Chapter 1094 Achillas Sets Forth (Part-2)

Chapter 1094 Achillas Sets Forth (Part-2)

General Achillas's heart had skipped a gigantic beat when first heard the words- 'You will go.'

"Wha..." as he could not help but quickly blurt out so.

But Lord Parker never gave the general a sliver of a chance to even start the sentence, as he quickly went on to describe how Achillas was supposed to do it.

"...." Hearing this the general for a brief moment became shell shocked.

'How am I supposed to negotiate? What do I know about making deals?' He thought to himself incredulous;y, and then began to look at Lord Parker as if he asking whether all the screws in him were still there.

And while Lord Parker certainly detected the weird look, and it was not something he did not at all appreciate, he did not bother to defend himself.

He was the lord here, and whatever he said, whether it made sense or not, or whether Achillas liked it or not, it did not matter, the general was required to follow it regardless.

He had sworn to according to his oath.

Thus as Achillas continued to look at Lord Parker with a shocked gaze, the man returned the favor with a calm, determined look.

"...."

So for a while, the entire room entered into an uncomfortable silence, as the two men kept staring at each other, both unwilling to give in as that would reveal weakness in their stead.

Until Achillas finally broke.

Now he did not break because he was unable to keep up the stare any longer.

But because he understood his lord was truly determined this time.

And so to keep playing this game as his retainer would be far too rude.

Thus knowing his limits, the general prudently decided to back down, giving the victory to Lord Parker.

Before verbally agreeing to it while flashing his palms, "Okay, okay, I will go. But know that I know how to only fight with swords. The fight with the quill is more of your thing, milord. I am not good that at."

And Achillas was not being humble when he said he was not good at talking.

On the contrary, he was being generous when he said just that.

Because in reality, he was not just bad with the quill., he was utterly incompetent with the pen, for he was an illiterate.

"No!"

The momentLord Parker showed the slightest hint of thinking of replacing Achillas with LB, the jealous general almost shouted the deep objection.

There was no way he was going to let that flashy punk take his thunder.

Sure, Achillas had been feeling quite a bit of trepidation about swaggering into the enemy's headquarters 'naked', as he had never done this before, so all kinds of dangerous what ifs had swirled in his mind.

Such as- what if Alexander killed him? Or captured him? Or tortured him for information? Or did any other thousand different things, many of which Achillas was himself guilty of doing at some point in his life.

Even when the messenger had 'divine' protection, thus making the man suddenly become fearful of the rumored wrath of the gods.

Achillas could not help it even though he knew these were very different circumstances, and it was very, very unlikely that Alexander would do such things to him, if for nothing but the objection from the Margraves family.

However, Achillas's imagination still ran wild.

And as various bloody scenes flashed in his mind, for some time, Achillas was having some very strong second thoughts about visiting the mansion, even though his lord had urged him to contribute.

However, the mere mention of that hateful Bernard was enough to blow away all such hesitations away.

Achillas would be even willing to walk bare footed through a bed of coal if it meant thwarting that man.

And so suddenly, Alexander's threat of capture and torture did not seem too bad.

Thus, quickly putting a stop to Lord Parker's 'brash' move, Achillas turned his head to flash an oily smile,

"Lord Bernard is not from our family my lord. So how can it be appropriate to have him represent us? Surely Alexander would scoff."

Assuming so, the well built man then began to heavily shake his head, before pointedly stating,

"No... it has to be someone from the Heeat family, and a high level one at that. Only then we can fool him into thinking that he was truly serious about the talks. And are not only trying to bluff with some kind of other agenda in mind."

Even Lord Parker was surprised by the eloquence on display here.

It seemed that when it came to his benefits, the general was quite the smooth talker.

As further evidenced by the fact he was not yet finished but continued,

"Not to mention without me, Lady Linda might not even believe the message was from you, my lord. Surely she is unaware of your.... 'close relationship' with Lord Bernard," Achillas made to get this last jibe in, as he ended with the declaration, "So it best be me."

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