novelraw Chapter 164 – Risky move – Part 2.
Chapter 164 – Risky move – Part 2.
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"They wanted to be feared and reversed."
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"...However.... It just... Changed few days ago..." – said Victor.
"The army bearing the banners of the Gorijy kingdom appeared...."
"But they were different."
"They were far more powerful."
"Not only that... They weren’t alone."
"They had an army of creatures under their command called golems."
"!"
(Golems?) – thought interested Thauma.
"You mean like me?" – written Thauma.
"!?"
"Wait, you are golem!?" – asked Victor.
(He does somewhat look like one, but his appearance was completely different compare to the ones we saw.) – thought Victor as he raised up his guard.
"Yes." – replied Thauma.
"Were they like me?"
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"N-no. They were different." – said the scared knight.
"You.... You are not with them?"
"No." – replied Thauma by showing already ready note.
"If I was, then why would I ask questions?" -written the golem.
"T-true..." – said still shaken up Victor.
"Continue." – written Thauma.
"Well... This happens around the time we had defeated a crumbling elven army. We had destroyed them since they were easy targets... But as we made our way to the next settlement that should had been the real challenge for us, we found the place already conquered by the forces of the Gorijy kingdom."
"When they met us, they gave us warning."
"Turn back. This and the entire Garmfon and Mowiorano territory now belong to Gorijy kingdom."
"The general obviously told them no.... We had good numbers and everything.... But we were destroyed completely."
"It was a one-sided defeat."
"This....This wasn’t normal. We were completely slaughtered."
"Honestly, they could had killed us all... But the only reason why they didn’t done that was for us to act as messenger.... To tell our kingdom to give up on these lands."
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"Is this normal for kingdoms to wage wars so often? I only knew about the war between Garmfon and Marok kingdoms as well as noble and royal faction wars." – written Thauma.
"Noble and.... Oh wait! You mean the rebellion that has happened in the Garmfon kingdom?!" – said surprised knight.
"Yes." – replied the golem.
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"No.... Well... Honestly, I don’t know...." – replied the man.
"Sometimes... They just happened."
"Sometimes it is quiet for long time.... Or sometimes they just sprout left and right without warning."
"Still, at the center of all of this is the Garmfon kingdom, always has been in each and every recent wars."
"And now even after the kingdom has fallen, another war has started, revolving its territory."
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(Well... This now makes things complicated.) – thought Thauma.
(3 whole new kingdoms joined the war.... But the Garmfon kingdom, the one that owed this territory is no more.... And there are 4 different kingdoms trying to gain control over this territory.)
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"Was the kingdom of Gorijy always strong?" – written the golem.
"Well... They were strong, but not THAT strong." – said Victor.
"They were somewhat medium sized kingdom with quiet decent army, based on the information I was provided with."
"But.... ’THAT’?! We were never told anything about this!"
"I’m not talking about these golems here! I’m talking here about these soldiers! Some of them were real monsters!"
"They just tore apart our people like they were nothing!"
(Hm.... Can’t really tell yet. Maybe they got unlucky and ran into some sort of elite army of soldiers?) – thought Thauma.
(Then again, I did saw that large army AND he already confirmed it for me that he and the rest of the people here are what remains of that group.)
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(Still, this is an opening.) – thought Thauma.
( can focus without worrying about developing the dungeon, probably for another half a year or so.... But that is just theory.)
(I can’t say that I’m not worried about that whole Gorijy kingdom.)
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"Who are the most important people gathered? The highest-ranking members and those who posses most information?" – asked Thauma by writing.
"...Why..." – Victor tried asking the question, but before he could, Thauma showed off its claws, straight giving the man a sign to answer the question in an instance.
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"Me... Him, him, that guy.... And him." – said Victor as he pointed at 4 people beside himself.
"We are the only ones with high ranking amongst the group."
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"Take off your armor." – written Thauma, ordering the selected men to take off their protection.
The men knew they couldn’t trust the golem... And yet they didn’t had any choice.
They knew that the creature in front of them wasn’t normal.... Nor it was alone, as an army of golems were standing ready, aiming with their crossbows at the soldiers.
Any form of resistance would be met with instant death.
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"There." – said Victor as all of the selected people did not had even a piece of armor.... But even so, Thauma checked them just in case and managing to find a hidden knife in one of the men pants.
After making sure that nobody else was had any weapons on them, Thauma put cuffs on each one of the selected people, before then having them walk.
"Wait! Where are you taking us?!" – asked Victor as he tried resisting, only to then be met with set of claws right underneath his chin.
"Okay! Okay! I get it!" – said Victor as he and 4 other men were dragged through the dungeon.... Before then arriving at the prison.
"Hm? Feeding time?" – said the human prisoner with lifeless expression as he turned towards the exit.
"!?"
The new "prisoners" upon witnessing where they were instantly began resisting, however Thauma was able to keep them all in alongside the prison warden golems.
However, Victor managed to quickly slip by and instantly tried firing off his ice magic.
But before he could, Thauma punched the man square in the face, straight up smashing his entire head against the ground and causing blood to splatter everywhere.
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(He isn’t dead. I guess I was able to hold back enough.) – thought Thauma as it then threw the new prisoners into the empty cell, before then locking up the doors.
"H-hey! Where are you going! H-hey! HEY!" – shouted a desperate brown-haired man as he grabbed onto cell bars while Thauma just left the prison.... Before moments later returning back to the main room.
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(Well, there is no need to have so many of them and I’m not doing a human experiments anyway.) – thought Thauma as all the golems in the room suddenly became active.
(It is better to just kill them and have the dungeon feed on them.) – thought Thauma, before moments later it and the golems began slaughtering the soldiers as their screams could be heard throughout the dungeon.
And as the last life was extinguished... So was the silence brough back to the dungeon.
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<<....And that kingdom.... Gorijy.>>