Lord Of Puppets-Chapter 198 – Path of a monster? Or path of a peace?

Chapter 198: Chapter 198 – Path of a monster? Or path of a peace?

<<Plunder.>>

<<Murder.>>

<<Horde.>>

<<Collect.>>

<<Steal>>

<<Dungeon lacks too much DP.... And to obtain enough miasma to speed up my dungeon research.... I need to bring destruction to the outside world.>>

<<But if I were to do that, then ANY chance at the peace with the outside world may straight up become nonexistence.>>

<<Not only that.... The empire and adventurer guild.>>

<<Let’s say that I win next "war".>>

<<Then what?>>

<<Bigger army of adventurers?>>

<<Bigger army of soldiers?>>

<<Some powerful individuals joining in?>>

<<Or maybe all above.>>

<<How long can I survive for?>>

<<Months? Maybe few years?>>

<<...>>

<<Yeah... No matter how I look at it, I will die in the end.>>

<<But again, the peace talk already failed!>>

<<...>>

<<Realistic thinking.>>

<<I go to war with adventures or empire, or both.>>

<<I kill them, they destroy my golems.>>

<<I bring corpse and feed the dungeon with them.>>

<<I use them to progress dungeon research.>>

<<HOWEVER!>>

<<If the rate which my monster is getting destroyed is too great, I will need to use up more DP to create more monsters.>>

<<If that were to happened, the dungeon research won’t be able to move at all.>>

<<And then what would await me would be simple.>>

<<Death.>>

<<...>>

<<A quicky and devastating blow.>>

<<If I somehow manage to land a powerful blow on the enemy forces, taking down a large number of them in a single go... Then things would look positive for me.>>

<<But how would I secure such devastating victory?>>

<<...>>

<<I may had become stronger... But I’m nowhere near enough to be called really "strong".>>

<<As I’ve conduced my experiment.>>

<<As I’ve created new golems.... And as I’ve became stronger myself... I’m keep being reminded how weak I’m.>>

<<I can maybe work 3 to 4 times better than humans when it comes to training or researching, since I don’t need to rest or anything.... But still, even if I can make a 3 to 4 progress in just 1 year for a human, it doesn’t freaking matter.>>

<<Leveling up skills, learning magic, understanding different forms of power, mastering skills... This isn’t something you can just do on the spot.>>

<<And I can tell it as well.>>

<<My previous earth magic and arcane magic was... Way too sloppy.>>

<<And it wasn’t ONLY because the affinity was weak... No.>>

<<I was still inexperience in it.>>

<<The current me... Wow.>>

<<My earth magic reached quiet good level of control now.>>

<<Simple put, I can not only create much better forged constructs or even create much faster golems on the spot... But I can also use it in different ways that I wasn’t able to handle before.>>

<<...>>

<<Still, B-rank adventurers... They can still kill me.>>

<<I can tell.>>

<<And if they bring even a single A-rank adventurer?>>

<<Then it won’t be question of "if"... It is just straight up death sentence to me.>>

<<I never encounter a single A-rank yet... But if all information is correct... Then it would really be death of me.>>

<<...Then again, I was able to take down that B-rank adventurer on the spot with explosion trap.>>

<<Heart, throat, brain and other important parts.>>

<<Take them down and the person will die.>>

<<Honestly, I’ve thought of few weapons that would do the trick.>>

<<A single precise crossbow.>>

<<It isn’t like ballista, but I’ve empowered this weapon to have ability to easily pierce through basic metallic armors.... However, what if the enemy is wearing heavy and thick armor which is also enchanted?>>

<<Or what if enemy is moving way too fast?>>

<<The only good use for this weapon would be if enemy wasn’t moving nor they have high enough defense to easily block the bolt....>>

<<Mages and archers.>>

<<I think the best use for this thing would be against mages and archers.>>

<<I have some other weapons that may work... But again.>>

<<Do I want this war?>>

<<I have somewhat chance at surviving this, but the chances are not 100%>>

<<...>>

<<Okay.... Think from the start.>>

<<IF what that person said is correct, then that means there are 2 enemies, each one having their own goal.>>

<<One want my destruction.>>

<<One want my enslavement.>>

<<Question is.... Should I form alliance with one of them?>>

<<Considering that the "empire" killed the guild master, it would point at the possibility of hostile relationship between the two.>>

<<However, it seems they are also bidding the whole fact that they killed guild master?>>

<<...>>

<<I can use that.>>

<<I don’t know if they would trust my word, but it is worth trying.>>

<<I’ve began crafting a golem. A messenger golem.>>

<<This golem’s seeing is based on my hound golem.>>

<<This one was enchanted in many different ways, allowing the golem to only traverse great distance, while also being able to traverse different form of terrains.>>

<<I have some map of the terrain and I did confirmed the existence of the Maw city thanks to the captured adventurers.>>

<<I will sent this golem there, carrying two things.>>

<<The box, which contains my message.>>

<<And the guild master’s staff.>>

<<If the adventurer guild obtains both of those things, it may cause conflict between two factions.>>

<<And then afterwords few thing could happened.>>

[1 - Peace talk may end up possible.]

[2 - War will happened, but it will be delayed.]

[3 - War will happened and there won’t be any delays or what not.]

<<I really wish the option 1 or at least option 2 would happened.>>

<<BUT!>>

<<If I’m aiming for EITHER of those options, then I cannot attack ANYTHING.>>

<<I need to be "peaceful".>>

<<But how high chances are that the peace will be possible?>>

<<Both "people" I’ve talked with straight up said no.>>

<<Destruction or enslavement.>>

<<And the whole enslavement may end up with me being destroyed, IF they see that I no longer have any value.>>

<<...>>

<<Is it really it?>>

<<I mean, I don’t see any purpose in this whole conflict.>>

<<I don’t want it.>>

<<Before when I was born I thought I need to do that no matter what in order to survive.>>

<<But now I see that I don’t really need any conflict.>>

<<Heck!>>

<<I don’t care about slaughtering humans, elves, beastman or any other races.>>

<<...>> 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

<<So why?>>

<<Do I really have no choice?>>

<<All because I’m "Monster"?>>

<<If I truly walk the path of "monster".... There won’t be ever way to turn back.>>

<<But again, I don’t want to freaking die!>>

<<There is still so much things I want to learn about the outside world!>>

<<...>>

<<I will.... I will try to obtain peace one more time.>>

<<But if it doesn’t work.>>

<<If it doesn’t work then I will do it.>>

<<I will walk the path of a monster.>>

<<Still, even though it is not decided yet, I will continue preparing for the war.>>

<<There is a lot of work to do.... Yes....>>

<<A lot of work.>>

[Few days later: Maw city.]

"FIRE! FUCKING FIRE!" – shouted a soldier.

"H-help! Help! They AAAAAAAAAAAA-"

"WHAT THE FUCK MAGES ARE DOING!? JUST SHOOT STUFF! KEEP THEM AT BAY! JUST DO SHIT!"

"YOU THINK WE CAN?!"

"Shit! Where are the archers?!"

"DEAD! THEY ARE FUCKING DEAD! WE NEED NEW ONES TO TAKE THEIR POSITION!"

"..."

"..."

"What the fuck is going on?" – said Randolf as he stared at the screaming soldiers.

"!"

"DWARF!" – shouted the giant adventurer, instantly alarming the dwarf as he then raised up his shield and barely blocking in time as something swooped and slashed his shield, before moments later the dwarf tried counter attacking with his hammer, only for the creature to quickly fly away, dodging the weapon.

The attacked was a giant lizard-like creature, who posed bat like wings as well as a long tail with blade like tip attached to its end.

[Wyvern – Danger rank D – C+ (Depends on variant).]

"PISS OFF!" – shouted the dwarf as he dodged the wyvern tail’s blade, before then landing a solid blow on the creature waist, managing to knock down the creature off the sky as it got close enough, resulting in the dragon creature smashing into the ground and giving the soldiers a chance to jump the creature and quickly began stabbing and smashing its body with weapons.

"Shit! What is our status?!" – shouted Randolf!?"

"We are still holding on!" – replied human knight.

"But we still haven’t confirmed the anything of a pack leader!"

"LOOK AROUND! THERE MUST BE ONE LEADING THEM!" – shouted the dwarf as he quickly swapped his weapon from hammer to axe, before then throwing his weapon at incoming wyvern, managing to hit the creature right in the head and knock it out from the air.

The wyvern crushed down and dwarf quickly rushed in.

The dwarf took out his hammer once again and leaped into the air, trying to pin down the wyvern as it was trying to get up.

But the dragon saw the attack coming and launched its claws at the dwarf, knocking him to the side.

The dwarf managed to somewhat land on the ground safely... But the wyvern wasn’t finished with him yet as it launched its maw in the direction of the dwarf, trying to bit his whole body.

However, before it could, the giant adventurer Arthur came in and smashed his shield right on top of creature neck, stopping it in tracks, while his two-party members used their spear and axes to wreck the creature wing, making sure it wouldn’t fly away.

"KEEP GOING YOU FUCKERS!" - shouted the giant adventurer.

"WE ARE STICKING FUCKING TOGETHER!"

"THESE ARE NOTHING MORE THAN FUCKING MIDLESS BEASTS!"

"SO JUST SLAUGHTER THEM ALL!"

"SLAUGHTER THEM ALL IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!"

"SLAUGHTER THEM ALL IF YOU WANT TO PROTECT!"

"JUST FUCKING FIGHT UNTIL YOU FREAKING DIE!"

"LET SHOW THOSE LIZARDS THAT THIS IS OUR CITY!"