Lord Of Puppets-Chapter 160 – End of the war / Beginning of ???

Chapter 160: Chapter 160 – End of the war / Beginning of ???

[Current location: Kingdom Of ???] 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

"Huh... So let me get this straight." – said the man sitting on the throne.

"You are telling me, that the Garmfon and Mowiorano kingdom just finished up their war?"

"Yes sir." – said the armor wearing man.

"Huh.... Fucking 6 months, was it?" – said the man on the throne.

"You weren’t kidding."

"These elves really sucked if they really took them almost half of a year to finish off half dead kingdom."

"This wasn’t really anything big if I’m honest." – said the man behind the throne.

"These elves are honestly pathetic compare to the other kingdoms.... And yet, they cling to their greed and pride."

"Honestly, I saw a LOT of elves that were like them, but these kingdom elves are always the worst."

"And these ones? Man. They are beyond stupid to the point I don’t know if I can even call them elves."

"Well, the fact remains that they had conquered the Garmfon kingdom.... But what about the elves?" – asked the man on the throne as he gazed at the man near the window.

"Well, they are screwed?" – said the man near the window.

"Apparently, they had not only exhausted a lot of their resources, but because of how poorly they led their troops, they ended up having to deal with extremely high casualty rate.... To the point I don’t even believe these news to be true."

"So you confirmed it or not?" – asked the man on the throne.

"Well.... Yes?" – replied the man standing near the window as he sounded unsure of his own answer.

"Because of how unreal these news sounded, I’ve made deeper investigation.... And in turns out that the initial report was indeed 100% correct."

"Pretty much, the elven kingdom exhausted their entire military force and became easy targets."

"And I’ve told you this would happened as well." – said the man behind the throne.

"..."

"Yea, yea. Fucking prophet." – said the annoyed man on the throne.

"It is not a prophecy. It is just simple predictions and calculations." – said the man behind the throne calmly.

"Anyway, is there anything about the remains of the Garmfon kingdom?"

"Yes, there are some news we recently obtained." – said the man near the window.

"Apparently the elves have finally captured the of Garmfon kingdom who originally escaped the elven kingdom main army.... However, at the same time, the general of the Garmfon kingdom’s army who was initially captured when the main force have been crushed, has now apparently ran away."

"By the looks of things somebody must had helped him."

"What about the rest of the higher ups? Are they dead or captured?" – asked the man on the throne.

"Can’t tell... But based on the information, most of them are dead." – replied the man near the window.

"And those who were left are apparently being dragged to the capital city of the Mowiorano kingdom, alongside king Alex Garmvoar."

"From what we found out, they are planning on holding a public execution."

"..."

"And is there anybody else to pick up the arms against the elves?" – asked the man on the throne.

"..."

"No sir." – replied the man near the window.

"The elves had now shown any mercy whatsoever."

"They had burned down cities and villages alike. Slaughtering countless civilians that didn’t even fought back."

"And those who remained? They were put in the chains."

"Tch. Fucking savages." – said the man on the throne.

"They rather destroy the whole kingdom and rule its ashes, than have few people left that can fight back?"

"How cowardly and scared these knife eared fuckers are?!"

"..."

"As much as it annoys me to admit it.... You were right."

"The elves are beyond unstable and can’t be left alone."

"However, do you really think that other nations won’t also make the move?"

"They will." – said the man behind the throne.

"With the elves being so weaken, their nation and the Garmfon kingdom are easy for the taking."

"Not only that, with how the elves acted... I think nobody really wants them as their neighbors."

"So yea, these shitty elves will end up causing a massive scale war.... A war that even your kingdom would end up having to deal with, even if you were to just stand by."

"You are saying that we have no choice but to join it or we will be forced to? What choice is that!?" – asked the annoyed man on the throne.

"Reality. My friend." – said the man behind the throne.

"..."

"And you are saying you have means of providing us with ’power’, to once and for all put this entire stupid chaos to the rest?" – asked the man on the throne.

"I’ve already shown you what you will get." – said the man behind the throne.

"..."

(I don’t trust him or his kind one bit.) – thought the man on the throne.

(But he is right about everything.)

(Especially about the chaos.)

(This continent started getting way too chaotic out of nowhere.)

(Hell! Garmfon kingdom ended up having like what? 1, 2, 3, 4 wars? Although the third one was a quick won rebellion.... But still, it was 4 wars.)

(And now it is going to affect all the fucking kingdoms near those two shitty kingdoms.)

(And that includes us.... Fuck....)

"..."

"Fine."

"You have your fucking deal."

[Meanwhile: Dungeon]

"..."

(....Huh....)

(Still nothing?) – thought Thauma as it used its scout the edges of the forest’s edge, trying to see if there was anything going on... But only spotting the silence and peace.

(According to the historical and documentary books about the wars and such.)

(Wars can last ranging from few months, to some cases years.)

(There was also the case of war called "War Of Trick", where apparently the whole war only lasted around 30 days.)

(But from what I could tell, the war lasted for months.... But now? There is really.... Well, things seems way too peaceful.)

(The most people I’m spotting are coming from the direction from Mowiorano kingdom.)

(Did the tides turned in the Mowiorano kingdom’s favor?)

(...)

(There is also a good chance that the war may had ended....But again, I have no way of confirming anything.)

"..."

(But on the other hand, I don’t have to.) – thought Thauma as it stared at the massive standard model earth golem standing right in the middle of the workshop.

(It is finished!)

(The research took way longer than I’ve had expected.... But at this stage I can tell this.)

(The project has reached its finally.)

[Earth Golem Champion Prototype]

[Skills]

[Basic Empowerment: Body: Earth – Level 3]

(It may not seem like a lot, but the special skill I’ve had forged for that golem, the [Basic Enchanted Body: Earth] is a upgraded version of the [Basic Enchantment: Body].)

(Or to be more specific, I’ve downgraded the original version, making it much weaker by adding new conditions and rules to it.)

(This new version of the skill I’ve had forged only affects "Earthly" materials.)

(Things like dirt, sand, rocks, pebbles, mud and so on.)

(It can only affect these materials.)

(No wood nor metals.)

(Only earth.)

(However, as the trade off, the golem power increased further.)

(Meaning that weakening golem or adding a downsides won’t result in the golem getting stronger, instead it could result in the golem getting more power instead of being weakend in any form.)

(Not only that, but by limiting only to "earth", I was able to use special made golem core which specializes in using earth mana to empower the golem further AND its skill, allowing me to create much higher level skill.)

(And like this. I’ve made it.)

(The Earth Golem Champion.)

(And this is just really a functioning prototype.)

(Still, all of my crafting skills and the magic skills leveled up and even some evolved.)

(I guess this was quiet obvious considering how much I’ve worked.)

(However, this is just start line.)

(The prototype... Well, it can be deployed in combat.) – thought Thauma as it stared at the training golems behind the earth golems, which were either completely smashed or torn apart.

(I’ve already seen it in the combat.)

(But... The research is far from over.)

(I’ve only completed the basic part and now I need focus on expanding each individual experiments and such.)

(Honestly, this whole project may even a year to be fully finished, since it is just THAT complicated.)

(Learning how to apply item skills onto the objects themselves isn’t an easy task in the first place.)

(So yea.... I can use this, but as in the current stage? It is not "THE BEST".)

"..."

(Still, my crafting skills, both abilities and personal talent have increase by a lot.)

(Not only that, my personal class, the [Blacksmith Alchemist], which boost the performance of both alchemy type skills and blacksmith type skills ended up leveling up a lot.)

(Even though the current project isn’t truly finished yet... I could start making some enchanted golems.)

(Honestly, I know I should ONLY focus on this project alone.... But a year?)

(Should I really just focus on?)

"..."

(Then again... I need to upgrade my defenses.)

(I’ve did obtained massive amounts of miasma and the dungeon did already produced a lot of different monsters.)

(The dungeon already ranked up and I could focus on expanding the dungeon further.)

"..."

(But I don’t know when the war is going to end.)

(So I guess I will have to slow down the project and focus on improving the current dungeon?)

(It won’t be obviously be perfect or anything.... But again, I can now make NEW and improved golems based on my improved blacksmithing and alchemy knowledge as well as talent.)

(So, even though the project isn’t finished, the dungeon will still partially evolve....)

(But will it be enough if something comes this way?)

[7 days later: Elven capital city]

[Location: Royal Castle – Throne Room.]

"Your majesty. The king of the Garmfon kingdom has his loyalist has been finally brough." – said the elven king.

"Good. Then do as planned." – said the king.

"Even though we managed to get the fucker, his general is still on the lose... And he has already made quiet big of mess."

"That bastard escaped before we managed to get our hands on the king."

"So we should torture him?" – asked the knight.

"Yea, yea. How many times I’ve told you? We are going to execute the fucker anyway, so why torturing is fine." – said the elven king.

"Just make sure he stays alive until the day of execution."

"Understand." – said the knight before then leaving the throne room.

"..."

(Fucking 5 and half months!) – thought the extremely angry king.

(We wasted, a fucking 5 months on the half dead fucking nation?!)

(How?!)

"..."

*Sigh*

"Where is general Vorj W’wawor?" – asked elven king.

"He should be in the conquered city of-"

"If you have fucking contact with him, call him over." – said the king before the soldier could finish speaking.

"Get that bastard here ASAP."

(I need to deal with this incompetent idiot.) – thought annoyed king.

(Almost a fucking half a year! He wasted so much time, resources and men!)

(If I knew he was so incompetent fool, I would had taken away his position ages ago!)

"..."

*Sigh*

(No matter.)

(We won in the end and the king of Garmfon kingdom is in our possession.)

(Because of that shitty bastard Ash fucking up and letting the kingdom taken right back under his nose, we needed to fucking take action personally.)

(Humans.... Knew we shouldn’t had depended on them.)

(Useless pieces of shit.)

"..."

(Still, the Garmfon kingdom is ours.)

"..."

"Say, what do we do with the remaining citizens? Should we put them all in chains?" - asked the king.

"Hm.... If I say so, then yes." – said the elderly elf nobleman.

"It is for the best if we do that in order to make sure we won’t repeat the Duke Ash’s mistake."

"I second that. These people will never work willing for us." – said the elven noblewoman.

"..."

"What is it?" – asked the elven king as he stared at one of the elven nobles.

"Em.... Sir.... This maybe a... Rude question?" – said the nervous nobleman.

"But what do we do with all of that extra territory we just obtained?"

"?"

"What do you mean? We use them!" – said the elven noblewoman.

"Yes. I do understand that." – said the nervous nobleman.

"But there is straight up way too much of it for us!"

"Even if we split up our workers and military force everywhere, we still won’t be able to utilize everything.... If anything-"

"Just get to the point." – said the king.

"..."

"Since we can’t use all of that territory right now, how about we just sell it off to the neighboring kingdoms?" – said the nervous nobleman.

"..."

"No." – said pissed off king as the elven nobility stared at the nervous elf.

"We fucking fought over that and you just want to ’GIVE IT’ to somebody else?!" – said pissed off king.

"I will not." – said the elven king as he gotten off his throne and stared walking towards the nervous elf.

"Just what kind of stupid, fucking though-"

*BANG*

"?"

However, right as Woran Wo’wa’rwa approached the noble elf, somebody suddenly burst into a room.

A lone soldier.

"Y-YOUR! M-MAJESTY!" – shouted the elf who had visible trouble with breathing.

"..."

*Sigh*

"It better be fucking important." – said the elven king as he turned towards the messenger.

"You are messenger, aren’t you? Why are you here?"

"T-the...T-the-"

"Speak up already!" – said impatient king.

"THE KINGDOM IS UNDER ATTACK!" – shouted the panicking messenger after finally catching his breath.

"..."

"What?" – said the king as his eyes widen.

"W-what do you mean the kingdom is under attack?!" – said the elven king as he quickly ran up to the messenger and grabbed him by his shoulders.

"M-multiple attacks! Messengers! Familiars! Everything we had is reporting the same thing!" – said the panicking messenger.

"Who?! Which direction!?" – asked the king while shaking the messenger.

"Miorio!? Warmur?! Or is it Gorijy?"

"A-all of them!" – said the panicking messenger.

"All 3 kingdoms are attacking us simultaneously!"

"We are being invaded by 3 different kingdoms at the same time!"