Rosie's Games

Chapter 150: The Weird Duke 1

"What other options do we have?" asked Duke Moller. "This will change everything. We must inform the others first. We needed to delay the plan and focus on the Duke of Wugari instead."

"We have overlooked the fact that the man would do whatever he wanted to do and would always act like he was the King of the Northern Alliance!" Baron Teri said. "Since the situation is already like this, we must make use of it."

The two older men looked at Clinton.

"What are you "

"I want you to send some news to us. From now on, you will send the news to your father and your father only. Do you understand?" Baron Teri said.

"Father?"

"The Baron has a point, we will do as he suggested. Once you arrive in Wugari, you must tell us everything."

"Everything?"

"Yes. That Duke is far too strong for us to confront right now," Duke Moller continued. "Killing a Wolf King is one thing, but killing a Demonic Wolf King is simply on another level. Not even the mightiest people in Lonyth would be able to defeat a demonic wolf king on their own!

Duke Moller was not delusional, he knew that he would never be able to defeat that kind of man. However, that did not mean that he had no way of weakening the Duke of Wugari.

"What about the wolves?" Clinton asked.

"What about the wolves?"

"Are you not going to investigate the fact that a Wolf King would suddenly appear in this part of the North? Moreover, the number of wolves that surrounded the town were close to a hundred! Is that even logical? A pack doesn't have that many wolves!"

"You are wrong," Baron Teri interjected. "The Alpha is a demonic Wolf King. He could easily defeat all of those wolves combined."

"Are you saying that the Duke could " Clinton did not finish his words. The thought of Duke Lucas killing all those wolves was enough to silence him.

"Even his subordinates were able to easily subdue those wolves. They must have some special training that could boost their strength!" Baron Teri said.

"We already investigated that in the past. The secrets that the Duke holds are simply too deep. All of the spies that we sent ended up dead or simply disappeared without a trace," Duke Moller said. "Whatever it is that is making them strong is something that they value too much."

Many people thought that all Northerners share the same abilities as the Duke of Wugari and his people: a strong body that could withstand the cold, could not be penetrated by a simple sword, and was immune to many poisons and diseases.

What those people did not know was the fact that only Duke Lucas and his people were like that. The ones from other kingdoms did not have those abilities. They had tried to find out the secrets that allowed the Duke's people to be stronger than most men, but none of their spies survived to tell the tales.

"Still, are we not going to do something about that man? This place is our territory. This is not Wugari, it is Lonyth!" Clinton said. He refused to believe that a man like that was invincible. They are all humans, they all had weaknesses and they all could die. The Duke of Wugari might be strong, but he was not invincible.

He recalled the smirk on Lucas's face while he was speaking to him. It was pretty clear that he was looking down on Clinton and all Clinton wanted to do was wipe that smirk from that man's face.

However, not long after he started thinking about Duke Lucas he started frowning.

"What is it?" his father asked.

"I just thought of something."

"What is it?" his father asked.

"It is nothing important." He remembered the Duke's words about him and his dogs. This was of course something that he easily recalled because of how he had asked his people to capture wolves in the past and have them fight for the entertainment of other nobles. He had earned a lot of money from the underground fighting and now had invested that money in much more interesting experiments to make his wolves stronger.

He wondered how that man knew about his hobbies.

Wouldn't that mean that the Duke of Wugari had been watching him and his father? No. He buried that thought in his consciousness. The Duke simply had no reason to watch them.

"We should do something about his trip," Clinton suggested.

"Oh? What do you have in mind?" the Baron asked.

"Well, I heard that the Baron had captured a few beasts for experimentation. Accidents can happen. We don't really know when the beasts would accidentally get out of their cages and cause havoc on some traveling merchants," Clinton continued.

"I agree," Baron Teri was already beaming. "Accidents do happen all the time."

The three of them soon looked at each other before they started laughing.

.....

"I think Count Lytton wanted to mock you," Rosalind smiled as the Duke continued adding food to her bowl. The man had been acting weird after that incident. From the gift, to eating with her in his room, and now he was actually adding food to her bowl.

Moreover, he was doing all this without an iota of expression on his face. Not a hint of a smile or anything that would signify that he was happy while doing all those things. At one point, she started wondering if someone was forcing him to do this.

"He would not dare."

"Well, whatever book it was that he gave you was a little too much."

He lifted his gaze away from her bowl.

"Is it?" he asked.

"Y Yes," she cleared her throat. She had been married to Jeames in her past life for decades, yet the man had never added food to her bowl nor given her some extravagant gift. Of course, that might be because he never actually liked her, but still!

The Duke was doing so many weird things when they weren't even married yet at least not officially married yet.

And he was doing this while donning such a scary expression on his face!