Chapter 89: The Taine Ze Region (2/2)
”Since lady Citrus has finally decided to join us, I'll go over the report one more time.”
Citrus wasn't even paying attention to the man speaking as she was busy rubbing her cheeks against Izabel's chest. The middle-aged man's expression did not change even though most of the cloaked figures in the room were openly expressing their annoyance. He cleared his throat before continuing.
”We've received the report from both Lady Izabel's group and our scouts stationed in the eastern parts of the Darknar forest. According to Lady Izabel, their group had failed to eliminate the target and capture the Nymph because of the interference from two strangers.”
He adjusted his crystal monocle and. continued. ”According to her, their original plan was changed when a sudden horde of lesser basilisks ran out of the Darknar forest in a frenzy. They didn't have a choice but to use the artifact to take control of that horde, replacing the original plan that involves the use of mountain golems for a revised one with the lesser basilisks.”
”Well, that wasn't a bad decision. Any one of us would find it difficult to capture 10 mountain golems for the original plan and a horde of 200 lesser basilisks should have had the same effects, if not better.” One of the cloaked figures spoke.
”Normally, that would be correct. But it should've been obvious that lesser basilisks wouldn't go berserk and run into the sun for no reason. Moreover, there was about half a dozen magic Beast with them. Lady Izabel should have immediately reported this change and as such, she is fully responsible for this failure.”
”Hey!” An ice-cold voice that almost made everyone in the room freeze came from Citrus as her eyes narrowed at the middle-aged man, making his body instantly tense up. ”Watch your tone, low-ranking trash like you has no right to speak to my precious little sister like that. Try it again and. You'll die.”
Aamon Val Brimstone's expression didn't change, but everyone heard his dry gulp of saliva and could see the faint trembling of his entire body. There was no way he could be considered a low-ranking noble as he was a Tier 4 mage and head of the Information and Strategic department. He was also considered a demon Marquis so how could anyone consider him a low-ranking noble.
However, even with all that authority and power, he still could not bring himself to refute what this very young lady had said to him. Neither did he think he could guarantee his own safety if she actually decided to take his life. The air in the room was so stale and heavy that no one could to bring themselves to speak.
An awkward atmosphere ruled the room until a fist was suddenly slammed on the hard stone table, creating web-like cracks on what would be a heavily reinforced table. ”Enough!” The white-haired aged man commanded bringing everyone's attention to him.
”We do not have time for your nonsense Citrus, behave yourself for the rest of this meeting or get out.”
Citrus clicked her tongue and scoffed under her breath. ”As long as he watches his tone.” She then proceeded to rest her head on Izabel's shoulders and Izabel could do nothing but lower her head shamefully.
”Alright, you may continue Aamon.”
”As you wish, Lord Malik.”
Aamon then brought out a simple-looking yellow crystal and threw it to the center of the table, the crystal hovered a few inches above the table before it slowly started to spin. It then revealed a holographic map of the Darknar region before zooming in to focus on the Darknar forest.
”As you can see, this is the previously recorded activities in the Darknar forest, and although our influence there is limited, we still control more than 10 percent of the forest resources. However, our scouts reported that a burst of negative energy went off in the eastern parts of the forest recently. Although they were able to survive it due to them being close to the western region that is ruled by the undead King and we had already geared them towards attacks of that nature.”
”So you're saying this burst of negative energy is related to the berserk lesser basilisks lady Izabel encountered?”
”I believe so.”
”And what about the two demons that interfered.”
”Yes, them. This is when it gets more complicated.”
”How so?”
”According to the report lady Izabel's subordinate brought back. He concluded that the female demon should be a high-ranking demon noble from one of the other Great Four, but according to his description, we couldn't find a match in our information database.”
”And the Male?”
”Yes... Hm... Before that, there is a piece of information in the report that we just couldn't believe so we had someone extract his memories, please see for yourselves.”
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