General Fulcrum

It's been nearly 3 days since we raided Jinqiang and won. Also, it's been 3 days since one of the highest ranking people in Destinasia, Sir Dunham, has been executed along with his men.

I fully expect a reaction from the royals in the capital in maybe a week or so. If they use a speed based soldier or messenger, then a week or shorter is very possible.

Right now however, I'm still trying to grow my army of men so I can react to the punishment that the nobles will sentence me to.

Despite knowing that the nobles will be mad, I'm very confident that they won't do anything to harm me at the moment. Why? It's blatantly obvious.

If they get rid of me, then Hana, Anna and Ha-neul won't be as cooperative for the last siege of the capital, the most important part of this entire war.

If the capital siege fails then this war would be an insane waste of time. Yes, Lambert and the other war profiteering companies made money from this but the real business is with the horns.

Everyone wants the horns.

Again, I walk up to another group and do my usual shtick of befriending, showing and giving. It works nearly all of the time. Being a hero helps a lot as well.

However, there are some better thing I need to do such as prepare for the final siege.

In around 1-2 weeks time, there will be a rendezvous here in Jinqiang and by that point, the army of the humans will be too big to stop. Now, I need to prepare myself to meet the new Generals and possibly, allies of Dunham.

To do this, I need to prepare myself by allying with the present Generals. I may be allied with them for now but come time when the gold isn't enough and it's outweighed with political pressure, they will fold.

Right now, I'm about to meet with General Fulcrum for a second time. He was one of the more reluctant Generals to cooperate with me.

All I need from him is his support and his word. How will I do this? I can't use the cigarette trick on him but I can use a different version of moss that I found out about just recently...

A few days ago...

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Right now, I'm cooking my food pack in a boiling pot of water over a small campfire. I prefer eating the Danlia food packages since it's the VIP version and is much better than the regular ones.

Realizing that I forgot to take the flavoring packet, I stand up while trying to light up my cigarette that's hanging out of my mouth.

Due to me wanting to be alone, I'm in a very isolated part of the camp and they know that I can properly defend myself, so it's all good.

Some soldiers came up to me and have been asking about my cigarettes so I decided on an isolated area.

Yes, I did give them their cigarettes but I still get tired too, okay? I needed a break and I was starving so I stopped my little giveaway for a while.

As the fyr crystal reaches up to touch the tip of my cigarette, I miscalculated the speed and the direction of the fyr crystal and accidentally knock it out of my mouth.

As a regular human, I try grabbing it in the air but nothing ever came of it, despite my speed.

The cigarette falls in the boiling water and despite me never trying this, I felt it may be a very interesting test. What if it makes a weird, weed brownie type thing?

The current dinner I'm having is basically like ramen or pasta with a beef and cream flavor; it's very delicious and very tasty. The moss, still being wrapped in a golden leaf, is something like a Rosemary being tied to a string and dropped into a chicken dish.

After 2 minutes or so, the originally white cream turns a slight murky gray-ish color becuase of the Poltergeist's Joy. Sure, it doesn't look appealing to the eyes but hey, it's drugs mixed with food.

What could go wrong?

Well, a lot of things and if you thought I was goin it eat it like that, you're dead wrong. I first take a little bit of it and lay it out on the forest floor so that a little animal can try it for me.

Not too long after, a little beige rabbit came up and nibbled on the pasta for a while before stopping; it looked shocked and his eyes were dilated.

Soon, he continues eating but with an immense amount of vigor. As if someone or something were to take it away, he ate like his life depended on it...now I'm curious.

I bring over one of the soldiers that was begging for some cigarettes and made him try a new thing I made using the cigarettes. Excited and full of anticipation, he immediately follows me over to my camp.

Taking a bite of my newly made pasta, his eyes look exactly like that little rabbit earlier; all dilated and full of lust and craze. He digs in like it's his life force or he was just saved from a desert.

He looks at me with begging eyes and after 5 minutes, he goes into withdrawal. Convulsing and mildly paralyzed, he lies on the floor for a while before getting up, shivering and clacking teeth, and finally returned to his old camp.

'Huh...this is interesting...'

Present time...

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Readying my very own dish of pasta for General Fulcrum, I start experiment #001 of Operation Siege. Let's get work now.

As I walk into the tent of General Fulcrum, I see it's very clean and whiter than a hospital.

'Phewwww, come on come on...'

"Ahh, you brought food?"

"Uhuh. This is for our upcoming negotiations"

I make sure that the pasta is placed in a container rather than separately placed in different plates. This is to cull the suspicious down a little bit more.

As I take a bit of the top layer of pasta and add some of the drugged bottom underneath it, I do the same for myself.

Now General Fulcrum, let's play...

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