Book 4-7.7
It was hard to believe at first.
The patrol warriors had captured foreigners from the continent, and that foreigner was claiming to be a diplomat from the Silence Empire with whom they had never traded with before. How could any of them believe what he was saying?
There was no way a diplomat of the Empire would only secretly bring a few people like this. They would have had many nobles, knights protecting those nobles, as well as soldiers who reported to those knights in order to show the strength of their empire.
Normally, the Silence Empire would send no less than 200 people.
But this man’s amazing amount of knowledge, as well as the hand-written note from the Crown Prince and the material offerings he brought with them made it seem plausible.
The three Glows were all completely shocked, and started to pay more attention to what this diplomatic party had to say.
The Silence Empire had apparently selected this united tribe as their ally in the Eastern desert and wanted to work together to take care of Pareia, which was a danger to both the Empire and their allies.
The Glows were surprised about three things. They were surprised that Silence was worried about Pareia, they were surprised that Pareia had enough strength for this large Empire to acknowledge them, and most importantly, they were surprised that Silence had picked them as an ally.
The people of the desert despised using outside help in their battles.
Even if you looked at Pareia, the reason Pareia’s oases chiefs backed Yulian during the revolt was because of the fact that the Silence was involved in that rebellion.
That should have been enough reason to chase that diplomat away, but with fire on their heels from the danger with Pareia, the three Glows were paying careful attention to what the other two Glows might do.
“I guess you really don’t know whether Pareia’s blade will be pointed to the Western Desert or to your Empire after they unite the Eastern Desert.”
Seeing Kinicks give an answer that was neither an acceptance or decline, the fat man who called himself the Silence Empire’s diplomat was smiling internally. He was happy that it was not a rejection.
He was someone who studied and researched the desert more than anybody else in the continent. He knew what the pride of the desert warriors was about, he knew what they considered to be amazing, and he definitely knew that he was probably going to be able to achieve his goal of coming here based on their answer.
“I know that the three Glows are strong enough to overwhelm Pareia on your own, but wouldn’t it be better to reduce the damage as much as possible? We just want to develop a relationship with this united tribe that you have created and work together for both of our benefits.”
The man was smiling after successfully managing to keep up the Glows’ pride while getting his message across at the same time.
“Hmm hmm, but for the continent to interject in the desert’s war……”
As Nakatin let out a fake cough and slowed down his words, the man quickly followed up.
“Of course the the esteemed Glows can take them on, and our Empire is similarly focused on fighting against a crawling kingdom who doesn’t know what mess they are getting themselves into. That is why we will not do anything like send you soldiers. However, we do hope to relieve you of one of your concerns.”
“How would you know of our concerns?”
As Nakatin asked back, the man nodded his head before taking out a paper from his chest pocket and handing it out to the three Glows.
“I presume that all three of you are worried about the same thing. If you truly are worried about the same thing, I believe I have come with the solution to your problem. Of course we will keep it an absolute secret that we helped you. Something like this would be better for only the three esteemed Glows of the unified tribes to know about, and to be honest with you, we are making this offer after seeing the majestic nature of the three Glows.”
The man continued to suck up to the Glows as he offered his solution.
“Please write your biggest worry on that piece of paper. I will also write what I think it is on a different paper. If all of us agree on the same worry point, we will only offer you assistance regarding that aspect. Of course we will do it secretly. We will not benefit from anyone knowing we provided you with assistance.”
Nakatin and the other two Glows peeked at each other. However, there was not a single person who was against it. Didn’t the man say that everything will be done in secret? The three Glows looked at each other before starting to write on the piece of paper in front of them. Seeing the three of them starting to write, the man was thinking that it was finally over. He had successfully completed this mission as well.
Scribble.
Letters started to appear on top of the paper. It was a really short moment, but there were tons of concerns that appeared in their minds.
The four men looked at each other before putting their papers at the center of the table.
The quicksand river.
These three words were written on all of their papers as if they had made a promise on what to write.
The three Glows looked around at everyone while the man started to smile. No matter what kind of war you were in, it was uncomfortable to have enemies potentially attacking on two sides.
“As I expected, everybody has the same concern. I presume that all heroes have the same thoughts. As for me, I just used my head to come up with this thought; I am no hero, hahaha.”
As the man started to laugh out loud, the three Glows started to think that this man must have a high position in the Silence Empire.
They were Glows who ruled over tens of thousands of tribe members; they had at least some discernment in recognizing powerful people.
‘I would always be worried if someone like this wanted to get revenge on me.’
‘The type of person who would smile as they stab you in the back.’
There were four people in the paoe, but all of their thoughts were different.
Kinicks decided to ask the question seeing that the other two Glows were looking at each other without saying anything.
“Alright then, what kind of help will you be giving us regarding the river?”
“Shouldn’t you float some as well?”
The impatient Nakatin urged the man on.
“What do you mean float some as well?”
“The quicksand river has been around forever, but the reason that it has become a concern is because of the fact that there are now ships full of people on the quicksand river. So then wouldn’t the problem be solved if the three Glows also floated some ships as well?”
All of them had blank expressions at the man’s response.
“You make it sound so easy. We do not have much time right now. How will we find time to build the ships and train our warriors?”
Kupepa calmed Nakatin down before calmly asking.
“I presume there is a reason you would say something like that.”
“Of course there is a method. If they have built something that nobody had thought about before, we just have to do the same thing and use something they would never expect to cause them damage. After that, the quicksand river will no longer belong to Pareia but to you three Glows.”
This man. The diplomat named Janet Le Borrea confidently responded as he started to smile.
End of chapter.
Next up:
Skirmish
An unexpected battle and defeat.
We will laugh it off since we can easily repay this debt.