Chapter 261: Chapter 261 – Other deal.
<<The agreement was made.>>
<<The empire had officially agreed to the proposed terms and decided to sign the contract.>>
<<The contract wasn’t signed out right, since the families of the two leaders needed to be present on the contract signing, since apparently this is the "bloodline" type contract.>>
<<So, the empire representatives left the dungeon and the forest all together, in order to prepare themselves for the contract signing.>>
"And with that, everything is over." – said Ariava.
"You will obtain your peace and there will be everything okay! End of the story!"
"..."
"I still can’t freaking believe it." – said Porai.
"I mean, from their point of view, they are probably thinking that you are scheming something big time."
"They probably didn’t really agreed to deal only because it was good, but also because they knew you would just kill them on the spot if they disagreed."
(You pretty much left them with no choice but to accept or die.) – thought worried Porai.
(Still.... I do feel like you left few loop holes here and there.)
(There is no fucking way you had given them such an extremely good deal without leaving some things for you to exploit.)
"..."
"Still... I’m going to ask you something." – asked Porai.
"Are we going to tell them about our own deal?"
"Hm.... Well, I didn’t written anything about it." – said Ariava.
[Upon signing the contract, the person Porai Kuris will be released from the current forceful imprisonment that she is currently enduring by the hands of the party B and party C.]
"This was the only part that I’ve had written."
"There is nothing about you being forbitten from going back to the dungeon and working with us."
"Right Porai?"
"..."
"No... There is nothing preventing me from that."
[Few days ago.]
"I’m back!" – said Ariava as she returned to the dungeon.
"!?"
"Wait, wasn’t that way too fast?!" – asked alarmed Porai.
"Don’t tell me... Did you mass brainwash everybody or something like that?"
"Nah. That plan would suck and only work temporarily non the less." – said Ariava as she took out a bean bag from her personal space and instantly sat down on it.
"First thing first. The lord was deal with. He won’t be trying to make any move... Or did something happened while I was away?"
"Well... No. But there were few people scouting things around." – said Porai.
"But they never entered the forest..."
"Hm... Probably that knight captain’s doing. He was probably thinking about rebelling... Although. The lord will try to stop him long enough for the emperor Gustav and the vampire leader called Korwan."
"???"
"Wait, hold up." – said Porai.
"You talked with them?"
"Yeb. I’ve had personally met them both and made arrangement for them to come here."
""!"
"Wait! Stop! What are you talking about!? You just had meeting with them!? This place is nowhere near...." – said Porai as she then paused upon realizing something.
"..."
"You used teleportation." – said Porai, as she realized how Ariava managed to quickly arrive at the capital city of the empire and quickly get back to the dungeon.
"Yeb. I mean, it allows me to quickly travel back and forth." – replied Ariava.
"And there was really no time to waste either, so I did kind of needed to meet them ASAP and stuff."
"So yeah."
"Thauma." - said Ariava as she turned towards the golem.
"You will be having soon some guests coming here that you will have a peace talk with."
"If all goes well, you will obtain the peace."
"But still. I need to somewhat prepare you for it all."
"I will be doing most of the talking, but depending how the talk goes, you may end up needing to speak up."
"However, there is also one more thing."
"You Porai." – said Ariava as she turned towards the vampire, who instantly grew nervous.
"..."
"So, do I die now?" – asked nervous Porai as she thought about taking out her liquid metal.
"No." – replied Ariava.
"If anything, I want you to offer you... A fair deal."
"So, there is no need to even think about fighting, since I don’t plan on doing anything." – said Ariava as she pulled two more massive bug pillows.
"Common. Sit down, both of you."
"..."
Porai and Thauma sat down on their respective bags.
"Well then.... Here what I want to talk about."
"2 things."
"Both which would benefit all 3 of us respectfully."
"First."
"Golemancy."
"Wouldn’t you like to research and experiment the golemancy alongside Thauma? Simple put, teaching him or maybe having obtain some special research yourself."
"I know golemancy somewhat myself, but I’m not really specialist in that area."
"I do know how to properly use, since I did learn it for one my personal researches.... But I think you would do better, since you had been making golems for years."
"Not only that, I think you could possible benefit from doing a research with a being like Thauma."
"..."
"And the other thing?" – asked Porai who still had her guard up, despise looking somewhat interested at Ariava’s offer
"The second thing that I want is for you to join the Forged Skill research." – said Ariava.
"!?"
"What?! You want to me to research that?!" – asked alarmed Porai.
"Calm down and let me explain." – said Ariava in somewhat annoyed way as Porai was panicking.
"First thing first." – said Ariava as she turned towards Thauma.
"Thauma."
"I’m going to say this outright."
"You fucked up."
"You fucked up BIG TIME!"
{"What do you mean?"}
"The Forget Skills." – said Ariava.
"As we talked before, there was never anything like that out there in the world, nor anybody obtained anything like that with their own research."
"Honestly, your discovery could be called one of the best if not the current highest discoveries of the century."
"However at the same time, you may had unleashed onto this world something that will cause the change to the whole world."
{"?"}
{"What do you mean?"}
"Well.... Simple put.... Everybody will want it." – said Ariava.
"And I mean it."
"What you did would bring a whole revolution to the entire world."
"Simple put, your Forget Skills so far only work for a non-living beings, golems, right?"
{"That is correct."]
"Okay. Okay."
"Now image this."
"What if those Forget Skills were to work on not only on the created creatures."
"But also at the regular creates."
"Like humans for example?"
"..."
"..."
"Oh shit." – said Porai as the color from her face just drained.
(Work on the humans?) – thought Thauma.
(Well, if it were to work on hu-)
"..."
"..."
"It clicked, didn’t it?" – said Ariava.
"Yeb."
"Even if it ONLY works on the golems right now, it would not stop many people from trying to get their hands on it."
"Since they may end up thinking about ways of transforming the Forge Skills in the way that would allow them to use it on people."
"And the moment that discovery is made, the whole world will shake."
"..."
"Fuck... Then that means fucking having peace talk with the empire will mean shit, if the entire continent would straight up declare war on them." – said Porai.
(There are also these two empires out there and they are the real threat... If they were to "race" here....) – thought Porai as she could picture the whole continent on fire.
(This bastard... He REALLY fucked up!)
"You may had made a discovery of the century, but you did way too quickly and way too early." – said Ariava.
"Right now? You would just get devoured the moment the Forged Skills became a public knowledge."
"And I won’t be here all the time... There is a good chance that if I were to look one moment away, you would end up getting killed."
"You somewhat gotten strong to deal some random nobodies."
"But what about some stronger bastards?"
"B ranks? A ranks? Or even S ranks?"
"There is a good chance that the moment any of the adventurers from the fallowing ranks comes here, they would eat you."
"And there is a good chance it won’t be like one or two either, since you have a fucking army here."
"And who is to say that the army of weaklings won’t take you down?"
"Even a dragon will die if they head is cut off. No matter if a single person did that or if 100 people did that together."
"Let’s say that I will help out the empire."
"Not only deal with the problem regarding the instability, but also make them stronger.... How can we know that they will survive?"
"Even if you were to straight up make alliance with them, what would happened if something big enough will appear that would swallow the empire whole?"
"You need strength."
"You need to obtain your own strength that will be at its peak, without the empire support."
"One of your main problem regaining the growth is the problem with materials needed for the experiment and development of the new golems."
"It will help you out in growth."
"You will probably also have easier time about learning about the world after the peace was established."
"HOWEVER!"
"You also will need to continue developing the Forget Skills."
"Em.... Isn’t it better if he just never uses them?" – asked Porai.
"Nah... He needs to exploit them." - said Ariava.
"The risk is there.... But Thauma needs to take it if he wants to grow."
"Not only that, I don’t want to halter my child’s growth and potential."
"Still, the problem is timing."
"Thauma currently obtained the flag, and the moment he plants it, he will begin a new age of skills."
"If Thauma puts the flag down too early or if somebody discovers that Thauma posses that flag, which would result in Thauma putting down the flag without his consent."
"Pretty much, he would be fucked."
"So, again. The only answer is to get stronger."
"Once he becomes strong enough, he will be allowed to plant his flag."
"And that is where you and me come in." – said Ariava as she looked at Porai.
"Thauma."
"This is a proposition that you don’t need to accept."
"But would you mind adding us to your Forget Skill research?"
"What do you say?"
"..."
(True.... With Ariava’s help, I would definitely advance the Forget Skills researchers as the astonishing rate.) – thought Thauma.
(And as for Porai.... She is similar to me somewhat.... So maybe she will also be a good addition as well......)
(Yes... With both of them, it could-)
"Em. Before you make any decision. I need to speak like RIGHT NOW!" – said Porai.
"Am I safe?"
"I mean, you were talking about the safety and what not, but what about me?"
"TRUE! I’M VERY INTERESTED IN THAT FORGET SKILL RESEARCH!"
"But at the same time, what will happened to me the moment I start researching the Forget Skills? Will I be something like a slave? Or will I be permanently banned from using it myself?"
"Hm... Well... Let’s think about it." – said Ariava.
"Thauma. You call the shots."
"?!"
(Me?!) – thought Thauma.
"..."
"..."
{"Well, it is as Ariava said, it is better if we keep it a secret."}
{"However, there won’t be any problem the moment the Forget Skills become a public knowledge, will there?"}
{"I’m fine with both of you using it the moment the Forget Skills become public."}
"...So, you are saying, we are fine with using it, for experiment and what not... What about personal use? For example, use it but keep it a secret?" – asked Porai.
{"As long as the secret isn’t revealed, then I’m also fine."}
"In the nutshell, we have full permission to utilize the Forget Skills, even without your permissions." – said Ariava.
"But we are not allowed to be open about it."
"We can use it, even when it is still not a public knowledge."
"We can research on our own."
"But we need to keep its identity a secret until it is made public."
"Is that correct?"
{"Yes."}
"..."
"Welp, that sounds like extremely good deal for me." – said Ariava.
"What about you? Porai?"
"..."
(FUCK ME! THIS IS GOOD!) – thought Porai who barely could hide her excitement from straight up bursting out from her body.
(I mean, THAT AND THIS?!)
(One thing is researching golems with this bastard, which could be extremely beneficial... I could also research his race and possibly create something maybe like him?!) - thought Porai as she could no longer hide her smile.
(The research on that guy alone is more than worth it!)
(And the Forget Skills on top of that?!)
(When will I ever get opportunity like that ever again!?)
(I’m dealing with Ariava Byrawa here! A monster! A fucking boogie monster that terrified countless vampires!)
(The moment I agree to this deal, it could be same as agreeing to a freaking devil!)
"..."
(But....)
"Fuck it." – said Porai.
"I’m in."
"..."
"Well then, your shot." – said Ariava as she turned towards Thauma.
"What is your final verdict?"
"..."
{"I’m okay."}
{"I agree to have both of you join me in my Foged Skill research."}
(With their help, I will be able to evolve my Forget Skill research!) – thought excited Thauma.
(...Still... What Ariava said worries me.)
(The people will "want me"?)
(They will hunt me down because of my discovery?)
(How..... Much.... Did I screwed up?)
(...)
(Considering how Ariava and Porai acted this and that time.... It would suggest I truly obtained something far more dangerous that I could had ever imagined.)
"..."
(But still, I need it.)
(I NEED IT!)
(If the enemy will truly come my way because of the Forget Skills, then what is the point of hiding it?)
(No.)
(I will use it.)
(And I will master it.)
(That is the only path for survival.)
(And the freedom.)
(Strength.)
(I will obtain it no matter what.)
