The After World Breaker

Chapter 41: Royal concerns

Ronald is with his eldest son, Nicolas. They have now received new information about the mysterious people, and Ronald also got an important letter from Iza as well, the woman will come to this impromptu meeting with Zen. The two are now walking together towards the meeting room.

Arriving at the door of the meeting room, the soldiers there opened the door for Ronald and Nicolas, letting them inside.

"That's already come!" Said a soldier in the room, telling the people there.

The royal officials and the important people of the kingdom stared at the coming of the king. Ronald sat in a special seat for him, not long after Iza and Zen also entered and joined the empty seat there.

Ronald raised his hand, allowing them to speak.

An old man there opened his voice. "Your Majesty, from our investigation, the matter of last night's abduction is quite a serious matter." Her speech.

Then the current commander of the kingdom, who was a woman. He spoke to Ronald and apologized for the irregular guard that night. "Sorry, Your Majesty for what happened that night, I as the commander of the army deeply regret what happened. And for our carelessness as soldiers in maintaining the security of the capital."

Ronald looked at the person who was investigating the hut. He hesitantly spoke. "Sorry, your honor, maybe this is really a very serious situation. From the investigations we did on the huts in the middle of the forest, and on the corpses we examined, they were members of the Order of Ouroboros."

Hearing the name of the order, then make people there do not believe and comment on it.

"Impossible! That group should have been wiped out long ago!"

The person in charge gave other evidence. "What we are investigating is true, and the movement of the order is known in a remote village in the southeast."

"Then? How do you know they're there?"

"Because we lost contact with the messages from the soldiers in the village a few weeks ago, and by the time we arrived, the village was already destroyed and the inhabitants were no survivors."

The people there became alarmed, the order began to move on villages that had access far enough from the capital, making it easier for them to act on the edge of the kingdom.

"In addition we found a number of bodies of the order there with terrible circumstances." Continue that guy.

"What's present? You're speculating that after the order killed the villagers, there's now a third party involved? Or do you want to say it was a monster?"

"I don't know, we're still under investigation to date."

Everyone asked back, this was the order or someone else was involved.

Until, Iza interrupted their conversation, Ronald raised his hand, making all silent. "Please, Miss Iza, do you have anything to say?"

Iza then invited Zen down, Iza asked for a table placed in front of Ronald, Zen put the cloth, and pointed at the hand he brought, there people were surprised by what Zen showed.

"What the hell is that?!"

"Whose hand is that?!"

Ronald then ordered Zen to point the hand closer. Zen also displayed the emblem of the order above the palm of the hand. It makes everyone surprised.

Ronald then made plans to make the security of his territory tightened, all cities large or small, villages near or far, all places must be fully guarded by the soldiers. The commander of the kingdom agreed that, he would send a number of soldiers to patrol all the towns and villages in the royal territory.

Zen commented. "Is this order only hiding in the territory of the kingdom of Hearterra? I'm afraid they have branches until they come out of the kingdom to the neighboring kingdom."

Everyone then became quite afraid if it really happened, as far as they knew, the order never got out of Hearterra, the matter of the order was actually an internal matter of Hearterra kingdom only. But, after hearing the speculation from Zen, Ronald inevitably had to hold a meeting with three other kings to discuss this.

Some councils then made a plea to convene a meeting of the four kings, sending the letter to three neighboring kingdoms. Because Ronald was eager to discuss the matters of the order at the meeting, after hearing Zen's remarks at the time, he wanted to find out if the other three kings knew about the Order of Ouroboros.

Five days later, the other kings came to Hearterra. There the kings made an official meeting in another room in the palace.

Ronald welcomed the other kings. "Welcome, and I'm sorry to take your time for today. As written on the letter I sent to hold this meeting, about a group of orders that recently quite unsettled the territory of the kingdom of Hearterra."

Valrius then said. "I have no problem with this call, and I have read the letter, and I know enough about what topic I want to discuss."

"Heh, I did not expect the order to have spread its wings all the way to Hearterra." Eryk.

Ronald looked at Eryk, he asked him. "You know about the order?"

"Of course, even when I read that letter from you, I was really surprised to learn that the goddamn order got here. My kingdom has a long history with that order, until the last sixty years are not heard from anymore. If you want to know about the order, I have a little note about them." Eryk gave some of Ronald's parchment and was taken by Ronald's men. "How far do you know about them?"

Ronald thought for a moment. "All I know is, they're just a bunch of hit men who are good at premeditated murder." Answer Ronald.

Eryk chuckled small. "More than that, they were heretical sects that wanted to take on the experts of a kingdom, plus they had some pretty terrifying magic objects. Their true purpose is still unknown to me. But, they're a bunch of people you should be aware of, they're even good at disguising themselves around them." Eryk.

Opheniel asked. "Is that how bad they are?"

Eryk and Ronald answered simultaneously. "Very bad."

Valrius opened his voice. "If it gets that bad, they're bad enough fugitives, we need to tighten the defenses of each region, and also give additional guards to a number of areas, especially villages that are quite far from the city."

Opheniel asked. "Don't you have anyone with more information about this group?"

Ronald was pensive, and he remembered someone. "I know! I know people who know the ins and outs of this order."

"More than that, he is a former of the order itself." Ronald's Continues.

Eryk then stood up and hit the table hard. "What?! You have an ex from that group?!"

The three kings were surprised by Eryk who was suddenly angry, the three then tried to calm Eryk.

"Ronald's?! You let an ex of that order roam freely in your kingdom?! Have you lost your mind?!" Shouted Eryk loudly, some of his guards then tried to calm their angry king.

After trying to calm down, Eryk sat back down. Ronald then told him who it was, Ronald told me about Nia who was a former member of the order, and now she became an assistant to Anya, wife of her sister, Arthur.

Eryk could only massage his forehead. "I can't believe you're letting someone as dangerous as that get close to your sister-in-law." Taking a deep breath, Eryk said. "Alright, we can only rely on that person."

Ronald asks his man to send a letter to Arthur, to meet Nia with him. The letter was sent after a few hours during the meeting. Ronald confirms, if Arthur and the others will come tomorrow. So the kings and their people will be given guest rooms until they meet Nia tomorrow.

The letter was sent to Arthur, and after receiving a letter from his brother, Ronald. She is with Anya, not forgetting to take Jack and Nia to the capital to meet her brother.

As Arthur goes to the capital, he is guarded by several soldiers, they are led. Even after reaching the capital, they were carried in a special horse carriage by Ronald. They were taken towards the royal palace, heading to the palace, they even passed through the academy of the capital. This makes Anya a little nostalgic.

In the middle of their journey, Arthur asks about the kidnapping rumors that have been hotly discussed recently, he asks the coachman. "Excuse me, I heard there's some kind of abduction rumor going on lately, is that true?"

The coachman with the focus of driving the carriage, he mnejawab. "Yes, right sir, and it became the unrest of the residents as the rumors began to spread throughout the city."

Arthur was silent for a moment, this made him think that his relationship was called, and the involvement of Nia in this case with the kidnapping case that occurred. This made a pretty bad feeling for Arthur. Their journey to the palace took twenty minutes until they reached the palace.

Until they entered the palace, and passed through the front gate, they were carried to the front door of the palace which had been awaited by many servants. A soldier opens the door of the train, and helps Arthur and his wife to get off. The servants greeted them with their heads slightly lowered.

"Welcome, ladies and gentlemen." The servants greeted them.

One of the servants takes the role of bringing Arthur with the others to meet with Ronald, and several other servants will bring the goods they brought to their rooms.

As Arthur and the others were taken, some servants informed him that Arthur and his family had arrived, leading the kings to go to the meeting room and meet Arthur there.

There they met Arthur, the councilors and the kings sitting in their seats, all staring at Arthur. Either Arthur feels this is a pretty serious thing with what happened.

Ronald then opened his voice and gave a speech to Arthur and his wife with Nia and Jack, and after that he gave a welcome to the council and the kings present. After welcoming everyone, Ronald stared at the Arthurians, who also stared fixedly at Ronald, asking for an explanation of those who were told to come to the palace.

Ronald spoke up. "Maybe you've heard about the abduction rumors that are happening, even though the abduction issue may never happen again."

Arthur chiming. "What does this have to do with us?"

Ronald looked at the Arthurians, his brother looking at him seriously. "Because the perpetrator of this abduction that happened was a person from the Order of Ouroboros."

Arthur, Nia, and Anya were shocked to hear that, they did not believe the group still existed to this day.

"What?! They still exist?! How can?!" Arthue was surprised by the fact that he did not believe Ronald's words.

"Unfortunately, it's true." Ronald explained the problem, from the beginning of the kidnapping that occurred he a number of royal areas, even a long history of the group that is at odds with the kingdom of Clubnesia. This made Arthur completely shocked that the group had been around for a long time. "Thus, the status of the kingdom will be on alert for a while, even we discuss with other kingdoms to do the same."

"Then, what was the reason we were called for?" Arthur asked, he felt there was a special reason why Ronald had called them here.

Ronald says. "I want to explore how the order works, therefore we actually need Miss Nia who is a former member of the order."

Anya who looked at Ronald seriously, she did not want Nia to be re-discovered with the troubled order. "Why are you talking about that again?" Anya showed her dislike face with the discussion they were talking about.

Anya showed a serious face, Ronald knew it. He is aware that, by bringing the matter back, he will get a bad view of Anya, especially re-engaging Nia's past. "Mrs Anya, sorry to bring this back. However, we are in dire need of knowledge of the order from Miss Nia, and if Miss Nia is willing to help, I really appreciate the help."

Anya was still silent, she was still staring at Ronald with her eyes narrowed. He still did not believe Ronald who discussed the past, Nia who initially kept quiet while taking care of the jack on her cradle, he was willing to help. "I'm ready."

Anya who heard Nia's answer, she then protested, for her this could burden Nia again. Anya was afraid that Nia would recall her pretty bad past. Nia approached Anya, she calmed the woman down, if this did not harm her, she was willing to help the king in this matter of plan.

The discussion continued, Nia gave some information she had long ago joined the order, Nia told many things, even to the main purpose of the order itself. Ronald felt helped by Nia who wanted to work together. With a lot of info.

Nia explains the order is not just a group of professional hitmen. They are more than that, ranging from experts in magic, and the development of new magic, are very good at making magic objects that help them while on missions. And all of their creations are extremely dangerous, with a single weapon capable of fighting dozens of people if used correctly.

In addition to having terrible objects, their way of acting is very neat and skillful, like he used to be. They also usually use the sympathy of people to be able to enter a region by becoming a victim of bandits or taking the sympathy of small people who are less able to help them in infiltrating or increasing the strength of members.

By using the shortcomings of the small people, they were able to persuade the people to become new members, or be made a victim for a certain ritual.

The higher-ups then gave advice to the kings for this case, hearing Nia's previous explanation, this indeed requires more strict guard. But, this step can cause new problems, the residents are afraid of bad rumors that appear among the residents, because there are many knight personnel sent there throughout the region.

But, for Ronald it will only create unrest for the residents. Eryk suggested that he pay more attention to areas far enough from the capital, such as remote villages or cities, according to him such places would usually be used as places for the order to carry out their actions.

The other kings will also tighten their borders, and will also send some scouts to add to the members who will search for the place of the order's headquarters. Ronald thanked them for their help, with that help he hoped that all the help could be used to maintain the security of his kingdom.

Ronald is a little relieved, with the help and information from Nia, he will be aware of all suspicious movements in his territory, not least the area on the edge of the Hearterra region.