After meeting with Raven, the old man came out of the room and went to rest.
Just as Raven and Filch were also about to conclude their meeting, another man came in to inform that one of their subordinates who was a spy in this town has come to report.
"Okay, bring him here." Raven said as he looked at Filch, this was a serious matter, as they needed as much information as possible before the attack, so that they could annihilate the Enthrall forces in one swoop.
"Step… Step…"
"Greetings lords." Soon a man in in black entered the room with a bag and greeted them.
"Wait… you are Robert!" Raven was surprised.
"It is me lord Raven, it is nice to see you again." Robert acknowledged.
"Haha… good, good, with you here, this battle will be much easier." Raven laughed.
This is not the first time that Raven and Robert have worked together. In fact, Raven was initially not satisfied with having a mortal to be a spy for them, but he was utterly shocked at how easily Robert was able to dig out information, there have been multiple occasions where Robert was able to get solid information where even his cultivator subordinates failed.
He was very happy since it was Robert who was appointed in this area, since that would mean he could easily complete the mission this time.
"So, what do you have for us Robert" Raven asked, his voice showing confidence he had in Robert's skills.
"Haha… lord, there is too many things that I need to tell you, but before we begin, I need to give you something." Robert said as he opened his bag and showed it to Raven.
"This… so many potions!" Raven and Filch jumped up from their seats. They looked at Robert in astonishment.
"I have managed to sneak in as an employee in one of the best magic shops in this town. The owner is just a naïve little girl, managing her father's shop after his death. Since, the town is going to be destroyed soon anyway, I decided to not hold back and brought some potions, that we can use to strengthen our people."
Listening to Robert's words, Raven was very delighted.
"Haha… I would expect no less from one of the best spies out there. Not only did you manage to bring information, you also bought so many potions to increase our strength" Raven laughed as he patted on Robert's back.
Robert smiled innocently as he simply passed one of the vials to Raven
"Here lord raven, I have bought about 50 vials, it does not seem the lord has brought that many people, so the lord can just keep the rest of the potions."
"Haha… sure sure…" Raven took the vial and opened it.
A sense of pride enveloped him, you see that, there are people who would work for years to gather enough money to get one measly potion, and here I am, my subordinate brings me so many potions, vitality potions… bah, body strengthening potion?... bah, I drink them like orange juice hahaha…"
He gulped the entire potion in one go.
…
The next day,
At the Misty's shop.
"Step, step" A muscular man with scary looks enters Hira's office.
"Greetings lords"
"…"
"You… you are Raven!" Robert laughs.
"Ye… Yes it is me lord Robert, it is nice to see you again." Raven said as he saluted Robert.
"Hmm, hmm" Robert nodded before saying.
"Brother-in-law, this guy is quite good at his job, we won't be having much problem with him working for us."
Robert was totally enjoying, getting a cultivator to call him lord, how many could do that? But since he is the 'brother-in-law' of their lord, he was of course very important. Robert was really very happy with his life right now.
Hira was quite amused seeing Robert behave that way.
"haha yes, yes, I am glad you guys worked so hard and came to this town as well." But you could easily see how happy he was.
Raven had bought a group of 30 men with him, out of which 5 were killed by Hira, but the rest…
[
Name: Hira
Age: 18
Species: Human
Level: {
Mortal (495),
Body Refiner (25)
}
],
And how did all this happen?
The day before, Hira gave a vial full of his blood to the old man, who visited the Misty's shop as soon as he entered the town. He met Robert and told him about Hira's plan. Then Robert took the vial and mixed it water and put it in various nice-looking potion vials. Then he took the 'blood-water' potions and went to meet Raven's gang. And the rest is history.
"So, Raven, is it? When are you going to visit the cultivators of this town?"
Hira had long wanted to get the cultivators under him, his initial plan was to get the Baron and then everything would be simple after that. But as soon as he started with the plan, he realized that the baron was dead. Then he tried to talk with Grace, well, although he trusted Grace did not want to cause him harm, he still felt kind of weird around her, not to mention there was still this 'secret' that she was hiding in her shadows.
But now, he was sure that he could easily grab this opportunity, since the plan was already in motion before he even entered the scene, now he just had to sit back and enjoy himself, as the number of his followers kept on increasing.
"Lord, we will start today itself" Raven answered.
"Hoh, good, quite hard working eh." Just make sure to follow the plan and everything will be easy. Hira nodded to himself. He did not even know what the plan actually was, since what the old man told him was only superficial information. But since he had the entire gang under him, he was too lazy to even care about what they were planning, since whatever they plan, it would all benefit him in the end.
"Yes lord." Raven replied.
"Before you go, answer me something, the old man told me that you plan to attack Enthrall because you want to kill the baron. Do you know why the lord of Crest wants to kill baron Enthrall so much?" Hira asked.
"Lord, baron Crest had an agreement with baron Enthrall that they would kidnap Enthralls citizens, for this agreement, baron Crest sold his daughter to baron Enthrall. This agreement has been going on for about one year before suddenly all the kidnappers belonging to Crest territory were captured by the Enthrall soldiers.
The baron of Enthrall territory has decided to send a report to the royal family to get him justice. Baron Crest is angry with baron Enthrall's treachery and also wants to get rid of Enthrall before he leaves for the royal capital.
Since there is already a war going on at the east side of the kingdom, the royal family is not interested in internal scuffle of the subordinate territories. So, if Crest is able to kill Enthrall, then he might have to face severe punishment in terms of taxes, but that would be it, but if the kingdom found out that there was human trafficking, they would really annihilate the Crest family."
Listening to Raven's explanation, Hira was lost in thoughts.
'Baron of Enthrall wants to visit royal capital! It seems she is planning something big.' An image of an utterly beautiful lady, walking gracefully appeared in his head.