The girls smiled at Daimon, though both Aisha and the Risha sisters couldn't help but notice the small blood stains in his clothes, besides the fact that Daimon's hair was a bit ssy due to the chaos back at the battlefield.
But seeing that he was completely fine, they all inwardly let out a sigh of relief and welcod him.
"Welco back, co sit with us~", said Leslie as she pointed at the only free seat at the table which was the middle one.
"Mm, we prepared breakfast", added Liliana.
Daimon nodded and after taking out his jacket to take a seat, he introduced the girls to Karmandi.
"These are my companions, my sister Aisha, the Risha sisters, Yvonne, Liliana and Leslie, the younger sister of the queen of the rn Sea, llie and the princess of the Elental Sea, Jasmine".
Karmandi slightly bowed his head, while he isn't knowledgeable about human culture, even he knew how to do a formal salute, mostly because that's how he behaves in front of the Black Empress.
"I'm Karmandi, the third general at the service of the Black Empress, and the one who leads the Coral Army, it's a pleasure".
The girls slightly rose the sides of their skirts in response, in the anti Daimon joined them for breakfast and the first thing he noticed was that the taste of the food had gone up a notch, the Risha sisters had taken a few lessons from their mothers and with Aisha's help, they normally prepared so delicious things, but there was more to it this ti.
'The light princess offered up to help, imagine my surprise when I saw her bathing all the ingredients in light mana, I have to admit that the food tastes way better after that', said Aisha as she noticed Daimon's interested expression.
Daimon stole a gaze at Jasmine, just to see her smiling at him as if she waited to see his reaction after tasting the food.
Even Karmandi joined them, of course the amount of food they served wouldn't have been enough to actually satisfy his appetite, but there was no need to it as he was still refining the piece of Ulkrear's arm he devoured, he only did it for pleasure because even he thought the food was delicious.
Once they finished everyone moved to the so stone benches Daimon created using the spell terraforming, as it was ti to get into more serious matters.
"So, anything that might explain why the pirates and Skelefiends are targeting these two?", asked Daimon.
Karmandi's snake eyes glowed as he inspected llie and Jasmine, but ultimately he ended up shaking his head with a defeated expression.
"Nothing that practically gets my attention as a magic beast, don't get wrong they are indeed different the "average" humans I have known, but I can't see anything that would make Ulkrear go out of his way like that".
"Ulkrear?", mumbled llie.
"Ah right, I forgot to tell you the context, what happened was…".
Daimon proceeded to tell the girls practically everything that happened, of course he omitted pretty much all Rita's participation in the decisive battle, but besides that he shared pretty much everything else with them.
"So even the magic beasts are after us now", llie sighed with an annoyed voice, this whole situation has been bothering her.
Jasmine was the sane, but her worries were more on the fact that so people from the sects who are supposed to protect her have offered to set her up to save themselves.
Daimon didn't sugar coated anything of what he said, because the situation was pretty serious, there was soone pulling the strong behind the shadows, and based on what he has caught up so far, he could basically guarantee it was another system user and one which wasn't as inexperienced as Adam and Marcus.
If it weren't for the fact that he wasn't affected by limitations and restrictions of any kind, he would have been in a much tough situation just like Adam.
"I think we need to talk about this with my sister, if anyone knows sothing it should be her, Senior Karmandi would you mind coming with us once we are out of this place, I'm sure Uncle Vincent will guarantee your safety".
Karmandi's eyes widened a bit.
"Vincent… you an the Trident Marshal of the rn Sea?", he said with a surprised expression, to which llie nodded in response.
"Sa here, I bet my grandma will be more than happy to reunite with general Karmandi, especially since you are joining hands with us", added Jasmine.
Karmandi stole a gaze at Daimon, soone who was trusted by two Stellar Ranks, and two of the few maximum ranked in the Neptune, to take care of their descendants, couldn't be normal.
'Well, considering that woman protector who I couldn't detect was at his complete disposition, he couldn't co from a regular household to being with', thought Karmandi.
Why is soone who already serves an Emperor ranked being so shocked about talking with other Emperors you might ask, well the answer is pretty simple, because even the Black Empress would consider those two as seniors, based on the fact that she is only a middle stage Stellar rank, while Vincent and Aurora are maximum ranked ones, the peak of the existence in Neptune, only a few can be considered to be on par with them.
"Ahem, I will have to ask my Empress first, but I would be honored to et those two seniors", said Karmandi.
The whole situation was strange to Daimon, if the rn Sea had so much trouble with the pirates, why didn't they sign a contract with so of the strong Emperor level magic beast, that dominated the Maelstrom Sea to suppress them.
It was such a profitable business, imagine getting a guarantee that your ships could move through a specific route, as the magic beasts wouldn't attack you and the pirates would be driven away by them too, it was a win-win situation.
"Now that I think about it, I rember that it was said your Empress had an agreent with the Silver Dawn pirates, how co you couldn't reach sothing similar with the rn Sea or the Elental Sea?", asked Daimon.
The Skelefiend in thar noble's body had ntioned that Black Beard guy was involved in the ambush of the Silver Dawn captain, and they clearly wanted to fra the Elental and rn Seas, to start a way with the Black Empress, aning they didn't want them to cooperate, but they have never did it to begin with.
"You don't seem to inford about the relationships between the White royal family and the magic beasts of the Maelstrom Sea… Gabriel, I guess that's good I was worrying thinking you were part of the royal family since you have two princesses at your side", mumbled Karmandi, before saying.
"The White royal family despise the races that are native of the Maelstrom Sea, because they can't control us, even their king can't influence us unlike the races that share a bond with the rn Sea".
"And to be honest we hate them too, because a long ti ago they attacked us with no reason, just for fun, the painted the water with our blood and killed the old and the young… including a lot who were born not too long ago".
Daimon shook his head, he could sll a sche here, an easy way to win a war is create a rift in your enemy's camp, and that would explain why the captain of the Silver Dawn pirates was attacked, among the "humans", they were the only ones which had co to an agreent with an Emperor magic beast, so they set a precedent.
But now they were practically eliminated and the magic beast who worked with them, was being targeted too, so whatever could be the reason soone didn't want them to join hands.
And if it was going to piss off, the guy behind the scenes, then Daimon was more than eager to do it, because an angered enemy is bound to slip, and a sole mistake was everything Daimon needed to catch the little scheming bastard.
"You bring your Empress and let take care of our side, soone is trying to pull us by our noses, and you know it, Ulkrear is a good proof of it", said Daimon.
The snake general sighed, he still had to give his Empress the news of traitors appearing in the group, many things were bound to change after/if they were able to leave this place.
"I can't promise anything, but since it is you who is asking, I think it's worth a try, the Empress will be able to see my mories of this whole situation, as long as I let her".
"Now onto the most serious subject, what's our next target, once my subordinates had recovered, will we break through their blockade, will we hunt them down one by one?", asked Karmandi.
The girls also turned to see Daimon to see what his decision was, the two princesses specially, llie still wanted to save so of the nobles, the won who were captured due to her at least.
And Jasmine has so people she has known since she was a little girl, in the sects too, the girls with who her grandmother allowed her to play with for example, they were her original team, until she t Adam and ford a new team with him and the people he chose as their mbers.
"We need to capture an Skelefiend, I already have so hostages from the pirates, so now we only need an informant from the Skelefiends".
"We will hunt the Skelefiends, and in the process I want to see what's the origin of that weird enhancing thod they are using now too".
"If we find so hostages in the process, we'll take them with us… but they will stay in a cage until we are in a safe position, I trust you understand why", said Daimon.
Now that he had Karmandi and his subordinates back up, secured with a contract, he had no need of the nobles who weren't trustworthy.
The princesses smiled, happy with the result, and the girls didn't complain either, so everything was ready.
As Daimon was about to excuse himself to start looking at the sea flea, one of Karmandi's scales illuminated.
"Gabriel, one of my subordinates who was too far to reunited with us, has contacted , he says there is a small group of humans fighting with both pirates and Skelefiends, it's pretty far away, enough for my mana sense to not be able to reach it due to my seal, but I think you'll be interested on it… because he says they are fighting against a group led by a princess".
Daimon raised an eyebrow, if Karmandi and Rita's mana sense didn't reach that group, then they should be really far from them… or there was sothing interfering with them.
"The Sea Devil Ore, ask your subordinate if there is so kind of thing we can use as reference to find him", asked Daimon in a hurry.
Karmandi raised an eyebrow but he still did as he was asked, and a second later he said.
"Now there is, he changed the roof of a huge rock to look like ".
"Rita, can you look for that?", asked Daimon.
"On my way young master", Rita extended her senses through the area, and she was surprised of what she found.
"I can see it young master, there is camouflaged camp near it, if my guess is correct, they are using those strange green rocks too, so I can't tell how many enemies there are".
Daimon nodded; the only princess left was the daughter of the Valas Duchess, so it had to be her.
"Daphne would never leave her subordinates behind… she probably raided the camp to rescue one of them", said llie, with a tinge of worriedness on her face.
"Okay, I guess we have our next target, Karmandi are you up for a fight?", asked Daimon to the snake general, making the latter laugh.
"Sure, I need to retrieve my subordinate anyway".
"Okay, go prepare we leave in five minutes".
Karmandi returned through the tunnel to the lower cave, he was going to take just a few of his subordinates with him, those who could fly to be more precise.
Daimon was left in a small predicant right now, judging by the determined expressions of the Risha sisters, and also llie they will be coming regardless of what he said.
'Worry not young master, your most trusted subordinate Horals, will protect the young misses!', said the bone general as he told Daimon a couple of things he discovered.
'Oh, sounds interesting, Rita help him make it possible', said Daimon, to which Rita limited to nod, she could see Horals's mocking smile and she softly snorted.
'Bonehead'.
User Comments
0 comments from readers