Lord Of Puppets

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[Several days later - Current location: Empiric Castle]

"We had found out the culprits." – said the vampire duke Korwan Von Kurwiad.

"And we had confirmed who it was."

"Without any doubt, it was the Warmur kingdom behind the attack."

"Wait, it was really them?" – asked surprised vampire nobleman.

"Yeah, it wasn’t a fake out or anything." – replied Korwan.

"It was truly Warmur kingdom’s doing."

"We also found out who was the attackers that raided the Mevon territory."

"There was a special military unit that works directly for the duke of Warmur kingdom, Karol Dun."

"Him... Isn’t he the guy that really controls the Warmur kingdom?" – asked duke Arthur.

"Yes." – replied Korwan.

"Only a handful of people knows about the existence of the Brutes."

"They are... ’Cleaners’."

"They do the dirty business behind the scenes and what not."

"Based on the information we have, we suspect that the Brutes were sent to infiltrate the empire and destroyed the dungeon."

"We still lack a lot of information about them as well as the wyverns."

"However, we confirmed something."

"That were some activities from the Warmur kingdom around the wyverns."

"Again, we still don’t have full picture... But based on what we had obtained, everything so far points to the Warmur kingdom being the culprits."

"Fucking knew it!" – said the pissed off brown bearded dwarf named duke Gundunu as he slammed his fist on the table.

"Don’t jump to your gun just yet." – said the black-haired vampire nobleman.

"Why not!? They are the fucking bastards that dared to stab us and spin in our face!" – shouted the pissed off brown bearded dwarf nobleman.

"The fucking reason why we even formed this empire was to stop the madness that would get us all killed like idiots!"

"But these fuckers don’t care!"

"WE WANTED TO SHOW THEM MERCY! SO, THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH!"

"But those parasites?! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!" – shouted the dwarven nobleman as many of the gathered nobles agreed with dwarf.

Obviously, a good number of nobles opposed the dwarven nobleman... But unfortunately for them, the voices of the people who supported the dwarf were far too many.

"..."

"Honestly speaking, I really think we should avoid doing wars as much as possible." – said vampire duke Korwan.

"You are still saying this Korwan!?" – asked pissed off duke Gundunu.

"Yes I’m!" – shouted pissed off duke Korwan on top of his lungs, instantly silencing the entire room with his voice.

"..."

"However... You are right at the same time." – said Korwan.

"No matter if we pick up the weapon now or not, the war will soon happened."

"At best we could try delaying it... But not stopping it."

"The Warmur kingdom is controlled by the noble faction that is corrupted to the core."

"And these bastards would rather slaughter thousands than step down from the power."

(But the problem is that Ariava didn’t finished her sabotaging.) – thought Korwan.

(True, she already caused a noticeable amount of damage to that kingdoms, resulting in the people somewhat losing trust in the royal and nobles.)

(There is also Miorio kingdom, which is neighboring both of us.)

(They took a massive hit because of Ariava.)

(Because of her sabotage, these two kingdoms cannot really organize easily their troops.)

(But if we were to pick up the weapons now, it could cause people of these two kingdoms to panic and allow the two kingdoms to much more easier rally up troops.)

(However, I really don’t want to do this.)

(Ariava has a plan that will cause the entre Warmur kingdom to get destroyed.)

(The rebellion.)

(She will set the corruption on fire, causing it to go berserk and snap people into the anger, rebelling against both the royalty and the nobility.)

(The same thing would had happened against the Miorio kingdom!)

(We would had fucking won 2 wars without even going to the war!)

(BUT WE NEED FUCKING TIME!)

(Is there really no way we can stop this?!)

(Or maybe delay it for few years!?)

(At least destroy one of those fucking annoying ass nations!)

"..."

"Korwan." – the emperor spoke up, snapping the vampire out of his train of thoughts.

"..." – the vampire looked towards the emperor who shook his head.

"..."

"Tch!"

(Fuck.) – thought the vampire.

"...Your majesty." – said the dwarf with glasses.

"Does that mean we are really preparing for the war?"

"No." – said the emperor.

"Not yet at least."

"We cannot out right prepare for the war, we need to be smart about it and don’t get played again."

"Do you understand me?"

"We need to be smart about it."

"...But as for the war...."

"We may truly end up in scenario where it will be the only choice." – said the emperor as the meeting lasted for few more hours, before then officially ending as each of the nobles went their separate ways.

This also included the leader of the vampires, duke Korwan, who instantly went to his private hidden base that was located in the capital city.

"Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccckkkkk......" – as the vampire duke gotten home, he instantly locked himself in his office while holding a bottle of wine.

"So, I guess the meeting didn’t well?" – said the voice from the staff like object, which was the communication device that belonged and was currently being used by Ariava to communicate with vampire duke.

"Unfortunately, yes." – replied the vampire as he opened up the bottle of wine.

"There was no way to hide the incident from the empire at all, especially from those from the top."

"One thing would be if they attacked the dungeon after the contract was just made, but another freaking is if they attacked as the dungeon started being useful."

"They fucking picked the worst possible timing and the method they used were beyond fucked up."

"...Tell me honestly, how high are chances that the Warmur kingdom will declare war on the empire?" – asked the vampire as he drank directly from the bottle.

"Honest answer?" – asked Ariava.

"Yeah... Just fucking hit me." – replied the vampire.

"..."

"They will declare it no matter what." – said Ariava.

"It doesn’t matter if empire declare the war on them or not, the Warmur kingdom is in way too deep of a mess right now."

"They are apparently planning on stopping any and all rumors coming in from the empire in order for the noble faction and royal faction to not get hit."

"There will be no clear evidence obviously... But after what happened, the rumors will be in power."

"And these bastards will go to the war in order to protect their own freaking hides." – said annoyed vampire.

"Heh..."

"THESE FUCKING RETARDS!" – shouted the vampire as he threw his bottle of wine at the wall, shattering it and spilling its content everywhere.

"Fuck! These greedy idiots will ruin everything!"

"Honestly, I’m surprising how those corrupted nobles even took over their nation!?"

"Probably all thanks to that completely incompetent royal family... But still... Fuck."

"..."

"..."

"Well... There is really no way we can prevent the war." – said Ariava.

"However... I have a stupid plan, which could... Well? It could do something."

"..."

"Honestly speaking, I’m out of ideas, so just say what you have." – said the vampire as he took out another wine bottle and opened it.

"Welp." – said Ariava.

"How about I just exterminate that entire noble council?"

"..."

"Wut?" – said the vampire.