Capítulo 135: Waxing Gibbous
During the time Superstes had been traveling, Axiolypito had pretty much left his newfound 'allies' in the dark, he had received confirmation from Solitar, but hadn't actually met with any of them to speak of details after that.
Axio wanted to discuss important things and as little as possible, else he might arouse suspicions if he were to be caught communicating with them.
He already considered his plan to deal with The Condemned to be flawless, but he had yet to figure out ways to easily deal with the others.
Cradled Lich in particular seemed like a problem, not only was she most likely the most powerful of the ministers and a death mage, she was pretty much always close to the queen, Axio, doubted anything he had in stock could deal with the two of them at once.
There was also Sovereign Of Flesh who was always close-by, but Axio had managed to get intel from Faceless Lord, the pumpkin-shaped flesh slime wasn't in the same room as her, she was in another because her constant output of flesh slimes flooded everything up to the ceiling sometimes.
This was great news for him.
'The biggest problem about Cradled Lich however... It's that she is a lich' it sounded idiotic to say it like that but that was the major issue with the first minister, Liches often had a phylactery and he had no idea where it could be.
A lich wouldn't be put down no matter what unless the phylactery was destroyed.
He saw no good way of discovering its location, he thought about asking Faceless Lord again but he felt like it would be too suspicious to speak of this with him, the visageless, bizarelly happy-go-lucky monster when it came to Axio, wasn't so idiotic to not notice something was off.
Axiolypito slumped into his throne, he was thinking non-stop about this, though that didn't mean he wasn't doing anything else, he was still busy producing offsprings and spawners, amongst other things, the original plans he had may feel outdated but they would still play big parts in what was to come.
He should soon have access to even more species to diversify his children, after all, Amor had since long fallen to the monster army.
The people, knights and such weren't as submissive as those before them, probably pumped up by the fact that they had held on for much longer and thus, didn't feel like their defeat was overwhelming.
Still, it wouldn't be long before the Obsidian Queen begins her conquest of another continent.
He wondered whether she would bring Sovereign Of Flesh with her or not, or if Faceless Lord would be in charge of bring the slime production over.
"Mmmh" tapping his fingers against the side of his chin, he suddenly snapped his fingers, causing whatever needled monsters around to get out of the room.
Feeling like he needed to be bold, he cluthed the fragment of obsidian given by Faceless Lord, causing him to suddenly warp in.
Before the other minister could say anything, Axio held out his index finger with a typical cocky smile of his.
"Faceless, would you mind getting Cradled Lich over here? I would like to discuss a few things with her" he said casually, not emitting an ounce of nervousness.
Thus, Faceless Lord didn't see anything strange, ever since Undying Prophet had met his end, Axiolypito had been doing most 'business transactions' with Cradled Lich instead.
Axio still wanted to get access to dragons and other wondrous species for his offsprings activities after all.
Without responding, he warped away once more, taking a few minutes to come back with the first minister.
The three of them stood in Axio's empty throne room.
Faceless Lord turned his head to Axio, seeing if shake his head from side to side, he understood that he wasn't needed for anything else and quietly excused himself.
"Why are all of your needled servants away?" Cradled Lich picked up on that, there was no need to get them to go away, they would be perfectly still and silent as long as Axiolypito willed it and he had always done exactly that whenever they spoke.
"I thought it was best for their ears to be further" he said mysteriously, no visible reaction from the lich, she was a skeleton after all, though she definitely felt like Axio wasn't going to simply be talking of the usual stuff.
"You wouldn't happen to have a noise cancelling spell, you know, like a dome for secret talk?" he added smoothly.
She slightly raised one arm, causing her sleeve to fall a slight bit and revealing her bony hand, just like that, the spell Axiolypito was referring to was casted.
"What is the matter Wretched Lord? The secrecy makes it seem like whatever you want to say should be spoken directly to the queen" Cradled Lich's voice reverberated inside of the dome, her figure obstructed by her many layers of robes totally unmoving.
Axio didn't bother to adress her question and instead went directly for it.
It was a ludicrous thing to say for him, especially in the situation he was in currently but he believed the bigger the nonsense was, the more likely it would be believed at a face value.
"I think there is a traitor amongst us" he spoke without stuttering.
The first minister let her lower jaw open wide without meaning to, quickly gathering herself again.
'Did she just lose her undead cool for a moment there?'
"What do you mean, amongst us? Is it a minister? A monster lower ranked? A mutiny?" she grabbed Axio by the shoulders and lifted him up as if he was a newborn.
Her hollow sockets brightened by a dark glow.
"I strongly believe it is a minister, but I am certain that it is not you, since you are always so close to the queen" he quickly went on, the fact that she could actually get flustered contrary to his epxectations was perfect, it would be much easier to convince her.
"Honestly, it is in between The Condemned and The Scourge" he added after a moment, adding more details would paint his lies into something more believable.
"How do you know?" she asked as she literally stuck her forehead directly against his, as if she was going to suck out his soul from his mouth or something.
'Now is the hard part...'
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