God of Systems: Maker of Heroes and Villains - Chapter 243

Chapter 243: A Great Deal

[A/N: I feel like the story has been progressing slowly so I’ve decided to speed things up a little.]

Two hours later, Keith walked out of the mansion with Mikey right behind him.

“The soldiers will be sent to the capital directly, but I’ve decided to change my plans. Going to different territories one by one is going to consume a lot of time, so from now on, you’ll act as my proxy.” Ketih said.

Mikey took long strides to catch up with Keith, “But why? I don’ think I’ll be able to do things as effectively as you do.”

“One of the main reason is to make sure that people find out about you changing sides. This way, your father won’t face as much pressure from the second prince. As for the other reasons… you don’t need to know but I’ll tell you one thing.

Just make sure that you threaten the nobles if they refuse. I’ll make sure that you’ll be unharmed but you should be careful with what you eat when you’re in these places. I can save you from physical harm but even I’ll be helpless if you get poisoned.

All you have to do is, go to the people I tell you to and ask them to either join the third prince, or to give us soldiers. I’ll give you another list and these people are the ones that have taken a neutral stance.

Don’t threaten these guys, but feel free to do anything else you can to bring them onto our side. That is all I need. I’ll ask the fourth princess to join you too.”

Mikey listened intently and then nodded, “I’ll put in all my efforts on this mission. As for the…” he said and began to whisper, “Morose kingdom, why do you want me to ask for twenty kilos of gold?”

“That’s the value of the information you’re going to provide them. The twenty kilos is just the advance payment. Tell them to give you thirty kilos more once they receive the information.”

“What if they don’t?”

Keith shrugged, “I have my ways.”

Mikey wanted to ask what those ways were, but decided not to. The two of them met up with the main group outside and immediately began to move.

A few kilometers later, the group split up in two.

The first group was made up of the Fourth Princess, her knights, Caleb, Nathan, Laura and lastly, Mikey.

The second group was smaller, with just Keith, Clara and Amelia.

Keith had his own reasons for such a team. One of it was that he simply wanted to spend more time with his girls and the second reason was connected to the first. Carnal pleasures so he could recover his mental energy daily.

“What’s our next destination?” Amelia asked as she lied down and rested her head on Keith’s lap.

Clara sat on the opposite side and even though there was more than enough space to lie down, she preferred to sit.

“Hmm… I still haven’t decided if I’m being honest.” Keith muttered as he began to think about it.

“It will probably get harder from here on right?” Clara asked before adding, “I mean, the first two were pretty easy but since you gave the responsibility of talking to Nobles of the rank Marquess and below to the other team, we’re supposed to tackle the dukes right?”

Keith nodded, “Yeah, and I doubt that they’ll welcome us with open arms. On top of that, other than taxes, I don’t think I have any other way to pressure them. They probably should have bribed the emperor by now.”

“Does that mean that you don’t have a plan?” Amelia asked as she stared at him.

Keith shook his head, “Nah, I do… but not conventional means. The best we can do is to make some money by playing dirty games and this will most probably take up a few months of our time.

I’d say that we’ll need around three to four months to get one dukedom to give in to my tricks.”

“You have plans then… what kind of tricks do you have though?”

“The easiest way is to contaminate the water they use to drink… but I don’t really want to see the common people suffer as a side effect. We could just infiltrate and cause problems to their businesses, or we could…. assassinate some key figures to give birth to fear.

There’s no way that someone who lives a comfortable life, will just accept death as a result. There’s a high chance of them coming to us directly to ask for what they can give us in exchange of sparing their lives.”

Clara tilted her head slightly as a frown appeared on her face, “But, they could also just report this to the emperor and that will cause problems for us, right?”

“They can’t do shit if they don’t have proof. Especially considering the fact that I’m an inquisitor. They’ll need solid proof to even summon me and all they’ll have in their hands is speculations and guesses.

Even though they’ll know that it’s me who’s doing everything, they’ll have no way to prove it.

I do hope I can think of a different method though… What we need the most right now, is basically just man power. We need soldiers more than anything so that should be our first priority.” he said and the two girls nodded in response.

Amelia thought about it a little and spoke, “You’re doing so much but you’re not really getting much in return… I mean, with your current capabilities, you could just stay neutral and still be able to get a nobility title after war.”

Keith shook his head once he heard her words, “Not really. Firstly, while I might be able to get a nobility title, I wouldn’t have any say in the territory I’d be given. On top of that, the best I’d be able to reach is probably a Marquess but I want a Dukedom to proceed with my future plans.

As for rewards… The fourth princess promised me five chrons for each soldier I bring her and I think that this is a great deal.”