476 Grey Legion’s Mastermind (1/2)
Apart from the insiders of the Undead Nation, nobody truly understood what they did or who was important. They just knew not to mess with them too much and generally avoided them entirely for non-business transactions. Who knew what sort of curses you could get if you accidentally offended someone who knew magic?
Sylvia the Silver Witch was the one true mistress in power of that messed up country so it surprised Mitchnew greatly to know that while she controlled of the best magic school on Earth and was the main go-to person for mage services, there were still other parties who allied themselves with smaller merchant groups and guilds. The person who took on most of these illegal deals was the mistress of Grey Legion and someone jealous of Sylvia's success.
”We know who is behind Grey Legion and a lead for the slaves are taken to,” Mitchnew told Truen when he was finally finished his soak. The spell's effect had finally worn off and their hostage simply became very silent, horrified by the things he told them under the influence of Seraph's Command.
Patiently, Truen listened to Mitchnew introduce the mastermind as a banshee necromancer. Initially, he thought that all necromancers were undead or liches like Soon but he was wrong. The Banshee called Jynx with the title of ”The Engraver” for her ability to 'engrave' beautiful undead puppets was actually a ghost. She led the ghost and spirit race instead of the undead.
”And the purpose of slavery is...?” he asked.
Mitchnew turned grim. ”Souls. They require souls for furthering the ghost path of cultivation. As for the bodies, she sells it to whoever wants them, mostly to the undead nation and sometimes to Sylvia who might need something for her organic transmutation experiments. From what I heard, Sylvia is crazy about creating that perfect body and as a result, many chimaeras were born.”
”Is that really it?” he asked.
For some reason, the information didn't add up. There were many ways to harvest loitering souls for cultivation even if this was a method frowned upon. Jynx sounded shady and the information they received might not be entirely accurate although they now knew who was backing Grey Legion.
”How powerful is Jynx the Engraver? Compared to Sylvia the Silver Witch I mean.”
Shrugging, Mitchnew could only look at the necromancer in their captivity. ”I don't think that's something he can answer. I need more time and resources to investigate it that far. What should we do about him?”
”Bring him out of Endow Hill first. You can decide what to do about him after that. Also, we need to find a way to ensure New Moon Village's safety. The villagers are too underequipped and still not independent enough. It would reflect badly on Zero's leadership abilities if we allowed our allies to be bullied.”
Mitchnew got the hint and smirked. ”Understood. I will talk to Roovan to arrange for supplies. I think Schaf gave me a merchant's token before he left. It should be useful in Smargdas. Some of the nobles have fallen low enough to want certain things.”
The political situation in Smargdas wasn't very good and even if the King looked like he was governing well on the surface, Truen knew better. The nobles were divided into different factions and the monarch was truly just a figurehead with no real power to make decisions.
”Are the nobles anyone useful for the village?” he asked out of curiosity and Mitchnew hummed.
”There is one person I find interesting who frequents our services but I've never really met them in person. I'm not sure which faction they belong to or how influential they are but they have a rather fresh take on the political arena. Some of the requests they sent in had to be rejected because it went against Half Moon Village's interest but they've never taken offence.”