Chapter 417 - 418 - Rise of Garog kingdom – Part 2.
Even though the Garog kingdom is an brand new kingdom that just popped up, we had been managing our kingdom pretty well, even though we were in the middle the war.
The territory outside the Bloody Mountains have been made into our territory and had been fortified, creating an defense line that the empire cannot break.
Not only that, but with each passing day, our forces grew in number and strength.
Beside our own forces… We had also started spreading little chaos among the people working for the third prince faction.
From what we had gathered, the monster humans are dangerous, but they cannot do stuff properly if there is nobody leading them, meaning that the army need to consist of normal soldiers or some high ranking and powerful figures.
So, little vampire here, some nightmares there, some succubus and other seducing monster here as well and let's call some ghost monsters.
And look at this, the third prince forces are trembling like cowards.
The third prince, its obvious that this bastard took on scumbags, considering that these people does not hold any respect for the human life and they are fine with the fucked up things the third prince is doing.
However, this is also an advantage for us, since those people are definitely either paid or were promised great rewards like status and stuff, meaning that they are not truly loyal.
So, with little scare and manipulation, the third prince forces are running away in fear.
Obviously, there are still a lot left, but they are dealing with multiple type of exhaustions right now, making in turn the control over monsters bit more unstable.
Still, we cannot look down on them yet. Even though we are harassing them with ease and torturing them, the third prince army is still the strongest out of all the factions and even if we took down the people commanding the monsters, the monsters won't just go away and would instead go berserk, so in the end we would have to deal with them.
As for the other factions? They had been gathering their forces and had stopped fighting with each other according to our spies.
By the look of things, they are aiming at us AND the third prince, but so far, they did not taken any drastic measures. But that does not mean we cannot ignore them.
However, the current problem is the third prince faction.
These guys are trying to get rid of us at any cost and they even went with an big army at us, even brining siege equipment as well as tamed false drakes, they are like drakes, but much smaller and weaker.
It was an full out siege battle, but the third prince straight up got fucked.
He straight up went "THROW THEM AT THEM" …. He fuking threw his soldiers at us…. I'm necromancer and we have other necromancers in our kingdom…. They…. WHAT THE FUCK!?
WE CAN RAISE THE DEATH YOU FUKING IDIOT!
That…. How stupid is he???
No, I mean like seriously. I get that his army is extremely powerful, but for us? The brute tactic? True, we did lost a lot of soldiers, but most of our loses were produced undead monsters like corpless or other stuff, but we can use the enemy corpse to feed our monster factories / nests to breed / create more monsters, or just raise corpse as regular undeads.
So…. I mean… We are straight up confused.
Is the third prince THAT much sucks at tactics? Doesn't he have any solid leaders or generals? Anything that can command soldiers well?
Well, its not exactly easy, since those soldiers and monster he has in possession ARE strong, but the lack of any proper leaders does makes things somewhat much easier?
But obviously there is one more thing going on. We don't know how these guys are producing those manmade monsters of theirs.
And we don't know how much materials those guys have, meaning we don't know how many more monsters they can produce.
Still, according to the informations from our captives, they need monster bodies to produce their mass produced soldiers, and now that the Bloody Mountains that were supposed to be their material gathering ground turned out to be an hostile kingdom, so yea. Their plan failed and they are definitely won't be able to secure an large amount of monster corpse.
The other great danger zones are not even close to the third prince territory and other factions should probably know by now that the third prince needs monster corpse…. So, yea, he is kind of fucked.
Still, we need to exterminate that bastard, since there is an good chance, he is some sort of bomb that may end up taking us down with him or something.
But…. Huh… I had my people look up the informations regarding the third prince and almost all the stuff I found about were just negative opinions.
Like… Wow. Based on the rumors it look like he is an rich kid that never put any efforts into anything and once the other siblings started shining, he was left behind, gaining an inferiority complex.
He is the third prince and the fourth child of the emperor, so its obvious that people gazed longer at his siblings.
Not only that, but there apparently barely any achievements at all in his name, if not any at all, since some people believe that those achievements just belonged to his subordinates and not him at all…. I wouldn't be surprised, considering that this guy does not have any real leadership skills or anybody with those kind of skills working for him.
Honestly, there is nothing, nothing good. The people of the empire kind of just… Well, they ignore his existence?
And as for the people that fallow his faction? Greedy slash corrupted merchants and nobbles… They pretty much only want to be on his side to turn him into his puppet?
….
Huh… So, is he really just an puppet?
But I doubt its any of the corrupted nobles or merchants doing, regarding the whole illegal human experiments and transformation into monsters…. Does that mean that the mysterious 'benefactors' are an outsiders?
We could not dig anything regarding those people that are the true masters of the third prince faction, like there is straight up nothing.
THERE IS definitely somebody who are pulling strings behind the scenes and its worrying that we could not find anything, even smallest lead or… Well, just anything. There is straight up nothing.
We had infiltrated the black markets and all other stuff, but nothing.
And those new humanoid monsters? They do not look like they were related to any of these human experiments we had found out.
So, what the fuck?
….
But what would they gain from doing something like this?
Betray the prince later on and take over the empire?
….
Nah. These guys that are backing up the prince are definitely not some complete idiots like the prince and considering the method the third prince is using… It would be surprised if he demolished Oin empire because of his power hunger.
I mean, even that mad demon lord of poisons that Amadeus fought in the past wanted to take over the Oin kingdom by committing genocides and stuff, but even he didn't wanted to completely destroy the Oin kingdom since he wanted control it.
But the third prince? Yea, he is unstable maniac.
Heaven realm nope.
Hell, realm also nope.
Spirit realm? Yea, don't think so.
They would want to rule it, not to destroy it.
Neighboring kingdoms that hates Oin empire and wants to destroy it?
Nah., They had been attacking all neighboring kingdoms.
So maybe there is something like an special treasure in the empire?
We had the talk with my guild executives as well as high ranking members of our kingdom (NPCs), and they are also suspecting that the culprits are probably aiming at something that is in the empire, possible.
Were their target the Bloody Mountains by any chance? Maybe the third prince was used to attack and try and take over this place by them?
It would somewhat explain why the third prince is attacking us nonstop.
Desperation?
But the problem is that we do not have any confirmation regarding this and the third prince attempts at taking back this place were somewhat… Foolish, arrogant and overconfident, he even send us letter to give up on the territory and he would spare us…. Does he think we are retarded? He would break promise instantly and stuff, literally even an child would see that coming.
I mean, do people that are using the third prince are not already regretting turning this idiot into their puppet? Or they just don't care if he fails and end up getting hanged for his crimes?
This…. Huh…. Yea, its better if we kill that fucker soon.
But first, we need to strengthen our territory even more, since obviously, the three other factions could attack us.
But, after all the preparations are finished, the hunt for the third prince head would start.
And honestly, we need to extract informations out of this fucker and see who are the people behind him, since I can already see some more possible problems involving those unknown fuckers.
