Epic Of The Demonic Sage

Kiana had been thinking about Lucius's plan for about thirty minutes now and Lucius had also finished checking the Bore shrew's condition. He was just about to wake them when Kiana suddenly spoke.

"I understand the plan for the most part and I know how it will work if Priest Lyle is found to be dead. But… what if the church never finds out he is dead?" Kiana questioned. "What if their investigation never reveals any results?" Kiana questioned.

"Well, if that does happen then it will just make things even easier for us. With priest Lyle missing, the church will still come to us, but this time the terms would be different. They would of course check if we had any links to his disappearance but I'll take care of that too.

Even if they check the citizens of our city and ask them, they would only get the answer that priest Lyle left the city normally and was never seen after. Plus… I'm not going to let the perpetrator of this entire thing go free either." Lucius answered.

"Perpetrator… you mean Viscount Drew?" Kiana questioned.

"Indeed," Lucius said with a smile. "If all goes well, it will be Viscount Drew's turn to undergo arbitration… a counter arbitration by the church of Duran." 

Kiana's eyes widened upon hearing this. She hadn't thought that Lucius would have covered so many aspects for all this. But now she couldn't help but nod that this plan would work.

It was planned in enough detail that there were few points where problems could be caused. The only thing that could happen was that either the priest would slip away from the city before they know of it or that he would escape their attack.

But Kiana was doubtful as either of those were likely to happen since they had John watching the priest's every move. And the best thing was, that they didn't even need to do this secretly.

As the lord of a region, it was their 'responsibility' to ensure that their 'guests' were safe. It was completely valid to have someone provide security for a priest of Duran who had visited them in the capacity of an Arbitrator.

While Kiana didn't know how Lucius would be implicating Viscount Drew in it, but she had the confidence that Lucius had that planned too. Rather than prodding his mind and disturbing him, he let him work and figure things out before that.

Lucius went to work on the Bore Shrews again and released the hell energy from his hand. The hell energy split into multiple streaks and entered the bodies of the bore shrews. Lucius now had ten bore shrews in total. 

He had actually gotten a couple more a week ago and he had changed them too. But since Lucius had finished with most experiments that he needed to do on the bore shrew, he simply let them sleep after transforming them with the hell energy.

~shua~

Streaks of hell energy poured out of his hand as they quickly entered the bodies of the ten bore shrews. There were three bore shrews that were larger than the other seven. These ones were the size of a house cat while the rest were twice as big as normal bore shrews.

Overall, ten of these beasts were taking up quite a bit of space in the cage and Lucius was thankful that he had this modular equipment made. He simply switched around a few panels and the cage was extended to accommodate more of the bore shrews.

~SKWEE~

Once the hell energy entered their bodies, the bore shrews were revitalized and let out a cry upon awakening. They looked around and spotted the glowing red hand of Lucius above them.

They immediately unlocked the cage on their own and left it before arranging themselves into a single file. Seeing this, Lucius couldn't help but smile.

~clap~

"Excellent!" Lucius said with a clap.

"You all have your very first task today. If you complete it successfully, you will get a reward." Lucius said before sending out small strings of hell energy to each of the beasts, transmitting the details.

As soon as the hell energy was fully consumed by the bore shrews, their eyes glinted with a fierce light.

~SKEWEEEEEEE!~

An excited cry was let out by them and they looked ready to act.

"Ahahha! Not so fast… we have to wait for the right moment. Though it wouldn't hurt to be a bit early…" Lucius said as he looked outside the window.

Kiana then watched as the ten Bore Shrews climbed up the wall and exited through the window. Once outside the window they quickly dug into the ground and disappeared. 

"Where did they go?" Kiana questioned.

"They will be ready to act at any time now. I sent them outside the city." Lucius spoke.

"I see… what do we do now?" Kiana questioned.

"Now? Now we wait… at least until the Priest is ready to leave and John informs us about it." Lucius answered.

"When do you think he will be leaving?" Kiana asked.

"Hmm… seeing as he came after a long journey, he should probably be resting here for a few hours before leaving," Lucius replied.

"But won't he leave on a carriage or something like that?" Kiana questioned.

"I thought that at first too, but apparently this man left the carriage that he hired when he entered the city. I bet he didn't think that he would need the carriage so fast. Now even if he wants a carriage he would not get one easily. 

Especially since the restrictions between us and Viscount Drew's territory started." Lucius said with a knowing smile.

Hearing the last sentence of Lucius, Kiana suddenly understood.

"Viscount Drew just caused problems for himself, didn't he?" Kiana stated.

"Indeed. While other carriages can enter our territory and leave, since they don't need to follow the same regional regulations, the same can't be said for the carriages that are from our city.

If anything, Priest Drew would need to walk to the territory of Viscount Drew to get a carriage." Lucius said with a chuckle.