Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 5 - Sex Stories

Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 5

... correctly placed. The shipment they had just intercepted carried various plants, powders, and liquids, all needed to cultivate parasites. The contraband was subsequently burned, minus a portion Noah took to use in his experiments. Noah, Valia, Shannon, and all the knights and soldiers returned to Welindar the next day in high spirits.

Things had certainly changed since Noah and Valia first arrived. Without the middle-echelon members substituting for the missing leader, the lower-level members of the Pack were without orders. Thanks to all the info Noah was gathering through his investigation, Lupin’s forces were shutting down every lab in the city, and now that shipments of dilthim and other plants were being interrupted, maintaining the fiends was next to impossible.

Though they still roamed in the wild, Welindar had fallen securely back into Lupin’s control. Any fiends that caused trouble were killed and put on display, not just as a warning to would-be rebels about defying the prince, but to show the public the ugly side of the Pack and let them know what kind of horrific monsters they would become should they join.

Upon returning to the castle, Noah, Valia, and Sir Reynolds went to speak to the prince. “Well done, all of you. With this, we’ve ripped Welindar from the Profane’s clutches,” Lupin said.

“We’ve definitely made progress, but the war is far from over,” said Noah. “Looking at those bags under your eyes, I can tell you know that as well.”

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... prince gave a weary chuckle. “I’ve been hard at work while you’ve been gone, taking out lab after lab and shutting down the fiends’ support network. I’ve also been putting a lot of work into public relations, working to fully assimilate Welindar into Uther.”

“Any idea as to their leader’s whereabouts?”

“Only rumors that Kaisen is somewhere to the north, beyond our reach. He may have given up trying to retake the city. He appeared shortly after Welindar was taken, preaching for rebellion and trying to rile people into fighting back for the sake of beastman supremacy. He is a mighty warrior and killed one of my gold knights, so people were quick to flock to him. He disappeared around the beginning of summer, but there were no rumors about his death, only that he had set off to recruit more beastmen to the cause.

“So far we’ve seen how the Pack functions without him,” said Valia, “but I worry what will happen if he should return.”

“I’m more concerned about the Liege,” said Noah. “After three raids and countless interrogations, we’ve still gotten no closer to discovering his identity. No one I’ve spoken to has ever actually met him in person, only through letters and messengers. The dilthim and other plant shipments change multiple hands before being handed over to the Pack, so we can’t identify the source.”

“I’ve had suspicions that someone has been thwarting Uther’s expansion from back home for quite some time. I can think of at least a dozen nobles, clergymen, and ...