Sorry if I don't seem as active for a while, I got bloody scammed with a large amount of money and cause of that I've been feeling dejected.
But here's the chapter enjoy.
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"What do you mean his son is not in the town?" Alastor asked the temporary new lord he assigned with a frown.
"Forgive me my prince, but Quilton's son has a habit of annually leaving for the villages to personally collect the taxes"
Alastor frowned since that did not seem like in line with what he saw the father was like. "Something tells me it was less due to his duty as a future Baron"
The new temporary Town Lord lowered his gaze. "Yes my lord, Louis is a very sadistic young man who takes pleasure in oppressing commoners especially female ones who catch his eye--"
"I heard enough. Which Village did he go too?"
"Witherback Village, North from here your highness"
Alastor only took Alyn and half of the 100 Honour guard with him.
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When Alastor and his retinue did arrive at the Village's entrance and disembarked from their transports to enter it, the sight they saw was enough to infuriate Alastor completely!
Quilton family soldiers watched amused as their young lord was dragging a very pretty young girl to the main cabin and when a elder man tried to stop him he was brutally hit in the abdomen by one of the soldiers with the butt of his rifle.
"Grandpa!" The girl called out worriedly with tears.
"Haha now now Rebecca why not be a good girl-"
He did not get to finish before a laser accurately shot through the arm holding the girl's hand, blowing it off and the heat cauterizing it.
The noble took a second to register what happened before the pain hit and he fell to the ground in hysteric screams much to everyone one else's shock as they finally saw the unknown group.
"Kill them all." Alastor gave the order coldly as the Honour guard opened fire on the Quilton soldiers while Alastor and Alyn approached the writhing Louis.
"You-! I'll fuc--I'LL FUCKING HAVE YOU ALL HANGED LIKE PIGS FOR WHAT YOU DID!"
Alyn with a look of disgust punched the sadistic young man on the face hard as 4 of his teeth flew off. "Watch your tone in front of the Prince!"
Louis wanted to retort again even with the pain he was under but froze when the words registered to him. PRINCE!? as he paled like a sheet.
Despite that Alastor did not look at him as he looked at the young girl who was hugging the elderly man.
"Hello, I'm Alastor and forgive me for not arriving sooner"
The Old man coughed a bit as he patted his chest where he was hit while holding his granddaughter. "My prince...I'm Tom and this is my granddaughter Rebecca. Thank you very much for your intervention"
"No need instead it should be me to apologize with the act that was about to be committed in our lands no less"
Alastor gave them his Plasma-laser pistol,
A laser weapon personally made by him but one that uses a hybrid plasma power-cell through the inverter to generate a much more strong and destructive thermal laser. which's output can also be controlled.
"You are the ones to suffer so would you like to do the honours?"
Understanding dawns on the pair as Old Tom nods and takes the pistol.
"Wait.....WAIT YOU CAN'T DO THIS I'M A NOBL-!"
Louis did not get to finish before more than half of his head and face was turned into bloody mist as Tom shot him and the corpse fell to the ground.
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"You've had how many sightings!?" Alastor asked shocked as he looked at old Tom as they both sat in his house while Rebecca prepared them some drinks.
"I swear I do not lie my prince, but 3 months ago Beastkin have been sighted much closer to our territory by hunting parties but a week ago two of our Villages children even encountered a large group of Gors but only one child was able to run away."
"We knew the situation was abnormal so we tried to have a message sent to the Quilton Town so that it could be forwarded to Westfall city but those damn Quiltons!"
Alastor calmed him down. "It's okay Louis Quilton is now dead and soon Viscount Quilton will also be trialed and most likely executed"
Tom calms down hearing that. "Forgive me my lord"
"It's okay, you are justified in your anger, Alyn! can you get me a map!"
The Honour guard captain Alyn brings over a data slate that soon displays a map of the surrounding area in a holographic form as Tom watched amazed.
"Can you mark the places where there were sightings?"
Tom proceeds to do just that as he marks them but was confused on why suddenly Alastor's face grew serious as he looked at the marks on the hologram and not even two minutes later he gave a different order.
"Alyn! prepare to evacuate this settlement and nearby ones as soon as possible back to the town and reinforce it's defences"
"Your highness!?"
"Do as I say Alyn!" Alastor points at the map and connects some of the sightings. "These aren't isolated groups of Beastkin, each group is stalking and surveying the surroundings while a majority of them are even showing signs of them beginning to surround the frontier settlements"
"We aren't dealing with simple raiding groups, I'm almost certain this is a Warherd"
Tom's face paled as he heard the word "Warherd" for many towns and settlements near forests and wilderness that word was both hated and feared since it meant a large gathering of Beastkin led by a Beastlord!
Alyn frowned as he questioned his prince knowing he would not mind.
"But my lord such a large group can't pass undetected? and if they did use any of the passes from Stranglethorn Vale we would have picked it up from our border sentries and sensors."
"They would.....if they used the standard routes" Alastor then pointed to a mountainous area. "But I'm almost certain they used the cave systems or specifically the Deadmines"
Here Alyn expression turned surprised and then realization dawned on him as he also saw the patterns on the holo-map.
"I'll coordinate with Mr Thomas and start evacuation what about you my lord?"
"I'll scout ahead alone to get a estimate of their strength before returning to the town"
Alyn nodded at him in respect. "We shall wait for you then after we finish evacuation at Quilton town"
Old Tom's eyes widened as he heard what the prince said incredulously he knew he was just a commoner but from what he knew a man could not stand against an army!
It wasn't like the prince for all his potential and genius was a actual Demigod.
But just then Alastor in a blur of motion disappeared leaving behind only a small gust of wind as Tom looked at the place he was in blankly.
'Wha....how?.....who am I again?'
Alyn's lips twitched seeing his reaction but he knew he wasn't the first one to be shocked when witnessing the 2nd Prince's brilliance and his unrestrained power for the first time.
"Let us be off! and yes our prince is special in many ways."
Old Tom followed after Alyn while thinking.
'Is the prince actually a DEMIGOD!? Oh by the light I talked to an actual Demigod!'
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Author Notes: Alastor is gonna have his first taste of actual conflict and even meet a special someone (Take a guess who? *wink* *wink*).
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