165 Is this a freakin Joke? (1/2)
After two days Don left the gathering, Joel finally returned to Agoria.
”Where's his majesty?”
Joel saw Arwen and the black-armored men working outside the castle repairing some tunnel pipes beneath the ground.
”Throne hall”
”Have fun, guys”
Joel laughed looking at the dirt-covered armors of them and went to meet Don at the throne hall.
When Joel entered the throne hall, he was talking with Lord Clemo and Arrora as he nodded at Joel to come forward
”Your majesty”
”You're back”
Don motioned Joel to take the seat beside Lord Clemo
”Your majesty, I have some good news and bad news”
”Bad news first”
He leaned back on his throne and waited for Joel to tell the bad news first
”The bad news is your majesty, some of the kings might avoid any kind of relation with Agoria and Emir”
”Some of the kings? Who?”
Joel nodded his head as Don had already guessed that it could happen
”Also, your majesty, I saw King Mattia and King Virgo having a serious conversation with some big-time merchants ”
”Shit”
Lord Clemo frowned when he heard this
”Lord Clemo, you look upset”
”We might be in some serious trouble, your majesty”
”What do you mean?”
”Your majesty, Kingdom Monivelle, it's like the house for every major merchant guilds, businesses and traders, if we trace back an item, eventually the link will point at Monivelle, so”
”So if Mattia wants, he can make our lives harder buy manipulating the merchants or anyone who sells what we need”
Joel also had the same concern as Lord Clemo
”Even Miss Grega have to buy something from Monivelle, especially the construction materials”
They could not hurt him in a direct battle but they could slow the progress of his kingdom's development from using tactics like this.
”That seems like Gabriella's problem, doesn't it? It's with her that we made the deal”
”Yes your majesty, but if she didn't get what we need, at the end of the day, it's us who get hurt”
Joel said as Lord Clemo nodded
”Alos your majesty, if I'm right, King Mattia would probably know that we are dealing with Miss Grega”
He wanted to go there and rip off Mattia's throat but since he couldn't know for sure that he would make troubles for him, he had to be patient
”Joel, I want you to dig deeper into Mattia and Virgo, I want to know what's their spite against me, you'll get all the resources and support you need”
Joel nodded as Don looked at Lord Clemo
”Lord Clemo, let's just say if we need something from Monivelle, what about buying them using a different dealer?”
Don sighed and nodded
”Let's just wait for Gabriella to return, if Monivelle really tried to mess with me, I'll show Mattia that what I do to someone who messes with me”
”Can't we just kill Mattia? Your majesty”
Lord Clemo was startled to hear Arrora as he reminded himself not to get into the bad side of her.
”No, killing a king like Mattia, it would bring more trouble than good, one wrong move at this point will give others to unite against us, besides, I don't want to be the one who starts the war, I want to be the one who ends it”
”Yes, your majesty”
Arrora nodded
”Is that all the bad news or do you have more? ”