The Kingdom of Tartaros or Tartaros as you like to say is divided into 10 territories, these territories are divided and limited to 20 ducats
these ducats can decrease or increase depending on the kingdom, so you are not going to think that all kingdoms have only 20 ducats
so there are 20 dukes or duchesses in the kingdom of Tartaros but they are not the only ones in these territories there are more people who share a little of these lands
This territory is a very big cake for a single person, the territory has the Duke or Duchess, it is also the highest authority in that region, they are in charge of security then Márquez, the Count, the Viscount and finally the Baron
How can you get one of these lands?
there are three ways
by inheritance, by achievements in wars or by conquering lands from other kingdoms
Wars between territories are prohibited whoever does or starts a war in these territories will be burned together with his house, there is a strict regulation in all this and the first one who violates this regulation will be executed without exception
but there is always how to evade these rules, be it with pillage or hitmen, so that you understand the robbery or murder, there will be no problems as long as you are not caught
but this is very difficult to do, killing a noble and more high nobility like dukes or their families, they are protected by layer after layer of knight's or some low-ranking magician, but that does not take away from them that they are very annoying
Each nobleman in this kingdom is represented by a house or by some emblem but contrary to the rules of the kingdom for them it is a situation of life and death at every moment
Forging alliances, betrayals, assassinations and robberies, this is how each of these houses is handled, disputes between families are very common.
An example, if you kill your cousin for his lands or for his position that is fine, not only are you the smartest also the strongest of the two, but if a stranger kills him, the whole family will know and investigate and they will give with the person in charge
don't ask me how, they will and there are many ways to find out
The most common or special are the memory rings that keep the face of the person responsible for having killed that nobleman.
Now this village is part of one of those many territories but its owner, is indisposed and the queen, her friend, was taking care of him
In short these lands are abandoned and there are people who take advantage of this like the pair below
🧛♂️-POV by LYCAN 🧛♂️
inside a camp two figures discuss
Now listen to me well Lycan you have to enter that village and carry everything you have, before the Zombies arrive and that damned Lyche discovers the mine and steals from us what we have been taking with all our effort
I look at this stupid Count again, if he is very stupid, thanks to his mistrust he refused to take any material out of that damn village he only bought and stored
now he's paying for his stupidity but he's dragging me through all of this
I look at him and snort to tell him before I leave "you will tell your father" as he thought the idiot trembled but I don't give him time to refute and I leave his camping tent
With a very loud voice I shout to my assistant "Remus take your soldiers and push as much as you can the right flank of those damn stiff, we need to enter that damn village, whatever the cost"
my assistant just runs to his horse and says "right away sir" that's what I like, before he leaves I tell him "take all the mercenaries to the front just let the special brigade pass and they leave later we will wait for them the queen attack to get them out
so we will retire safely, so as not to increase our losses "
but before Remus left, one of the guards told us "sir, the queen is retiring" upon hearing those words I felt a hole in my stomach, my ears buzzed and I got dizzy, I let out a sigh to control myself, before asking "how many wolves we have left"
my secretary Remus tells me in a loud voice "100 wolves and 50 werewolves" I kept thinking before making a decision, this decision that would make us bleed but it is necessary I turn to see the watchman and say "talk to the mercenaries guild put up a hunting sign for the zombies in this area "
my vigilant question "what price do we put on zombies"
with another sigh I try to take advantage of the situation "tell them I will pay a silver coin for Zombie no more" however the queen will raise her own hunting sign and with one more coin they will give priority to this area
We only wait for the response of the union but my secretary returned with his face down and sad he says "sir, the president of the union does not want to"
That bothered me so I asked him "what the hell did that stinky old man tell you?" the guard answered me "the president said that his coin can be put through .... the ,,,, As ,, s" upon hearing him I pressed the fists damn old man, what do you think?
the watchman tells me "he wants a 50 silver bill no less"
my nails found out about my palms they always charge 10 silver per mercenary now he wants 50 I tell them out loud "that damn old man is crazy, look at paying 50 silver per mercenary, maybe the damn old man wants to get rich at my expense"
the watchman swallows a little saliva and tells me "the president told me that it is because of Zombi, only then he will release the hunting order"
Even the Count who heard the words of the watchman complained "what does that damn old man think I will speak to my father so that he can complain to the queen to do an audit and then expel him from this Kingdom"
but the watchman tells us "there are orders from the Queen for the mercenaries to help the refugee caravans leaving the villages"
I hit the table several times until I smashed it one of my guards comes running and says "sir, the zombies are coming to the village, what are your orders?"
I let out a very long snort "attack, everyone attack, we need to go anywhere" also I return to see the guard and give instructions "tell the president to send his hunting order, he will receive his coins but I want a magic count to avoid any scam, now all wear your empty rings we will occupy them "
We went out to the outskirts of the camp and shouting at the top of our lungs I tell my partners, followers and employees
"Gentlemen, let's attack with everything we have"
🧛♂️-END of LYCAN's POV 🧛♂️
the thousand beetles stopped eating for only 5 minutes to change their shell for a darker one
a dull black
This is their adolescence, they return for the skin left on the ground and they eat it, without exception, it was everything, I did not find anything, where those bodies were previously. of the Zombies, not the clothes, hair or nails those damn beetles ate everything
they did not leave anything, it is as if those zombies were lost in a void, where they just disappeared and already, they followed and swallowed all the green and rough skin of the Troll until the blood spilled on the ground
He disappeared
The truth is, this seemed very scary if our fight had not happened or if we had never met, even with that large size, it would be as if it had never existed (biss-biss) what?
is seriously that is very crazy, little also my thoughts, is it serious? you can eat them (biss-biss)
no thanks but no, maybe later
at this time the growth stage of these little beetles is not over yet, their explosive growth was just beginning, all the beetles divided into pairs and in just half an hour, they finished with every zombie within a radius of 500 meters around my location
When they finished eating their color changed to an even darker color, this change stopped them again for another five minutes approximately
But when these bugs began to move, if previously all this was terrifying, now just seeing how 1000 zombies fall to the ground and then disappear in a minute or two as if they never existed, what would it be?
the place where I was standing was like a forbidden area, being able to see a zombie-free zone was similar to seeing an island in the middle of the sea when I came down from the tree all the beetles gathered in front of me and in front of them was the first beetle with a much darker color than the others
that little boy ran and climbed one leg until he reached my shoulder, he approached my neck where with a jump he embedded himself in my skin in the form of a drawing
the drawing is similar to that of Egyptian scarabs
the magic of all this is that the little friend was sleeping on my neck in the form of a tattoo
now i have a beetle tattoo but still things don't end
That tattoo had two functions, the first was to have control of the other 999 beetles, and also had access to an alternative space of 1000m², which was absolute madness, each beetle was equivalent to one meter²
to test hold a rock and it disappears, I focus on that space and the rock was in the middle with just one thought the rock moved to a corner with another thought the rock came out and was in my hand
a number of ideas came to my mind
One of those crazy ideas was to fight and get a rock the size of that Troll out of nowhere. You imagine (biss-biss) like I can't, let me stop my 8th grade syndrome (biss-biss) well, well I'll let you sleep, that was very good while it lasted, but how about a sword that is smaller without exceeding my capacity (biss-biss) than such arrows or kunais like a ninja or can you imagine making figures with your hands and then screaming
summoning jutsu and a dragon appears, that would be epic
not getting an answer I suppose it was viable or so I think
Without thinking twice I go to the steel doors and before I stand in front and since I do not want to face anyone much less a wolf jumps me, I send some beetles to see if there is something else
💥 * BOOMM * 💥
part of the entrance flew into a thousand pieces, but the little beetle was nowhere which caused me sadness, but suddenly the little friend came out of a dark space on one side of the entrance, the beetle was fine nothing happened to him
"UFF"
I breathe a sigh of relief
you imagine first command and someone dies what a disaster
to avoid taking any other risk, I sent the beetles to capture a zombie but what they brought five minutes later, seriously had no name
They brought the Zombie -YES
I was alive [technically -yes- but tell you about a Zombie they are dead I'm confused, very confused] that he moves, he moves
I had legs -NO
had arms -NO
no teeth or eyes, he tried to scream but his league was also torn off it was only a torso that moves like a fish on the river bank, that left me speechless even for me it was very cruel and we are talking about a being who was without life huh
They left him on the ground, I approach and punch his head
🤜 * PAM * 💥
I took him out of all his misery, the Zombie stopped moving forever, I had to put an end to his agony, for my sanity
which gave me another idea
This idea, was even crazier than the idea of the rock the size of the Troll (bring more zombies) causing half to disperse
I took the other half of the beetles to the front of the first warehouse and ordered them to (devour the door) those doors looked like wafers, the way they thundered and detached themselves in the little jaws of these little ones
In less than 30 seconds the doors of the entrance of that warehouse were finished, where the door was I stopped, before entering I waited for them to arrive with the zombies
when they started to arrive I just punched them in the head
🤜 * PAM * 💥
To kill them
Then I threw them on the warehouse floor, some just by touching the ground, they exploded into a thousand pieces, others did not, with those I throw them back on the wood until they broke into pieces, activating the traps.
In the process of throwing zombies I was also cleaning the shelves where infinities of swords, spears, bows, arrows, axes, alabaras, greatswords, daggers, knives and greatswords, they only disappear one after another, for the second floor of the warehouse that was more time consuming , because each step had a trap
the warehouse wanted to leave it alone but the beetles asked me to eat it because of the type of stone with which it was built that building was special or something like that, the beetles lasted about 20 minutes eating, before finishing with the two plants those little ones discovered something fantastic
There was one more room, this room was below the ground, the whole room was full, to the brim with swords that were even brighter than those made of steel, there were other green and black swords in addition to a box filled with rings
after the swords were some armor made of the same material and of other colors everything was loaded, packed box after box one after another
the zombies kept coming
🤜 * PAM * 💥
🔔
* Ding *
[your "muscles" skill has increased to level 3]
Have you ever had or seen a most stupid smile (insert here) that was what adorns my face, when I heard that sound, it was a privilege to have a hack in this world, as I walk towards the second warehouse my laugh echoes in the village
in the second warehouse
Food is plentiful, there are all kinds of grains, cheese, meat, but on the second floor it was full of salt, that's right, they were bags and bags of salt in this warehouse the secret room had ¼ liter jars filled with three liquids different one red, one blue and one green in addition to its corresponding chest of rings and jewels
nothing tested, everything perfectly stored
the most dangerous of all was the third warehouse there is not a single place without some trap, even the shelves had traps, they had, because nothing that a zombie cannot fix but all those bags were filled to the brim and not with water
all the bags on the first floor were full of silver bills, every bag, every shelf, every aisle, they were bag, after bag of banknotes and single-denomination bills were 50
the bags on the second floor were full of gold bills, these bills had legendary figures in two denominations bills of 100, 500 and in the secret room, there were coins much better polished, these coins shone much better than those polished swords
These coins were in chests each chest would have between 1000 to 1500 coins that adorned this room as well as a couple of chests with rings and jewels more than 500 chests
everything disappeared
To be more sure of this, the beetles checked the terrain twice before going to the entrance where the steel doors were.
but where one of the doors was eaten by beetles and the other part of the door was kept, all the way from that cave or tunnel as they want to say it was upholstered with the bodies of Zombies
The Zombies looked like grass, and I also had to throw them towards the walls and ceiling because I almost lost my head because of one of those traps
The first thing I found inside was the werewolf hit by the Troll, he was lying in the middle of the cave, the beetles surrounded him and did the same to him as the zombies.
The poor man couldn't even scream, oh if he was still alive
To be more sure I killed him with an arrow in the forehead with 30 meters of distance between the two, it was not out of fear
it was security, just security, besides those things deserve respect a lot of respect
As the beetles did not like their meat, I left it nailed to one of the walls on a sword, of the ones I took from the warehouse, it was the oldest and rusty of all, you have to save
What we found inside was a mine of purple crystals, I have no idea what they are or what they are for, I only know that the beetles split the crystals and transported them to space, in less than two hours they cleared the entire vein
everything was transported to space
while the beetles mined another part of them I kept catching, zombies to raise my skills but they all stalled at level 5
that was a shame
What does the system say, that I need a skill point to upgrade to the next rank, damn system
that was a real shame,
but that did not stop me, oh it did not stop me at all, I looked for two vines and controlled them to kill the invalid Zombies, until I raised the level of the vines to five, where I could control up to 5 different vines with each hand
the bad thing is that they were still thin let's say that about ten Zombies would not give me any problems, I would finish them in a matter of seconds but twenty zombies if they would be a big problem and if I was only fighting with the vines
when dawn comes
Before sunrise I decided to leave the village, I leave you in a couple of sentences where the warehouses were exactly in the secret rooms there were only two letters in each of those chambers
as I didn't even have ink, I carved the letters with zombie blood taken from an arm used as a brush. It was a "JA" that the three of them together make a
"JA-JA-JA"
at the gates of the village I realize something sad, it is my horse, there was only the pure leash where it was tied
These idiots had left him tied outside the doors, but not even the bones have left those damn Zombies
now I have to walk while the beetles clean the zombies where I pass, I go crouching to climb the only skill I was missing after half an hour
comes to my head the sound that I was waiting so eagerly
🔔
* Ding *
[your "stealth" skill has increased to level 5]
[you need a skill point in order to upgrade to the next level]
my smile betrayed me again when I heard the sound
I got off the main road, there are several screams, howls ahead and the explosions of the battles are heard all over the place
also the sound of another drum is heard, so it is better to get away from this area, before starting my way all the beetles surrounded me like children to an ice cream truck
The following was very strange, all en masse rushed towards my body up my legs and began to embed themselves in my arms and legs but it did not hurt me, nor did I feel them.
I could see them embed themselves in my skin and navigate in my arms until they disappeared it was terrifying, disgusting, extraordinary and fantastic
in that order
Another more fantastic thing is that the vine released seeds and one of them began to loop on my arm to form a bracelet and this vine was made of thorns that carved itself into my skin like a puppy without hurting me
when I touched it, one of its thorns was embedded in my finger and the blood that came out, the vine absorbed it like a sponge, making the vine shudder without alternative I give it a little more of my blood making its color change to a darker green with a little red dyes these dyes look like small threads that run through the bracelet
that vines was very happy
but I wasn't, those damn beetles ate all my clothes when they entered my body they also took my clothes and I immediately started scolding them
why did they eat my clothes?
who did it ?
The one who did it, will not eat for a week, what's more, I will be giving them pure werewolf, so they can eat to see if they like that, they will see if I do not
As I fight and vent to all these beetles
A couple of adult wolves that seem to be bigger than those normal wolves that I had seen in the parks come out and approach me, not only in height, but also in weight.
"LOL"
When I saw who they were I laughed out loud, while I told the beetles to see their dinner has arrived, but none of those beetles wanted to leave, because they were all asleep or they pretend to be asleep "look, look how convenient"
look at the creeper and tell them "it's time to hunt"
The vine did not come loose from my arm as I had thought, it only released some small black seeds to the ground, which immediately immerse themselves in the earth and sink for seconds later to appear, shoots very similar to the bracelet, these suckers began to grow and grow little by little
while the wolves try to stop their race, what they did just to see me but it hurts, it was too late for them