Chapter 6: Pointing Fingers

Day 2

Nation: Cilldean Kingdom

Ruler: Queen Hawise Salman

Government: monarchy

Race: Humans

Population: 49,273,554

Territory: Moongret

City: Thann's End

It was a city of wide avenues and small places to sit and eat, to relax as folk went about their day. There were the Massive structures in the centre, made up of the Moongret castle, Auction house and Arena. The rest was residential homes of noble and rich merchants, small lands here and there that gives you a chance to walk among nature or cultivate peacefully, main point is, it's meant for the rich and powerful. Yet the best thing was the river that flowed through the centre, crossing the bridges, pausing just to look at the view every day was loved all the more.

It's as if there was no war going on at the kingdom borders or nobody noticed, too absorbed with other of enjoyment and ideas that locked the mind. All in all, this city was hailed by traveling merchants as the city of passion.

Now within the Moongret Castle, a middle aged man in a black robe stood by the windows in a room filled with books and a gloomy air hung around the atmosphere.

He stood there lost in thought as he waited for something patiently.

Knock! knock!

"come in" The middle aged man responded immediately, he turned towards the door, showing his scholarly face and the green diamond embedded on his forehead, signs of his status as a High human, while the green color showed he was a high leveled wind mage, at least a level above the Grand Order.

"Yes" a solemn voice came from the other side of the door before it was then opened.

"Greetings patriarch!" Another middle aged man dressing in full silver armor hastily said as he bowed slightly.

The high human only gave him a glance before looking out the window once more,

"skip the formalities and tell me, how was the mission go?!. was she alive?".

"Yes Patriarch"

"Good, she's only useful that way. at least the alliance would still hold...is there anything else?".

"Yes, two from the side branch were lost last night!, one was a rather promising knight."

"Hmph!, of what use are you telling me this?, simply compensate the respective families..." The high human replied while waving dismissively.

Suddenly remembering something else he said, "right where is Jethro?!, that is good seed".

The man in armor was suddenly quiet.

"Well?" The High human pressed for an answer.

"we haven't heard from him since last night".

"...." The room suddenly became much colder.

"What do you mean?, Explain from the begining" The high human's tone finally changing as he asked with a rather threatening tone.

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Meanwhile as soon as the morning came Alex approached the Elderly Orc as he watched the other Orcs talk excitedly about the matching tattoos while Some having a brawl of some sort.

The old Orc on the other hand seemed to be using herbs to treat Urim's hand and didn't notice the approaching Alex until Urim spoke, "Brother!".

"..." Alex could only awkwardly nod as he did not know how to deal with this human like orc, making Urim look at him with a confused expression. He quickly checked the Elder's status.

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Name: Dabok Blackmoon

Race: Orc

Level: 9(-)

Power rating: 1090

Relationship: Clan member.

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'If i'm to guess, most of his stats would be in Intelligence and from the look of things, almost all the Orcs here seem to be Lv9...they must have been very active in this area.'

"How's his hand?" Alex asked curiously.

"He live, small wound for Orc" Dabok said with a teasing smile, shocking Alex, 'He can even joke around, this two...why are they so different?'.

He decided to probe this Orc to see if there was any connection between him and the previous owner, "Dabok...can you write?."

Hearing this, there was no reaction as to why Alex knew his name, which shows they indeed knew each other.

"Why ask?, you know...I'm glad our plans finally succeeded but you change so much." Dabok responded as he scanned Alex from Head to toe.

"Brother Strong!!" Urim chimed in, Alex didn't say anything but his thoughts were spinning,' so they had planned a coup together but this previous body owner died during the duel before I transmigrated into his body'.

With this thought, Alex chose to play it safe as he didn't know what else to do about it.

"this you good!, Hahaha" Dabok concluded and didn't say anything else, proceeding with his earlier actions on Urim's palm.

"We'll leave in a few minutes" Alex said as he turned towards the direction of Jethro's body, He then dragged it and hung it on a stake he prepared even though he felt disgusted by the sounds he was hearing.

One thing about this action was that, he had read back then that this was the way the Degr kingdom handled their enemy's corpses, as a way to taunt others and a sign of disrespect. By doing this, he hoped to divert the dukes attention to Degr, long enough for him to grow.

Seeing his action, Dabok opened his eyes wide before yelling at the others with an Orc's version of an amused smile.

"Help the Chieftain!"

"""Ooooh!""" They immediately responded with vigor, finding it interesting.

At this time Alex could only narrow his eyes at this Suspicious Elder Orc, He had only planned to do this to this Jethro, since he seemed important to the group that attacked them yesterday. But now watching all the Orcs getting busy, he was reminded of an incident where he had sent a gift to a rival gang's boss, they had been fighting over a newly established dock just at the edges of the City, a hundred boxes containing the heads of his subordinates.

'Right, I don't need to do things by myself anymore...but...this Dabok is definitely not simple.' he thought as he looked at the Elderly orc once more before he joined the rest.

An hour later they all left...

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Thann's End,

Moongret Castle,

"You disappoint me Frank, Gather some soldiers, I want you to wipe them out and bring back the bodies of our Moongrets." Charles said Icily as the green diamond on his forehead flashed.

"Yes! patriach" The captain of the squad that led the soldiers yesterday accepted the solemnly despite being tired.

Just as Frank was about stepping out, Charles added, "Also, you best not fail or else...hehehe Sir Alan is always in need of new specimens for his experiments. I'm sure you wouldn't want to accidentally become one of them".

"..."Frank silently stepped out of the study.

Immediately, something stepped out of his shadows but Frank wasn't surprised at all.

"Unreasonable as always, Hey why don't we go all out this time?" The dark shadow creature said as it formed the silhouette of a human male.

Frank paused his steps within the dimly lit hallway for a second before saying,

"Sure" He then continued walking away with his Dark brown hair swaying ever so lightly with his rhythmic steps.

"hihihihihkikikhihihi" the creature soon laughed Creepily as it entered his shadow once more.