Chapter 1852 Not A Pawn But A Spy
?Date- 17 April 2321
Time- 12:05
Location- Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Sky Blossom City, TSR Guild Headquarters, basement
Wyatt had managed to convince Muth Diya that revealing that Chaos Dwarf Ezra had created a method to forge a forbidden title demon core would only benefit the Chaos Dwarf. Doubling on that narrative, he hinted at Muth Diya to give Chaos Dwarf Ezra a reason why he should not reveal his secret instead of asking Chaos Dwarf Ezra a guarantee that he would not reveal his secret if he did his bidding. After all, willingly harboring a heretic was a serious offense.
This way instead of Chaos Dward Ezra trying to leverage Muth Diya's secret to recruit Muth Diya, Muth Diya would have to convince Chaos Dwarf Ezra that he stood to gain more by not revealing his secret than he stood to gain by revealing it. The only thing Muth Diya, a chief in a mid-level dark faction, could offer anything of interest to Chaos Dwarf Ezra, heir of a pseudo-ruler class force, that could rival the fame of reacting a forgotten and forbidden title demon core forging method was himself.
Wyatt as Chaos Drawf Ezra had already made clear that he had little interest in Muth Diya and more interest in his status as a chief in the Seven Princes of Hell faction. Wyatt had already shown him the way now it was up to Muth Diya to travel it, after all, Wyatt had convinced him that had no other choice left to consider.
Thanks to Wyatt's critical thinking and clever maneuvers, the question was no longer if Muth Diya was willing to become Chaos Dwarf Ezra's pawn but if Chaos Dwarf Ezra was willing to use Muth Diya as his pawn. Now Wyatt did not have to threaten Muth Diya to become Chaos Dwarf Ezra's pawn but Muth Diya had to beg the dwarf he hated to accept him as his pawn.
"Master Wyatt, even if I am a chief under Belphegor I do not have access to the information you seek. If you want, I will give you the list of territories under me along with the number of personnel stationed in each territory," Muth Diya conceded, he offered the information he had to Chaos Dwarf Ezra to show his worth with his actions.
Listening to Muth Diya, Wyatt frowned seeing through Muth Diya's intentions, and sternly warned, "Don't act smart with me. Was I not clear before that I have no interest in you but your status as a chief in the Seven Princes of Hell faction? What use do I have for you if lose your standing in the Seven Princes of Hell faction? Or did you think I would not be able to see through your small tricks? I do not need a pawn who thinks he is smarter than his master. Do you understand what I mean?"
The reason Wyatt asked Muth Diya to get him the list of all the 'Seven Princes of Hell' territories across the Dark realm along with the number of personnel stationed in each territory was because he knew with the faction focusing on invading the card world there would be less personnel stationed at each territories to guard them.
"I do not care about their emergency operation. I only wanted to know if the townspeople were okay," Wyatt stressed and continued adding, "My informant has said Gideon, the devil, and their goons have managed to escape but he cannot get me any update on the townspeople."
"I see, let me give them a call," if it was someone else the Field Marshal would have yelled, 'It does not concern you' or 'Get over it.' But since Wyatt was special she decided to give her counterpart a call and get an update on the status of the townspeople.
"Thank you," thanking the Field Marshal for entertaining his whim, Wyatt began to update everyone he reached out to about the situation and asked if they had or could find information about the well-being of the townspeople.
Of all the people Wyatt had contacted Freedom Fighters and Demigod Norley were the two who did not respond. Considering that Freedom Fighters had yet to see his text in VR Universe Wyatt gave them a pass but Demigod Norley had no excuse. Wyatt could not think of a reason why Demigod Norley did not respond to his text requesting help.
"Wyatt, though the demigod teams of Northern Region failed to capture the culprits they managed to rescue the town. However, since the entire town was frozen and the people in it were forced into a cryosleep for a long period, it is too early to tell anything certainly about their individual well-being. The authorities have mobilized medical card apprentices, though the situation is delicate there is still hope," The Field Marshal informed Wyatt after enquiring about her counterpart in the northern region.
"I see," Wyatt nodded in understanding, "If it is not a bother please keep me updated about their situation."
The card apprentice would survive the cryosleep with the help of the medical card apprentices, it would be like awakening from a deep sleep for them. However, the mortals especially kids and the elderly would have to suffer a little and need time to recover. Since Gideon wanted their souls he would have made sure that the mortals would not die in cryosleep.Regardless, Wyatt could only hope for the best and move on.
"There is bad news," seeing Wyatt prepare to head inside the dungeon seal, Field Marshal Heatsend hurriedly revealed.
"What is it?" Wyatt asked the Field Marshal stopping in his tracks.
"The Northern Region is asking us for the source of our information trying to target our spies in the Northern Region. Our involvement in this incident has opened up a whole new can of worms. Anna's mother will do her best to handle it, but just in case, I am telling you this so that you can prepare yourself ahead," The Field Marshal responds with a heavy heart. After all, it was their duty to Wyatt away from politics as much as possible.
"I understand," Wyatt nodded, understanding what the Field Marshal was warning him about.
To make the people he was asking to help take this incident seriously, Wyatt had said in the text that Gideon was sacrificing an entire town of more than a hundred thousand people in preparation for the second demon invasion. Successfully raising the importance of this incident in the eyes of everyone who knew of it. So it was not a surprise if they would try to know the source of information.
There was only so much Anna's mother could do to stall the central government and other royal families using the name of the Southern Royal family. At some point, she would have to give up her source. For such a day Field Marshal wanted Wyatt to get his story straight and not give the world leaders a reason to target him. As most of them wanted to get their hands on him but none had a justification to do so. It would be foolish of Wyatt if he were to give it to them because of his unpreparedness.