"Are you alright?, Scarlet asked, even though she knelt down on the floor like she was been punished, she still cared for Larne. Wrath whose name was Allison, moved near him and touched his forehead checking if he something was wrong with Larne.
"I'm fine, nothing is wrong with me, I was just thinking of something. He stands up and with his carefree smile back on his face clears his throat putting on the air of sovereignty and seriousness.
*Ahem*!, everywhere becomes strangely silent like if even a pin drops, it would echo in the room. Scarlet and Allison especially then break the silence with by asking a question; "What's wrong, Larne, is anything the problem?".
"No, there is no problem but good news!".
"What's the good news about?".
"We, when i say 'we', i mean our spiritual masters[They are a group of people who are skilled in producing weapons, potions, formations, runes, they have what was called a 'spiritual sea', which helped them in deciphering ancient runes, codes, they were like modern day scientists who have always dedicated their lives with discoveries for the 'benefit of humanity', who always find things to satisfy their curiosities with. They are so important that any Nation, Duchy, Empire that doesn't have a spiritual master is likely crumble quickly, they were like 'hot commodities', one of the reasons why the Empires lost the war is due to the fact that the trade alliance poached the majority of them during the beginning of the war due to a reason that had to do with way the Emperors and their royal families were treating them which led to disastrous consequences where the 'poached spiritual masters' shared a lot of technical and military secrets of the Empires to the trade alliance and its allies, during the golden age of the 'human mages', the spiritual masters were people who couldn't wield magic but still had a crucial role in the human conquest in their conquering of other races, even though magic got extinct, spiritual masters didn't dwindle but even multiplied but it was impossible for them alone to reproduce the glory of the ancient magic civilization due to the fact that they couldn't wield magic but one glorious boon about them is that they are all geniuses who will do anything to discover new things. When Larne first learned about them, he was first sad because of the fact that the saw themselves as lofty people, so to him they were too proud but later he discovered they were just like the scientists of his former life, they were always wanting to improve or discover new things, so he had an idea and decided to use a 'ponzi' scheme and within ten years had already poached a quarter of the spiritual masters on the continent with his 21st century ideas and they are already made a lot of inventions, everytime he drops ideas, they behave like children who have been starved for days]have finally developed a weapon that is capable of killing a 'sword saint' and according to Grandmaster Ogun and the report Sade gave me, destroying the entirety of the trade alliance if we ever cross paths with them is not an understatement but sadly...*sighs*, they rely on a rare stone called 'Energy Crystals' and this 'Energy Crystals' can only be found in large quantities in the 'Northern Wildlands', the place that the present day humans have yet to set foot on but it doesn't really set us back that much, the major problem is that now that the war between the trade alliance and the two Empires has ended, the trade alliance will start to notice us and our operations".
"SIGHS"!
"So, a new problem or war for the trade alliance has to take place and I know who to push or start it with"!, grinning fiendishly startling even the hard hearted Sade, we start with 'Ibonia kingdom', they have become rich with only them producing 'Energy Cannons', we all also know that they helped the trade alliance greatly in defeating the Empires but what not many know is that for them to produce 'Energy Cannons', they need the stone will need-
"Larne, hope it is not what I am thinking!", Allison interjects while Larne nods fiendishly. "Yes Allison, Ibonia kingdom has thrived and is still thriving on those 'Energy Crystals' and according to the 'Eagle Eye', the Ibonia spiritual masters have developed a weapon that can incapacitate a 'Grandmaster level' Swordsman and at least injure an average 'SwordLord'.
"What!", Everyone in the room from Scarlet to Sade, they were astonished!
Feeling smug and complacent, he eases their heart by saying "Well, I said they just developed it and haven't realised the full potential of the weapon, all we need is to let out rumours and make sure that the rumours touches the borderline of 'sword saints' and 'swordlords', and cause it neighbours and allies to began to doubt the Ibonia kingdom, and we all know how secretive Ibonia is, it won't want to give up its secrets just to satisfy its allies and there!, 'WAR!'.
*CLAP*, it was unknown who clapped but everyone too also started to clap, and they became too enthusiastic that they started clapping too thunderously! to the extent that even Larne had a little fright!'
"Ok, stop!", Larne ordered and the clapping stops and silence ensued again,
"Sade, for this plan to work out, you would to go 'Shadow Mercenaries', and meet with the leader there, asking him to deliver a message to Bayo Merchant Guild which is one of the big Eight merchant guilds, telling president Mike Bayo about the secret of Ibonia Kingdom.
"Allison and Scarlet take good care of my belongings while i go meet the 'spiritual masters underground and also deliver a message to Briella{Pride} asking to get ready and tell her what went on in this meetings from the good to the bad news and the decisions that have been made here in the meeting". "Do I make self clear!".
"Yes sir!".
"Greed and Lust, I want you to go look for Chard{Gluttony}!".
"Yes Sir!",
"One more thing, congratulations GREED! for breaking through, don't think i didn't know you had made a breakthrough to become my third 'SwordLord' and the third in the group.
"Everyone out of the room, I am still tired and now with all these thinking, they were sapping my body energy".
"But you said you were going to visit the spiritual masters underground", Scarlet asks in which Larne replies saying" I am still going but saying the greetings, inspecting the equipments and giving them more ideas makes me feel fatigued, so I will fall asleep soon, take care of the room and yeah!, one more thing!, i am going to the Academy"! tomorrow.