Lord Of Puppets

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<<...It isn’t for the research purposes alone either.>>

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<<...I have freedom but I don’t have fucking time to spare... Nice.>>

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<<...There is also another thing.>>

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(So... It is really possible?) – thought Thauma as it stood on the small hill and looked at the dungeon in the distance, which was far away from the dungeon master’s current location.

(I can... Leave the Mevon territory?)

(This massive increase in range... Then....)

"..."

(The dungeon grown a horn after the 10th dungeon’s heart was created.)

(Does that mean that after every 10th heart, the range of my activities will increase significantly?)

(At first, I thought that maybe I would be forced to maybe use a long-range puppet to explore the outside of the dungeon... But now?)

(I think I could possibly explore the world by myself?!)

"..."

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<<...I will be always prisoner.>>

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[Meanwhile: Warmur kingdom]

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN HE IS DEAD?!" – shouted duke Karol Dun as he and his knight as well as several nobles were having a private meeting amongst each other in the duke’s mansion.

"ANSWER ME!"

"WHY THE FUCK GUDON GOWU IS DEAD?!" – shouted the duke as he threw documents and reports at the nobles as well as knight, which contained the reports of the margrave Gudon Gowu death, burning of his own mansions as well as several other nobles’ deaths.

"...S-sir... I-I know you are angry." – said the beast-human nobleman.

"B-but please! We need to do something now!"

"Our information network which we had built... Was burned down."

"Not only that, it seems the enemy had stolen a lot of the key information as well as data that belonged to our faction"

"We-"

"I FUCKING KNOW THAT! WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I’VE CALLED YOU ALL FOR?!" – shoted the duke as he swung his fist, punching the beast-human noble right in the face and knocking him down.

"..."

"That fucking information network, which we build over the years and invested fortune in it... It was the fucking thing that let us take over the entire Warmur kingdom!"

"And now? IT IS FUCKING GONE!"

"Not fucking only that."

"BUT THAT BASTARD IS STILL ALIVE!" – shouted the duke as he grabbed the knife and stabbed the wanted poster of the Justice Of Warmur.

"HOW?! WE LOST SO MANY ELITE ASSASINS TO HIM! AND YET NON-WERE ABLE TO EVEN SCRATCH HIM!?"

"THERE IS NO FUCKNIG WAY THAT THIS NOBODY COULD SURVIVE AT ALL!"

"..."

"Mobilize the army."

"!?"

"WAIT!" – shouted the knight suddenly.

"Are you sure about this?!"

"OF FUCKING COURSE, I’M SURE!" – shouted the duke.

"I’ve tried to do in the somewhat calm way! So, there wouldn’t be way too much of mess we would have to clear afterwords."

"But this?"

"THIS?!" – shouted the duke as he slammed his fist on the table.

"YOU REALLY FUCKING THINK WE ARE ALLOWED TO HOLD BACK ANYMORE!?"

"..."

"Mobilize the entire kingdom official army."

"Hunt down those rebels."

"SLAUGHTER THEM TO THE LAST!"

"YOU HEAR ME!?"

"SHOW NO MERCY!"

The situation for the Warmur kingdom started looking extremely bad for the Noble and Royal factions, as the Rebel factions were not only growing stronger with more and more people joining them, but also they started attacking some of the key locations of the Warmur kingdom.

Not only that, but the rebels had recently did something that caught the noble faction completely off guard.

One of the dukes of the Warmur kingdom was assassinated by the rebels and he was also the person who held high ranking position in the noble council.

With his death, a void was created amongst the nobles.

Not only that, but the second strike that the rebels did was far more powerful than losing a duke.

The margrave Gudon Gowu, a noble who also held one of the highest positions in power amongst the council and was in charge of the information gather as well as assignation work... He was eliminated.

Not only him, but the entire network that the noble faction heavily depended on to control the Warmur kingdom was straight up burned.

This was the devasting blow that gravely wounded the noble faction.

But they didn’t even knew, that the margrave Gudon Gowu was a traitor.

Ariava knew exactly who to target, and so she hunted this noble, took over his mind and position, before then bit by bit corrupting the network, taking control over it and sabotaging it from inside out.

And when her preparations were over, she snapped her fingers, and let it all burn.

She destroyed the entire network and even worse, she stole everything from it.

Information which held so much power that it made the entire noble council panic.

That made the nobles snap in panic, causing them to finally deploy an army to deal with the rebels head on.

And with that, the true civil war of the Warmur kingdom had begun.