Lord Of Puppets

<<Demons from hell.>>

<<This was the first time ever I had an encounter with them....>>

<<From what I know, the beings from other realms cannot freely intervene with this realm.>>

<<They are restricted.>>

<<They cannot freely travel between the realms.>>

<<But there are ways for them to enter this core realm.>>

<<This process mainly involves paying a cost.>>

<<By paying a necessary cost the beings such as demons can cross over to this realm.>>

<<However, there also different forms of manifestation.>>

<<For example, demon can be manifested full with their body, but another matter is if they are in one piece or not.>>

<<The demon could be summon at full power, or the summoning may not had been perfect, resulting in the demon having its power cut to specific point, for example the demon could end up with only about 25% of its original power.>>

<<There also apparently are things like vessels and what not... It is really complicated.>>

<<Anyway, the reason why people would involve themselves with these kind of other realmly would be many things.>>

<<Power.>>

<<Knowledge.>>

<<And pretty much all sorts of different stuff.>>\

<<Depending on what you summon, you may end up needing to forge a contract.>>

<<These contracts can range... From many things.>>

<<From you doing to some kind of simple thing.>>

<<To even possible selling your free will.>>

<<However according to Porai and Ariava, people do that, selling their own free will, their very souls for the power.>>

<<They don’t care if they would become slaves in the process, as long as they have the power, it is all that matters to them.>>

<<Honestly, Ariava told me that I should keep myself as much as possible from the other realmly beings in order to make things far less annoying.>>

<<Honestly... I don’t know what she is talking about, but I also do know what she is talking about.>>

<<Is it somewhat related to the fact that people want to "own" me?>>

<<If that is the case... No. I think it is pointless to think too deeply about it.>>

<<I will have to ask Ariava what exactly she meant by it later.>>

<<Still... Hell demons.>>

<<These invaders were already strong like hell, but they also had demons on top of that?>>

<<That feels kind of... Unfair.>>

<<I mean, I did managed to have my forces kill them and what not, but still, one of those demons just ripped off one of the arms of my boss monsters and used it to smack my boss.>>

<<And that guy with the axe... He was far more dangerous, if I say so myself.>>

<<I mean, holy shit. I checked the destroyed remains of the boss monster I saw him fighting at one point... And the damage... I’m scared.>>

<<Like I’m properly scared.>>

<<If what Pora said... If what she said about that man being truly a B-rank adventurer in term of strength... Then I’m freaking terrified.>>

<<How in the bloody hell he bend and ripped apart the metal like THIS!?>>

<<This is truly terrifying.>>

<<I thought...I thought maybe my monsters could up the fight against B-rank adventurer... But this?!>>

<<The gab is far too large.>>

<<I’m not ready for these kind of people.>>

<<No matter what, I cannot fight B-rank adventurers! NOT YET!>>

<<If just one B-rank adventurer has that kind of POWER... Then I just dare to image what the A-ranks are like.>>

<<...>>

<<Honestly, I wish to focus on improving my golems.>>

<<I wish that I could start finally producing the new generation of the golems, the ones that uses the improved cores and are made out of black iron.>>

<<...>>

<<I will do that... If anything, some of the new generation golems had already been manifested and will soon be born.>>

<<However, there is a problem.>>

<<The empire.>>

<<What will they do?>>

[Several days later - Current location: Empiric Castle]

"We had found out the culprits." – said the vampire duke Korwan Von Kurwiad.

"And we had confirmed who it was."

"Without any doubt, it was the Warmur kingdom behind the attack."

"Wait, it was really them?" – asked surprised vampire nobleman.

"Yeah, it wasn’t a fake out or anything." – replied Korwan.

"It was truly Warmur kingdom’s doing."

"We also found out who was the attackers that raided the Mevon territory."

"There was a special military unit that works directly for the duke of Warmur kingdom, Karol Dun."

"Him... Isn’t he the guy that really controls the Warmur kingdom?" – asked duke Arthur.

"Yes." – replied Korwan.

"Only a handful of people knows about the existence of the Brutes."

"They are... ’Cleaners’."

"They do the dirty business behind the scenes and what not."

"Based on the information we have, we suspect that the Brutes were sent to infiltrate the empire and destroyed the dungeon."

"We still lack a lot of information about them as well as the wyverns."

"However, we confirmed something."

"That were some activities from the Warmur kingdom around the wyverns."

"Again, we still don’t have full picture... But based on what we had obtained, everything so far points to the Warmur kingdom being the culprits."

"Fucking knew it!" – said the pissed off brown bearded dwarf named duke Gundunu as he slammed his fist on the table.

"Don’t jump to your gun just yet." – said the black-haired vampire nobleman.

"Why not!? They are the fucking bastards that dared to stab us and spin in our face!" – shouted the pissed off brown bearded dwarf nobleman.

"The fucking reason why we even formed this empire was to stop the madness that would get us all killed like idiots!"

"But these fuckers don’t care!"

"WE WANTED TO SHOW THEM MERCY! SO, THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH!"

"But those parasites?! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" – shouted the dwarven nobleman as many of the gathered nobles agreed with dwarf.

Obviously, a good number of nobles opposed the dwarven nobleman... But unfortunately for them, the voices of the people who supported the dwarf were far too many.

"..."

"Honestly speaking, I really think we should avoid doing wars as much as possible." – said vampire duke Korwan.

"You are still saying this Korwan!?" – asked pissed off duke Gundunu.

"Yes I’m!" – shouted pissed off duke Korwan on top of his lungs, instantly silencing the entire room with his voice.

"..."

"However... You are right at the same time." – said Korwan.

"No matter if we pick up the weapon now or not, the war will soon happened."

"At best we could try delaying it... But not stopping it."

"The Warmur kingdom is controlled by the noble faction that is corrupted to the core."

"And these bastards would rather slaughter thousands than step down from the power."

(But the problem is that Ariava didn’t finished her sabotaging.) – thought Korwan.

(True, she already caused a noticeable amount of damage to that kingdoms, resulting in the people somewhat losing trust in the royal and nobles.)

(There is also Miorio kingdom, which is neighboring both of us.)

(They took a massive hit because of Ariava.)

(Because of her sabotage, these two kingdoms cannot really organize easily their troops.)

(But if we were to pick up the weapons now, it could cause people of these two kingdoms to panic and allow the two kingdoms to much more easier rally up troops.)

(However, I really don’t want to do this.)

(Ariava has a plan that will cause the entre Warmur kingdom to get destroyed.)

(The rebellion.)

(She will set the corruption on fire, causing it to go berserk and snap people into the anger, rebelling against both the royalty and the nobility.)

(The same thing would had happened against the Miorio kingdom!)

(We would had fucking won 2 wars without even going to the war!)

(BUT WE NEED FUCKING TIME!)

(Is there really no way we can stop this?!)

(Or maybe delay it for few years!?)

(At least destroy one of those fucking annoying ass nations!)

"..."

"Korwan." – the emperor spoke up, snapping the vampire out of his train of thoughts.

"..." – the vampire looked towards the emperor who shook his head.

"..."

"Tch!"

(Fuck.) – thought the vampire.

"...Your majesty." – said the dwarf with glasses.

"Does that mean we are really preparing for the war?"

"No." – said the emperor.

"Not yet at least."

"We cannot out right prepare for the war, we need to be smart about it and don’t get played again."

"Do you understand me?"

"We need to be smart about it."

"...But as for the war...."

"We may truly end up in scenario where it will be the only choice." – said the emperor as the meeting lasted for few more hours, before then officially ending as each of the nobles went their separate ways.

This also included the leader of the vampires, duke Korwan, who instantly went to his private hidden base that was located in the capital city.

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkk......" – as the vampire duke gotten home, he instantly locked himself in his office while holding a bottle of wine.

"So, I guess the meeting didn’t well?" – said the voice from the staff like object, which was the communication device that belonged and was currently being used by Ariava to communicate with vampire duke.

"Unfortunately, yes." – replied the vampire as he opened up the bottle of wine.

"There was no way to hide the incident from the empire at all, especially from those from the top."

"One thing would be if they attacked the dungeon after the contract was just made, but another freaking is if they attacked as the dungeon started being useful."

"They fucking picked the worst possible timing and the method they used were beyond fucked up."

"...Tell me honestly, how high are chances that the Warmur kingdom will declare war on the empire?" – asked the vampire as he drank directly from the bottle.

"Honest answer?" – asked Ariava.

"Yeah... Just fucking hit me." – replied the vampire.

"..."

"They will declare it no matter what." – said Ariava.

"It doesn’t matter if empire declare the war on them or not, the Warmur kingdom is in way too deep of a mess right now."

"They are apparently planning on stopping any and all rumors coming in from the empire in order for the noble faction and royal faction to not get hit."

"There will be no clear evidence obviously... But after what happened, the rumors will be in power."

"And these bastards will go to the war in order to protect their own freaking hides." – said annoyed vampire.

"Heh..."

"THESE FUCKING RETARDS!" – shouted the vampire as he threw his bottle of wine at the wall, shattering it and spilling its content everywhere.

"Fuck! These greedy idiots will ruin everything!"

"Honestly, I’m surprising how those corrupted nobles even took over their nation!?"

"Probably all thanks to that completely incompetent royal family... But still... Fuck."

"..."

"..."

"Well... There is really no way we can prevent the war." – said Ariava.

"However... I have a stupid plan, which could... Well? It could do something."

"..."

"Honestly speaking, I’m out of ideas, so just say what you have." – said the vampire as he took out another wine bottle and opened it.

"Welp." – said Ariava.

"How about I just exterminate that entire noble council?"

"..."

"Wut?" – said the vampire.