Capítulo 61: Uncertain
"Did you foresee it all or is it simply a happy coincidence?" asked Cradled Lich as she moved a pawn forward.
Her old bones clicking and grinding against one another with her every movements but not nearly as pronounced as the loud crackings and creaking coming from the one on the other side of the board.
"You overestimate my wits, I may have thought of the possibility but the first option was well enough for me, a demonstration of the strength of my armies was the aim but, you can always be certain that our future conquest would have relied on individual strength instead" the Obsidian Queen also moved a pawn forward, mirroring the move of her First Minister.
"Even with those duels, they will turn to this though" responded the lich in a flat tone without moving her bony jaw in the slighest.
"Yes, but with uncertainty, an uncertain enemy is an enemy that hesitates..."
"...And hesitation is defeat" replied the monster queen.
The minister didn't respond immediately, tilted his neck a bit at the seemingly completely random moves of the queen on the board.
"I see..." she simply responded, Cradled Lich would have definitely been squinting her eyes if she had had any.
"This isn't really what you mean to ask though, right?" the Obsidian Queen was hardly readable by anything other than her tone, she was just a conglomerate of obsidian after all.
"As perceptive as ever my queen, I had been wondering for a long while now but interacting with him personally has only deepened my curiosity" admitted the undead making a bold move at the same time.
"Axiolypito, although I don't doubt his capabilities, he is clearly hostile to you and a rule of monster that don't have him right at the top, he might seem like he is just a cranky little monster but it would be foolish to not consider the fact that he may be plotting something, especially with his latest advances..." Cradled Lich shook her head, suspecting that the Obsidian Queen had a plan but unable to put her worries aside.
"You even gave him a name, like you did for me, I thought at first that it was a sign that much like me, you and him were familiar before you became queen but clearly, Axiolypito has popped out of nowhere"
"He is a young monster, younger than some of my foot soldiers and is a wretch, he certainly is special, he is a useful asset and that is all a monster needs to have to be regarded highly by me" spoke the queen.
"That is true, but you are no stranger to his incredible ego, if he ever found out a way to break free of the influence exerted onto him, I fear we would only know too late, he can create armies on the fly, fortifications even, he can turn any fight into endless attrition" Cradled Lich was right on the money and she hadn't even mentioned his latest stunts, one needed to be very confident about the leash put onto this sort of individuals.
"It is fine Reduvia, I think you underestimate just how large his ego is" she chuckled.
"Checkmate" she then curtly announced before retreating back and vanishing from sight.
'How could it get even bigger than what it is?' mused the minister as she looked down at the game of chess.
Once again, the queen had wiped the floor with her by playing like a clueless beginner while she was putting in actual tactics.
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The long awaited and dreaded time had come, the time for the monster nation to murderise and humiliate Roderst was right there.
Magical devices had even been put to watch the fights and transmit them in real time to the other nearest kingdom, just so everyone could witness it for themselves.
One duel per day, for a whole week.
Starting today with Gonas, an old fighter of the kingdom against the Fourth Minister of the monster queen, a monster called 'Wretched Lord'.
You could hardly be more on the nose with this sort of title, the people of Roderst had no idea what this minister looked or was capable of, but knowing that there were seven ministers, they guessed that it was some sort of hierarchy and thus assummed he was the average of those beings.
Gonas was already in the arena and so was this monster, covered by a cloak obscuring his bdy completely.
The people felt dread and anticipation at this sight, imagining various harrowing horrors delling underneath the cloth.
Much more than the one here to fight it, Gonas was as calm as it could get, fighting for his country was the highest honor he could ask of and so, he was surprisingly feeling fine with dying, although he wouldn't make it easy.
For Bizinda and the ministers that weren't in on it, meaning every singe one of them except for Cradling Lich, their reaction was much different.
"That's not him..." muttered Bizinda while seating in a private room to oversee the fighting.
"It is!" responded the him in question as he took a free sit beside the vampire with a proud, shit eating smirk.
"You are 'Wretched Lord' right? Then who the hell is this big guy under a cloak down there?!" right as she voiced her question, the cloak was sent flying as the monster underneath flung it away in a grandiose manner.
For the spectators that expected a monstrosity, they were pleasantly surprised as the monster was mostly humanoid, for it was just a very bulky and tall wretch.
"What's up with this thing? Its blood is... Muddled?" Bizinda focused on the monster who was flexing his muscles as though he was at a bodybuilding competition.
His hair was completely dark, but he sported signs of other species, such as a leonine-looking tails and orc-like tusks and a grey-bluish skin color similar to some ogres.
His feet were much more human-like than Axio's too and his teeth weren't black but a pristine white.
He bore no signs of the needles claws and his eyes were a fiery red, sparking with excitement.
"I present the masterpiece I have been working on for years! Motherfucker" spewed Axio as he brought a hand to his chest, looking as though he was expecting a shower of compliments.
"Ever since the duels have been announced, he has been in the work, which is why I called him that, bastard took years to come out right..."
The sun-walking vampire didn't say anything yet, still confused about the peculiar monster's blood and also, his strength!
'He made this? How?'
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