《Tales of the Rebirth Apocalypse Emperor (BL)》Chapter 27: The mysterious force
Advertisement
*** Third person's POV continued ***
The old Hector heard what Murong said. He then sighed and sat on his favorite chair.
"So, what do you want us to do next?" asked Hector.
"Nothing much. First, I would like to know more about your associates? Who asked you to capture us?" responded Murong, sitting on the opposite of the chief Hector.
"To tell you the truth. I don't know," Hector confessed. "Every time they contact us, another side has never revealed who they are. I only know the butler's name. It's Sebastien."
"No last name? It's even a very common name," commented Murong.
"If that is his real name at all," added Dawei.
"Yes, I know," chief Hector couldn't argue about his worthless information. "However, I know that they must be an influential force since they smuggled a lot of weapons for our village. Some weapons even prohibit in the Xia Kingdom due to their wide-range destructive power."
"Ummm," Dawei and Murong consented to the chief response and lost in their thoughts. The question about who was the mastermind behind the scene was very important to them. They had to know their enemy in order to strike back or, at least, prevent any more surprise in the future.
"So, who could it be? Ye family? It is too early to plot against us compared to the previous timeline, and our family shouldn't have other immediate enemies. Maybe, there was something that I missed in my previous life? Maybe, this was the result of the butterfly effect from my rebirth?" Murong continued on his line of thought.
Since there was no concrete answer from the chief, Murong had proceeded with another investigation.
"You said they delivered you some weapons. Where are they? Take us to see them." Murong finally said after contemplating.
"That's not going to be a problem. They are still in our warehouse next to this cottage. Just follow me," the chief replied. He then led Murong and Dawei to the place where he kept the delivered weapons.
Advertisement
The warehouse where chief Hector kept the weapons was composed of four wooden walls and roofing. It was a plain building with no windows. It was not large but was not small either. There was one aged timber door, and there were only two guards standing in front of it. The first thought when Murong saw the bandit's warehouse is that the chief may be boasting. Their security was lacking considering the weapons that he mentioned.
However, when he looked at the inside of the warehouse, he was stunned. There were so many weapons! Or he rather said it was too many!
"Why do you need so many weapons here?" Dawei suddenly asked. Evidently, he had the same thought as Murong.
"You guys might not know the situation around here. We have no central authorities over here. Every village has to fend for itself in the Borderlands region. There was a time when it was more peaceful, but in recent years, tension had been building up in the area, and several bandit groups had emerged. We had to collect weapons to defend ourselves."
"So, you said all other villages around here also accumulate weapons?" suspiciously asked Dawei.
"Yes. Do you think we want to be bandits? In the past, we were just a peaceful hunter village. We have to adapt ourselves. Otherwise, our village would be wiped out a long time ago." Hector plainly pointed out their reasons.
"Ummm," both Murong and Dawei reluctantly agreed. Morality didn't equal survival.
"I think something is not right here," Dawei said to Murong in a whisper voice.
"I agreed," Murong whispered back. "It doesn't make sense why this area has been filled up with weapons. There is no strategic value in this area for anyone."
As Dawei and Murong discussed this peculiar situation, they continued to walk around this warehouse. At the far end of the warehouse, which was only dimly lit by a single bulb, a pile of missile launchers had been insecurely stacked.
Advertisement
Dawei turned his face to the chief. "You even have missile launchers in your stock?" he said. "Are you defending yourself or going on a full-scale warfare with each other?"
Chief Hector just laughed, "Well, you will be surprised to know what kind of weapons other villages have?"
"Really?" exclaim Dawei.
"Yes," Hector responded with a smile.
"Well, I don't think he was kidding," Murong consciously added.
Then, Murog and Dawei investigated more. They checked the weapons that the chief was talking about to see whether they could find a clue there. After checking the weapons, it reaffirmed Murong's hypothesis that it shouldn't be Ye's family. The weapon signature didn't match any weapon shops in the Xia Kingdom. They must be imported from outside of the kingdom, most likely Laputa. So, Murong still couldn't solve this mysteriousness in a short time.
Then, without any other choices, Murong asked the bandits to pretend to fail the mission and worked for him as an insider man, waiting to collect any more clues. When they obtained any critical information, they should send the intel back to him.
Once Murong settled down with chief Hector about the next course of action regarding this mysterious force. The next step would be to resume their original goals of this trip, finding a dungeon and surveying the land.
Now, they had more slaves..cough..no more workers. The work that they set to do could be easily done, and, in the future, these bandits could prove to be useful. As Dawei and Murong were walking out of the chief Hector's warehouse, they found Robert, the head of the Drunken Spirit mercenary team. He stood in front of the cottage, waiting for them.
"Hello...young masters," Robert said.
"Hello...Robert?" Murong said.
Suddenly, he dropped on his knee and said.
"We are sorry. Please forgive our team that we couldn't protect you."
"There is nothing to forgive. You don't do anything wrong. The bandits were well-prepared. Even higher rating mercenary team, they couldn't do anything better." Murong assured Robert.
"But..." Robert tried to retort because he was still full of his uncomfortable guilt.
"No, but. If you would like to compensate for it, just continue to do your work. We haven't finished here," Murong added
"Got it, young master. We will do our best!" Robert firmly replied.
Murong then asked the mercenary to guard the perimeter with their soldiers as Dawei and Murong tried to look for the location of the mineral mines and dungeon portal. However, it took them quite a while until they found anything concrete.
After 14 days, they discovered the clues of the mines, but they still couldn't find the entrance of the dungeon. Therefore, Murong asked Dawei's opinion about what to do next.
Murong proposed that they should take more time and ask their soldiers to help to find the dungeon's entrance. It might be risky since they didn't know who the traitor was. But Murong thought it worth the risk. In any case, he had already carefully chosen these accompanied soldiers himself.
Dawei nodded in agreement. He also understood that this dungeon would play a vital role in the Chen family base's development.
With the help of the Chen family's soldiers, the area that they could cover extended significantly. After a few more days, they finally found what they were looking for, the fuzzy transparent portal in the air. It actually not far from the bandit's village, but it was hidden in the cave. No wonder this village was able to outgrow other villages in the past.
After finding a portal, Dawei and Murong then assembled the team to explore this dungeon.
Advertisement
The Lions of Dawrtaine
Hallon Nilsdotter was born in 1268 and trained in the magics of the shamans of old Sweden. Now, in 1924, she hunts for the Calamity, a prophesied disaster. Along with her spirit allies and the young scientist Milo Rabbit, Hallon forces open a tear in the boundary of their universe to travel to another. An old war has ruined this land, breaking its weather systems, and a new war is brewing between the Untainted and those who show strange mutations. On the run after being identified as abnormal, Hallon and Milo must navigate this new world of machine guns, gas attacks, and fallen spirits. All the while, the Calamity looms over them. ----- The book is complete at 46 chapters, although I may revisit with short stories in the future.
8 197Soulforged Dungeoneer
In a modern world invaded by System Dungeons, one man's search for sanity and redemption will plunge him into an insane plot connecting Gods, Dungeon Administrators, Fairies, and the dangerous creature at the heart of the invasion. If he can survive it all, he might have a chance to save humankind... but he may not be ready for that responsibility. In a world gone to madness, perhaps only the mad can rise? NOTE: Although this novel is LitRPG in its origins, the numbers were never the focus and have been completely de-emphasized by the end. Includes romance, crass puns, spontaneous musical numbers (including fights set to music), horror, madness, and other nonsense.
8 95Abandoning All Hope
Everyone has skeletons in their closet. The next-door neighbor’s son catches and kills frogs, the village drunk once kicked a dog, for which he was heavily fined, Mrs. Borroh, cheated on her husband with a merchant once while her husband was toiling at the lumbermill, and the Woodbrooks boys like to throw rocks at the neighbor's cat. Anna Truemare’s father, on the other hand, has a much darker secret, one that she never could have seen coming. Mr. Truemare knows how to kill night creatures. When the mayor's daughter goes missing after venturing off to meet the mysterious beast hold up in its castle to the north, Anna’s father, trained by one of the last surviving members of House Belmont, resolves to venture out to retrieve the poor girl. However in her graying fathers hollowing eyes, Anna knows that this is a journey he will not return from. In a bid to save her father from his gruesome fate, 19-year-old Anna strikes out to save her father’s life by offering up her own in return. Never having left the village and armed with nothing but a knife, a map, and her determination, will Anna survive the grueling week-long journey through the untamed countryside to rescue the mayor’s young daughter? Or will she perish like so many others before her at the hands the mysterious and bloody monster in it’s indomitable castle in this mature fan-rewrite on the season 3 ending of Netflix’s Castlevania?
8 85Supreme Formation Immortal Sovereign
Falling under the Heavenly Tribulation, Ascending Celestial Oalur Kang finds that he's back in the past. Watch him pursue the Heavenly Path of Formations and rise to the peak of the Immortal Path! . . . . . . . . . Hello, this is F-Rank! This is my take on writing cultivation stories. Though I'm sure nobody cares, the intent behind this story was focused on creating a more or less logical cultivation system. I read several stories where the mc transmigrated to a cultivation world (not calling names to avoid unnecessary angst) and was able to completely break the cultivation system and the logic of the world because they had the power of science on their side and were able to think more logically than everybody else. Despite the fact that some characters in those stories were older than the scientific method of thinking and even the human civilization as we know it and the whole society was older than our human race. So I decided to write a story where things about cultivation make sense (as far as a magical world full of super magical people can make sense), so here we are. I don't know if I will be able to fulfil this purpose but I hope that the story will end up enjoyable. Can also be considered a prequel for my other story "Wasn’t my new life in a magical world supposed to be easy?" but has very little overlapping content and can be read as a stand alone story. Also available on Scribble Hub.
8 88Reborn into a RPG?
If you were to die today, what would your final regret be? What if you were given another chance to fix it? Thrown into a world full of magic, demons, dragons and more; is Kyros. In this world of strong eat the weak, how will our protagonist adapt to survive?Mature for 15+First ever attempt at writing a story, literally. So please rate or just send me a review on a post/in private. It's all about improving right?Currently busy with work so chapter releases will be sporadic, if released at all.
8 227Percy Jackson: Hunter of Artemis
What if Percy was cheated on by Annabeth? What if he had dated other girls before that, all who had hurt him in some way? What if he swore of dating for eternity? What if Percy was aloud to join the Hunt? Percy Jackson had gone through three different relationships; all of them ending in pain. He finally has enough when Annabeth cheats on him. So he leaves. He ran away from Camp and into the forest. He bought a bow and quiver from a hunting store and trained himself to be an accurate shooter. When he runs into the Hunters of Artemis, he asks to join the Hunt. He swears of girls and pledges to be loyal to Artemis forever.But what happens when he must return to the place where he was hurt the most: Camp? What happens when he has to face Annabeth? What happens when she asks him to break his oath to Artemis? Will he stay with Artemis and the other Huntresses he has come to know as his sisters? Or will he leave them for Annabeth, the one who betrayed him and missed him when he left? Would you like to know? Then go on my reader. Read on. But do not blame me for the horrors you may unveil...Disclaimer: All characters belong to Rick Riordon. They are not mine (although I wish they were). Only the plot is mine.Enjoy
8 91