Ferdinand imagined that he would find a good part of Orleand's riches sowhere inside his ho, but aside from a lot of really old wine, he didn't find anything worthwhile. Although he was a fool in Ferdinand's eyes, he was smart enough to invest all his money in his business. That way, he had prepared himself for incidents like that. It almost looked like he was buying ti…
"Stupid old man…" Ferdinand said. "It doesn't matter, he is and all the others are out of the picture so I can take over all of their business and no one had the power to try and stop ."
The sun was rising when Ferdinand was taking a nap on the char in Orleand's office when Crow suddenly opened the door. He hadn't slept all that much during the night since he was waiting for so good news coming from the assassins, so he felt pretty annoyed when Crow appeared.
"What?" Ferdinand asked without trying to hide his displeasure.
"The second group didn't return, I assu that they failed as well," Crow said as if that wasn't sothing to worry about.
"You sent almost two tis more assassins and you still failed at killing twenty or so guards?" Ferdinand asked.
"Yes, but I didn't send them with the order to defeat the guards, I sent them with the order to kill the heir of the Sielders family," Crow said. "Since neither of the assassins returned, I assu that they failed at that."
"Crow! Tell how much I am paying you?" Ferdinand asked after he punched the table in front of him and made it crack.
"Not enough to cover the lives of one hundred and fifty n," Crow replied with his ever calm tone. "My n killed all the guards of all the great families here, with the exception of the Ojala family. I believe we know why that happened… your Intel was incomplete. Not to ntion, you were the one who devised the whole plan. Unless you and the others are thinking of cutting loose, I will continue to follow your orders, but not before you pay for the losses of the man that I trained for many years."
Ferdinand almost shouted that he didn't train them well enough, but he controlled his anger since that wouldn't change anything. He couldn't let such unreasonable actions ruin his plans right now. Ferdinand thought Crow's assassins would be enough to deal with the people that escaped, but apparently, the soldiers of the Sairus kingdom were used to fighting these kinds of enemies.
"Very well…" Ferdinand closed his eyes and then took a deep breath. "Let's hear what you have in mind. What do you think we should do to deal with them?"
"Use my n to silence the allies of the great families in the other islands," Crow replied. "anwhile, call all the soldiers that you can control to this island. We can't underestimate this for any longer."
"Do you want to raise an army to take down twenty soldiers and a bunch of civilians?" Ferdinand asked.
"I am telling you to solve this problem swiftly as possible, before it can escalate even further," Crow said. "As long as those people are alive, your plans might be destroyed at any given point."
Ferdinand didn't want to admit that, but it was the unavoidable truth. He couldn't let such loose ends exist for long. As long as he works smoothly, few people will mind if he becos the new leader of the whole Vezar. After all, it doesn't matter in the vision of the common people who are the richest; they just want to live their own lives without trouble.
"I will send so ravens today," Ferdinand said. "What about you, can you bring an army of soldiers to exterminate these little rats?"
"The people who are really trusted are too far away from here," Crow said. "Aside from my assassins, I can't offer much else right now."
Ferdinand didn't even know where Crow was, but it didn't matter. If he didn't want to bring his allies, it was because he couldn't. After all, he loved money as much as any other rcenary. During the next three days, Ferdinand worked to bring out as many soldiers as possible to the main island; he also hired so mages without telling them what they would need to do. Considering that one of the enemies used weird magic, at least that much was necessary.
When Zaos opened his eyes again, he felt like he wasn't in his body anymore. Pretty much every single part of his body hurt like hell and seed as heavy as his sword.
"Phew… you finally woke up," Aria said.
Zaos's vision cleared up, and then he noticed that he was inside one of the mines. The ceiling above him was that rough. Despite the fact that his body hurt like hell by making any effort, Zaos still got up. Then he saw most of the people that had escaped with him sleeping inside the cave. However, Erean and the other soldiers weren't nearby. Only Aria, Drannor, and the Ojala family were. And with the exception of Aria, all of them were sleeping.
"What happened after the battle?" Zaos asked. "I rember that I got hit many tis by many bolts, but…"
"You lost a lot of blood, even though you protected your vitals," Aria said. "That was why you slept for three days a three nights. Drannor and eye tried to heal you as much as possible, but in the end… we didn't have enough mana to completely heal the wounds."
"Three days, huh…. Oh, shit," Zaos face pald after sighing. "Well, I guess I owe you guys one."
"I am sorry, Zaos…" Aria said. "Because of …"
"Oh, please, just shut up," Zaos said. "I decided to co on my own volition, don't get all sentintal on ."
"At least let finish my sentence…" Aria said.
"No, thank you," Zaos said. "I already have too much drama in my life and I don't need anymore. Instead of that, just tell what happened while I was out cold;"
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