Chapter 60: Conspiracy, Part 1

Chapter 60: Conspiracy, Part 1

Knock, knock!

A person lightly knocked at the door in the Warrior's Guild. From inside came a deep and powerful voice, saying, "Come in!"

The door opened and a giant man lifted his head from the desk to look at the arrival. He had a nicely trimmed beard and short brown hair that pointed to the sky. He was currently frowning as he was holding multiple papers in his hands.

However, when he saw the person coming in, the frown on his forehead relaxed and even a slight smile came to his face. "Luna my dear, you finally took some time to visit your father. We work so close to each other but it seems like we live worlds apart," he laughed.

"Hello father," Luna smiled and lightly bowed when she came into the room.

The Guildmaster quickly smelled something wasn't quite right and frowned again, "You didn't just come to see your old man, did you? What is it? More bad news?"

Luna sighed and nodded, saying, "Unfortunately it's something like that. Many weird things happened"

"Damn!" the Guildmaster slapped the table, complaining, "Why can't I ever get any good news? Sigh Go on my dear, I'm listening."

"Yes, father. The first thing that happened was that Gerald told me about the Goblin nest"

Guildmaster's eyes lit up and he asked, "Oh, that promising young man that can use all of the Elements? What did he say?"

"Yes, that's him. I wrote down everything he told me about his encounter," she handed him a few pieces of paper.

The Guildmaster scanned trough it and his frown only depend, especially as he came to the last part. His mood worsened and he quietly cursed.

"Well, you said this was only the first news? What else do you have?" He placed the papers on the table among the rest of the recent reports.

With a wave of her hand, Luna placed a vial on the table. The vial had a cylindrical shape with an expanded and flat bottom so it could stay vertically. Inside was the black goo that Gerald collected. This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

"Gerald gave me this and said that it's a poison and that someone tried to kill him with it. Twice."

"Hmm This can't all be happening just because of one sword. There has to be something else-"

Knock, knock!

Everyone turned to look at the door when they heard the knocks. A soldier dressed in metal armor came in and saluted. "Guild Master! A report just came in."

He handed the papers to the Guildmaster and let him read it in peace.

"What?!" The Guildmaster roared even louder than before and banged the wooden table with his fist. The poor wooden table cracked under the pressure and almost collapsed.

Luna got frightened by the sudden sound. She stepped to her father's side and asked, "What happened, father?"

The Guildmaster held her small hand and slowly calmed down. He sighed and said, "Another group of our warriors disappeared."

He threw the papers on the now almost collapsed table and continued with a gloomy voice, "First I thought it was just a coincidence and that they met some danger. But then about a month ago, that friend of yours, what's her name"

"Sera?"

"Sera! Yes, Sera. Well, her group got ambushed and if that guy, Gerald didn't help her, we probably wouldn't even know about it."

He sighed again and then said, "Now, a few weeks ago another group of young warriors disappeared and just now I got the news that the Children of War group was also nowhere to be found. Even after a thorough investigation, they found nothing."

Everyone present had gloomy expressions. They knew that something was happening in Geldern, but they didn't know how bad it was.

"What should we do? We can't let this continue," Luna said with concern.

Guildmaster sat in his chair and tapped on the armrest with his finger before finally coming to a decision. He straightened his back and slapped his table before speaking in a loud voice and pointing at the warrior, "Soldier-"

Before he had the chance to continue, the table finally couldn't continue resisting the constant abuse and it collapsed to the floor, sending the papers flying across the room.

Everyone looked at the collapsed table as they felt awkward about it. Nobody spoke a word though.