Chapter 43. The War Room

As I was closing my eyes to enjoy a dream, several system notifications took my thoughts.

 [ Your faction has developed "Bloodlust (minute)" ]

 Bloodlust (minute).

 Desire for blood that takes over the mind when any conscious life has not been taken, in a certain amount of time. This occurs when a faction kills other beings without the need to feed.

 Time to be dominated by the desire to kill (1 month).

 It doesn't really matter, it's a common passive and it's only annoying when it becomes severe or higher ranks, for now just killing any insect on the ground is enough to suppress it, although I'm sure it will go up with time.

 Well, I'll leave that problem for the future.

 With no more notifications, it was the perfect time to return to my previous plan, but as expected, they had no intention of letting me sleep.

 - I'm here... - Luneth's voice rang through the room, behind the noise of the doors, but what they didn't hear and I did, was the sound of her shoe slipping.

 In an instant, she lost her balance, her head was going to hit the edge of the table, I say was because instinctively, my chains swooped down and grabbed her, over 2 meters of chains wrapped around her waist and stopped her in her tracks.

 I could notice the astonishment of those present, although I did not know why, whether it was because of me or because of the almost injured priestess.

 That being the case, I retracted my chains and went back to prepare for sleep.

 Gwen's point of view

 Hel had sat in the chair and made no noise, well as long as he is here you could say he is doing his job as a bodyguard, I could see how Leva was upset, but he could do nothing, it is true that he had threatened us, but he was in his capacity to do so, he was the strongest in the room and I don't think those are empty words, all of us who were in the throne room that day witnessed it.

 Well leaving that aside, we have to come to some kind of conclusion, the scouts in the north and south have detected some movements but nothing significant, which worries me, the ocean is calm, there have been no enemy sightings in the vicinity and the sky the same.

 Only the east is left, but with the forest between us we are safe.

 So what can they do, where would they attack, they may be preparing a large army of thousands, but we have no resources worth spending so many resources to justify spending so many resources to maintain such an army, we also have the pact of the third, being so they will not be able to hire their mercenaries for an attack, then what? .

 Immersed in my thoughts I could see how the door opened, as usual, Luneth had been delayed again, she is usually at the temple of the moon, where weddings are celebrated, wounded are healed and priestesses are prepared and soon, paladins if I can reach the next city level, she as the spiritual leader has a lot of work.

 Just after greeting, she stumbled. Losing her balance and it was almost then that without a sound, the chains on the back of my somewhat rude bodyguard, wrapped around her waist and was able to stop her from hurting herself.

 At this moment, I can say that he has managed to alleviate the worries of those present in a single act, I do not know if it is calculated or unconscious, but the fact of avoiding this accident shows that he does not like to see others suffer or at least not now.

 Of course, the most surprised was Luneth, I knew that she had a strong fear of these beings, but especially Mr. Hel, according to her, it was because of his essence, one that was really scary, but now, this terrifying being had saved her from a good blow.

 Her face went from the white of fright, to a more pinkish tone when she could process what had happened.

 - Thank you very much Mr. Hel - Luneth's response to the situation was the expected one, no matter how scared you are of him, it's normal to thank him, although Hel didn't answer him nor did he move at all.

 Seeing the lack of response, Luneth didn't seem to mind, nodded and turned to us.

 - Sorry for the delay, so have you found out how they are going to move or do we have any new reports? -

 We shook our heads.

 - I don't understand what those pesky turtles are planning, they don't stand a chance, in the case of wanting to mount that big army, which we came to as the most feasible conclusion at yesterday's meeting, it could only be to seek glory, since we don't have that many resources, we are a trading center, but we are not able to export, the losses from importing are made up for with our production of metals and azurite, but even so we only get enough to not end up losing too much - Leva's words were right, the only benefit of attacking us with a large army, is for the honor, for sure in the land they would give a great show and with that they would earn money for the broadcasts and advertising.

 - But that is also strange, the players under us have not informed us of any important news recently published by the black shell. That being the case it is strange, normally, as in the case of Tilum, news would surf the net for days, to alert the population of the big show and thus attract the most viewers - While we were thinking, Hel's voice echoed in the room, for some reason he seemed annoyed.

 - Why are you so short minded, has no one thought of the possibility of being a mission? - It was like a light, no one had thought of something so simple, this is a game at its base, so close to reality, especially for us reincarnated, that I lost its essence.

 They had gotten a mission, that alone would explain the waste of resources, if the system has a big reward, then what's the difference a few thousand soldiers.

 More for a player.