Lord Of Puppets Chapter 78 – Captured – Part 2

[Q – Why is the kingdom of Garmfon fighting itself?]

"There.... There is a faction war going on between two factions." – replied beast-human.

"The noble faction and royal faction."

[Q – Why are they fighting each other?]

"To..... Well.... To Take over a kingdom?"

(How the hell do I explain it to this thing?)

(Although, he did knew about two kingdoms.... So..... Ah, fuck it.)

"As I’ve said before, there are two factions. Royal faction and noble faction."

"Noble faction is trying to take over the control over the kingdom, while the royal faction is trying to keep their power and authority from being stolen."

"Because of that, there is internal conflict within the entire kingdom all because of these two factions."

"Is this why you killed these people outside? Are you part of noble faction" – asked Thauma by writing down a question.

"Yes.....And no?" – replied beast-human.

"We are not really part of noble faction, we are just hired by them."

"But since we are working for them, the royal faction are our enemies."

[Q – Why are you in dungeon? What is your goal?]

"We..."

"..."

Thauma got ready to grab the man once again.

"W-WE WERE ORDERED TO DESTORY THE DUNGEON!" – replied the beast-human in panic as Thauma hand was about to reach him.

"!?"

"H-hey! What the fuck are you saying!?" – said the human soldier with slashed face.

"He is lying! We weren’t ordered to destroy the dungeon!"

"..."

Thauma stared at the man with damaged face before then quickly grabbing him by his chest and then slamming him against the ground, straight up causing the man to caught out blood instantly, alarming the entire group as they watched the man trying to catch his breath.

"..."

"I’m not blind." – Thauma replied by writing.

"You were trying to destroy dungeon."

"Lie again and see what happens." – said Thauma before then looking towards the beast-human.

"Continue."

"Why were you ordered to destroy the dungeon?"

"..."

"To.....I don’t know...." – said the panicking beast-human as he started sweating nervously as the puppet approached him.

"NON OF KNOW ANYTHING!"

"We were paid!"

"They paid us to destroy the dungeon and they didn’t told us why!"

"That’s all!"

"?"

(Paid?) – thought Thauma.

(....)

(Is this about that "money" stuff again?)

(People use it to have people do sothing or they use the "money" to "buy" sothing...Hm....)

(So, they used "money" to make them try and destroy the dungeon?)

"..."

"Truth." – Thauma written.

"I-I’m not lying!" – replied panicking beast-human.

"The only one who could had possibly knew it amongst us was the leader..... But.....Your monsters killed him."

"So.....Yea....." – said the nervous man as he tried avoiding the eye contact with the monster.

"..."

(Ah.... So, I killed the only person that knew sothing?) – thought Thauma.

(This is bit problematic.)

(....)

(Well, there is tons of other questions that I need answered at all cost and they may hold answer to these questions.)

[Q – What is the status of the war between two kingdoms?]

"???"

"..."

"Em.... The war has ended.... More than half year ago? Was it a year even?" – replied confused yet nervous beast-human.

"?!" – Thauma stared confused at the man, without really expressing itself since it didn’t had a real face.

(Wait, how did that thing even knew about nas of both kingdoms? Or about war? Just what does-)

"Explain." – written Thauma, interrupting the man who was suddenly lost in his thought process.

"W-well.... The war between two kingdoms ended very recently, with the kingdom of Garmfon claiming the victory." – replied beast-human who then began explaining in the details what had happened outside, starting from the war to the total destruction of the Marok as well it getting conquered by the Garmfon kingdom, absorbing its territory and riches.

(So, wait.... Back then.....) – thought Thauma.

(WHO THE HELL WERE THESE PEOPLE!?)

(IF THE WAR HAS ENDED BACK THEN, WHO WERE – NO! WHY WERE THEY-)

"..."

(Was my dungeon not exposed back then.... Was I SAFE back then!?)

(So..... Was that my fault?!)

(Was the dungeon exposed because of !? I was still hidden back then!?)

(But I didn’t.....I didn’t.....)

"..."

(I didn’t knew....)

(...)

(Dammit.)

(Informations.....If only I’ve had informations, maybe..... Dammit!)

(I’ve could had prevent everything!)

"..."

(FUCK!)

[Q – Why wasn’t dungeon destroyed?]

"Em...I think I know the answer." – said the human who was once unconscious.

"From what I know, this dungeon is consider as one of the best dungeons in the future, that could beco a national level dungeon."

"They just want to obtain profit."

"Why? Is this dungeon special in so way?" – asked Thauma.

"..."

"..."

"The.... The drop items.... No... The whole bodies of the golems have uses." – replied the human.

"Every single part of the monster that is created by this dungeon can have so uses."

"Not only that, this dungeon can also mass produce weapons and mana crystals, resulting in the value of this dungeon skyrocketing since there won’t be even a single trash dropping out of slain monster bodies."

"If so, why haven’t they used the so called ’dungeon taming’ on ?" – asked Thauma.

".... They.... They.....Em...." – the human started getting nervous.

"They wanted to make the dungeon grow?"

"They.... Em...."

"..."

"Speak." – Thauma put a piece of paper right in front of the man eyes, causing the man to sweat even more.

"T-they wanted the dungeon to grow stronger.... So, it would create stronger monsters that are possibly made out of richer materials." – said the nervous man.

"They thought that the stronger the dungeon is, the stronger monsters would pop out, that would also be extrely profitable."

"..."

(Knew it....) – thought Thauma.

(So, it was all about money-)

"But it isn’t all." – the man continues.

"?" – Thauma stared in confusion.

"The noble faction was dead set on obtaining the dungeon at any cost."

"The noble faction wanted to obtain the dungeon in order to have a way of continuously obtaining new weapons."

"..."

(Weapons?) – thought surprised Thauma.

(I’ve thought it was all about money?)

(But by the looks of things they wanted-)

"?"

"...."

Thauma suddenly looked towards the man covered in blood and approached him, lifting up his head.

"..."

Thauma let go of the man before then having its golems drag the man away, alarming the entire group.

The human with wounded face wanted to scream, wanting to ask a question about where were they are taking their comrade..... But before he could do it, he saw the blood covered man’s face.... Showing his lifeless expression.

"H-he is dead..." – said the man, instantly filling the group with fear.

However, before they could even grief or say sothing, Thauma instantly grabbed each person head with one of his hands and forced them to face the puppet.

"Next question." – the puppet didn’t showed any emotions as the man was dragged away and instead just wanted to ask its next question.

"W-wait!" – shouted the panicking man with wounded face.

"Will we truly live!?"

"Will you truly let us live if we answer all of your questions!?"

"..."

"It all depends on you." – replied Thauma.

"Continue answering my questions without lying and you may live."

"Understand?"

"Y-yes! We understand! / Sure! / We will do everything!" – the group of people replied in pure panic, not wanting to share the fate as any of their comrades.

"Good." – said Thauma.

"Question."

"Who is your leader?"