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Entering Lord Wyldon's room, Kel saw Daine, Numair and Prince Roald, amongst other knights and important sergeants gathered around a table. Looking up, Wyldon smiled tightly.

"Please, join us," he said to them. Kel, Merric, Neal and Dom walked over, looking at the map spread across the table top.

"Now that we're all here, I'm afraid I have some bad news," he said. "We thought that now with the killing devices gone, that perhaps King Maggot Breath had given up," he spat. "However it is quite the contrary!"

"It appears," Wyldon went on, "that he was merely stopping to gather new forces. Not only that, but he has changed the way he fights. He hoped, and was right, that by sending small groups of raiders we would only send out a few of our own people to fight them off. His plan being that they would pick off the leader of each force, such as Sir Merric here. By doing this it kills his men, but leaves us with no one to lead our forces and our land free for the taking!"

People around the room gasped and started mumbling to each other. Merric nudged Kel, looking worried.

"Do you mean he wishes to kill all the leaders and leave the men with no one to guide them?" Kel asked. "But that would take ages and you saw with Merric here, they didn't manage to kill him."

Wyldon looked at her. "Yes, it would take ages but it's a good plan, one we wouldn't have realised had it not been for Daine here."

Daine blushed. "It was the animals, sir, not me."

"Yes, yes." Wyldon waved his hand. "And they almost did manage to finish off Merric."

Kel gulped. "So what are we to do?"

He looked right at her. "Nobles on the edge of his land are agreeing to help us if we kill him; however it's the killing of him that's hard. He stays behind his forces directing them. No one can seem to get to him unless either they're among those he trusts, which is very few people, or his forces are broken up."

"And how do we do that?" someone asked.

"It's quite simple actually," he shrugged. "Maggur holds his forces together by keeping hostages from each clan. One way would be to free those hostages and hope that all his men turn on him. We also have a spy that Cooper's got in there. The man is acting a faithful noble and is let in on everything. We're hoping he could sneak someone in there to kill him."

"That's supposed to be simple?" Neal asked. "Whoever this someone was would be killed, surely! And if they actually managed to kill him, which I think is unlikely, they would be killed by his men right after."

Wyldon nodded. "It is a risk, that's why we have to send someone very capable in there."

"And who's that?" Dom asked.

"Kel," Wyldon said shortly.