142 72. Ominous Vibes. (1/2)
Plato smiled as he nodded and agreed, ”That's true, we all have our own agendas and convictions. I find this as a big opportunity this time around.”
Luke arrived in the hall and invited them in.
Luke greeted them and invited them in as he saw them in the hall, ”Its good you both arrived on time, His Majesty is already waiting for us, Lets go. Lets not make him wait any longer.”
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King Lionheart Asked them after telling them the situation, ”I don't want bullshit greeting. Lets get to the point, I am sure you guys must have already realized the consequences after his speech. So what do you guys think we should do Plato? Master?”
Plato then again reconfirmed from the king, ” Your Majesty, Are you sure that Count John is going to provide blueprints of the Ballista in a few days.
King and Luke nodded and confirmed that Count John had indeed promised them to deliver the blueprints.
Luke reconfirmed and spoke, ”Yes, there are no doubts about this Minister Plato. I personally spoke with Count John, he gave his word when we conversed previously.”
Plato confusingly thought and spoke, ”Why is he doing that now? Is he so desperate now as Demons are asking for more or he has confidence that we will not betray? or is he baiting us into taking action against him? But does that small count even has the capital or army matching us and the strength to bait us? This is quite confusing.”
Plato thought and continued as he bought various scenarios, ”In this case, I think we should be neutral until the end and attack only in the end. This will help us weaken Duke Fjord and he will be forced to make concessions and reveal some of the secrets of his Warships to us. However, if we want to eat up Count John and his wealth then we would have to deal with Bluesea house as well which could be very tricky and we need to be careful.”
Lionheart nodded and revealed his plans, ”Well, I have a perfect plan for this, Recently Fire-abyss Prince Chad recently contacted us and proposed a cooperation deal with us. They only wanted Printing technology in exchange for their help in solving the Bluesea house's problem. Currently, he is one of the princes who is vying for the throne. They can make a situation at Bluesea domain so that Vlad would be forced to return to the Fire-Abyss kingdom or even if he doesn't return, they at least won't be able to send men and help them. We can strike them at that point.”
Plato didn't give his opinions and waited for Eanred opinion first, He asked Eanred, ”What do you think Master Eanred?”
Earned thought carefully and said, ”If we take a neutral position then this will undoubtedly send our intentions to Count John that we don't intend to protect him whether it is politically or militarily, do you still believe he will trust us. I am guessing he is hiding something, this time we saw a lot of dead bodies and it can't happen unless it is a big war. It was at the land and water borders of the North-frontier city, they were full of dead bodies and the most notable thing was their new types of walls and weapons, I couldn't even identify how do they use that weapon and I could only see the glimpses not how they were used. However, If we support that count then Fjord will certainly take help from Dwarves and this will open a Pandora Box which will fill the whole region into a big war. However, we have a very big army while that count doesn't even have that much population to match our army. So it would be safe to bet on Fjord and keep the chaos as low as possible while gaining the most benefits out of it.”