Chapter 69: Lord Sorcerer
The visitors appeared to be satisfied, and Princess Alexis smiled at Dominic.
"You may move to the side. We still need you in attendance for the rest of this eting." She explained.
Dominic wasn’t certain what his role here was supposed to be, but he stood along the wall between a pair of military officers who were taking notes on everything that had happened so far that day.
The next man that ca in was wearing a Palace Servant’s uniform, and held a whole armload of docunts.
"Your Highness, we have gathered the docuntation on all the groups that were targeted yesterday. Seven of the ten Royal investigation groups were targeted, along with five other villages. Here are the details of the lineages and known alliances.
The top page is a summary for your consideration." The servant explained.
The Princess scanned the docunt, then paused and pointed at a line.
"They targeted Elder Brother Alex? How did that go for them?" She asked.
The Servant looked nervous, as they hadn’t morized the information. But one of the soldiers stepped forward to speak.
"Your Highness. I was made aware of that situation this morning. As you might be aware, your Elder Brother just finished advancing his Trade Core as a Battle Mage to the Fortieth Level, and he specialized in area defence.
The attack on his unit was an infiltration attack, and nine assassins were eliminated without casualties."
Princess Alexis nodded. "So, the attackers had information on the abilities of the Royals who were with the groups, and the organization to target them based on their weaknesses. Were any of the Royals lost?"
The Servant nodded nervously. "The third and fifth Princes were lost along with their entire units."
The Princess sighed and made a sign of protection in front of herself.
"How did the other attacks compare to this one? How many forces did the enemy manage to muster against us?" She demanded.
"The numbers on the page are the relative forces. H stands for human, HG for Hobgoblin, O for Ogre, and G for Goblins." The Royal Servant explained.
Princess Alexis read the sheet and her frown grew continually deeper.
"So, the majority of the attacks were not by monsters, but by rcenary forces? Or have we confird that this is an attack by Dagos?"
The Servant bowed in terror at her anger. "That isn’t yet confird, Your Highness. The information wasn’t in the Royal Briefing."
The Princess glared at the stack of docunts on the desk, then looked out the tent flap at the battlefield, which was still being cleared after the battle.
They couldn’t leave the monster corpses there to rot, they would poison the farms. So, there would be mass graves and cremations here, then again all over the region around the capital as the soldiers were commorated.
"What of the situation at the Capital?" Alexis asked.
"The battle has ended. The attackers withdrew yesterday afternoon, hours before we got notification of the attacks on the Royal Investigators."
The eting wore on, discussing details of the various attacks, but slowly Dominic was noticing that there was a pattern to them all.
The timing was off.
If it was a planned ambush to get the Royals killed, they should have all attacked at the sa ti, except for possibly the assassination attempts. That would have made the most sense, and prevented the instance where two of the older Royals had managed to rge their forces to withstand two successive attacks.
Either the ability to control the attackers was limited in numbers, which seed unlikely after the attacks on the Capital, or the sa person was leading them all, and couldn’t be in multiple places at once.
If the others had noticed, they weren’t saying anything. Dominic also wasn’t sure what his position here was. They had addressed him as "Lord Sorcerer
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