Chapter 334 The Manor
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Updated : Oct 15th, 2025
After Silva said they should move, Lily created a portal for them. Silva walked in first, and all the guardians followed.
He was shocked to see a large living room when he walked out. He stared at the luxurious room, painted black and gold—it was the best kind of combination.
"You have to be kidding me," Simca said as he walked toward a chair. It was fitted with black leather and gold edges. He ran his finger along it and smiled.
"We knew your taste was something on the black side, so we found this manor that already had everything you'd need, and it was for sale," Drake said.
"This is crazy. I didn't think you guys would have already bought a manor," Silva said. He slumped into a chair, his feet pointing upwards as he lay down.
Lily walked to his side and pushed his legs down. "Act like a king. It doesn't matter if this is not your kingdom," she said.
Silva sat up. He pouted for a bit before his expression turned serious. Noticing this, the guardians stood around the living room, all eyes on him.
He leaned forward and used his knuckles to lift his chin.
"I'm happy that you all made this place available and managed to sneak into the capital of the empire. The empire is very big, and the powerful people they have are stationed at particular places.
That's why they have such lax security that we can even sneak in. Well, that's one factor. The second reason is peace. Peace breeds weak people.
Unlike the elves, who are at constant risk against the dragons and the spirits, the empire's only risk is the Holy Kingdom, and the Holy Kingdom is not going to just start a war or fight them like that. So, the empire has been at peace.
Their entire security detail has waned over the years, and it has become less and less secure as you get away from the capital. I'm sure we all knew this already, though.
We can do this, or just straight up break into the empire and take what we want," Silva said the last part as a joke, laughing.
"Wait, can we do that?" Zack asked.
"No, you big musclehead," Kratos said and smacked his head.
"Kratos is right, we can't do that. We are trying to find out where it is being made, how it is being made, the transportation route, and also who knows about the production as well.
If we let them know that we are here, it will most definitely kill our chances at all of that.
There was already an issue where the empire knew that I was coming and sent Lena to sabotage us. I have not come to say it, but someone had to have ratted out the plan to them—someone close, and so Lena knew.
But that's beside the point because we can easily find the person when we are ready," Silva said. He leaned forward again and continued speaking.
"The plan to pull people is simple. We turn this house into a massive exhibition and shop.
Selling unique products like swords, potions, and even spells of different ranks. This would pull people and the attention of some higher-up people, and that's where we get the information we need.
We need to make this plan work in less than a week. If we can pull this off, we will be getting a really good inflow of information, and we can work with that.
I'll hash out the details more with Lily and Drake, figuring out how we can do this without seeming illegal and making it look like we came from somewhere trustworthy.
One slip-up can lead us to fight battles that we don't want to fight, so we have to be careful in this."
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