Chapter 276 – Development – Part 2.
[Current location: Empire Capital City – Empiric Castle]
"So.... So far everything is okay?" – asked emperor Gustav Warmin The Third, as he and the leader of the vampires of the vampires, Korwan Von Kurwiad, had a private meeting in the emperor office.
"Well... When it comes to that dungeon.... Everything seems fine." – said Korwan.
"It not doing anything remotely illegal or stuff that would go against the contract."
"Porai who is also working with that dungeon master called Thauma, is also saying that he is a ’good boy’."
"..."
"So... No problem?" – asked Gustav.
"Nope." – replied the vampire.
"However, she also said that it seems Thauma was instructed to not tell anything regarding Ariava and Thauma’s relationship."
"That what she is getting at."
"As for the secret deal.... It seems that Thauma may not even be aware of anything."
"..."
"So the golem maybe just a pawn?" – asked Gustav.
"It is still unknown." – replied Korwan.
(Several months went by after the contract was signed... And everything was going extremely well.) – thought Korwan.
(Not only that, but Ariava herself is doing her work.... Heck! She already prevented the war from happening and taken down the terrorist leader before they could make their public appearance!)
(Not only that, she discovered one of the main reasons why these terrorist had so much weapons.)
"Miorio kingdom." = said Korwan.
"They are the ones that provided those weapons."
"They were known for their weapon making skills.... But to provide that huge number of weapons wasn’t something normal."
"But, they managed to obtain a new vein.... Extremely rich one in various form of metals."
"Meaning, that they had obtained way to have some ’spare weapons’ that nobody would realize that had disappeared."
"..."
"Still, the terrorist are good as gone." – said the emperor.
"We can hunt them down without Ariava’s help anymore.... But again, these bastards were so willing to provide so much weapons... Yeb. There is no point in even wondering about this."
"They will try do something stupid again."
"Well, Ariava said that she will deal with the mine, in order to make look like natural disaster, so we will get more time...."
"Still.... The other nations are still trying to pull something."
"Really? Is that what your agents are saying?" – asked the annoyed emperor.
"Yeah...." – replied pissed off vampire.
"..."
"Still... There is good chance that we may have the Warmur kingdom back off." – said Korwan.
"According to my agents, the king of that nation apparently doesn’t want to wage war anymore.... But the nobles are putting way too much pressure."
"So, if we were to somehow get rid of the nobles, the war we want to avoid would end up being completely dealt with?" – asked the emperor.
"Well, yes... But how do we the nobles who are somewhat in power, just disappear without causing way too much commotion?" – asked vampire.
"..."
*Sigh*
"Nope.... We can’t." – replied emperor in annoyance.
(So does that mean we have to relay on Ariava even more?) – thought Gustav as he held his head.
"..."
(She is effective... And extremely good.... But none of still don’t know what she is truly playing here at.)
(.... Still.... Fuck me.)
(We have really no choice but to depend on her.)
(HECK! SHE HAD ALREAEDY DONE SO MUCH!)
(But again.... It is HER!)
(We have her somewhat "under leash", because of the bound contract.... But still...)
"..."
"..."
"We really haven’t changed anything regarding her, did we?" – asked emperor with tired expression.
"Unfortunately, no." – replied the vampire.
"Still, she bought us time, which we can use to fully stabilize our empire."
"However, before that happens, we need to use her as much as possible."
"...You do you know what you are talking about right now, yes?" – asked the emperor.
"Playing with fire? Yeah! I fucking get it!" – said the vampire.
"But we cannot deal with all the trouble at once.... We have no choice, but to relay on her regarding that."
"...And there is also another worrying thing."
"The spies from other nations were trying to get to the golem’s territory."
"We had our people try and gaining some information out of them.... And we found out that they were just hired thugs, some were even wanted bandits."
"They apparently came from the Miorio kingdom.... But did the Miorio kingdom really hired them?"
"That is the problem that we didn’t had a direct confirmation."
"..."
"And things are bound to get more annoying soon."
"The golem is expanding its forces and is slowly obtaining enough golems to control the territory....And after the control end up being fully established, we will start getting those free golems... And that may end up being a trigger."
"..."
"Well, it was quiet obvious." – replied the emperor who knew instantly what the vampire would say.
"Ariava may had saved us from the wars, but that dungeon of hers may end up being cause for a war to start off as well...."
"So, before the time is up, we need to focus on fully restoring the control over the empire."
(Still... The problem is regarding the contract.) – thought the emperor.
(Once the empire becomes peaceful enough for the set amount of time, Ariava will be freed from the contract.)
(And it is not like we can sabotage our own empire in order to keep her around for longer, since she had written that in the contract.)
[If the party A causes a specific trouble, a trouble causing deliberately disability or causing the chaos by the unprovoked war caused by the empire that each point focuses on the exploiting the party C, the party C can break off her part of the contract that involves her forcefully helping out the party A and also punish the party A for its crimes. The stop of the support does not mean that the contract between the party A and B will be stopped nor it means that the party C cannot act like the moderator between the specific problems. But, if the party C wishes for it, they can forfeit their right to be mediator, if they are had been forced to forceful break off their part of the contract, if the two parties A and B wishes for it, or when the party C already fullfeed all of their duties and time span of 1 year had passed after completing their duties.]
(She made sure we cannot exploit her beyond the set goals that were already established.) – thought Gustav.
(Still... The fact remains that once the empire becomes "peaceful" and "stable" for the set amount of time, the contract will no longer bind her.)
(The contract does states that she cannot harm us in any way in the span of at least 5 years, unless provoke in justified way.)
(But.... There is also this part.)
["If party C is removed from their job as mediator, because of the betrayal of the party A, the protection period will not be granted.]
(There is a loop here.)
(If WE were to break the contract in the way that would result in the self-sabotage, she could break free form the contract and then straight up attack us.)
"..."
"Tell me honestly." – said Gustav.
"Do we stand a chance, if we were to become enemies with Ariava?"
"Or is there anyway we could possible prepare for it?"
"..."
"Truth to be told? I don’t have fucking idea." – replied Korwan.
"If anything, I don’t think it is possible for us to fight back."
"How would we obtain any weapon that can deal with her?"
"Or how would we recruit somebody who as strong as Ariava on our side."
"But then again, we would have possible new danger on our hands."
"There is also the thing regarding her possible watching us in some way.... So, you know.... We even prepare for anything, and she could get a wind of this.... And you know what would happened next."
"In short."
"We are fucked." – said both men as they realized that they situation has still not changed, and they still at the mercy of Ariava.
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