Chapter 149 – War around the corner.
In the Berior kingdom, the two factions, the first prince faction and the first princess faction have both started preparing themselves for the upcoming war to the point where the whole kingdom knew about the whole situation.
"Princess. I have report regarding the appeal of the surrender." – said the knight that entered a room where the princess Elizabeth was alongside few knights who were currently in the middle of discussion.
"Let me guess, they declined my offer?" – asked princess Elizabeth.
"Yes." – replied the knight.
"Well, it was worth a try." – said the princess while reading documents.
"Knight Aderson."
"How are the preparation for the battle going?"
"Well… Its bit complicated." – replied the private knight of the princess guard.
"We had gained many new soldiers, but a lot of different soldiers and adventures have also joined the prince side instead."
"The reason is the Doctor. They believe that the Doctor is really working for the prince and some work with the prince out of fear or greed, thinking that they "Got it"."
"Not only that, but it seems both the prince and the church seemed to be desperate to the point they are offering a huge rewards for the adventures with the highest contribution if they were to won."
"The rewards promised are…. Quite big."
"And that did caused some more greedy adventures to join their side, but our side had more people join it, since the first prince faction are working with the terrorist and if they are desperate enough to give out those kind of rewards, then the people realized that they are much weaker than they had originally though."
"Right now, our forces are growing at much faster pace than them and we will be ready for battle much faster than them."
"I don't want to sound…. Well, overconfident. But the odds are in our favor."
"…."
"Well, you are not wrong knight." – said princess while reading documents.
(Currently the odds are in our favor, since the number of the recruits we had gained is much bigger compare to the opposite faction.) – though princess.
(Not only that, if the recruits on the other side joined because of the fear, then they could easily run away once things go south, causing the first prince faction to lose soldiers.)
(Not only that, but we had also gained a lot of support from the second prince factions remains, especially in terms of adventures.)
(And we had even recruited one of more well known and powerful adventurers guilds known as Hunting Wolves.)
(These guys were hand picked by my brother and they already had some reputation…. I even wanted to recruit them myself.)
(I also have the duke Magan on my side.)
(With those two factors, it caused more people to be more interested into joining my faction, both the citizens as well as the adventures.)
(But the problem is that first prince faction could have still some cards that have not showed yet or are doing something behind the scenes.)
(The Doctor who is an completely wild card and possible organization he is working for.)
(They killed my brother while nobody was expecting that.)
(He went from the chaos to whole assassination.)
(Honestly, it wouldn't be really surprising if they had ordered the Doctor to go and do the whole assassination thing again, this time on me.)
(But I'm fuking ready for you, you piece of-)
Somebody suddenly began knocking on the doors.
"…."
"Enter." – said princess.
Upon giving a permission, a person had entered the room.
"Excuse me princess… But you have a visitor." – said the servant that just entered the room.
"Hm?"
"…."
*Sigh*
"Its better be important…. Who is it?" – asked princess.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"It's the first queen and the second queen." – said servant.
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"What?" – said visible shocked and confused princess.
"…."
"Maybe… Maybe they came here to try and persuasion you from the war?" – said the private knight of the princess guard.
"…."
*Sigh*
"Okay…. I know it will be pain in the ass, but I should talk with them… Where are they?" – asked princess who visible didn't wanted to meet the two queens.
"Well, according to the coachman, the two queens wants you to meet you in their carriage… He said that the queens don't want to leave their carriage."
"He said that the queens are still taking the lose of the king quiet a lot and they don't wish to appear in public as much as possible."
"However, we confirmed that the two queens are in the carriage, since we saw their faces."
"…."
"Where are they?" – asked princess.
"Right in front of your mansion." – replied the servant.
"…."
"I understand." – said the princess as she got up from her seat.
"Lead the way."
The princess alongside her private guards had began fallowing the servant and before long, they had arrived near the mansion entrance and saw the carriage where the two queens were resting inside.
The coachman who was riding the carriage had gotten off the carriage and bowed his head to the princess.
"I greet the princess, Elizabeth." – said coachman while bowing his head.
"At ease." – said princess.
"…. They are waiting for me?"
"Yes. They said they wanted a full privacy." – said the coachman.
"…."
"Fine." - said princess as she began approaching the caravan.
However, while the princess was about to meet the queens, something was happening right in front of the city gates.
"Shit!"
"Let me pass you stupid morons!" – shouted a man in the light armor that was trying to enter the city.
"Sorry buddy, but no can do without checking." – said the guard guarding the gate alongside few other guards.
"YOU FUKING IDIOTS!"
"I'm a messenger of the fuking royal messenger! Can't you fuking see this symbol?!" – shouted the man as he pointed at the symbol on his shoulder.
"I came from the fuking capital city with the message to the first princess regarding the first and the second queen!"
"The fuking first queen and the second queen are both missing and presumably dead!"
The princess Elizabeth walked towards the carriage where the two queens were in and grabbed the carriage handle before then opening the door.
However, as soon as the princess opened the door, she stared confused before then starting to scream on top of her lungs, alarming the knights, but not the coachman who kept walking away.
The reason for the princess screaming were obvious.
The queens that were inside the carriage were two corpses stitched together with only their upper body and head looking human like their original selves.
"M-mom?" – said confused, scared and shocked princess who couldn't understand what kind of bizarre situation was happening in front of her.
However, while she was wondering what was going on, the coachman who was walking away had suddenly taken out something from his inventory and put it on.
And the thing he had put on was the plague doctor mask.
"Boom."
Moment later, the entire carriage began glowing before a giant explosion had occurred, blowing up the carriage to smithereens while also knocking away the knights that tried to rush in.
"?!"
"Ugh?!" – the princess found herself on the ground injured while having some sort of damaged barrier around self.
"Hm? Oh. You are alive?" – said the voice from behind the princess head.
"?!"
The princess looked up and saw the man in the plague doctor mask standing right next to her.
"Some sort of self-defense artifact? Good call." – said the Doctor as it observed the princess eyes getting filled with fear.
"But did you really think I would do the same kind of assassination method when I know you will full expected it?"
"So, yea. Sucks to be you." – said Doctor before transforming his right hand into a giant claw gauntlet and swinging it down at the princess and crushing her head.
The princess body twitched for a moment, before then stopping.
"…."
[The target [First princess of the Berior kingdom] has died.]
[5 out 7 targets have been taken down.]
"Didn't expected that, did you?!" – said the Doctor after killing the princess, Elizabeth.
"Shit! What the hell happened here?!" – shouted a guard that was rushing towards the scene.
"It came from the mansion! MOVE IT!" – shouted a knight.
"?!" – the knights who were knocked down as well as the people that came running at the scene where explosion occurred had ended up noticing a man in the smoke that was wearing the plague doctor mask.
As the smoke and dust settled down a bit, the people saw something beneath the man feets and moments later, they realized it was princess Elizabeth corpse.
[You have failed the quest: [Faction quest: Punish the traitors of the kingdom].]
[The leader of the first princess faction: Princess Elizabeth Boran has died.]
[The faction: [First Princess Faction] can no longer operate nor it possess the suitable leader.]
[The faction: [First Princess Faction] has been destroyed.]
"!?"
"What the shit?!" – said confused player.
"Wait, what?! The fuking princess is dead?!"
"Hey! What the hell happened?!"
"…."
"G-guild master… This is…" – said the member of the Hunting Wolf guild.
"…. Shit." – said Zeus.
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"THAT FUKING DOCTOR!" – shouted furious Zues who realized what must have happened.