Lord Of Puppets

[Sometime later at the base of messengers.]

"Wait, wait, wait, slow down Endera." – said the emperor Gustav.

"You are telling me, that this guy agreed to that freaking deal?!"

"That is correct." – replied Endera as she was using the long-range communication device in a form of the orb attached with mechanical components, allowing Endera to communicate with the emperor, who was all way in the capital city, while Endera herself was still in Mevon territory ruled by Thauma.

"...Let’s forget the fact that you went there without my permission or even consulting me about this at all." – replied the emperor as he held his head.

"But you are telling me, that this dungeon is truly willing to give us half of its produced golems?"

"That is indeed correct." – said the princess as her escort were noticeable far away from the house she was using, giving the woman somewhat privacy.

"Father, there are some details I wish to talk with personally regarding the deal." – said the woman with somewhat quiet voice.

"And I think you will want to hear it."

"..."

"I understand." – replied the king with quiet voice, before moments later the call has ended.

"..."

(50% of the monsters produced?) – thought the king.

(I get that we will be paying him somewhat... But still... Did he truly agreed to THAT kind of deal?)

"..."

(Then again, if she truly managed to convince the dungeon master, then this is extremely good for us.) – thought the emperor as he looked at few documents that were on his table.

(It is unknown if something will happened or not... But if something were to happened in near future, we need to have at least some kind of answer or a way to stop the chaos.)

(We are producing our own golems soldiers, but it would be good if the dungeon started proving us with more monsters... But still....)

(Aren’t things going way too smoothy now?)

(According to Ariava, the rebellion forces had grown to the extremely alarming level and not only that, but the public support had straight up left the royal and noble factions, leaving only those who are too deep in corruption to back down.)

(At the rate things are going, the rebellion will soon win and the Warmur kingdom will be remade... And with Ariava’s support, they may end up being friendly towards us.)

(...Still, there is one problem though.)

(We have rat amongst us.)

(Somebody had been leaking information from inside.)

(True.)

(The vampires started making their appearance slowly in the public world... But the rumors are going around that they are planning on taking over the empire as well as all sorts of other weird rumors.)

(This ain’t some random conspiracy rumors.)

(No.)

(They had spread at the impossible pace.)

(Somebody deliberately spread them around in order to create a distrust between us.)

(But who was it?)

(Did somebody betrayed us?)

(Or maybe somebody infiltrated us?)

(Either way, this will be annoying.)

"..."

"But something is still not making much sense."

"All we have to do is to show that the vampires are truly our citizens."

"And honestly we have countless ways of showing it, since we have records of their deeds."

"..."

"..."

"Tch." – the emperor started tinkering with his communication device for a bit, before then activating it.

"..."

"Is that you emperor?" – asked the voice that came from the orb that belonged to the Korwan, the leader of vampires.

"Korwan, is it possible to increase the security? And possible watch out for some suspicious vampires?"

"I think there maybe somebody who really wants to fuck us all."

The time would go by and after several days, the princess had returned to the royal capital where she met up with her father, the emperor, as well as the leader of the vampire faction.

After explaining in details her deal to them, the emperor would contact 2 days later the dungeon master and discuss the deal.

After discussing some details here and there, the deal was in the end struck.

From now on for the duration of the unknown amount of time right now, the dungeon will provide the empire with the 50% of the golems created.

And pretty much that was it.

The dungeon master returned to its training and research, focusing on developing its power and knowledge.

As for the Warmur kingdom, things were truly going hectic to say the least.

Royal faction and noble faction were being way more aggressive, straight up getting so desperate that they were even causing civilian casualties who were not involved one bit with the rebellion forces.

That madness as well as desperation of theirs to hold to the power was straight up causing the population to just turn their gazes filled with hatred at them.

And then finishing touch was made.

"MY NAME IS JUSTICE OF WARMUR!"

"But that is just the title that I use to hide my real name!"

"But now! I will reveal you my true name!"

"My name is Korial!"

"And I’m the bastard son of that false king!"

8 months after the incident with Brute’s occurred and Korial was pushed forward by Ariava, the critical move was just made.

The Justice of Warmur revealed his identity publicly and told them his story.

About his mother who died alongside his twin brother by the hands of the noble faction.

He also revealed the fact that the royal faction was conquered by the noble faction and was turned into their slaves.

However, they were not slaves against their will... No.

They gave up the Warmur kingdom and were too cowardly to even fight back.

They betrayed their royal status as well as their entire kingdom.

The moment these news spread around, the support for the two traitorous faction straight up started weakening, with some of their supports deciding to flee their own nation in order to save themselves.

Their way of controlling the nation, the corruption, it was crumbling apart right in front of their very eyes.

And the people saw it.

In the fallowing month, the rebellion faction was pushing and crushing easily the traitor faction’s combined power, resulting into rebellion faction taking over most of the kingdom.

And at the rate things were going?

It was obvious at this point how it would end.

The royal and noble faction would all end up being hanged.

But still, they didn’t wanted to let go of their power, and so, in the act of the total desperation, they would call forth demons by sacrificing lives of their own people.

The demons wreaked havoc, causing the war to get prolonged and giving the traitor factions a hope that they may still win.

They started sacrificing more and more people in order to summon even more demons... However, with Ariava’s help, the demons were quickly subjected while making it look like it was the rebellion’s doing.

This not only resulted in the Warmur kingdom being completely on the rebellion faction’s side... But it caused a disastrous amount of distrust towards the two factions, to the point that many soldiers who were still somewhat loyal ended up just switching sides or just running away, fearing that they too would end up sacrifices.

And this finally act of their madness and desperation had nailed the nail in their coffin.

After over 9 months of struggle, the civil war was officially over.

The rebellion had won.

The royal family as well as all of the members of the noble faction alongside their families were brough to the plaza where people watched as one by one the traitors of their own nation were executed.

The noble and royal factions had been completely annihilated and those who had led them were reduced to nothing more than hanging corpses that were left to rot as symbol for those who dare to betray their own nation out of greed.

After the execution, there was an announcement.

The leader of the revolution, the bastard son of the king, he was the one who had obtained his entire nation’s trust, resulting in him being crowned.

But he didn’t accepted the surname of his father, no.

He denounced it right away, calling it that it was the name of nothing more than a fool.

And so, he chose his own surname.

Korial Richter.

The new king of the nation was born.

And soon, the great restoration of the Warmur kingdom would happened.

And with Ariava support, she would make sure that the Warmur kingdom could either remain truly neutral, at good terms with empire or maybe straight up become their allies.

...

But even though it was supposed to be happy ending, since the Warmur kingdom was dealt with and there would be no war....

So? What was going on?

Was it another nation plotting something?

...

No.

There was a series of incident in the Gorijy empire when the rebellion was still going on.

Specifically, the vampire attacks.

There was a vampire terrorist attack in Gorijy empire, which also an entire population of a city getting wiped out.

It is unknown who was behind that attack... But the fact remains that the blow was dealt... And extremely deadly one non the less.

So unfortunately for the empire, a new disaster had already befallen them.