Lord of the Truth

Inside one of the grand halls of the Royal Palace of Dolivar

*boom*

Sage Louis Dolev stood up and hit the table in front of him with anger, turning it into dust, "USELESS! You're all damned useless! you can't capture or even kill three kids that aren't even knights? then what use do you have?!"

"Please calm down, Your Highness, there must be something we can do." The hall was filled to the brim with saints, even more than before as the success or failure of the operation would affect the future of the Kingdom, but contrary to all expectations.. they have failed miserably.

The council overestimated Caesar and his comrades by sending five Saints, in theory even the five knights were more than enough for the task! 

in the end, the targets are just three ninth-level teenagers.

However, a team of ten specialists in this kind of filthy work with 5 of them being Saints left to do a simple job... but only 5 of them returned.

"Calm down? Those three are hiding huge secrets, secrets that were going to be one of our keys in the next war, but all three of them ran away! 

According to reports, none of the three have come back to the city yet. This means they're probably hiding and don't have the intention to show their faces again, they might even be heading back to their kingdom right now! we have lost our only chance to get rid of them... and you tell me to calm down?!"

One of the five Saints who was kneeling on the ground, "Your Highness, the five of us succeeded in stopping the Enemy Saints and we even killed one of them, the five knights were supposed to complete the rest of the task.. How do we know that they are so useless?"

"Shut up!" Louis moved his hand in the air, and a slap fell on the saint's face, almost killing him... "You dare brag about killing a damned old man while the plan failed and the whole plan got exposed? 

My reports say that all the families of the Black Sun in the capital are agitated after the return of the two saints who escaped from you with the corpse of that old saint from the Burton family, 

their prince William leads them himself to protest and they demand an explanation of what happened, our reputation is getting trashed right now in the streets, what should I tell them? tell me how should I cover up your mess?!"

a saint sitting slightly far away spoke with a smirk, "Don't worry your highness, it's just an empty hustle, they won't dare do anything as long as they're inside our kingdom, we can go and subdue them now, just give us the order."

Sage Louis rolled his eyes to the side towards the last speaker, "What is a fool like you doing in a place like this? Get out of here and never show your face in this kind of important meeting again..."

" Your highness, I...!" the one who just spoke panicked

"GET OUT!" Sage Louis's aura exploded this time and pushed the saint who spoke to the door breaking it.

"Damn it... Damn the four empires!! had it not been for their arrogance and constant interference in the affairs of the kingdoms, we would have wiped the Black Sun off the map decades ago! 

If not for them, would we have needed these *reasons*, conspiracies and nonsense over tens of years!?

sigh~ Now please, only the smart ones may speak... what do we do now that the mission failed?" Louis sat back down at his chair and started rubbing his forehead

"Your Highness, I don't think the mission was a complete failure…." A high-ranking saint sitting next to the prince stood up, bowed, and spoke

"What do you mean?" Sage Louis frowned

"Please let me explain… How can three ninth-level youths be under the protection of three Saints? Even His Highness Prince Henry does not receive such treatment.

Three young men at the ninth level managed to kill 4 knights, including one of them at level 16! Gentlemen, has any of you heard of something like this before? I haven't, and I'm sure none of you would have even thought about this possibility before today.

There is also the matter that the three had completely disappeared in front of everyone, with only the Spiritual Sense of those above level 17 being able to clearly spot them, how is this possible?

  According to the words of the five saints, what was used to kill the knights was most likely a strange, explosive weapon, that can explode with a power equal to a level 16 knight's full attack! which is also something we have never heard of before."

Sage Lewis narrowed his eyes, "What do you want to say...?"

"Your Highness, something is going on in the Black Sun kingdom that we don't know about yet. What happened today was a warning to us.. we should wait a little longer and stop our plans for now until we realize what we are dealing with."

Silence fell over the entire hall, and at last, Sage Louis spoke again, "Our allies will not like the delay anymore... we have been delaying for about sixty years now? now that we just started raising the hostility level we return to play nice again?"

"I understand that fully your highness, Our allies might get upset with this, But they will not like the defeat and the loss of their interests if we entered the war blindly either, 

they should be thankful to us that we extracted this information before it was too late, if those heavy explosive weapons and methods of disappearance suddenly appeared in a great battle between us, the consequences would have been dire… Fortunately, we have seen them now

But.. this also raises other questions, why did the Black Sun Kingdom send those three with these incredible weapons now?"

Another saint intervened, "I think this is clearer. Those three came to us to frighten us and make us cautious in our dealings with the Black Sun Kingdom. 

I bet these weapons aren't available at all in the black sun kingdom, they are just samples and they brought them here specifically to show them to us, if it didn't appear in the assassination attempt they would have found another way to announce them.

you may ask why would I assume that? if these weapons were available with large enough numbers to threaten us and could be used in battle, they would have kept them to themselves as secret weapons and not have shown them in this obvious threatening way. 

So I think they were objects that are still being tested, but they wanted to show them now because of Their fear of our constant provocations towards them in recent years."

"I agree with Brother Sulli, out of their fear they want to frighten us."

"sigh~ you both are making sense... what do we do about the Black Sun Kingdom's accusations now? Those five clowns have exposed us with lightning attacks and we can no longer remain silent about the protests of Prince William and his entourage."

Another saint stood and bowed, "This is the easiest part, your highness. Let's simply say that the attackers are from the Tinley family and they want to avenge Michael because they suspect that Caesar has something to do with his death, We can disclaim our responsibility and make it a personal feud between the Tinleys and the Burtons..."

"I have no problem with this, let me see if any of the Burton family worms dares to raise their voice against this duke, hmph!" Duke Titus Tinley stated

"But don't forget that the three suspicious youths and deadly weapons come from the Burton family! Perhaps it wouldn't be a good idea to make a feud between them and the border duchy of the Tinleys…."

" You are thinking too much your highness, they are just a lowly earl family, They're just a front! The Black Sun royal family sent these three youths and their weapons under the name of the Burton family so that they would frighten us even more, 

telling us that they could arm even the most wretched families with these techniques and weapons if they wanted! But the Burton family itself is a petty family that I can wipe out myself at any time with a spit!" Titus replied again, completely rejecting the idea of giving any consideration to the Burton family

"I'm with Duke Titus on this, the Burton family is just a cover.. it would be alright to make this personal, even the Black Sun royal family would like this solution"

Louis Dolev nodded, "Agreed then. go now and announce Duke Tinley's responsibility for the attack. And then send a few spies to the Black Sun Kingdom to find out what the hell is going on there.. 

We will freeze any provocations of the Black Sun Kingdom for a few more years until we have the full picture, and also... 

Increase the border guards between us and the Black Sun kingdom as much as possible, try to catch these three before they leave our kingdom!"

"Yes!"