Lord Of Puppets

"...I’ve told you, don’t call me that." – said the Justice Of Warmur as he glared at the woman whose whole body was covered in a cloak.

"I maybe have a blood of that sorry excuse of a king in my veins, but I don’t acknowledge that thing as my father."

"Well, unfortunately for you, if you wish to save the Warmur kingdom, you will need to use that bastard blood of yours while claiming the throne." – said the witch as she and the young man were the only present it the hidden prison.

"So, use it as a weapon."

"I’ve shown you first hand, that this entire nation will head to the ruins."

"..."

"Yes... You did." – said the young man.

"Well then, it is good that you still understand it." - said the witch.

"I will begin the next preparations, but please be wary."

"Now that your name is starting to be heard, it won’t be long before the nobles start moving."

"I made you strong, but that doesn’t change the meaning of this quest."

"You need to be the hero here."

"In order to save the Warmur kingdom." – said the witch as she disappeared in the darkness and her presence was gone.

"..."

(Witch.) – thought Justice Of Warmur.

(She appeared out of nowhere when a bunch of bastards appeared and tried killing me.)

(I didn’t knew what was happening back then and I was almost killed without finding out why.)

(But then she appeared before me and saved me.)

(She explained to me that these people were send by the noble faction... But I didn’t get it why.)

(Then she freaking revealed to me that I had twin brother and mother who abandoned me in order to save me... Resulting in only her and my brother getting killed.)

(Why she did that to protect me? Why the noble faction is after me?)

(Well, it fucking turns out that I’m bastard son of a king.)

(And a noble faction wanted me freaking dead!)

(She then saw me the truth of our kingdom.)

(True, the nobles are rotten... But THAT?!) – thought the young man as he started at one of the prison cells, where the nobleman was in secret kidnapping and torturing young woman for his own enjoyment.

(And it is not just one or two!) – thought the pissed off young man as gritted his teeth.

(The corruption has completely taken over the entire kingdom!? And the royal family is nothing more than willing puppets of the noble faction?!)

(I saw it... I saw it, that and that and many fucking more!)

(The hell is wrong with this kingdom!?)

(The witch said that the kingdom is at the brink of destruction because of the corruption... And she isn’t lying.)

(If the things are going to keep at this rate... Then it is matter of time before this whole nation will burn!)

(And alongside them, the people!)

"..."

"I won’t allow it." – said pissed off Justice Of Warmur as he was dead set on exterminate both the royal faction as well as noble faction in order to secure the future for the Warmur kingdom.

"..."

(Welp. He will do the job.) – thought the witch who was right outside of mansion, hiding in shadows.

Who was the witch exactly?

It was Ariava who was hiding her identity.

(I thought that maybe I would have to brainwash the guy and make him into my willing puppet... But by the looks of things, this guy wants justice.)

(He knew that he was nobody and everything, that there was no way for him to even fight back... But the moment I lend him my power, everything changed.)

(True. I did maybe used brainwashing here and there, to piss him off or to have him people join his side.)

(But overall? He is playing a great role of a puppet.)

(Not only that, the Warmur kingdom is straight up unable to go to the war with the empire.)

(So things are going great.)

(Still, I got to say, this kingdom is beyond messed up.)

(I thought this duke Karol Dun was a smart guy... But honestly speaking?)

(He is pathetic.)

(Even without empire messing up his plans, the kingdom of Warmur would straight up end up getting destroyed.)

(All because of the noble and royal factions’ incompetence.)

(Honestly speaking, I really don’t want to get myself involve like them at this scale... But let’s be honest here.)

(They are nothing more than bombs.)

"..."

"And well... There is another way we can defuse the situation."

[Meanwhile: Kingdom of Miorio]

[Capital city – Royal castle – Throne room.]

"Are you sure about this?" – asked the elderly man with grey hair and brown as well as a lizard-like scales covering some parts of his body alongside a long grayish lizard tail.

[King Of The Miorio Kingdom]

[Grun Du’rudi The Eleventh]

[Race: Chhipakalee – Male]

"Yes, your majesty." – said the human nobleman as he was on his knee in front of the king.

"The number of the sabotages that we had been experiencing had straight up stopped recently completely."

"The effects are still there, with a large number of the citizens being hostile towards the nobles and royals... However, there are no additional large-scale sabotages."

"..."

"Does anybody have anything to say?" – asked the elderly king.

"..."

"Margrave Ku’ron." – said the elderly king as he noticed a c chhipakalee nobleman raising his hand.

"Your majesty. I think there is possibility that these series of sabotages and accident that had been plaguing our nation were indeed caused by somebody." – said margrave Ku’ron.

"Our first subject was the empire... However, there was a possibility that it may indeed had been Warmur kingdom."

"...And why do you say that?" – asked the elderly king.

"Well... According to what we know, there was an attack of involving of the wyvern horde on the empire." – said the Margrave Ku’ron.

"It is suspected that the Warmur kingdom was behind the terrorist attack and that it could end up causing a war between two nations."

"However, nothing happened."

"Warmur kingdom didn’t declared war on the empire."

"Instead, out of nowhere, a rebellion within Warmur kingdom had started."

"It is unconfirmed if that is doing empire or not... However, the exact moment it had started, the number of sabotages we had been experiencing had been drastically decreased."

"It is a theory of mine... But I think that Warmur kingdom was the ones sabotaging us."

"There maybe a chance that they wanted us to think it was empire’s doing... But after the rebellion occurred in their own nation, they were forced to relocate their forces."

"..."

"So you are saying that the ones that were attacking us all this time in the shadows were the Warmur kingdom?" – asked the elderly king.

"Y-yes sir... That is what I suspect." – said the bit nervous nobleman as the nobles that were gathered in the throne room began discussing the theory proposed by the man.

"..."

"Father!" – said one of the gray scaled chhipakalee with brown hair as he stepped forward.

[First Prince Of The Miorio Kingdom

[Jkor Du’rudi]

"The theory proposed by the Margrave Ku’ron may indeed be correct." – said the first prince.

"The Warmur kingdom may indeed aimed to weaken us while also having us be hostile with empire."

"And I-"

"Objection!" – shouted another grey scaled chhipakalee with grey hair as he stepped forward.

[Second Prince Of The Miorio Kingdom]

[Karan Du’rudi]

"What if it is other way around? What if the reason why we had stopped having these sabotages was because of the fact that empire changed their focus? No longer splitting their forces between our two nations and instead aiming only on Warmur kingdom?" – said the second prince as a good number of nobles somewhat shifted their view on the situation, which ended up annoying the first prince.

"..."

*Sigh*

"You both are idiots." – said third grey scaled and haired chhipakalee as she stepped forward.

[First Princess Of The Miorio Kingdom]

[Karin Du’rudi]

"Both theories that you said sound solid." – said the first princess.

"That I will say."

"However, there is a massive problem."

"We don’t have any confirmation that the rebels that are running amok in the Warmur kingdom are from either the empire or from the Warmur kingdom itself."

"There maybe chance that they even came from the kingdom of Wald kingdom."

"Wald? These cowardly bastards couldn’t possible be-"

"Couldn’t be what? The ones to raise up arms?" – asked the princess as the second prince tried to raise his objection.

"True, but apparently after the new king took over, the rules there became much harsher."

"Many says is it because of the bandit king and his people, but who knows?"

"Maybe that peaceful nation has changed?"

"That is why I propose a simple course of action."

"Investigation of the Warmur kingdom."

"And the investigation of the newly formed rebel faction."

"By investigation the rebels and finding out their origin, we can possibility determine who is who and what danger we are truly facing."

"Until we are done investigating them, we should not take any major action." – said the princess as the room was once again filled questions and discussions that was proposed by the first princess, resulting a large amount of people supporting the first princess proposition.

"..."

The elderly king raised his hand, silencing the nobles.

"My daughter Karin is correct." – said the elderly king.

"As of right now, we don’t know what we are truly dealing with."

"And that lack of information could endanger us all."

"Taking action now will be too foolish."

"And so, our first order of business is to find out who exactly these our enemies is and don’t get played by them."

"This is my order."

"Find out the truth behind the Warmur kingdom and those rebels."