Lord Of Puppets

Chapter 281: Chapter 281 – Development - Part 7.

<<It took sometime.... But the military base has been finally finished.>>

<<There was really no form of incident or any problem.... Yeah.... Huh...>>

<<It still feels weird, that it went that easily... I mean, at the very end I was expecting some kind of trouble.... But nope.>>

<<...>>

<<Yeah. It will really take me get used to this kind of situations.>>

<<But still, the first large project has been finished.>>

<<The outside base has been finished, creating a outpost where a large number of golems can be stored.>>

<<However, the outside as planned before was a cover up for a storage underground, which will be used to hold much larger number of the golems.>>

<<With the storage/military base created, I can now focus on creating as many golems as I want and then storing them inside of that place.>>

<<I only need only specific number of golems in there.>>

<<Once the target goal is reached, I can began the next preparations.>>

<<The construction of the fortress city.>>

<<However, there was a problem from the get go.>>

<<Or more exactly, several.>>

<<First thing first, construction of settlement isn’t cheap, as it require both materials and time to make.>>

<<And the bigger settlement you make, the more time and resources it will take in order to finish construction.>>

<<And city settlement, be it even a small scale city will still take months to finish.>>

<<And this won’t be just average sized city.>>

<<It will be a massive scale city, which would also function at the same time as fortress.>>

<<And those are the two extra problems.>>

<<The first is the size, this alone is self-explanatory.>>

<<But the second problem is the fortress part.>>

<<If I want to make that city into functional military base, a fortress that is also a city, then the cost will straight up skyrocket in form of both time and resources.>>

<<And this bring me to the next problem.>>

<<Workers.>>

<<I will need a LOT of worker type golems, even more than before.>>

<<Obviously while making the military base I was focused on making different form of construction golems... But I still need numbers and there may be a situation where I will have to make even more unique type golems.>>

<<However, there is also the biggest problem.>>

"What the hell should that guy make?" – asked Porai as she and Thauma, were communicating with Ariava with the help of communication device that Ariava left behind.

"Hm... That is actually a good question." – said Ariava while sitting in the middle of the fancy room, where a corpses of the two people were laying on the floor, butt naked man and a woman, while Ariava herself was sitting on top of luxurious bed.

"Honestly speaking, Thauma is curios about the outside world... And he would like to learn more about it."

"However the problem is that everybody see him as weapon to use or as a monster... Or just both." – said Porai.

{"We can soon start the construction of the city, but the question remains what to do."} – Thauma written its sentence on the piece of paper before then putting it in front of the orb like part of the communication.

{"You suggested that I should make a city, but is there by any chance something that you want me to make? A facility or something like that? Maybe castle?"}

"Hm.... Well, honestly speaking you should make me something like a house."

"Or more exactly, maybe you should make something akin to a castle that you can use to show off your power. It could also work as my own house as well as Porai’s house, if she would want to live there or visit."

"But I’m fine with just average home, but don’t make it poor, maybe bit fancy and big."

"..."

"Wait... That is it?" – asked bit annoyed Porai.

"You only want THAT?!"

"Hm? Don’t you want a house yourself there? A proper one that can also serv as your workshop?" – replied Ariava.

"Yes, I fucking do! I do want to have a proper house and laboratory here! But what you just requested is way too small!" – replied really annoyed Porai as she somewhat snapped and couldn’t contain her anger.

"..."

"I’m going to ask it straight."

"Why do you want Thauma to make that big of a city?"

"From what I know, you wanted the city to be some kind of symbol of power and authority, which is good thing.... But at the same time, it is a freaking city."

"So beside being a symbol, this city needs to be also be something else, since it is a bloody city."

"But what?"

"A settlement?"

"There is no way for him to even have some kind of human citizens or even open up trade publicly because of his image."

"A city for golems? It would only make sense if they were not object, but instead beings like Thauma."

{"Or by any chance, you want me to have people from empire live in my land?"}

"Nah. I’m not trying to make it too hard." – said Ariava as she extended one of the extra limbs in form of a tendril, before then grabbing a bottle of a wine alongside a wine glass from the table nearby and opening it in order to pour herself a drink.

"I don’t want Thauma to be my slave or anything."

"I do want him to somewhat repay me for all that I did, but that doesn’t fucking mean I want my own child to be nothing more than my personal and obedient slave."

"I want him to live his own life."

"For what he will do with the city... Honestly I don’t care."

"He can turn it into something like a golem producing factory."

"Or maybe he will turn it into the city where people could live inside of it."

"I don’t care."

"And I won’t force my will on him."

"As for why I want him to make that kind of big fortress city?"

"Well... It is simple really."

"I want him to survive."

"Thauma is problematic being to say the least."

"Simple put, he is too valuable."

"And not only that, the moment the existence of the Forged Skills will become known, then there will be without danger coming his way."

"So, the only way to somewhat deal with the problems of the future?"

"Is to start preparing now?"

"..."

"True...." – replied Porai.

(But why this LARGE?!) – thought conflicted Porai.

(I mean, I get that she would want Thauma to have a 100% security.)

(But he is also a dungeon master, he has a dungeon beneath him.)

(And that thing is still growing.)

(Honestly speaking, a small-scale fortress city will already function way better than regular fortress in the first place.)

(And that should be enough.... But again... Regular sized city should be a bare minimum because of these Forgot Skills existence.)

(However, a city of this large scale through?)

(....)

(This isn’t some overprotection.... No.)

(She knows that something big may happened in the future... But what?)

(And why isn’t she telling anything?)

"Hm?" – Ariava looked at the door while drinking some wine.

"Sorry, but I will have to end the call here. Since it seems work is calling. I will try to contact you later."

"See ya!"

"!"

"Hey! W-" – Ariava cut off the call before Porai could raise a complain.

"..."

*Sigh*

"Welp, this is annoying." – said Ariava as she got off the bed and opened up a rift in space, which she then walked right into.

"..."

"HALT!" – and few minutes later, the door leading to the bedroom was burst open as a group of knights in dark greenish armor made their appearance.

"Margrave D-"

"!?"

"What?!" – a man leading a charge of the knights instantly stopped in place, as he spotted the two people laying on the floor.

"...."

"They are dead sir." – said one of the knights who checked on the two nobles.

"It seems that killed by poison."

"Shit! The hell is going on?!" – said the leader of the knights as he put away his sword.

"The entire mansion is the same.... Every single servant seems to had died the same way. Even the private knights all died because of the poison." – said one of the knight that entered the room.

"Was their food poisoned?" – asked the leader of knights.

"We will check." – replied the knight who entered the room and then instantly left it again.

"..."

(Fuck! What the hell is going on?!)

(Traitors and corrupted nobles are being killed one by one.)

(Not only that... All the victims so far were also seemingly robbed....)

(But who is doing that and how?!)

(The methods all seems to be the same.... Cuts which let poison slip into the bodies.)

(But who does that and why?)

"SIR! WE HAVE EMERGENCY! AN ANGRY MOB IS STORMING THE ESTATE! THEY HAVE ALREADY MADE CONNTACT WITH OUR PEOPLE WHO WERE SECURING THE AREA!" – shouted the panicking young knight who entered the room.

"Shit! One after another!" – said the leader of the knights as stormed out of the estate while the knights outside were trying to calm mad mob of people.

(Welp, that is taken care of.) – thought Ariava as she was flying high above the air, observing the chaos that was happening.

(My methods.... Well, let not beat around the bush.)

(I straight up caused a genocide.)

(It may not had been truly a peaceful approach... But it was the only approach in order to somewhat stop this chaos.)

"..."

"Still... For me to being forced to do a genocide to stop the war.... What the hell is wrong with these people?"

(This ain’t even vampires or any other shady manipulator’s doing... Just pure... Stupidly.)

"..."

"Well... Job is a job...."

"..."

(Still... There is also the empire.)

(I don’t know what to do with them yet....)

(They haven’t revealed their "fangs" yet... So far, they were the most sane people here.)

(The same goes for the vampires.)

(There were few apples here and there, but nothing really noteworthy.)

(Are they really trying to create a "home" for vampires?)

(Or maybe they play nice since I’m watching?)

(...Well, if they do somehow spoke the truth, then the vampire race will have a chance at survival.)

(If they just stayed the same way as before.... Well? Vampires of this continent would straight up exterminate themselves.)

(But if this whole empire plan works out, then vampire race in this continent may once again be able to move and evolve.)

(But still.... There are also these two empires here.)

(By now they must had definitely heard about this new empire.... But so far there was no reaction from them.)

(No fucking wonder.)

(These two empires were present here for countless years.)

(They probably see this new empire as something new and "weak"... Which is correct, it is both new and weak.)

(However the problem is Thauma.)

(Right now it barely produces enough monsters to make the empire dangerous.... But if this alliance between the Thauma and empire lasts and the empire receives or buy more golems from Thauma, the nation will obviously grow in strength.... And this in turn could cause them to gain some attention.)

(Well, there is also "what" kind of attention they will give.... And it will depend fully on what sort of actions this Gorijy empire will take in the future.)

(If they stay quiet, then the peace could last for years and even decades.... But that is if they play it smart.)

"And first thing first... I need to first deal with this bullshit first, or this stupid fucking war may start off soon."

*Sigh*

"Maybe I should really consider wiping out these idiotic nations from existence."