The Witcher: Elemental Lords

If the Third Prince ascends to the throne because of this, then no matter what, he will have to thank them. If he doesn't become Emperor, at least because of this contribution, he won't be driven out of the capital. This is a worthwhile deal.

Allen suddenly laughed and said, "I think I know what you mean. Are you talking about those princes in the capital? Tell me, what other plans do you have?"

Daleid didn't plan to hide anything from Allen. He laughed and said, "Indeed, it's about giving credit to those princes, but not because they'll be grateful to me. It's to secure a territory for Dole. Dole has a feud with the Sand Scorpion Adventurer Group. If he goes to occupy that territory, the Sand Scorpion Adventurer Group will definitely try to scheme against him. When the time comes, a conflict will be inevitable. As long as we plan it properly, we might even gain additional merit."

Allen's mind was filled with thoughts, and his eyes lit up. "As expected of the City Lord, this tactic is truly brilliant, achieving multiple goals at once. Dole will thank you, the princes will thank you, and the empire will thank you. This move is amazing."

Daleid stroked his beard and smiled slightly, "You flatter me. This is just the way things are. I'm just taking advantage of the situation. The reason I'm looking for you this time is to have you join me. Let's work together to make this happen."

Allen's eyes flashed with sharpness. "Definitely! Even if it's for our Great Northwest, we must severely damage the Nightmare Empire."

Daleid said, "That's exactly right."

...

On the desolate wasteland, there were three more corpses, a carriage, and a pack animal.

Dole didn't bother with the corpses, leaving the pack animal standing there. He took the items on their bodies and disappeared into the wilderness.

He could have followed them, but ultimately chose not to, because this organization was too tight-knit. Even if he followed them, he wouldn't get much information. A real, substantial blow was the right way to go.

Digging out their foundation in Wassenburg and attacking their personnel. He didn't believe that the Sand Scorpion would dare to continue targeting him.

On the desolate wasteland, Dole's black insect mist quickly disappeared into the ends of the world.

After an unknown amount of time, a person wearing a black hooded robe passed by this small road, saw the three corpses, saw the wounds on their bodies, carefully examined them, collected the bodies, and quickly disappeared into the wilderness.

At this time, a small black bug flew up from the nearby grass and quickly followed.

...

The insect mist slowly flew back to the entrance of Wassenburg. The level six Profound Corpse Insect was already able to evade large-scale detection arrays to a certain extent.

When Dole landed, he had already arrived in the slums near the city gate. After transforming into human form, he slowly walked into the city.

After entering the city gate, a portion of the insect swarm scattered back into the surrounding world, and the majority of the swarm returned to the Tower of Babel.

...

Late at night, in another small courtyard.

Thorn stood in the courtyard, looking at the information in her hand, frowning slightly. Just now, their small team that purchased medicine was wiped out, and approximately 300,000 gold coins worth of medicine disappeared.

There were not many obvious wounds on the corpses. They had already been taken back for examination to see what caused their deaths.

She frowned.

This small medicine buying team had been around for more than three years, and this was the first time they had failed.

She thought of many reasons: revenge, grudges, greed, but the fact that a level five warrior didn't struggle much was very outrageous.

Could it be a wizard? But how would a wizard normally know that they had taken so many medicines?

This matter was very unusual.

The Sand Scorpion Adventurer Group had many small teams in Wassenburg. To maintain secrecy, they didn't contact each other. As an assassination team, they were responsible for gathering intelligence, and they would occasionally contact other small teams, but the contact was not close. That's how they knew a little bit.

Why is this?

Where did the medicine go?

Those people all had the Nightmare Ancestor's methods on them. Who could silently kill them without suffering any losses themselves?

All of this seemed to become a mystery.

She wouldn't have thought that this was actually because of her own actions that this small team was exposed.

Just then, a series of knocking sounds came from the door, very rhythmic.

She pondered for a moment and said softly, "Please come in."

The door opened, revealing a middle-aged man who looked like a butler.

He quickly walked in, then closed the door, and said in a very fast, low voice, "According to intelligence, the City Lord will be receiving Dole at the City Lord's Mansion the afternoon after tomorrow. This is a good opportunity for you."

In the dark night, you couldn't see the steward's face, but you could feel that he was nervous at this time.

Thorn blinked her eyes, not very sure about this news, but still said, "Okay, I understand."

The steward took a deep look at Thorn and said, "This may be your only chance, because Dole may be leaving soon."

Thorn nodded and said, "I understand."

The steward turned around, opened the door, and quickly disappeared into the dark world outside, as if he had never been there.

In the dark night, a small black dot on the eaves slowly flew up and changed direction.

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In the Tower of Babel, Dole was very puzzled.

Daleid wanted to see him, he could have just sent a message. Why the afternoon after tomorrow? What was he up to?

If he wanted to see him, there was only one thing, and that was that there was progress on the matter of the capital. Could it be that this matter had taken so long?

It had been more than ten days since their last meeting. There should be news by now.

But why the day after tomorrow?!

This news has leaked out. Someone is going to assassinate me the day after tomorrow. This is going to be fun.

The corners of Dole's mouth twitched slightly, and then he closed his eyes, putting the matter behind him. Assassinate him? What a joke. Just them, a few useless assassins?

...

On a vast plain, a magnificent city was located, resembling the Central Dynasty, with all directions coming to pay tribute.

In the center of the city, a huge and magnificent underground palace was located, with a forty-eight-story high tower, Ori City, in the middle.

This was the capital of the Glory Empire, Glory City.

At this time, in a secluded and vast courtyard in Glory City, the Third Prince was staring at the message in his hand with shock, unbelievably stunned.

"My God, damn it, this force is still around, and it has been active for so many years without being discovered? It was only recently confirmed?"

"Sand Scorpion Adventurer Group, no wonder they can be so active for so long and still exist. It turns out there is such a behemoth behind them."

Many thoughts instantly flashed through his mind, and then he was overjoyed.

City Lord Daleid gave this message to him, giving him the credit, wanting to exchange it for his territory, because that territory was close to the Northwest Province.

The territory was intended to be exchanged for Dole. The Sand Scorpion Adventurer Group had a feud with Dole. When Dole took down that territory, the Sand Scorpion Adventurer Group would definitely organize people to seek revenge. When the time came, they could catch them all in one fell swoop, and at the same time strike at the arrogance of the Nightmare Organization.

He would gain credit, establishing his ability in front of the Emperor. Dole would get the territory, and Wassenburg would also get credit.

A win-win situation.

Thinking of this, he immediately got up and shouted, "Prepare the horses! I'm going to the Imperial Palace."