Chapter 70: King's Plans

The sun rose and its blazing rays hit our exhausted bodies sending a bolt energy to keep us all barely awake.

"MARCH!" One of the commanders of the battle ordered the whole army of Itz back to their kingdom.

They all walked in perfectly straight lines and each time they took their step, a small tremor was felt. Despite us winning an outnumbered battle, we were still left with a lot of troops.

I ordered my team to return to the village. I put Wisp and Gaia in their care in case anything happens. Despite them wanting to voice their opinion, they held it back as it's obvious in their faces.

I walked up to the exhausted king, "Hey." Despite us barely standing up, there's still a lot left to talk about.

"I know." The king then nodded in agreement.

I grabbed his shoulder and activated Teleport and in an instant, we were at his chambers at his castle. We both sat down at the couch facing each other.

"Care to explain?"

"Yes." He was about to question me about the Teleport spell but he held it back. "Our original plan was... seized by Polk to say."

"I don't understand."

"Our main goal was to take apart Cagyer from the inside by leaking the documents you were gathering to the public. You know those documents by memory right?"

He's right. Thousands of those documents were just corrupt and very unjust. Discrimination were happening, killing random people, planned assassinations, accidents that could've been avoided if their high ranking officials paid more attention and so much more shady things that were happening in the kingdom of Cagyer that involves mind control and torture. It's all disgusting and I remember it completely. The pictures, the bodies and all the other things that were found.

A very powerful government hiding this will always keep their respect and their status in the nobility but if these got released... It's just chaos and rebellion that's going to happen.

"And I'm guessing if the rebellion in Cagyer happens you're going to take the civilians' side?"

"Yes. It'll be easier to declare war with Cagyer that way and we're under the radar if we do that. Less attention to the neighboring kindoms. But what we didn't expect is that every document that you gave me were all leaked in just one to two days everytime you gave me the files. And the ones that weren't leaked were the ones you gave me in the battlefield since it's passed on by memory and not on papers."

"I still don't understand. What's it got to do with Polk?"

"We've got 10 traitors in our kingdom."

"What happened to them?"

"Hanged." The king's eyes turned blank. "In front of Polk's gate."

"Isn't it better if you just killed them there and there? You just provoked them even more."

"Yes, that may be true. We delayed their document gathering for about three weeks but we didn't held it on for too long. They instantly discovered the forgery of the documents by the handwriting. But they couldn't do anything. If they sent us a warning then... that just exposes that they're spying on their own allied kingdom."

"And that's where the players suddenly appeared."

"I haven't seen any player other than you and your floating arrow on your head but I definitely got reports of high leveled people that appeared out of nowhere. Strong enough to eliminate level 30 to 40 creatures. And they were all moving large packs and killing every monster they saw. I'm just guessing here but I think this is what happened, Polk got ahold of this information and used that as a leverage to create a relationship with them. Polk doesn't have that much high leveled adventurers. Maximum adventurers they had was about level 50 and one level 90. They achieved those level count in a matter of months when you all came here. The EXP boost we're all benifiting for applies to normal world creatures to. Also known as... Us. And you all are players also known as otherworlders."

"So they betrayed Cagyer to take hold of their massive army and then overwhelm your kingdom and the others?"

"That's basically it. We never got ahold of the king of Cagyer for months. So I assumed someone replaced him but there was no reports or anything."

"Then?"

"Then when Polk heard the burning kingdom of Cagyer, they launched their weaponry at us. About... 30% of our kingdom was destroyed in a single blast. And that's where the war started."

"Wait, a single blast?!"

"There was a very powerful mage in their care but we couldn't find him or her after he or she blasted a hole in our kingdom. He literally called upon a meteor that fell on our kingdom and left. I saw that person with the king of Polk after the skill that person casted then he gave him or her something. We're still questioning the king of Polk about this item he gave. That monster roaming around the world is a heavy threat."

"That's true." I couldn't even beat Hera on my own. I had to use every skill I had to boost my own strength and I even nearly died. Val's Soul Blast nearly killed me unless I activated Last Stand and same with Hera and his newly created skill mixing light and dark together. I won by luck and the by using the armor that's desperately devouring me. "So, what's the reward this time?"

"Reward?" The king looked at me confused.

"Hey, hey, HEY! Don't tell me won't get anything! We wasted two months there! I couldn't hunt any player or level up or get any equipment!"

"Haha! Calm down, it was just a playful joke."

"Yeah, a joke that nearly gave me a damn heart attack."

"Do you have the leadership to lead your own people Zieglind Reysh?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Yes. Or. No?" The king's eyes glowed in seriousness.

"Yes. I can definitely do it."

"Then that settles it." The king stood up and called in two people. "My secretary and my second in command, spread my word to the far ends of Pandir." Everyone gulped down their 'dry saliva' awaiting his next words.

"As king of Itz and the winner of the war between Cagyer and Polk, I shall give the kingdom of Polk to Zieglind Reysh, The Player!"