Chapter 279: 044 – Tribal Meeting 1
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[New Mission: Survive]
[Synopsis: Enter the keep of House Kurt and find a cultivation chamber, however you cannot allow the members of House Kurt to interrogate you, or you will not escape alive.]
[Rewards: Knowledge about Nebula – 6]
[Failure: Certain Death]
When Lirian read the details of the mission, he knew that he had to change his tactics, he had to find a way to enter the keep without being interrogated, which seemed slightly impossible, since that is exactly why Reyna was bringing him to House Kurt.
He deliberately made her think that he might be some orc spy, so over the past few weeks he played the fool, and as is so happened he knew that the truth would sound extremely far fetched to anyone that didn't know him which is why he told them the truth.
To make them think he was making things up.
It was too late for Lirian to run away once they chained him up, but he didn't want to run away because he needed to get into that cultivation chamber.
Which left him with a tricky situation, he needed to let them bring him to House Kurt, but he also needed to ensure that they wouldn't bring him in for an interrogation.
Now that they felt like he was useless, he hoped that by using his charm on Colten it would make Colten slightly reluctant to kill him, maybe he'd rather keep Lirian around and turn him into some servant to humiliate.
That was optimistic thinking on Lirian's part, but it was what he hoped for, it would make it much easier for him to enter the keep as a servant.
"What are you waiting for? Just kill him," Reyna said turning back with a slightly irritated tone.
Colten looked at Lirian's face closely, with a slightly confused expression, he was almost certain that he sensed something for minute.
'It must have just been in my head,' he thought, but for some reason when he looked at Lirian he felt slightly reluctant to kill him.
"I just noticed that if cleaned up he'd look pretty good," Colten said with a thoughtful expression in reply to Reyna.
"So what? Just kill him and get it done with," Reyna said in annoyance.
"What if we sell him as a slave captain?" Colten asked, "I'm sure that we can get a decent price for him," Colten said with an enlightened smile.
"Oh, shit," Lirian muttered, "This is so not what I was going for," he complained internally.
Reyna looked at Colten with a cold smile, "Do you see his condition after what you put him through, no one would be willing to buy him,"
"It will be two weeks before we return, more than enough time to sort out all his minor injuries," Colten said, then he quickly added loudly, "I'm sure that the entire squad will be able to feast for a few days with the money we'll make,"
Reyna frown at his use of the squad to force her decision, but as she looked around she quickly noticed that the idea of earning some extra coin made everyone excited, and they were all nodding in approval of Colten's idea.
"We'll brand him as a bandit, the story will be that he tried to rob some people from a village and we caught him in the act," Colten said immediately coming up with a story to justify turning Lirian into a slave.
Most people who became slaves were mainly people who committed crimes, or that fell into such server debt that they became incapable of paying it back.
Any noble had the authority to convict a criminal of a crime and turn them into a slave, which is why if Colten wanted his plan to work he'd need to get approval from Reyna first.
Reyna still felt a slight sense of unease from Lirian, which is why she wanted to kill him and be done with it, but she felt that if she killed him now she would lose the favour of her squad.
"Bring me one of the branding irons," she ordered a random soldier, and everyone cheered happily at her change of heart, who wouldn't be happy to get a little extra money.
'Fuck me!' Lirian complained internally as a blazing red-hot branding iron was pressed against his forearm, making his skin burn and bubble.
When the brand was pulled away a large 'β' for bandit was glowing on Lirian's arm, and he could smell his cooked flesh.
'How am I going to sneak into a keep and enter a cultivation chamber with a brand on my arm?' Lirian wondered as the difficulty of his mission just went up.
A short while later Lirian was the recipient of some really good treatment as the entire squad, got to work fixing him up.
They stitched up all his injuries, fixed up his dislocated shoulders and created a cast for his legs, the treatment was the complete opposite of before.
They even started to feed him proper food, doing everything they could to make it easier for Lirian to heal, they all looked at him with shining eyes as if he was one huge cash cow and the better he was doing, the more coin they would get.
---
As Lirian moved towards the Keep of House Kurt, his past actions were currently stirring up waves through more than just the region.
On the coast of the Orc territories known as Vraga, was one of the main cities of the orc race, called Usrid.
The tides rolled in gently against the port that stretched out into the ocean for several miles, thousands of ships moved about along the coast of the great city that went on for miles on end.
The city filled out the landscape in every direction one turned, in rose up and down with the hills, with the occasional buildings that towered above the rest.
As one grew closer to the core of the city, every building extended high-up, scraping the sky, even now in the depths of the night, small green stones illuminated the cobbled roads, and the windows of the homes radiated light.
In one of the highest buildings a green flame circled around a room with several pillars that extended up for dozens of feet.
Inside the room, six large red skinned orcs with long silver hair were seated neatly in large black granite chairs, each of the orcs present were three times the size of a human, with muscles large enough to put tree trunks to shame.
Behind their seats, large banners were hanging down from the ceiling, each of those banners could be seen flying throughout the core region of the city because they belonged to the core powers of Usrid.
And in this room sat the 5 clan chiefs and the Kell who ruled over the 5 clans and all of Usrid.
An orc Kell was the equivalent of the humans heavenly emperors on Nebula-6, and the clan chiefs were the equal of a Noble Lord from one of the great houses.
The orc clan chiefs were busy discussing the news that came from east Mithland.
"The nerve of these humans," Clan chief of the Burgtol tribe Nazlow said smacking a hand against the armrest of his chair, "To dare fabricate lies about an orc invasion," he said clutching the armrest with his massive red hand.
"I hear that there is some infighting going on amongst those petty noble lords of the region," Xolag Clan chief of the Basher tribe said with a slight smile while sitting straight in his seat.
The orc nobles all grunted as they looked at his ugly mug smiling so smugly, "Speak if you know anything?" Nazlow barked.
Xolag raised his brow, obviously relishing in the annoyance of his fellow Clan chiefs, "As some of you might have heard one of the local lords of the east Mithland region was recently banished from Riverfall, it was just a few months ago,"
"And he happens to possess a lot of territory," Xolag said.
"Do you mean that child Rupid Kurt?" Mor the Clan chief of the Berserk tribe asked, he was much more familiar with the happenings of east Mithland, his clan over saw a lot of the trade that went on in Port Cove, which was the main trading hub between humans and orcs in this part if the world.
A look of recognition flashed through the clan chief's eyes, while they didn't like humans, it didn't mean that they were foolish enough to ignore any humans with potential.
They had all heard of Rupid Kurt due to his massively successful attempts at unifying the region between Proge and Riverfall.
It was the goal of many people, but the chances of success were low, due to the region being home to many minor and normal nobles.
Rupid Kurt had managed to take over many of those nobles territories without suffering from the backlash of the nobles in the great towns, which was an almost impossible task, since even the high nobles had investments with the minor nobles.
His success was seen as the workings of a genius and even the orcs had to put him on their radars.
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[New Mission: Survive]
[Synopsis: Enter the keep of House Kurt and find a cultivation chamber, however you cannot allow the members of House Kurt to interrogate you, or you will not escape alive.]
[Rewards: Knowledge about Nebula – 6]
[Failure: Certain Death]
When Lirian read the details of the mission, he knew that he had to change his tactics, he had to find a way to enter the keep without being interrogated, which seemed slightly impossible, since that is exactly why Reyna was bringing him to House Kurt.
He deliberately made her think that he might be some orc spy, so over the past few weeks he played the fool, and as is so happened he knew that the truth would sound extremely far fetched to anyone that didn't know him which is why he told them the truth.
To make them think he was making things up.
It was too late for Lirian to run away once they chained him up, but he didn't want to run away because he needed to get into that cultivation chamber.
Which left him with a tricky situation, he needed to let them bring him to House Kurt, but he also needed to ensure that they wouldn't bring him in for an interrogation.
Now that they felt like he was useless, he hoped that by using his charm on Colten it would make Colten slightly reluctant to kill him, maybe he'd rather keep Lirian around and turn him into some servant to humiliate.
That was optimistic thinking on Lirian's part, but it was what he hoped for, it would make it much easier for him to enter the keep as a servant.
"What are you waiting for? Just kill him," Reyna said turning back with a slightly irritated tone.
Colten looked at Lirian's face closely, with a slightly confused expression, he was almost certain that he sensed something for minute.
'It must have just been in my head,' he thought, but for some reason when he looked at Lirian he felt slightly reluctant to kill him.
"I just noticed that if cleaned up he'd look pretty good," Colten said with a thoughtful expression in reply to Reyna.
"So what? Just kill him and get it done with," Reyna said in annoyance.
"What if we sell him as a slave captain?" Colten asked, "I'm sure that we can get a decent price for him," Colten said with an enlightened smile.
"Oh, shit," Lirian muttered, "This is so not what I was going for," he complained internally.
Reyna looked at Colten with a cold smile, "Do you see his condition after what you put him through, no one would be willing to buy him,"
"It will be two weeks before we return, more than enough time to sort out all his minor injuries," Colten said, then he quickly added loudly, "I'm sure that the entire squad will be able to feast for a few days with the money we'll make,"
Reyna frown at his use of the squad to force her decision, but as she looked around she quickly noticed that the idea of earning some extra coin made everyone excited, and they were all nodding in approval of Colten's idea.
"We'll brand him as a bandit, the story will be that he tried to rob some people from a village and we caught him in the act," Colten said immediately coming up with a story to justify turning Lirian into a slave.
Most people who became slaves were mainly people who committed crimes, or that fell into such server debt that they became incapable of paying it back.
Any noble had the authority to convict a criminal of a crime and turn them into a slave, which is why if Colten wanted his plan to work he'd need to get approval from Reyna first.
Reyna still felt a slight sense of unease from Lirian, which is why she wanted to kill him and be done with it, but she felt that if she killed him now she would lose the favour of her squad.
"Bring me one of the branding irons," she ordered a random soldier, and everyone cheered happily at her change of heart, who wouldn't be happy to get a little extra money.
'Fuck me!' Lirian complained internally as a blazing red-hot branding iron was pressed against his forearm, making his skin burn and bubble.
When the brand was pulled away a large 'β' for bandit was glowing on Lirian's arm, and he could smell his cooked flesh.
'How am I going to sneak into a keep and enter a cultivation chamber with a brand on my arm?' Lirian wondered as the difficulty of his mission just went up.
A short while later Lirian was the recipient of some really good treatment as the entire squad, got to work fixing him up.
They stitched up all his injuries, fixed up his dislocated shoulders and created a cast for his legs, the treatment was the complete opposite of before.
They even started to feed him proper food, doing everything they could to make it easier for Lirian to heal, they all looked at him with shining eyes as if he was one huge cash cow and the better he was doing, the more coin they would get.
---
As Lirian moved towards the Keep of House Kurt, his past actions were currently stirring up waves through more than just the region.
On the coast of the Orc territories known as Vraga, was one of the main cities of the orc race, called Usrid.
The tides rolled in gently against the port that stretched out into the ocean for several miles, thousands of ships moved about along the coast of the great city that went on for miles on end.
The city filled out the landscape in every direction one turned, in rose up and down with the hills, with the occasional buildings that towered above the rest.
As one grew closer to the core of the city, every building extended high-up, scraping the sky, even now in the depths of the night, small green stones illuminated the cobbled roads, and the windows of the homes radiated light.
In one of the highest buildings a green flame circled around a room with several pillars that extended up for dozens of feet.
Inside the room, six large red skinned orcs with long silver hair were seated neatly in large black granite chairs, each of the orcs present were three times the size of a human, with muscles large enough to put tree trunks to shame.
Behind their seats, large banners were hanging down from the ceiling, each of those banners could be seen flying throughout the core region of the city because they belonged to the core powers of Usrid.
And in this room sat the 5 clan chiefs and the Kell who ruled over the 5 clans and all of Usrid.
An orc Kell was the equivalent of the humans heavenly emperors on Nebula-6, and the clan chiefs were the equal of a Noble Lord from one of the great houses.
The orc clan chiefs were busy discussing the news that came from east Mithland.
"The nerve of these humans," Clan chief of the Burgtol tribe Nazlow said smacking a hand against the armrest of his chair, "To dare fabricate lies about an orc invasion," he said clutching the armrest with his massive red hand.
"I hear that there is some infighting going on amongst those petty noble lords of the region," Xolag Clan chief of the Basher tribe said with a slight smile while sitting straight in his seat.
The orc nobles all grunted as they looked at his ugly mug smiling so smugly, "Speak if you know anything?" Nazlow barked.
Xolag raised his brow, obviously relishing in the annoyance of his fellow Clan chiefs, "As some of you might have heard one of the local lords of the east Mithland region was recently banished from Riverfall, it was just a few months ago,"
"And he happens to possess a lot of territory," Xolag said.
"Do you mean that child Rupid Kurt?" Mor the Clan chief of the Berserk tribe asked, he was much more familiar with the happenings of east Mithland, his clan over saw a lot of the trade that went on in Port Cove, which was the main trading hub between humans and orcs in this part if the world.
A look of recognition flashed through the clan chief's eyes, while they didn't like humans, it didn't mean that they were foolish enough to ignore any humans with potential.
They had all heard of Rupid Kurt due to his massively successful attempts at unifying the region between Proge and Riverfall.
It was the goal of many people, but the chances of success were low, due to the region being home to many minor and normal nobles.
Rupid Kurt had managed to take over many of those nobles territories without suffering from the backlash of the nobles in the great towns, which was an almost impossible task, since even the high nobles had investments with the minor nobles.
His success was seen as the workings of a genius and even the orcs had to put him on their radars.
New Mission: SurviveSynopsis: Enter the keep of House Kurt and find a cultivation chamber, however you cannot allow the members of House Kurt to interrogate you, or you will not escape alive.Rewards: Knowledge about Nebula 6Failure: Certain DeathWhen Lirian read the details of the mission, he knew that he had to change his tactics, he had to find a way to enter the keep without being interrogated, which seemed slightly impossible, since that is exactly why Reyna was bringing him to House Kurt.He deliberately made her think that he might be some orc spy, so over the past few weeks he played the fool, and as is so happened he knew that the truth would sound extremely far fetched to anyone that didn't know him which is why he told them the truth.To make them think he was making things up.It was too late for Lirian to run away once they chained him up, but he didn't want to run away because he needed to get into that cultivation chamber.Which left him with a tricky situation, he needed to let them bring him to House Kurt, but he also needed to ensure that they wouldn't bring him in for an interrogation.Now that they felt like he was useless, he hoped that by using his charm on Colten it would make Colten slightly reluctant to kill him, maybe he'd rather keep Lirian around and turn him into some servant to humiliate.That was optimistic thinking on Lirian's part, but it was what he hoped for, it would make it much easier for him to enter the keep as a servant."What are you waiting for? Just kill him," Reyna said turning back with a slightly irritated tone.Colten looked at Lirian's face closely, with a slightly confused expression, he was almost certain that he sensed something for minute.'It must have just been in my head,' he thought, but for some reason when he looked at Lirian he felt slightly reluctant to kill him."I just noticed that if cleaned up he'd look pretty good," Colten said with a thoughtful expression in reply to Reyna."So what? Just kill him and get it done with," Reyna said in annoyance."What if we sell him as a slave captain?" Colten asked, "I'm sure that we can get a decent price for him," Colten said with an enlightened smile."Oh, shit," Lirian muttered, "This is so not what I was going for," he complained internally.Reyna looked at Colten with a cold smile, "Do you see his condition after what you put him through, no one would be willing to buy him,""It will be two weeks before we return, more than enough time to sort out all his minor injuries," Colten said, then he quickly added loudly, "I'm sure that the entire squad will be able to feast for a few days with the money we'll make,"Reyna frown at his use of the squad to force her decision, but as she looked around she quickly noticed that the idea of earning some extra coin made everyone excited, and they were all nodding in approval of Colten's idea."We'll brand him as a bandit, the story will be that he tried to rob some people from a village and we caught him in the act," Colten said immediately coming up with a story to justify turning Lirian into a slave.Most people who became slaves were mainly people who committed crimes, or that fell into such server debt that they became incapable of paying it back.Any noble had the authority to convict a criminal of a crime and turn them into a slave, which is why if Colten wanted his plan to work he'd need to get approval from Reyna first.Reyna still felt a slight sense of unease from Lirian, which is why she wanted to kill him and be done with it, but she felt that if she killed him now she would lose the favour of her squad."Bring me one of the branding irons," she ordered a random soldier, and everyone cheered happily at her change of heart, who wouldn't be happy to get a little extra money.'Fuck me!' Lirian complained internally as a blazing red-hot branding iron was pressed against his forearm, making his skin burn and bubble.When the brand was pulled away a large '' for bandit was glowing on Lirian's arm, and he could smell his cooked flesh.'How am I going to sneak into a keep and enter a cultivation chamber with a brand on my arm?' Lirian wondered as the difficulty of his mission just went up.A short while later Lirian was the recipient of some really good treatment as the entire squad, got to work fixing him up.They stitched up all his injuries, fixed up his dislocated shoulders and created a cast for his legs, the treatment was the complete opposite of before.They even started to feed him proper food, doing everything they could to make it easier for Lirian to heal, they all looked at him with shining eyes as if he was one huge cash cow and the better he was doing, the more coin they would get.---As Lirian moved towards the Keep of House Kurt, his past actions were currently stirring up waves through more than just the region.On the coast of the Orc territories known as Vraga, was one of the main cities of the orc race, called Usrid.The tides rolled in gently against the port that stretched out into the ocean for several miles, thousands of ships moved about along the coast of the great city that went on for miles on end.The city filled out the landscape in every direction one turned, in rose up and down with the hills, with the occasional buildings that towered above the rest.As one grew closer to the core of the city, every building extended high-up, scraping the sky, even now in the depths of the night, small green stones illuminated the cobbled roads, and the windows of the homes radiated light.In one of the highest buildings a green flame circled around a room with several pillars that extended up for dozens of feet.Inside the room, six large red skinned orcs with long silver hair were seated neatly in large black granite chairs, each of the orcs present were three times the size of a human, with muscles large enough to put tree trunks to shame.Behind their seats, large banners were hanging down from the ceiling, each of those banners could be seen flying throughout the core region of the city because they belonged to the core powers of Usrid.And in this room sat the 5 clan chiefs and the Kell who ruled over the 5 clans and all of Usrid.An orc Kell was the equivalent of the humans heavenly emperors on Nebula-6, and the clan chiefs were the equal of a Noble Lord from one of the great houses.The orc clan chiefs were busy discussing the news that came from east Mithland."The nerve of these humans," Clan chief of the Burgtol tribe Nazlow said smacking a hand against the armrest of his chair, "To dare fabricate lies about an orc invasion," he said clutching the armrest with his massive red hand."I hear that there is some infighting going on amongst those petty noble lords of the region," Xolag Clan chief of the Basher tribe said with a slight smile while sitting straight in his seat.The orc nobles all grunted as they looked at his ugly mug smiling so smugly, "Speak if you know anything?" Nazlow barked.Xolag raised his brow, obviously relishing in the annoyance of his fellow Clan chiefs, "As some of you might have heard one of the local lords of the east Mithland region was recently banished from Riverfall, it was just a few months ago,""And he happens to possess a lot of territory," Xolag said."Do you mean that child Rupid Kurt?" Mor the Clan chief of the Berserk tribe asked, he was much more familiar with the happenings of east Mithland, his clan over saw a lot of the trade that went on in Port Cove, which was the main trading hub between humans and orcs in this part if the world.A look of recognition flashed through the clan chief's eyes, while they didn't like humans, it didn't mean that they were foolish enough to ignore any humans with potential.They had all heard of Rupid Kurt due to his massively successful attempts at unifying the region between Proge and Riverfall.It was the goal of many people, but the chances of success were low, due to the region being home to many minor and normal nobles.Rupid Kurt had managed to take over many of those nobles territories without suffering from the backlash of the nobles in the great towns, which was an almost impossible task, since even the high nobles had investments with the minor nobles.His success was seen as the workings of a genius and even the orcs had to put him on their radars.
