82 Accepting the Offer (1/2)

It was a rainy day in Emir. The rain bore down mercilessly upon the kingdom, pounding on the rooftops and turning the cobbled streets of the Emir into a warren of slick stones and muddy waters.

”Brother...” Loren stood behind Warren who kept looking over the city and its people through the windows.

The trickles of droplets from the rain made the view in front of Warren distorted. Due to the poor engineering, the pavement made of limestones became wet due to the overflowing of accumulated rainwater.

Despite the heavy rain, the children of Emir were playing and dancing on the streets like they were in some sort of festival. This scene made Warren's lips curve and let out a small grin on his face.

After meeting with the king of Everlight, Warren and Loren discussed their future as well as Emir's in great detail among themselves and with their close friends. When Warren was having the discussions, Everlight King's reputation among the people Emir started to go up in their hearts because they were given enough coins to take care of them and their family for a long time.

Even though Warren started the rebellion and nearly killed King Hedor, it was king of Everlight who gave them weapons and food for their people including the rebels due to that fact and the help they got from his people on the battlefield which nearly saved many of the rebels' lives, as well as many people from the explosion, King of Everlight took an irreplaceable place in their hearts.

Also, the dwarves who built those destroyed houses better than their previous state amazed the people and thanked the king of Everlight.

Additionally, Joel and a group of people sent by Don spread the news about his contribution to rebel and for the people of Emir to earn the trust and loyalty of the people.

”I'm going to swear my loyalty to him Loren” Warren turned around and said to Loren looking at her eyes.

”It seems to be the right choice, Brother”

During this time Loren came to realize that although people of Emir appreciate what Warren did, the people also started to trust the king of Everlight more than she had imagined to the point that if the king of Everlight announced himself as the king of Emir, people won't make a huge fuss about it except for some old fellows and nobles.

However as far as she guessed, the king of Everlight had no idea of ruling Emir himself if not he wouldn't have offered the place to Warren.

”But the thing I'm worried about is, would his ambition to rule all the kingdoms affect us or not?” Since Warren was a soldier under King HEdor who kind of had the same idea, he knew about how a war could affect the livelihood of common people.

”It's not the time to think about that Brother if you won't be the king he can find others heck I mean who wouldn't be a king if they get the same offer” seeing her throwing her hands up like a child made Warren giggle and broke his train of thoughts.

”Besides, did you see his face? There wasn't any expression on his face like I felt like talking to a stone face. That kind of person is the most dangerous Brother, we can't know what they are thinking or planning so it's better to stay on their good side ”

Loren couldn't explain her feelings clearly but she felt like she was being crushed by a powerful force before him. That feeling was due to Don releasing his battle energy aura to make his subordinates feel exactly what Loren had felt.

”Even though there are zero downsides to this deal, I can't help but think I'm going to be a puppet king under him”

”But it's better than nothing right. Also, look outside there are dwarves building our homes for us and an elf!” Loren's eyes immediately sparkled when she was talking about the elf.

”Half Elf Loren” Warren interrupted her but Loren seemed not to give a damn.

”We heard the dwarves were hiding in mountains and elves in outer land forests but who would have thought they serve a human if you ask me that's a sign of what he is capable of”

”Oh I don't know about the elves serving a human, little sister”

”Never say never brother”

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”So the nobles won't cause any troubles?” Don was sitting on king Hedor's throne and looking at Arrora with an open scroll in his hand.

”Unfortunately some of the nobles fled the kingdom before my team could investigate but they found out that these nobles were corrupt to the core” Arrora's face didn't hide her sickening feel towards the corrupt nobles.

”What about the others?”

”There are nine ministers in Emir and all of them are nobles, other than the ministers there are three noble houses and a merchant family who have a pull in power”

While Arrora reporting Don looked at the scroll and skimmed through the details that put together by Arrora's team after investigating the nobles in Emir. As Don finished reading the scroll, there's nothing about the nobles that could make him worry or bother him but Don wanted to make sure that it stays that way.