Lord Of Puppets Chapter 155 – OH COMMON!

(Again... They are coming here.) – thought Thauma as it saw a group of 5 beastn entering the forest.

(This isn’t normal.)

(Once again they ca here.... And once again they are not even attempting to go anywhere NEAR the dungeon entrance... Are they just avoiding the dungeon? But if they are not here for the dungeon, then why are they here?) – thought Thauma as it observed a group of beastn traverses the forest before then stopping in place and starting to unpack so things from their backpacks.

(Wait, are these bastards setting up a camp? They are taking out their supplies!)

(Are they.... No. They are not attempting to make a base before attacking the dungeon.... Are they?) – thought Thauma as it saw beastn preparing sothing.... But it wasn’t supplies.

Thauma couldn’t get a proper glimpse at what the beastn were doing, since it didn’t wanted its scout golem to be exposed.... But it saw one of the things that the beastn were taking out.

Weapons.

Specifically bows.

"!"

(Wait, they are not setting up a base! They are preparing for sothing?!) – thought alard puppet, before then noticing sowhere else with its other scout golems.

"?"

"!"

(Crap.) – thought Thauma as it saw multiple elven soldiers ridding on the horse towards the forest.

"Sir.... I don’t an to offend you. But are we sure about this?" – asked worried elven soldier.

"Garmfon kingdom has started seeming wary of our movents."

"If anything, are we even sure that entering it in the first is safe? Our previous scout party went silent before we-"

"Shut the fuck up!" – said annoyed elf with short hair.

"I don’t like this either, but we need information."

"However, at the sa ti, we need to make sure we all survive this."

"So, we are going to take much... Risker route."

"We are going to use the golem forest as our cover before then entering the Garmfon kingdom."

"?!"

"Wait, golem forest!? But wasn’t that place that annihilated the adventurers!? Nobody fucking told us about this!" – said long haired elf.

"Calm down. We had our n check it out beforehand." – said short haired elf who seems to be the leader of the group.

"The forest is completely empty and there doesn’t seems to be another dungeon break going on."

"Based on the information, it seems that the entire dungeon was robbed of any monster it had.... So that ans that the dungeon master must had wiped out the adventurers."

"However, that bastard can’t leave the dungeon. I know few things about dungeons and I know these bastards, the dungeon masters, are straight up unable to leave the dungeon."

(Well, this is according to the bits of information I was given beforehand.) – thought the leader.

"Anyway, moving during night will be way too risky, since they may expect it." – said the elf as leader as he has gotten off his horse alongside the other elves upon arriving at the forest edge.

"We will rai-"

However, right as they stepped a foot inside of the forest, a arrow suddenly struck the long haired elf right in the face... Before monts later the man fell down lifelessly.

"?"

"Eh?"

The elves were caught off guard by the sudden death of their leader... Straight up confusing them.

But before they could even recover, several more arrows ca flying, hitting the elves.

"!"

(Ambush!?) – thought one of the panicking elves as he tried instantly getting back on his horse, only for his mount to get shot right in the neck, causing the animal to scream and trash around, which instantly knocked off the elf.

The elf tried getting right back up.... But before he could, a beastman with a sword quickly rushed down at the man and smashed his head against the tree, knocking the man out.

(What is going on here!?) – thought panicking elven leader.

(We made sure that the passage was safe and secured! There shouldn’t be any soldiers in the forest in the first-)

"?!"

(Wait.... Did they knew!? But how!? They would need to know when we-) – before the leader could understand the situation, he was punched right in the guts by the cat beastman, before then getting hit right in the jaw, which knocked out the elf instantly.

"..."

(What is going on?) – thought Thauma as it saw the group of beastn who were attacking the elven riders.

(Beastn are attacking elves? But aren’t they allies?)

(Wait! Maybe they are just bandits?!)

"..."

(No.... No! This isn’t it!)

(If they were really bandits, then why they were checking surroundings.... For days as well?)

(No.)

(They are not bandits...Are they.... Are they by any chance soldiers of the Garmfon kingdom?)

(But that doesn’t make sense!)

(These elves are not bandits either! They were checking the forest and area around it much more often than these beastn!

(Garmfon and Mowiorano kingdoms are allies! Why are their soldiers killing each other?!)

"..."

(Wait.... This happened before.... THIS HAPPENED BEFORE!)

(It was when.... Yea! It was back then!)

(War!)

(When war between kingdoms broke out as well as when the war between factions broke out, they straight up abandoned ’controlling the dungeon’ all together! Since they wanted to focus on their war!)

(If that is the case, then the reason why adventurers ran away and the elves didn’t attempted next attack was because of this? A war?)

(And here is a proof! Soldiers from two different kingdoms are murdering each other!)

(They are not really wearing their kingdoms armors and what not, but I can tell based on observing them for the past days that they are working in ’specific’ way.... Tactics... Sobody is giving them orders!)

"..."

(But why would.... No.)

(I can’t be sure that the war is really going on.)

(Maybe sothing else is going on?)

(Like with the faction war.)

(Last ti it wasn’t battle between two different nations, but instead between factions.)

(Maybe it is sothing similar this ti?)

(I can’t be sure of anything just yet...... Again, annoying lack of information.)

(Still, sothing is causing the forces from outside from attempting to launch another attack at the dungeon.)

(I don’t know why.... But isn’t this an opportunity?)

(If the war is truly happening between these two kingdoms, then I have a chance to grow!)

(I can peacefully finish up my research!)

(Ha! Finaly! This what I was waiting for! This is!)

"..."

"..."

(Wait... Sothing doesn’t still feels right here.)

(Why I’m suddenly have a weird feeling that I’m missing sothing.... )

"..."

"..."

(Wait.)

(Why did the beastn and elves fought HERE specifically?!)

(Is it just random?)

(But then again, I saw their scouts moving around.... Form both sides!) – thought Thauma as it quickly went to its storage house and began searching around.

(Found it!) – thought Thauma as it took out the map and opened it up.

"..."

(Ah....)

(Shit.)

[Dungeon location: von territory]

[Location of the territory: Garmfon kingdom (now Mowiorano kingdom)]

[Important note: Located right next to the border between two nations]

[Theory: If the war were to break out, the von territory would be straight up stuck between war between two factions]

[Conclusion: Thauma realized it maybe fucked in a way.]