Chapter 140: Reinforcement
Percy sighed as he watched Micky devour the corpses, each of them barely a couple years younger than him. The first one to die might have not even reached adulthood yet. Still, he knew they’d all killed dozens of townsfolk with their bloodline, and they would have certainly continued to do so had he spared them. Had he let them go, he would have only doomed several others in their stead.
“What now? You realize this is going to bring us more trouble, right?” Nesha asked.
She had stuck with him through Rodrick’s interrogation, scrutinizing the information with her bloodline. At first, the guy had tried to mix some lies with the truth. Percy wasn’t sure if he’d done this merely to spite him, or out of love for his family. That said, the man soon gave up after coming to understand how pointless it was.
By now, Percy had a pretty complete picture of House Tantalus in his head. He knew their numbers and their grades – he even had a rough idea of their combat strength and their current posts. It would certainly make his infiltration easier, assuming they survived the coming months.
“What choice did we have?” he asked.
While he’d always planned to take action against the rival House, he’d originally intended to do so much later. Ideally, he would have allowed the situation with the dead guards to calm down, giving himself another year to grow stronger. Sadly, he couldn’t have predicted the old man handing Nesha to those assholes the first chance he got. Was Percy supposed to just let her get killed?
‘Now they’ll come looking for Micky…’
Given the circumstances, his best option had been to let the nobles drag the commoners to the swamp, having his familiar attack them. It wasn’t an accident he’d allowed the two peasants to see the culprit. Now, they’d disseminate the news back to the others, diverting House Tantalus’s eyes away from him and Nesha. For all anyone knew, the perpetrator of both attacks was just a wild beast that had now settled inside the Grisly Bog.
“Next time, they’ll send stronger people.” Nesha said grimly.