Author's Note: Not much to say right now, a little behind on writing for a story than I would like but fortunately for you lot it's not this one. That said, Read, Review, Favorite and Enjoy!
Chapter 28: The Reason for Invasion
A group of five individuals approached the back of a guard house. The first of the individuals scratched the door with a blade, magic went to work widening the scratches into cracks, before the lock suddenly burst apart and the door was pushed open. A group of guards were attracted to the noise and for their trouble several of them were spontaneously decapitated. Their comrades responded by shoving their weapons in their general direction but their blades shattered on something hard and they thusly found themselves chopped to pieces and fire balled. Now that the group had let off their attacks the five members of six arms revealed themselves. The bald headed heavily tattooed man who served as their leader made his way down to the cells and found the effeminate looking man they had lounging in his cell but glaring at his group of would be rescuer's hatefully.
"Since my subordinate's neglect brought you to this place I won't charge you for your rescue." Zero explained before he promptly ripped the cell door off of it's hinges. "But since I suspect that we have a mutual enemy in the person who put you here I would like to know who so that I seek bloody vengeance in both your name and mine."
"Blame the princess's pet dog and his new friend Brain Unglas." Cocodoll snorted in derision. "Though I also blame your little friend Succulent, if he was there I wouldn't be in this predicament!" Cocodoll snapped angrily.
"Succulent's time will come believe you me." Zero stated ominously.
"But first we have to find him. Where did you send him off to?" Zero asked as he sat across from Cocodoll in the cell.
"Some merchandise went missing from our brothel and I sent him to retrieve it, I haven't heard from him since. Wanna know what mansion we sent him to?" Cocodoll asked the beginnings of a smile forming on his face.
"A paladin?" Climb asked using a towel to wipe sweat off of his face.
"You do meet the requirements, you'd probably make for a most excellent paladin." Sebas explained as he took the towel from Climb.
"I thought that only those with a strong belief in the gods can receive their power?" Climb asked looking mighty confused with Sebas's explanation.
"One of my Mistresses, Lady Koriander, has been conducting research into the subject of holy power for some time now. The gods of our homeland are different from the ones that you know, yet the end result is still the same. So instead of being gifted with power in exchange for worshiping them, it would be more accurate to say that power is being generated by the belief itself, if that is the case it doesn't matter what you believe in, merely that you do so with absolute faith. Your mistress for example." Climb was shocked by the revelation that Sebas had just given him. "With the understanding that you have been stockpiling holy power all this time, then what you really need to do is unlock it. I know someone that you could probably talk to about that."
"Thank you very much Lord Sebas!" Climb bowed before Sebas before he downed a stamina potion. "But I have to return to My mistress's side." Climb gestured upwards and Sebas looked up to see Renner and Balloma looking down at them.
"Then I shall do the same." The two men returned to their mistresses sides.
Climb was sent off to arrange a meeting with Blue Rose while Sebas and Balloma reunited and returned to the carriage.
"Anything of importance mistress?" Sebas asked cocking a brow in interest.
"Some pests are causing trouble for the kingdom, we've already captured one of their agents and Demiurge should have extracted a large amount of relevant information from him, so we'll gift the information to Renner as a gift from us to her." Balloma stated sitting in the carriage. "Either way we've secured favor with the royal family, all of our basic objectives have been completed, but before we go Demiurge mentioned that he would like to pick up some wheat for the farm."
"In that case, should we begin removing the security precautions around the mansion?" Sebas asked cocking a brow suspiciously.
"You aren't concerned about your little friend?" Balloma asked cocking a brow suspiciously. "I can't see anyone having enough of a problem with her to want her dead, and if they did the minions are still at the mansion." Sebas stated confident that they had nothing to worry about.
All throughout the house not a creature was stirring, not a creature bar one. No, this was not a holiday, though the number of drunk Minions passed out snoring on the floor, furniture inside and on top of emptied barrels would indicate otherwise. Tsuare was astounded that something so small can drink so much, still Tsuare went to work cleaning up after them. Lacking the physical strength to pick them up by the arm load and carry them to the transportation circle Tsuare decided to make use of the empty barrels present and simply stuffed the minions inside and rolled them downstairs into the basement. It might have taken her the better part of the evening but she finally got them all cleaned up. Still she had to get the rest of the mansion scrubbed clean, they were moving out tonight after all. Thus Tsuare got the bucket and scrub broom ready and set to work, because by the looks of things the blues weren't going to use their cleaning spells anytime soon. Then a dented boom sound echoed behind her and she spun around to see that someone had just blown a hole in the front door of the mansion. Then the butt of a blade was slammed into her face from out of no where.
Renner was having a busy day, on top of her original meeting with Balloma and the one she was planning to have with Blue Rose she was currently having a meeting with her brother Zanac and his associate Marquis Raeven. The two were surprised to see Renner simply call them out like this, but both of them knew of her true nature, and when she greeted them with that twisted grin of hers, they knew she meant business.
"Good day Marquis, ah I see you brought along my brother too, that will save time." Renner stated as she forced her regular 'princess face' seeing what kind of reaction her 'real' smile was having. "Simply put, I believe the time has come that we finally exterminate the plague on our lands that is Eight Fingers."
"Easier said then done sis." Zanac stated cocking a vaguely interested brow. "There's no doubt in my mind where the bulk of power in this kingdom lies." Zanac stated simply. If he was to organize it into three categories, the list would be the criminal element under the control of Eight Fingers first, then the adventurer's bound by the rules of non interference of the guild, and at the bottom was the kingdom. To be more specific, the difference between the second and last of those three factions was night and day. "I do hope you have a plan to correct these egregious injustices."
"Marquis Raeven, leader of the noble faction sir." Thus Raeven realized that he held no secret from Renner. "The members of the Royal faction has numerous holdings in monster infested territory yes?"
"Hmm. The beasts have been quite vigorous as of late." The Marquis stated nodding his head in approval. "I guess we should hire some high ranked adventurer teams, Mythril and above."
"Perhaps we should devise a test first Marquis." Zanac chimed in realizing the subtex of what is going on here. "After all, all the adventurer teams mythril and up in the country seems a little extreme: perhaps we should get them to help the guard's round up some trouble makers?"
"Excellent idea Big Brother!" Renner stated clapping her hands together. "You're so smart You'll make a great king of the country one day!"
"Oh?" Zanac picked up on the subtext of what Renner was saying. "And what would you like in exchange for that praise big sis?" Zanac asked, aware that of the five children of the king Renner held the most influence, her support and council was two of the greatest gifts a future king could ask for.
"I would want to marry my Climb of course!" Renner replied as if her answer was obvious.
"Done." Zanac held out his hand for his sister to shake.
"Congratulations on your coronation big Brother." Renner stated shaking Zanac's hand.
Sebas was fuming, boiling with rage, as he crumpled a piece of paper in one of his hands, a message from Six Arms detailing the time and place they were to meet for Sebas's execution. Several Minions could swear that they could see steam coming out of his ears, the fact that they themselves were a partial source of this rage likely added to the illusion. Thus the minions, doing their best to use each other as meat shields, backed away from the individual whom could crush all of them with the same ease that he would swat a fly.
"ALL OF YOU...!" Sebas shouted, his voice sent shock waves through their cores. Then he inhaled sharply. "All of you are to report to Neuronist for your punishment. Now." Sebas stated in a forcibly calm tone of voice. Several Minions let out a high pitch whine at once. "Now!" Now Sebas was letting a minuscule amount of his rage bleed through.
At once Pandora made use of a broom to chase the little trouble makers into the transportation circle.
"If I might be so bold Sebas, what are your intentions?" The self proclaimed accountant asked cocking a eye hole to Sebas.
"I intend to get her back!" Sebas stated making his rage blatant.
"That is good, but unless you have mastered the ability to be in two places at once that will be quite a bit difficult." Pandora commented scratching at his chin, which made Sebas pause. "They intend to fight you directly yes? With the intention of killing you no less. So what happens if they fail, what happens if they have some two bit cronie standing by to exact revenge for them post mortem hmm? It is better to consult with the mistress on this matter is it not?" Sebas muled over Pandora's question for all of five seconds.
"Can you inform her of what I intend to do?" Sebas asked giving Pandora a side long glance.
"Gladly." Pandora stated straightening up his back. "Good luck to you Sebas sir." Nodding his head, Sebas left the mansion as quickly as he could.
Kieran, along with several lizardmen, Minions and Cocytus, was currently in one of the more recently installed of Nazarick's features was a series of bathing pools, Cold Bath's, Hot tubs, Slimes, various different environments for both mixed, male and Female bathing faculties. Currently the only male among the overlord candidates was enjoying the cold water bath. Kieran was looking through the latest of Koriander's reports, the Undead still couldn't find Clementine in the Slane Theocracy's former capital, so it was unlikely that she was there. The bulk of the survivors of that event fled into the Baharuth empire, so Clementine might have gone with them to that place. According to Rose's intelligence that place was now under control of the Shining Justice, and was in the midst of rallying their forces to launch a full scale invasion of the Re-Estize Kingdom with the intent on conquering it as well. Obviously, with it's prime real estate nestled in the cup of a mountain range the Re-Estize kingdom was the most defensible location on the continent. But repeating the same strategy as before, holding up in the most defensible location possible against the Shining Justice as their rampant appropriation of the Golden transforms the landscape and turns it against them, seemed unwise. They didn't come to this continent to hide they came here to conquer and conquer is what they intended to do. That said if they wanted to make the Re-Estize their staging ground then they had to act fast, before the over puffed do gooders managed to take it.
"Kieran, I need to have a word with you." Balloma's angered voice in Kieran's head stated through a message spell.
"And what offense have you imagined that I have committed this time?" Kieran asked as he took an apple that had been floating in the water and bit into it.
"We have a new military operation to discuss." Balloma stated in a greatly displeased tone.
"You work me like a dog woman, give me a damned day off!" Kieran stated as he drunk red liquid.
"You'll get to slaughter an army of demons." To Balloma's words Kieran dumped the liquid down his throat and stood straight up causing the nearby minions and lizard people to take notice.
"I'll be right over!"
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Chronos0305: Hope I didn't disappoint, stupid is not my strong suit.
rmarcano321: Not to mention that Renner has Balloma figured out. It seemed stupid to attack the golden with Minions, and at the very least Balloma isn't stupid. As smart as or smarter, at least she isn't so blind with hero worship to not be able to spot a newb posing as a overlord. Hard to say, Balloma has what is called pragmatic evil, which means that she won't do anything horrible to you without reason, Kieran is a battle crazed lunatic but is other wise cordial, and Koriander is friendly but her idea of a gift is to carve flowers into your still living bone marrow. I have a few plans for a number of demonic and undead, but I consider which ones to be spoiler territory. Essentially each of them is competing and working together to become the next Overlord and eliminating the Shining Justice and their Golden Plague, individually however Kieran would like to build a army, Koriander a magic institute and Balloma a nation. If they wanted to Kieran and Koriander could rip open the earth for a hundred miles and tear down the sky on top of the people's heads, if world destruction was their goal they would accomplish it within about eight hours.
Guest: Ah my apologies, I need to be more stringent with my grammar checks.
