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Chapter 141: Learning Important Information

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Heracles and Gofumina got to the point pretty quickly, explaining almost everything they knew about the Silver Moon Duchy and everything they went through with their previous patron/master.

"The new ruler is named Ausberth Silver Moon, he is the previous ruler's younger brother, a pure-blooded vampire like her with a rather similar appearance as well," explained Heracles. "He's tall and slender and has an intimidating aura but is very talkative and calm at the same time and very sociable. I've rarely seen vampires with his weird attitude before. He seemed more grounded, but also even more cunning."

"Her brother?! I had no idea Helena had a brother! I've never seen him before…" Teressa said. "What in the world? Where was he hiding him this entire time?"

"It seems he might've been hiding in the shadows until the moment his sister died…" Vlad said. "Mother, do you think…?"

"It's probably he manipulated her into doing what she did, just to come die against us… Or, well, either result would've been beneficial to him, I suppose," Teressa said. "If they won, it was good, a new city for their territory, more resources, and so on; if she died with her son, still good for him as he got to take over it quickly."

"Interesting…" Insecta said. "Was the city of Silver Moon granted to Helena by the Emperor?"

"Yes, it was. Every one of his wives is given a city to manage; it has been this way for a long time," Teressa said. "He has four other wives. Of course, the Empire is large. The other cities are managed by older sons, his cousins, uncles, or brothers. The Emperor's family is vast, and so is our power and authority over the entire region."

"In the outside it feels like you're all a cozy and unified family, but it seems there's a lot of internal politics and conflicts, huh?" Chris wondered. "Like trying to kill each other to gain more cities and resources… Is this normal with the rest?"

"Yes, it is…" Teressa sighed. "I dislike it, of course. But it might be the natural course of action we must take with the Silver Moon Duchy. If we defeated Helena and her son, the most we can do is take over what we earned from their defeat: their city, people, and resources."

"Heracles, tell us more about this man and the city," Vlad said. "What exactly is he planning?"

"Yes, sure, boss," Heracles nodded after taking a sip of wine. "Lord Ausberth is an eccentric man, but he's not alone. There's a dark organization behind him, which was the one that granted him, his sister, and her son the power they used against you, most likely. We've only seen them a few times, but they don't cooperate with us, and we work separately. We don't know their name or anything, but they're composed of most races. There are Orcs, Werewolves, Imps, and Blood and Moon Elves. But no goblins, seems like they don't like our kind that much."

"The Desecrated Shadow King's Templars?" Vlad asked. "So that's where they're hiding now?"

"It seems we've found their second hideout! And that bastard of Ausberth is directly cooperating with those snakes? Is he stupid or something?" Teressa wondered.

"It seems he is receiving direct help from them in exchange for allowing them to work in his city. He also provides them with funds," said Heracles. "But I don't know for how long he'll be able to keep doing that. He wants to take over Elderbridge because of your Dungeons, he sees them as great resource points for his city so he can also keep fueling the funds for those bastards. I have no idea what their big plan is, though, other than just conquering the land... But that's vague, I suppose."

"It is good enough to guess most things…" Said Vlad with a nod. "Now, what else is he doing?"

"Well, he got three other groups, but they aren't honorable mercenaries like us; they're all Orc or Werewolf Barbarians he somehow got to work with him," said Heracles. "Those Templars or whatever they're called, most likely brainwashed their chiefs using dark magic. They hand over all kinds of trinkets to them freely, but they didn't give us a damn thing. How can they trust bandits over us?! Goblin discrimination at its finest!"

"So they have three Barbarian Groups on standby packed with dark and cursed weapons…" Vlad nodded as he saw Teressa writing things down on a floating grimoire with her own blood-covered nails. "Understood. Any other threats we should watch out for?"

"They got some strange Underworld Beasts trapped in the sewers," said Heracles. "Nasty stuff; they're feeding them civilians to keep them from rampaging! I think they're monsters the Templars tamed or something…"

"Like Argentia?" Wondered Chris. "They don't tame them; they're being brainwashed and enslaved using curse magic…! Fucking pricks."

Chris got angry out of nowhere; it seemed he pitied creatures like Argentia a lot, and if there were more dragons among them, he fully intended to save them.

"What else, Heracles?" Asked Vlad.

"Ummm… well, I can't remember any more than that? Ah well! He's arming his army really well, with dark cursed armor and nasty-looking weapons! He got around ten thousand soldiers."

"T-Ten thousand?!" Asked Teressa. "Where did he… get so many?! I thought that duchy was poorer than ours? Was I wrong?"

"He might be into shady stuff, Mother; he's probably getting soldiers from somewhere else entirely," Vlad said. "Anything else?"

"No, that's all," Heracles said confidently.

"Actually…"

However, Gofumina finally talked for the first time, scratching her head.

"I do know something… Ausberth, that guy. He has got some strange friends," said Gofumina.

"Strange friend?" Vlad asked.

"Yeah, I saw him talking with him… or her, some time ago," said Gofumina. "I think they didn't see me, but… Well, that person looked like they were straight out of a sci-fi game or movie."

"What?" Vlad wondered.

"Yeah, I mean it was definitely fucking weird, but if you want to know, I can tell you; it was certainly not someone from this Realm… or any other Realm that is out for the public, I think," Gofumina said.