Siege by Deacon Frost

Author:Deacon Frost [Frost, Deacon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, R18
Publisher: Obsidian Tome LLC
Published: 2023-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

An hour after they’d arrived at the camp, Jaden was still yelling at them.

Nemesis had stopped paying attention as soon as it began, which meant he truly had no idea what the screaming noble was saying at this point. He’d been entertaining himself by skimming the thoughts of the various soldiers moving around the room.

Instead of taking the headquarters building that had been included in the original formation designs, Jaden had forced soldiers to use cores to erect a building whose design he’d brought himself. The three-story structure stood almost as tall as the walls—Nemesis was baffled why one man required so much pointless space.

The minds of the soldiers had revealed that the entire third floor was a bedroom suite with furniture that grew from the floor. One of the soldiers had been forced to use their control of stone to separate the pieces, and after that, Jaden had spent nearly four hours making the men rearrange the placement of his bed.

While several of the soldiers remained sycophants, more were completely disgusted by Jaden’s behavior. One, Nemesis noted, had slipped away a short time ago while thinking hard about Commander Toh.

Which meant Nemesis and his lovers were the only ones not surprised when the commander entered the room. The elf’s aura wasn’t quite as oppressive as it had been earlier, thought Nemesis could still tell he was dangerous.

Jaden’s rant suddenly dried up, and he cleared his throat at the sight of the bald figure striding through the door, turned to his desk, and picked up a glass of wine. Nemesis smiled openly at the sight of the noble’s discomfort.

“Sir Jaden,” Toh said in a mild voice. “Is there a reason I wasn’t informed that our other Scaleguard assets had finished cultivating?”

‘So, because Jaden was made a knight he now outranks the legion commander?’ Nemesis asked the others over their link, wanting to be sure he understood the dynamic.

‘Sort of,’ Kaia sent back. ‘Knight is both a noble title and a military rank. The commander is a commoner, despite his high cultivation. Jaden was already trouble as the son of a powerful kingdom noble, and now he’s more so. His appointment to knight makes him an imperial noble as well.’

Nemesis could not understand why humanoids felt so compelled to complicate their lives more than they already were. ‘This seems unnecessarily complex,’ he complained.

‘Think of it like borrowing power,’ Talia interjected. ‘Jaden is acting as the minion of Kolos; thus, disrespecting him is like disrespecting Kolos himself. Nobles funnel gold and power to the Immortal, so he gives them protection and special treatment in return.’

Nemesis cocked his head slightly. ‘That makes… far more sense.’

‘Focus. Commander Toh is asking us something,’ Harper scolded.

“—appreciate if you could engage in some long-range scouting. The gryphons have seen signs of several orc units moving toward us, but they’re unable to remain in flight as long as the dragons. If you could each take a different route to the marked orc city and detail the forces’

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