Chapter 636 - 637 – Old friends.
<<Days… Weeks…. Months passed by.>>
<<And honestly? The work never fucking ended.>>
<<The entire bloody continent is still a chaotic mess.>>
<<We had managed to deal with the players, but there was still shit tons of corrupted nobles and people in power that were hiding away like cowards….. So, we needed to make an example out of them all.>>
<<Mass enslavement.>>
<<Mass executions.>>
<<At this point, it became normal in our empire.>>
<<We pretty much held a execution each day, dealing with the criminals or those who would fallow their footsteps.>>
<<As for the slaves? Well…. Considering how many soldier we had captured after the war as well as some nobles, it would make sense that we have a straight up armies of slaves.>>
<<Obviously there are definitely some "good" people amongst the slaves, that we could recruit as our citizens…. But there is a straight up way too many of them to look through every single one of them.>>
<<Not only that, even as slaves, a lot of these bastard thought that rebelling for "freedom" was a good choice…. Idiots.>>
<<They were executed and their corpse were used to make into undeads that would watch other slaves movement.>>
<<Besides the whole executions and enslaved…. We had more specific problems.>>
<<Specifically, high crime rate.>>
<<A lot of the corrupted officials and soldiers that were still on the lose had decided to become bandits or straight up terrorist.>>
<<Some kingdoms citizens also decided to join them in order to, again, "freedom" …. But as stated before, they are just doing more harm than any good for everybody, for examples elves.>>
<<With the help of the witches we had managed to deal with the plague completely before it could had done every lasting damage to the whole continent…. But the damage was more than enough done when it comes down to the elves.>>
<<Their reputation and image? People are seeing them as savages. As monsters.>>
<<A lot of the elven citizens are somewhat suffering a criticism because of the mad queen and her fallowers actions….. And this obviously made situation for the elven citizens complicated, with some elves thinking that they have no choice but to fight back….. Which in turn just makes the whole situation much worse for them.>>
<<As for the other kingdoms….. Well, things are not going well either.>>
<<The holy kingdom for example…. Well, they became even more delusional, with some old believers straight up becoming psychopaths.>>
<<The entire kingdom was…. Extremely fanatical, even your average citizen there was blinded by the faith.>>
<<However, after the heavens abandoned that kingdom and us just conquering the whole thing…. Pretty much? The despair sweaped over their minds.>>
<<We don't know if they will recover or not….. If they decide to completely abandon their faith in heavens as they abandoned us…. Who knows?>>
<<And here comes the dwarves….. Honestly, they are good?>>
<<After we had conquered that kingdom and took away their weapons from them….. Well… At first there was still lot of problems popping up, with some secret stashes of weapons popping and rebellions….. But after we started "helping" out dwarves by giving them food and also somewhat helping them move out or deal with their "rotten" territory, thing started calming down.>>
<<The crime rate dropped drastically…. Which is most surprising?>>
<<Out of all the kingdoms we had conquered, the crime rate in the dwarven kingdom is the lowest, even though these bastards were war loving maniacs?>>
<<I mean…. I'm complaining about why the hell they are the only ones acting normal.>>
<<I mean, sure. Getting conquered is "bad" and stuff in their perspective, but we are pretty much cleaning everybody fucking mess and only dwarves are fucking grateful?!>>
<<And when I'm talking about a mess, I mean the whole lot of problems that each kingdom had caused by their war and had also left behind for us when we took over their territories.>>
<<*Sigh*>>
<<In fucking short, we are just dealing with the problems nonstop…..And because of how many problems are out there and how much chaotic this continent became after the bloody war….. Yea…. It will take while to deal with every single problem.>>
<<And I'm going to say this one thing straight here.>>
<<Tyranny and evil.>>
<<They are working.>>
<<True, a lot of people are dying by choosing "evil" in order to control this whole continent, but even if I was a fully good guy, I would had still done it.>>
<<A lot of people are complaining, be it NPCs or players about my "cruel actions", but fuck them all.>>
<<I've already fully explained myself in that interview.>>
<<If they cannot hear or are just deaf to all the stuff they don't want to hear, then fuck them.>>
<<….>>
<<Honestly…. With how much shit was going on, it was not surprising that an entire in game year went fucking by already.>>
<<The protection from the title is still active, so nobody can really declare a war on us…. But the empire is still in bad state.>>
<<True, the chaos somewhat calmed down after we started "iron fist" tactic, but there is still a lot of problems everywhere….. Honestly, I don't even know if another year will be enough to completely deal with all of those problems.>>
<<There is also a Sabbath.>>
<<Since the situation within the empire somewhat calmed down, they had already started the construction of their main base within the empire borders.>>
<<However, the entire construction will….. We are making a whole damn city for them.>>
<<At first they just wanted to just have a very large territory to set up their facility…. But I've said "Fuck it" you are getting a whole brand new city.>>
<<Honestly, I really couldn't throw wily-wily city constructs plan here and there… But right now? I'm having way too much money, so I can do that kind of shit.>>
<<And a reason for the Sabbath getting a whole ass city for themselves besides a large facility? Well…. Many, many, many good reasons…. They are using me as the "meat shield", so I will be exploited them as much as possible.>>
<<….>>
<<And pretty much…. They days repeated themselves.>>
<<Besides the Sabbath base being builted, up we had finally managed to establish proper and safe sea route between us and our previous continent, allowing us to open up the trade and transport route between the two continents.>>
<<And guess who wanted to come as soon as possible?>>
<<Demon lord Elizabeth.>>
"You want to visit the empire?" – asked ClownFrog.
["Yeb. Consider this as an….. Friendly and political meeting."] – said the demon lord Elizabeth as she and ClownFrog were holding a conversation in the mirror communication room.
"Well…. I don't really have any problem with you coming here…. But I can already tell you, things are not pretty here…. Even after the year has passed, we are still dealing with shit tons or problems."
["Nah. Don't worry about it."]
["If anything, this meeting will benefit us far more than you."]
["Agree."] – said the queen Arrianhi Umil.
["You originally came from our continent and had helped both of our nations to recover and become stronger."]
["However, recently thing started being…. More "chaotic" on our end."]
"?"
"More chaotic? What do you mean?"
["What? Did you thought you were the only ones with problems? Fat chance buddy."] – replied the demon lord.
["….. A war recently broken out….. And it was pretty massive one."]
["Even though it was massive, we had managed to deal with it in time….. But we had found out something…. Weird."]
["The items from the Forgotten World were involved."]
"?!"
"Wait, you don't mean- "
["Benefactor."] – replied Arrianhi Umil.
["He is now in our continent and he was possible one lending a hand to the organization that had started the war in the first place."]
"…"
"Fuck."
["Yeb…. "Fuck" is great word to describe the whole situation."] – replied the demon lord.
["Some organization known as the "crown kings" were the ones behind the massive war…. They are pretty much terrorist and they apparently worked with the "benefactor" …. But if it was a one time deal or a long term relationship is unknown."]
["For all we could know? Those terrorist could show up again."]
["And so, to establish more "powerful" image, we need to appear publicly with some bigger figures."]
["It was known before fact that you and us are "friends" and stuff, but now you became a much bigger "person" than us."]
["Not only that, but because of the fact that the "benefactor" was involved AND because of the Crown Kings doing some shit, we have now some problems… A corruption per say….. So, yea."]
(So, they want to show the world that we are still friends and allies in order to scare off any possible remains corruption that wished to use the "benefactor" power.) – thought ClownFrog,
"I understand."
"You are more than welcome to come here in order to use me."
"I already own a lot to two of you, so it make sense for now to benefit from using me."
"…."
(Still…. "Benefactor" is in the whole ass different continent now?)
"Say, when did that whole war even took place?"
["Just now, it was fairly recently and it ended quickly…. But the problem was that the war was quiet big as well, leaving a shock and confusion."] – replied Arrianhi Umil.
["You did told us about his motive and what the power he possess…. But honestly? We could barely found anything ourselves."]
["Bastard is far more slippery that we had thought…. It would really take a while for us to find anything."] – replied demon lord Abilgail.
["But for now, we need to deal with those Crown Kings bastards, since they are still somewhat active."]
"I see…." – replied ClownFrog.
(Fuck me…. That bastard "benefactor" is already causing other people problems again!?) – thought annoyed ClownFrog.
(And he ain't hiding it either…. He is again "showing off" …. But why?)
(And what the hell is he even gathering these Forgotten World items?)
(….)
(Should I call in a favor from the Sloth? She knows the secrets of the Forgotten World items…. So, she may know some stuff….. But should I really do it?)
"…."
*Sigh*
"Fuck me…. I guess we all will have a work cut for us."
