Lord Of Puppets-Chapter 193 - Sabotage.
"Guild master... Is dead?" – asked the giant armored adventurer Arthur.
"What the hell does that mean!? Who killed her!?" – shouted pissed off dwarven adventurer Randolf as he grabbed the injured masked adventurer.
"Dragon Worms." – said the party member A of the Silver Talons party.
"When the meeting between us and the dungeon master was happening a bunch of earth worms suddenly sprouted from the ground."
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"Dragon worms? The hell are those?" – said the giant adventurer.
"Are they are like insect monsters?"
"They are pretty much giant versions of the regular earthworms, but much more healers... And have mouth that can open into 5 pieces, with each being equipped with countess fangs. They are also covered from the top to bottom in fur."
"They are quiet large and can swallow people whole..."
"And worms are not freaking insects.... But the dragon worms are insects AND dragons..."
"But what the hell they are doing here?"
"The dragon worms live in somewhat wet and earthly territories."
"Like, grass planes mainstreams or lakes."
"Or just swamps."
"Prety much any territory that has close access to the water and is mostly dirt based, or places that are half submerged in water."
"But there is nothing like this anywhere! The nearest river is nowhere near close this place!"
"And these bastards make such big mess that there is no way to not notice one!"
"Because they were not here out of their own free will!" – said the injured masked adventurer.
"Tamers."
"They appeared out of nowhere when these worms appeared, alongside several armed men."
"We managed to realize that something was going on and managed to put up guard up just in time... But there was just too many."
"However, it seems the attackers ended up provoking the golems as well, so pretty much we had some opening to run."
"However... The enemy had a sniper... The assassins took down the guild master."
"!"
(Assassin?!) – thought Randolf as he was trying to understand the situation.
(But who would.... No! This don’t make any sense!)
"Shit! We are going to the forest!" – said Randolf as he tried rushing towards the direction of the forest.
"Stop." – however, right as he did, the leader of the Silver Talons suddenly leaped in front of the man, alongside the rest of the Silver Talons.
"The entire forest straight up became war zone."
"These fuckers and golems are currently beating each other to death."
"If you try to go after them now, it will end up in disaster."
"I don’t know if golems know if they were with us or not, but there is a high chance you will end up being killed if you go now."
"Shit! First wyverns and now some assassins!? What the hell is going on!?" – said scared adventurer.
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"Wyverns?" – asked the leader of the Silver Talons.
"Oh.... Yeah... We have a situation...."
"..."
[Sometime after the meeting between guild master and dungeon master ended.]
"Stop." – said the masked adventurer.
"..."
"What is it?" – asked the guild master as she clenched to her staff.
"Golems?"
"No.... There is something.... Else in here..." – replied the masked adventurer as he took out his weapon and quickly closed up the distance between himself and the guild master.
"If it was golems, my men would had informed me...."
"This ain’t them...."
"..."
"And whatever this is... Is it hostile?" – asked guild master.
"Yeah.... Definitely." – replied masked adventurer as the duo of two got ready to fight.
"..."
"..."
(I don’t see anything.... Nor I sense anything...) – thought the guild master as she was trying to sense mana around, but finding no results.
"Hey." – whispered the guild master as she had her back against the masked adventurer.
"Where-"
Right as the guild master was about to ask her question, her head was suddenly grabbed by somebody from behind.
Which was then instantly fallowed up with guild master throat being slip open with curved dagger.
"?!"
Guild master instantly swung around her staff.... But it was caught.
By the leader of the Silver Talons.
The guild master was shocked and didn’t knew what was happening.... And she wasn’t given even a moment as exactly 1 second later, blood began gushing out from her wound at the alarming rate.
"!"
However, she wasn’t done yet as she unleashed a spell from underneath her, firing off a plant roots that flew like a spear at the masked adventurer, which forced him to quickly leap away and barely avoiding impalement as only his helmet mask got scratched because of the attack.
"..."
(She must had prepared this spell beforehand... Lucky.) – thought the man as he rushed at the guild master who was desperately holding onto her throat.
The guild master tried firing off arcane element magic, [Arcane Magic: Arcane Sphere Bobmarnet].
Unleashing countless spheres of magic was a great choice as it was able to hit her agile foe as he was not able to dodge all of the attacks... However, he still did not given up as he thrown his curved dagger at the woman who just barely managed to use her staff to block the dagger as the dagger pieced her staff.
"!?"
However, obvious problem remained. Her slit throat.
The woman tried quickly taking out potion from her pouch, but the man saw it coming and quickly threw hidden dagger that hit the guild master right in her hand as the took out three bottles of potions.
The impact and strike caused the woman to just straight up have her potions knocked out from her hand and just fall down.
The bottles didn’t shattered... However, she wasn’t given opportunity to pick up her fallen potions as the man quickly equipped himself with two more daggers he had on himself while charging towards the woman.
[Plant Magic: Root Wall]
The woman tried blocking off the man’s path by quickly sprouting wall of roots in front of her, which indeed stopped the man in tracks and even blocked off his slash attack.
"Tch!" – the annoyed masked adventurer quickly tried going around the wall of roots while the guild master tried taking out another potion from her pouch in attempt of complete desperation.
...
But as the woman bought herself just a second of peace... A dagger dug itself into the woman’s neck from the side.
The one who did it was the party member A of the Silver Talons party.
The man snuck behind the guild master while she was distracted by the leader and managed to deal a fatal blow while the leader of the group managed to get past the wall.
Without letting her even another chance to do anything, both men began slashing and stabbing the woman over and over, ripping her body apart and making her blood splatter everywhere.
They did not showed even shred of mercy to her nor even gave her even a second.
Even as she stopped moving or resisting, they did not stopped.... Until her body was completely laying completely butchered on the ground.
"..."
*Sigh*
(Now we did it.) – thought the masked leader.
[Some time ago after the message by the dungeon master was delivered.]
[Location: Arthur Wirmur’s private tent]
"So... This is the current situation? The dungeon master wishes for the peace talk? Huh.... Wasn’t expecting that." – said the distorted voice that came out of the orb like device attached mechanical component, which had the entire thing stored within open suitcase.
"..."
"And you are saying that it will be impossible for you to stop them?"
"Even with authority of the duke?"
"Y-yes... Yes sir." – replied extremely nervous Arthur as his voice was straight up shaking from the fear.
(Shit! Shit! Shit! He knows! HE FUCKING KNOWS!) – thought panicking Arthur.
(Am I fucked?!)
(How fucked am I?!)
(Should I run?!)
(But-)
"Well, no matter. I came prepared." – said the distorted voice.
"..."
"Eh?"
"W-what did you said?" – asked Arthur.
"I sent my men to help you out." – said the distorted voice.
"Considering how little time frame she gave us, I knew there would be quiet problem."
"Do you really think I can sent them willy-willy at moment notice? I have already shit ton of work."
"So, I sent out a small distraction."
"It should keep those bastard occupied for... Hm... 14 days to month."
"It should give my men enough time to come and take over the situation."
"So don’t you worry, everything will be fine."
"..."
"If.... If you say so." – said nervous Arhur.
"Oh, one more thing." – said the distorted voice.
"That guild master?"
"Kill her." – said the voice, which instantly shocked both Arthur and masked adventurer.
"I’ve dealt with her kind before."
"Too smart for their own good."
"It is better to just eliminate her as soon as possible."
"..."
"But... If we were to do that now, people will think that the golems are-"
"Just say that the assassin did it." – said the distorted voice, cutting in into the masked man question. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
"I’ve already had set up plan."
"So... Just say this."
"That the worm dragons did it."
"And if they suspect something."
"Everything will be fine afterwords."
[Back to the present.]
(That is what that person said....) – thought the leader of the Silver Talons as he was surrounded by the adventurers.
(But freaking wyverns!?)
(Wyvern maybe a C-rank danger, but because of their ability to fly as well as fast movement speed, they are annoying to catch.)
(Not only that, but depending on the race, some can breathe fire or some other shit.)
(But a flock?! Fuck me!)
(They will cause wide spread destruction!) – thought the nervous masked leader as he and Arthur Wirmur instantly understood what sort of destruction and death these creatures will cause.
(For them to unleash wyverns like this... And even make us speak that fake story.... Did they had those things for a standby in case of emergency?) – thought Arthur Wirmur.
(This was definitely not meant for the dungeon.... Still.... It will definitely work!)
"..."
"Pack things up." – said Arthur Wirmur as he stepped forward in front of the crowd of adventurers.
"We need to go back to the city!"
"But what about the guild master?! What about these people in the forest?! The golems?!" – shouted the furious adventurer.
"YEAH! WE FUCKING CAN’T JUST LEAVE AFTER WHAT JUST HAPPENED! WE NEED TO GET THESE FUCKERS!" – shouted another adventurer.
"So, what the fuck do you chose!? Throwing your lives here or letting the entire city be destroyed by fucking monsters?!" – shouted Arthur Wirmur.
"..."
"Weren’t you the one who was dead set on getting the dungeon under control?" – asked suspicious giant armored adventurer.
"Yes! I fucking was! And still I’m!" – replied Arthur Wirmur.
"But right now? We have fucking flock of some freaking wyverns that appears from who knows where!"
"And I don’t fucking plan to deal with both the golems and wyverns at the same time."
"..."
"Still... I will stay behind."
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"Oh, you are fucking with me.... No! No! And fucking no! I know what you are planning to do!" – shouted pissed off dwarven adventurer Randolf.
"You want to clear fucking misunderstanding!?"
"They will fucking shred you to pieces the moment you go in there!"
"EITHER THAT OR WE WILL REALLY HAVE TO DEAL WITH BOTH THE GOLEMS AND WYVERNS AT THE SAME TIME! YOU SHITTY FUCKING DWARF!" – shouted leader of the Silver Talons suddenly, which caught everybody gathered off guard.
"His plan is stupid! It is beyond stupid!"
"But that thing wasn’t working with those attackers from what we saw AND it was really aiming to form some type of agreement where it would obtain peace."
"I will be honest here... It isn’t question of should or shouldn’t.... We just straight up don’t have a choice."
"Can we really afford to deal with 2 different monster outbreaks at the same time?"
"..."
"Do it." – said the annoyed giant.
"!?"
"I...Tch!" – Randolf tried to argue against the giant’s logic... However, the problem was that he really didn’t had any solid arguments that could change the situation.... As the dwarf himself perfectly understood what would happened if the golems would also start rampaging right now.
"..."
"You are staying with him?" – asked Randolf.
"Somebody needs to keep watch over him... We also need to see if we can find anything about the attackers." – replied the masked party leader.
"We need... 2 to 3 parties at least to stay behind, just in case."
"..."
"You fucking heard the man!" – shouted Randolf as he started walking amongst the adventurers to gain their attention.
"Quick pack up anything you can! Screw the tents and what not! Just fucking leave, them behind!"
"Take all the stuff necessary and just fucking go!"
"We are leaving this place immediately!"
"We need to head back to the city as soon as possible and then deal with the rampaging flock of wyverns?!"
"You hear me you bastards!?"
"We are leaving!"
