders now!"

"Y-yes sir!" – replied panicking noble as he quickly ran out of the room.

"…"

(DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT! DAMMIT!) – thought pissed off duke Ash he took a decorative sword off a wall and started smashing up things with in a fit of rage.

(We fucking need that dungeon!)

(Weapons, metals and mana crystals!?)

(WE ALL NEED THOSE STUFF FOR THE WAR!)

(But there is no fucking other way around it!)

(Just simple attacks and assassinations won't do anymore!)

(We need to have a large impact in order to not have people look at us with weird look!)

(And the only fucking thing that can have that kind of impact would be the destruction of the golem dungeon.)

(It now known by the nobles that the dungeons has 100% of becoming a national dungeon. I've exposed the royal faction about the dungeon and they had no choice but to reveal everything publicly.)

(But it could also be a problem, since "somebody" may go and try to destroy the said dungeon.)

(We will use this chance and turn it into a story, spinning around the truth and focus of the people in order to be in a safe zone.)

(But god fucking dammit.)

(We really fucking needed that dungeon!)

"…"

*Sigh*

"No matter." – said the nobleman as he finished his rampage.

(It is better to lose that dungeon then have a chance at losing everything.)

(Yea…. This is for the best.)

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