Lord Of Puppets

"….Ha….Hahahaha…."

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

"THAUMA!"

"THAUMA! YOU LITLE FUCKING BASTARD!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"?!"

{"Did I done something wrong?"} – written down the confused golem.

"No! I'm laughing at myself for not thinking about it!"

"You beautiful bastard!"

(Ah… I really LIKE HIM!) – thought extremely excited Porai.

(I'VE MADE COUTLESS INVETIONS! COUTLESS GOLEMS! COUTLESS WEAPONS! MANY OF THE THINGS I'VE MADE COULD BE REVOLOTUNIARY!)

(And yet! AND FUCKING YET! THIS GUY GOT ME LIKE WHAT? Third? Fourth? Maybe even fifth time?)

(This s really freaking funny!)

(I mean, his idea is somewhat simple on paper, but he already figures out something that could work!?)

(DAMM!)

"…"

(Yes… This is something what I needed.)

(A bastard like him who is like me but at the same time isn't like me!)

"…"

"Still… A skeleton golem body and the flesh of elemental?" – said interested Porai.

"I like this idea a lot."

"When you somewhat make something that works a bit, please tell me, since I would like the results."

{"Will do. Thanks for help Porai."}

"No problem, take care." – said Porai before ending the call.

"…"

"Huh… A combination of the golem craft and elemental creation?" – said Porai as she spined around in her chair.

"Truly a nice idea."

"…"

"…"

(Forget Skills… If he could truly combine it with elementals research… How about applying it to the living being? Like for example granting a human a direct power of elemental?)

(But how would that work?)

(Forget Skills need to put into the object to work.) – thought Porai as she reached for the triangle shaped device.

"…"

"Maybe some kind of armor?"

"Hm… It… It could work…."

"If Thauma success in that research of his, then I could maybe use the knowledge he had obtained, to start off my own research in different direction… And make that freaking thing!"

"Huh… Oh shit."

"It could be possible?"

"…"

(Yeah… IF what he said could be truly possible and archived, I CAN MAKE THAT THING!)

(This bastard already gave me a nice idea, which was archived thanks to him just saying his thoughts.) – thought Porai as she was writing down her own idea in the notebook.

"…"

"Still… That 'skeleton' theory of his… Can it be used in different ways?"

(I thought of elemental x armor… But what about other way around with the armor x golem?)

(How would that work?)

"…"

"!"

(Wait… Thauma magic.)

(That [Earthy Forget Gautlet].)

(I've also once visited the dwarven kingdom of Migduan.)

(I've remembered seeing them using advance machinery to create all sorts of stuff.)

(This also included a prosthetics that allowed them to….)

"…"

"Ha…."

"Wait, if I combine all 3 together… Oh… This would be NASTY!"

(Thanks Thauma!)

(Now I have 2 interesting ideas of my own that I can't wait to try out!)

<<The "Skeleton" idea… Honestly it got me extremely interested.>> - {Thauma is narrating.}

<<If I could truly do THAT, then I could create the combination of the elemental and golem?>>

<<Still… It is not that I'm not thrilled enough.>>

<<But the problem is that I'm already busy with all sort of work I'm doing.>>

<<Elemental training and what not.>>

<<…Then again… I think I need some way to get powerful soon.>>

<<It will truly take me sometime until I finish these other projects.>>

<<But, from what Porai said, the elemental creation isn't the same as creating a golem.>>

<<I need to learn from the scratch how elemental creation works.>>

<<Honestly, I do want to contact Ariava once again, but she said recently that she will be too busy to communicate right now, since the war is reaching apparently the climax.>>

<<So I've just continued training my magic for now.>>

<<But I've also contacted the messengers of the empire and asked them to keep me in touch with the flow of information regarding these terrorists, since I would like to be ready THIS TIME if I were to get attacked.>>

<<They agreed… And… Few days later, another attack happened.>>

<<A village was massacred by the vampires.>>

<<The attack happened nowhere near me… But then another few days later and yet another village was attacked by the vampires.>>

<<I've asked Porai for the details, since she had a higher position and could had obtained much more confidential information.>>

<<According to her, the vampires apparently out of nowhere or straight up had some random people who visited the village transform into the vampires.>>

<<The villages were massacred… Leaving only few lucky survivors.>>

<<However, Porai said that there was no luck involved and that the hostiles vampires did it on purpose.>>

<<They are trying to cause a distrust amongst the citizens, making them not trust each other, while also making vampire race's public image plumed down, causing the citizens to get become somewhat hostile to them.>>

<<…>>

<<This is different.>>

<<Even I could tell.>>

<<I've heard about the past incident that revolved around these false terrorists.>>

<<I wanted to know how they FIGHT. I wanted to know how exactly do they wanted to wage a war?>>

<<From what I was told, their aim was pure destruction.>>

<<They wanted to damage the empire as much as possible, before Warmur kingdom would then attack the damaged empire.>>

<<However, this time the enemy's goal is different.>>

<<They do cause destruction, yes.>>

<<But their main goal is to make people not trust each other… And if they can't trust each other, they cannot work with each other or it may even straight up become hostile with each other….>>

<<They are planning to turn empire against itself.>>

<<I don't really have that kind of problem myself, since my golems are directly controlled by me… But still… I say their strategy is effective?>>

<<If I remember correctly, when I first met Ariava, she used her mind control to take control of the two highest ranking members of the extermination party that defeated me.>>

<<The two strongest members started killing their own people, confusing the adventurers who were straight up stunned out of confusion.>>

<<…This is truly problematic.>>

<<Not only that, Porai said that they could have the craftsman of the same level like her on their side?>>

<<This isn't good.>>

<<Porai isn't just strong because of her magic.>>

<<Her craftsmanship, alchemy, pretty much anything she can make is powerful.>>

<<I've seen some of the better weapons and golems that she made herself.>>

<<And the difference between us was clear.>>

<<She can create way better golems than me, even when we both are using same materials.>>

<<The same goes for weapons.>>

<<She is powerful in that area of craft.>>

<<While also being powerful mage.>>

<<Even if the enemy isn't exactly a powerful mage like hell, it doesn't mean they are truly weak if they have the same "power" in crafting.>>

<<And this is what worries me.>>

<<…>>

<<The enemy plans on sabotaging the empire, in order to possible make it weak enough for them to launch their attack and deal devasting blow.>>

<<…And there is freaking me.>>

<<If they really want to sabotage the empire, then I would obviously become a target… AGAIN!>>

<<Welp, shit.>>

<<Okay. Change of plans. Focus more on developing better golems, and spend less time on improving magic.>>

<<This is really option I have.>>

<<…Still… Few days had passed, and it became somewhat quiet?>>

<<I've asked Porai if the empire wasn't telling me, but no.>>

<<There was no real problem.>>

<<Which was confusing.>>

<<I mean, 1 city and 2 villages where most people were killed happened in single month.>>

<<…I don't get it… But at the same time, I don't like this.>>

<<There is no way the enemy stopped out of nowhere.>>

<<… Is by any chance this is related to the civil war in the Warmur kingdom? Because from what I've heard recently, it seems that the war is about to end, with the demon army being destroyed and the nobles getting hunted down.>>

<<… No, it doesn't really make sense though.>>

<<I mean, the war was about to end anyway, so why they would their move now?>>

<<If anything, they should had made their move when the civil war in the Warmur kingdom had officially started.>>

<<Were they not finished with their preparations or something?>>

<<But if that is the case, then this is even more dumb.>>

<<I've heard from Poris that the vampires were about to become the REAL CITIZENS OF THE EMPIRE.>>

<<And around the time the false rumors started spreading around.>>

<<…Did they moved out of desperation or something when they realized that their false rumors were getting dealt with?>>

<<But once again, the timing of their attack doesn't make sense in my head!>>

<<Do they just want to give vampires bad image as soon as possible? But when I've asked Porai about this, she said that vampires already accumulated a lot of achievements… So… Slandering them before their name becomes public doesn't make even more sense.>>

<<What the hell do they want archive? Attention?>>

<<Porai said that these old traditionalist vampires are idiots that are self-destructive… Is it truly just that?>>

<<But what they didn't wasn't completely idiotic and they were not even caught yet.>>

<<So what is their….>>

<<…Wait.>>

<<Attention?>>

<<… Oh shit.>>

<<Is it by any chance that freaking the same thing that happens with wyverns?!>>

<<A distraction!?>>