37 Chapter 37: The Reveal of the True enemy!
'Thinking'
"Talking"
[System]
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- Unknown -
"Your highness!" A man with light skin, uncombed reddish-brown hair, red eyes, and scarlet wolf-like ears and a bushy scarlet tail yelled as he rushed through a pair of grandiose doors.
"Hmm... Leon? What's the matter?" A dark-skinned woman, wearing a revealing leather outfit, rippling muscles, and full of scars all over her body, with wolf-like ears and a tail like a wolf asked.
"The Ice nation has suddenly begun gathering troops and are marching near the Arkadian and Trikru borders." the man said frantically while kneeling.
"You think?" she said with a slightly shocked expression on her face.
"I do, your highness. I've already attempted contact with the White Wolf king who resides in Azgeda territory, but we've had no luck in contacting him."
"Damnit! Call on all of the nearby Wolf clans, tell them that their Queen is calling, and it is time to answer."
"I will do so immediately, your highness." Leon said before standing up and preparing to leave.
"And Leon?"
"Yes, your highness?"
"Prepare the Holy artifacts and get in contact with the Arkadian Kingdom, they will prevail where the commanders of the past have failed. I won't let them gain an inch of ground this time." She said gritting her teeth in anger.
"Understood, your highness. I will send an envoy to Arkadia immediately and prepare the artifacts for worthy recipients. There plague will be extinguished once and for all." Leon said with a nod before turning around and running out.
'This war will be the deciding war of which species is better fit in this world. Werewolves or Vampire's, we will be the winners!' The Wolf Queen thought while ferociously slamming her fist down onto the arm of her throne slightly cracking it. 'Oops...!'
- Capital of the 12 Clans: Polis -
- King Arthur Pendragon -
"Marriage?" Lexa asked with a happy grin on her face.
"Yeah, we've been constantly meeting together for the past three months, both on official and on nonofficial matters. Also, when we get married it will bind the Arkadian Kingdom and the lineage of the commander's together resulting in genetically superior night bloods despite the conclave." I say smiling.
"Genetically superior night bloods, huh? You really do think highly of yourself don't you Arthur?" she asked in jest.
"Of course, I do, I have one of the strongest nations in the entirety of the known world and I am easily superior to the normal human." I say while enveloping my arms around her and grabbing a firm hold of her rear.
"Mhmm... Oh yeah, for all that superior talk you certainly don't treat others as such?" she asked while eyeing my lips like they were candy.
"That's because I know of something called treat others how you wish to be treated, or in other words respect." I say placing my forehead against hers.
"Very respectable, very honorable." she says leaning up to kiss me on the lips. Pulling back until our lips are a hairsbreadth away, she whispers, "Husband~."
At that something within me snapped and I launched myself onto her lips in a frenzy, kissing her deeply as her tongue immediately tries to force its way into my mouth. I break off the kiss as my hands come down to rest on either side of her hips as I stare down into her aroused and loving gaze, "So, is that a yes?"
"Yes, now place that ring on my finger, we have a clan meeting in an hour. We'll make the announcement there, that way the Azgeda representative will be forced to make a scene and hopefully spill something he shouldn't and allow us to justify the beginning of a war." she said lifting up her hand while flashing me a gorgeous smile.
I quickly reached into my back pocket and snatched the ring out before carefully placing it on her ring finger. "I'll have you know that this is made out of reinforced silver and will help improving your Aura and its abilities."
"It's beautiful." she said starstruck.
"Hey, that's not the point-..."
"Shut up, I heard you." she said while still maintaining her smile.
Grumbling under my breath, I watched as she continued to stare at the ring before activating a small amount of her Aura causing a turquoise protective shield to form around her.
"Impressive... now, come on we have a clan meeting to attend." she said as she began to walk out of her bedroom.
"Yes, honey, I understand."
"Shut it."
- An hour later | Commander Throne room -
Twelve rusted scrap metal chairs were set in a semi-circle formation, all of them sitting in front of the throne of the commander. Including the twelve representatives, there was me and the people I brought along with me all standing up against the wall on the left of the throne, a total of twenty of Lexa's personal guards littered throughout the room, as well as Titus standing on the thrones right, and Indra standing on the right.
Lexa walked in with her battle armor on and stood in front on the ornate wooden throne, Lexa then nodded towards the representatives indicating for them to take their seats. All of them kneeled before her, except one. A man with long blonde hair and dreadlocks with Azgeda markings on his face. He also wore leather armor, white clothes, and a fur coat, indicating that he was the representative from the Ice Nation.
Lexa simply starred at the man, even when he took a step towards her causing Titus to rise to his feet.
"Azgeda na spek yo daun gon yo Heda." Titus said threating. (Ice Nation will bow before your Commander)
Indra briefly glances up to see who is causing the commotion and is not surprised to see that it is the Ice Nation representative.
"Heda-de beda spek em daun gon Azgeda, you." He snarled. (The Commander should bow before Ice Nation.)
Titus and the man both began to take steps towards each other until finally they were face to face in the middle of the room.
"Heda nou spek em daun gon non nowe." Titus once again said threating. (The Commander bows before no one.)
"Stand down, Titus." Lexa spoke up. Titus nodded before taking a step back away from the man.
"Seintaim em seimbeda sleng kom baga." the man said to the other clan representatives. (She even prefers the enemy's language.)
"And you will use it too, in honor of our guests this evening. Now, sit. We have more important matters to discuss." Lexa said causing the kneeling clan representatives to finally take their seats.
"Yes, we do." The man said after Lexa had taken her seat. "For example, why is Skaikru allowed to expand so much within your borders? Are you too weak to handle it, if so Azgeda will happily step in."
"Is that why your army has moved so close to Polis, because you believe the commander is weak?" Titus asked with a sinister tone of voice.
"Oh, those are just military exercises." the man responded simply.
"Exercises? You crossed the border into Trikru land. An army within striking distance of our beloved capital." Indra spoke up.
"A mistake that is being rectified, one that should be well known."
"The Ice Queen doesn't make mistakes. She makes threats, and with this supposed new ally or backer of yours I very much doubt that they are simple exercises." Titus said causing a few of the clan representatives to look towards each other in worry at the news of an Azgeda ally.
"If I may ask who is the informant for this new ally that they have? Who has given you this information?" I asked, causing everyone to turn and look towards us.
"I did." A man said entering the throne room. The man had traditional Azgeda markings on his face and was tall with an athletic build and long brown hair. [Observe]
[Roan]
Titles: The Banished Prince, Rejector of Immortality
Race: Human
Level: 58
Class: Sentinel
Class Level: 100
HP: 58,800
MP: 30,000
'How does he have a class?' I thought to myself.
"P-Prince, Roan! What a surprise!" The man said suddenly nervous.
'Wait.' That's when suddenly I picked up a scent, a familiar scent to be sure, but a scent no one should have on them right now. Blood. Casting my gaze towards the nervous Azgeda representative I cast [Observe].
[Anat]
Titles: Immortal, Clan Representative, Killer of innocents
Race: Vampire
Level: 19
HP: 15,950
MP: 7,870
In a bolt of speed, I was suddenly next to the man slamming his head into the stone floor beneath us.
*CRACK*
The floor slightly cracked due to my strength, and the vamp was nearly killed instantly. I summoned Dark Sister from my inventory and pressed it against his throat. "Talk."
"Cough... Cough... What do you want to know?" he rasped out after spitting up blood.
"Who's backing the Ice Nation?"
"The Vampire's." He said causing a few in the room to gasp in horror.
"Why?"
"Because they promised Queen Nia and the rest of Azgeda immortality! They bolstered our forces by another thousand easy, and all it took was for us agreeing to help them exterminate the werewolves." he said with a laugh that soon caused him to spit up more blood.
"How many troops do you have then?" I asked pressing the blade deeper into his throat.
"Thousands! You'll never win! When this war is over you'll all be either kneeling beneath us or food." he croaked out.
"Then I think that is all the information we needed." I said before slitting his throat. "All guards search the floor, find anyone suspicous or that smells of blood or reacts to silver, go!" I shouted towards Lexa's personal guards. And for a split second all they did was stare blankly at me, that was until Lexa spoke up.
"What are you doing?! Follow my husband's commands!" she shouted causing everyone to go wide eyed and mouth agape at the words. Her guards quickly rebounded however and raced out of the throne room in search of any possible enemies.
After that chaos erupted as Titus and the other clan leaders were questioning Lexa about what the meaning of her words were. My people were all looking at me with confusion on their faces, well except for Octavia who was just smirking. Then suddenly a single voice pierced through the noise.
"How did you know?" asked Roan, the banished prince of Azgeda.
"I could smell fresh blood, and once I homed in on the source, I could tell that he practically reeked of it." I responded before quickly standing up and holding my arm out in greeting. "King Arthur of the Arkadian Kingdom."
"Prince Roan of Azgeda, though I should probably say former prince." he said, accepting my greeting. "Is what the Commander said true? That you and her?" he asked.
"You see that emerald ring surrounded by silver on her ring finger?" I asked while pointing at it. "I gave her that earlier today."
"Political marriage?" he asked.
"Partially, we were already in a romantic relationship. We were forced to tie the knot now though due to the incoming war."
"Then what about the ladies over there?" he asked pointing towards Clarke and Lexa who were smiling and waving at me.
"They're mine as well." I said with a grin.
"Lucky bastard." Roan muttered.
'Damn right I am.' I thought happily.
- A few days later | On the Way back to Arkadia -
After that Lexa had explained to the eleven clans and Titus that we would be engaged for now and that once the war was over then we would officially marry, tying my nation and the Commander's line together.
In the time since then the clans have begun gathering their troops and have begun marching towards the Ice Nation borders.
Floukru or the boat people have sent eighty men.
Trikru or the Woods Clan have sent four-hundred troops and are gathering another two hundred.
Sangedakru or the Desert Clan are sending general Agni and one-hundred and ten men.
Trishanakru or the glowing forest are sending one-hundred and thirty men.
Yujleda or the Broadleaf Clan are sending two-hundred and sixty men.
Boudalan or the Rock line have already established a border line with two-hundred men and are gathering another three hundred more to reinforce it.
Podakru or the Lake People and their general Apollo have already engaged in combat with Azgeda and currently we've lost contact with the main Lake People army of one-hundred and eighty.
Ouskejon Kru or the Blue Cliff have also established a border line with their main army of one-hundred and sixty men, they've also sent a few men to help Rock Line and a small unit of twenty men to join the Commander's army.
For the Delfikru or the Delphi Clan we weren't able to receive the size of their armies, but we do know that their army went to support the Lake people and that we've also lost contact with them.
Ingranronakru or the Plains Riders have been able to send general Icarus and five-hundred armored horse men to the capital while also sending a force of one hundred to go and check on the Delphi clan and the Lake people armies.
Louwoda Kliron or the Shallow Valley clan have sent a general by the name of Archon leading a force of one-hundred and thirty men. And whereas Agni uses his flame magic and a single-handed longsword, Icarus uses a two-handed longsword or great sword, Archon uses an elemental spear. Archon uses the elements of water and earth, as well as a special branch of nature magic which has qualities similar to a druid.
So far, the army is at the grand total of one-thousand six-hundred and thirty men, but that is without the size of the Arkadian military and with my military the number comes out to one-thousand eight-hundred and nineteen men. Not only that but my force of one-hundred and eighty-nine men could easily take on a force two to three times its size. Now, the only thing I need to do now is start mass producing silver bullets and read up on and distribute copies of the 100: Cryptid Guidebook so that the soldiers will know what they're getting themselves into.
"Arthur!" Bellamy yelled as he began slowing down the Humvee.
"What?" I asked.
"Look, who are they?" Bellamy asked, pointing towards three figures that are standing outside the main gates of Arkadia.
"No way..." I mutter as I watch two of them have gray fluffy ears and tails that sway side to side with the wind and the one in the center has ears and tails the color scarlet. "Bellamy stop the Humvee it seems we have guests." I said, ignoring the looks that the others gave me.
"Are you sure?" Bellamy asked unsure.
"Yes." I said in affirmation.
The Humvee slowly came to a stop outside of the main gates. I quickly opened the side door and asked, "Who are you?"
The one in the middle of the three-man group had light skin, uncombed reddish-brown hair, red eyes, and scarlet wolf-like ears and a bushy scarlet tail.
"My name is Leon Luís, and I am a werewolf, I have come from my Queen the Grey Wolf Queen about the desperate situation with the Ice Nation and their supporters the Vampires. We were hoping that we could meet and come to an agreement or alliance of sorts."
"Arthur?" Bellamy asked.
"Sure thing, get in the back we'll take you to our command center, we can discuss things further there."
Leon smiled nodded and responded, "We'd be happy to." Leon and his two guards then moved to the back of the Humvee climbed in and then we were back on our way.
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A/N: Last chapter took me longer then usual to figure out how I wanted to take it, this one was pretty easy and let's hope it stays that way. Hope you all enjoyed it!
