Lord Of Puppets-Chapter 165 - The beasts that remains.

<<Honestly speaking? I’m lost.>>

<<With how much chaos is going on right now.... I don’t really know what to do.>>

<<I mean, I do know that I need to continue doing my experiments AND that I can’t obtain any form of vision right now.... But again, I’m scared.>>

<<Considering the chaos that is happening right now in the outside world.... Ah screw it.>>

<<I can guess all I want, but there is really no telling when the attack comes.>>

<<The most important fact is that I’ve obtained information about the outside world AND new slaves.>>

<<But... Well, there will be obvious a side effect.>>

<<People may look for them.>>

<<They were supposed to go back to their kingdom and act like messenger, but instead they are now my prisoners.>>

<<I’ve took everything that they had. Horse, caravan, weapons and even corpse. I’ve made sure to clear up everything.>>

(But what is this?) – thought Thauma as it inspected the two-handed sword that was wielded by the Victor.

(This is mana metal AND it is made from steel.)

(Not only that, but the craftmanship of mana... It is also high tier.)

(This is something far superior than any mana metal that I’ve had ever created.)

"..."

(Maybe the adventurers from back then also had some good equipment like these.... But again, I couldn’t really waste time to look through things.)

(Maybe they had something like this... Or maybe far better even.)

(Oh well, I really didn’t had time to think back there, considering that I almost died.)

(....Still... This thing is the scarry one.) – thought Thauma as it stared at the destroyed brown armor with a horned helmet.

(It is the armor of their general.)

(And even though it is destroyed, it is still extremely power piece of equipment.)

(This is too mana metal.... But different one.)

(Inspecting it and finding out what the hell is it made out of will take time.... However, with my current analyzes, I can tell that it is a masterpiece.)

(If I can analyze this destroyed armor and absorb the knowledge from it, not only my base crafting talent will rise, but so do my mana metal creation knowledge!)

"..."

(Still.... This armor.... It is completely destroyed.)

(The prisoners said that their general was surrounded by a group of soldiers alongside his right-hand man and left-hand man....)

(But considering that the general is dead.... )

"..."

(This armor was made to look... "Flashy", I think. I don’t think these attachments or carvings here served any purpose beyond astonishing one... However, the material that the armor is made out of isn’t something fragile.)

(From what I can tell, the armor ended up receiving countless blows... With some blows being powerful enough to rip it apart.)

(But who landed these "powerful" blows?)

<<I don’t know how that kingdom of Gorijy became so powerful out of nowhere... But I have theory that somebody may had helped them.>>

<<The question is: Who?>>

<<I’ve interrogated the prisoners about it, wanting to find out who could had done it.>>

<<The main suspects would be the kingdom of Hopur.>>

<<They are neighbors with the kingdom of Gorijy.>>

<<But something isn’t right.>>

<<IF they were the ones that provided assistance to the Gorijy kingdom, then why are they not joining the war? This doesn’t make sense.>>

<<By any chance, it isn’t the kingdom that is providing them support?>>

<<....>>

<<Well, there is no way of finding out about.>>

<<All that matters is that I focus on my research.... And I should start resuming my combat training a bit here and there.>>

<<I also need to extra as much possible from the prisoners to get the better understanding of the outside world.>>

<<Honestly.... If all the information they have given me is correct.... Then what in actual hell is going on?>>

<<At this rate sooner or later that hell will come here.... And I will have to deal with it.... Great.>>

[Meanwhile: Abandoned Village]

"Ugh! Ha....Ha....Ha...."

"General... You can’t walk yet!" – said a human soldier with black hair as he was helping out the bear beastman who had visible trouble with breathing.

"I’M FINE!" – shouted an injured bear beastman as he sat down.... Who turned out to be non-other than the general of the Garmfon kingdom, Oranox Bearmight.

"No, you are not fine!" – shouted a beast-human who checked up on the general.

"Fighting wild monsters in your current state was beyond stupid! You still haven’t recovered from the poison that these stupid ears inflected on you!"

"..."

"Tell me.... What has happened to the Garmfon kingdom...." – asked Oranox Bearmight calmly.

"What.... What happened to our forces? Is anybody still resisting?"

"..."

"No...." – replied black haired man.

"We tried gathering up as many survivors as possible.... But it was impossible."

"The elves either killed or enslaved anybody they could find..."

"We managed to rescue few people that got enslaved.... But that was not enough."

"What about the king? Is he alive?" – asked the general.

"..."

"..."

"Is he dead?" – asked the general upon not receiving any answer.

"According.... According to the elves we had captured, the king was captured by the elves and brough back to the capital city.... Where the public execution was announced to take place in there." – said the black-haired human soldier.

"There is good chance that the king has already been killed off."

"..."

"..."

"So.... Are we done?" – asked the general.

"..."

"Yes..." – replied the soldier who tried not making the eye contact.

"The Garmfon kingdom... Is good as dead."

"No matter what we do, the kingdom won’t be able ever to revive."

"..."

"Ha....Hahahahahaha."

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" – the beastman general laughed manically, straight up terrifying the soldiers, whom had thought their leader has completely lost their mind.

The soldiers tried calming down the general, but as they were about to try, the bear beastman smashed his hand against the ground, shattering the entire wooden floor around him with a single strike.

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" – shouted the general as his roar could be heard throughout entire village.

"We finally freed out kingdom from the clutches of oppression!"

"We finally fucking dealt with corruption!"

"WE SAVED OUR ENTIRE KINGDOM! OUR FAMILIES! OUR LEGACY! EVERYTHING!"

"BUT IN THE NEXT MOMENT ALL OF IT WAS ALL TAKEN AWAY!? WHY?!"

"WHERE THE JUSTICE IN THAT!?"

"Answer!"

"FUCKING NON!" – shouted the beastman as he slammed his fist against the ground with so much force that entire house shook, terrifying the soldiers inside of it.

"And now? HeheHehe....You are telling me, those FUCKING bastards are just waging war on the remains of OUR kingdom, to just fucking take over anything that was left while also dealing with those FUCKING elves?!"

"..."

"I won’t stand it." – said the general as he gotten up.

"?"

"What do you mean? We lost! We fucking lost already! STAND FUCKING DOWN!" – shouted the black-haired soldier as he snapped.

"What can we do?! We don’t have army nor resources!"

"I don’t give a shit!" – said Oranox.

"I don’t give shit anymore! I will kill those bastards no matter what! Even if it means my own death!" – shouted the general as he left the house and entered the city square where a bunch of civilians and soldiers from the Garmfon kingdom had gathered.

"?"

"Is that general?" – said one of the worried citizens.

(Death!? Fuck it! They want death!? THEY FUCKING WANT IT?! I WILL FUCKING GIVE IT TO THEM!) – thought furious Oranox.

(If it is all over, then I’m not just going to sit idly by while they laugh!)

(I will slaughter them! I WILL FUCKING SLAUGHTER THEM ALL!)

(NO MATTER THE FUCKING COST! I WILL MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THEM WILL END UP IN HELL WITH ME!)

(EVEN IF IT MEANS SACRIFICING ANY INNOCENT LIVES OF THE GARMFON KINGDOM, I WILL MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THEM WILL EXPERIENCE THEIR OWN HELLS!)

"LISTEN UP! ALL OF-"

"Oh, there you are." – said the female voice from above.

"!?"

The bear beastman tried speaking up to his people... But as soon as he did, somebody interrupted him.

A female voice that came from right behind him.

A voice that he did not recognized.

"!" – the bear beastman instantly turned around and used his giant morning star to defend him from something that sent the beastman flying through the village and smashed right into one of destroyed houses, breaking its walls as he got tossed inside.

"Oh? You survived that?" – asked the person on top of the roof on one of the houses.

"Bastard... Who are you?" – asked Oranox as he left the house through the hole he just made.

All of the soldiers and citizens instantly looked up, spotting a figure in white coat that covered the person’s entire body.

"Huh... Honestly, I’m confused." – said the white coated female who had a hood over their face.

"I mean, one of my specialists IS tracking, but holy shit."

"How the fuck these elves didn’t found your hiding spot here?!"

"Even without doing anything special or big I was able to easily find you here! I straight up wasn’t needed like at all to find you! Anybody could!"

"So how in hell these elves never managed to spot you here!? It was obvious!"

"I can tell you had made this place your base for some time now, so how in the bloody hell did those elves never managed to find you in here?"

"Just how incompetent are they?" – asked the unknown female figure, before right in the next moment, general Oranox grabbed the ground beneath him and quickly manifested a javelin made out of earth, which he then instantly threw at the woman above.

"..."

"Hey. I was talking." – said the hooded female as something akin to silver colored liquid came out from underneath the woman’s coat and grabbed the javelin made out of earth... Before then snapping it with ease.

"!?"

(The hell is this thing?! Some form of magic?!) – thought Oranox alarmed beastman as he and other beastman soldiers got ready to fight.

"Still, you can fight?" – asked the hooded female figure.

"Didn’t elves couldn’t beat you no matter what, so they ended up resulting in poisoning the entire village you were in, since it was the only way to defeat you?"

"Not only that, from what I was told, they couldn’t contain you, so they had to poison you nonstop.... So how the hell are you able to even stand up?"

"I guess your title as ’War Bear’ isn’t just for show."

"HEY! I’VE ASKED YOU A QUSTION!" – shouted Oranox as he pointed at the hooded woman with his morning star.

"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"

"Well, just person doing their job." – replied the coat wearing woman.

"As for I’m here for.... Well."

"Eliminating something before it becomes a problem later on."