BXBX NOVEL Chapter 196 - Bold Decision (3)
Chapter 196: Bold Decision (3)
Just as Kirtimuka accurately assessed Gardimundi’s personality, she also properly evaluated her abilities. Therefore, whenever she met Gardimundi, she did not make any radical arguments, such as relieving her of her position or removing her from the list of the king’s subordinate spirits, even though she complained a lot about her behavior.
‘Maybe she might just be soft.’
Recalling Kirtimuka’s face all of a sudden, Gardimundi giggled, flying in the air.
As always, Gardimundi was flying alone. It was such a long distance from the palace of the King of Fury to Enkatro Pagnium, the farthest tip of the place where the House of Mammon was located, but it was no problem for Gardimundi at all, who had the “wings of a roc”. It was just a few hours of flying distance to her.
‘Huh? What happened?’
Just like the one flying in the sky proudly, Gardimundi also possessed a very good vision.
The Dungeon Meerkats of the House of Mammon uncharacteristically making a great fuss was reflected in her discerning green eyes.
‘Did anybody arrive back home?’
Gardimundi narrowed his eyes to check if there were any signs of outsiders’ intrusion. There was definitely nobody who could dare attack the House of Mammon that unified the whole unclaimed land in the south, but there was nothing like an “absolute” exception in everything.
Although Gardimundi had extraordinary discernment, she could notice nothing except for the traces of a large creature’s landing.
Instead of landing right away, Gardimundi hovered in the air and agonized a bit. Since her own visit would be the “first exchange” between the King of Fury and the master of the House of Mammon, she had to be careful.
‘Dang it, I don’t know. Let me land anyway. It looks like the Dungeon Meerkats seem to have seen me anyway.’
Kirtimuka’s observation of her was once again verified.
Gardimundi, scratching the back of her head as if she was annoyed, landed on the ground. Then she opened Sarasvati’s pocket and pulled a flag that was dozens of times larger than the pocket.
The flag with the coat of arms of the King of Fury, Dritarastra, was really huge. The length of the flagpole alone was over 5 meters long, and the flag mixed with black and green seemed to be large enough to cover lots of people.
When combined, the flagpole and flag weighed more than a few hundred kilograms, but Gardimundi put the flag on the ground with one hand, as if it was a light stick. After inhaling as much as her chest with the red scale armor went up and down, she shouted in a confident and loud voice.
“As the messenger of Her Majesty Dritarastra, the King of Fury, I, Gardimundi of the Garura clan, would like to ask to meet the master of the Mammon family!”
Of course, she didn’t get their reply to her request. Instead of shouting again, Gardimundi quietly waited for the Mammon family’s response, despite Kirtimuka’s comments.
Since she was right in front of the dungeon entrance, not only the Dungeon Meerkats but also the dungeon’s souls must have seen her. Especially, she mentioned the name of the “King of Fury”, not anyone else, so if she waited a little more, they would respond, she expected.
Gardimundi’s expectation wasn’t wrong again.
Within a few minutes, the entrance door of the dungeon opened. It was four men and women with green skin and a group of a dozen wolves that appeared before her.
Gardimundi immediately knew that she was familiar with some of the wolves. They looked like the wolves that Embrio used to command.
‘What kind of clan do they belong to anyway?’
Gardimundi’s green eyes now turned to a man and woman with green skin among the wolves, and the only woman at that.
The woman neatly dressed in a white shirt and a black suit made it difficult for Gardimundi to guess. With her dark straight hair swaying, she was beautiful. Her ears were pointed as if they were those of a goblin or an orc, and her skin was green, the same as that of the goblin and orc clans.
She was not an orc because she had no tusks peculiar to the orc clan. Besides, she was too slim for an orc.
‘She is not a goblin, either.’
Several clans came to her mind, but she could not determine which it was. And it was the same for the other three among them.
They were all different from each other except for the fact that their ears were pointed, their skin was green, and they were all humanoid. The one on the wagon’s coach box was big enough to be comparable to an orc, and the tall guy standing behind the woman was thin and long like an elf. Again, the person standing next to her was just ordinary, but since he stood between the two, he seemed very weird.
Gardimundi stopped thinking further. After storing all their images in her mind like an excellent scout, she moved on.
Just as Gardimundi first expected, the woman in a black suit came out on behalf of the group.
“This is Jun, the assistant butler of the House of Mammon. My master said that he accepted your request to see him. Please get on the carriage.”
A couple of men standing right behind Jun, the woman in black, opened the carriage door. Even without entering it, Gardimundi easily found out that it was a wagon without a single window. That was the common practice when they accepted an outside guest into a dungeon.
“I appreciate your master’s considerations.”
Gardimundi replied with a cool smile then took down the flag of the King of Fury and put it again in Sarasvati’s pocket. While she was doing it, the rest of the group, except for Jun, were impressed by her adroit skills like magic with their mouths open.
‘How naive they are!’
Gardimundi, smiling again, climbed right onto the carriage. She felt quite cozy inside, but as expected, it was a stuffy space without any window. Given the wall was also quite thick, it seemed that the carriage was sound-proof.
After Gardimundi sat down, Jun, the assistant butler, and the two men standing behind him climbed into the carriage together.
‘Oh, they’re doing better than I thought.’
Shortly after the carriage started, Gardimundi felt her sense of direction was wrong. The mana that she released naturally also hovered around the wagon but couldn’t spread beyond it. It was because of the special magic field emitted by a group of wolves that now belonged to Yong-ho. The reason why the herd of wolves appeared with the wagon was not because they were dispatched to escort Jun and the four Goblin Rangers, but because their presence made it impossible for the guest to grasp what was happening outside the wagon like now.
The carriage moved slowly to match the walking speed of the wolves. Since the House of Mammon expanded its defense area itself, it would take considerable time to lead Gardimundi to its residential area, which in turn, allowed Yong-ho to ponder over the purpose of her visit.
“Why did she come here?” Kaiwan asked as if she was unhappy about the messenger.
Ophelia, who woke up hurriedly, opined, “Given that she came here alone without leading an envoy, she looked like a secret envoy. In other words, she might have wanted to hide her secret visit here from other kings.”
Obviously, what she said made sense.
“Hummmmmm”
What she said made sense. Tigrius also agreed with her.
“Probably, she is here to ask for an alliance with us. The House of Mammon is now the proud hegemon of the southern unclaimed area. Although we haven’t yet united all the powers in the south, probably we look like a very attractive candidate for the alliance from the King of Fury’s point of view.”
“The King of Fury is a pretty good alliance candidate for our Mammon family because she is currently fighting the King of Gluttony,” said Ophelia with a smile.
This was a situation that reconfirmed the fact that the enemy of one’s enemy was one’s ally.
But at that moment, Scathach, who was just watching them, raised her hand.
“By the way, is there any possibility that this messenger will make any attempt to assassinate our master?”
It seemed Scathach was on edge because of the attack by the King of Gluttony, but such a possibility could not be ruled out in reality.
But Ophelia said, shaking her head, “I don’t think the King of Fury will bother to make such an attempt. Besides, she is different from the King of Gluttony. And...”
After a brief pause, she concluded with a prideful look, “Especially, our current master doesn’t have to worry about anything.”
It was the King of Greed who made the King of Gluttony’s seven spirits tremble with fear. Although Garura, who identified herself as Gardimundi, seemed to be a woman of unusual abilities, it was just unthinkable for her to do anything harmful to Yong-ho.