Rise of the Inquisition (Arc 4-6)

Chapter 155: Seven Inquisitors

Walking back on the road leading directly to the Mansion of the Inquisition. Archer, Lady Diane, Noxious, and Ashley were ahead of Paladin, Messiah, and Alexon. Archer moving quicker than anyone else, as he was holding onto Lady Diane's hand.

"Come on Mordred--pick up the pace!" Archer exclaimed.

"I'm coming Archer, but, shouldn't we be taking our time?"

"Nope! I've been waiting too long to get back here. I have no desire in taking my time!"

Paladin and Alexon sighed, as they shook their heads in disappointment at Archer. Messiah couldn't help but cross his arms, as he was looking at the back of Noxious.

"Hey Noxious--you should be joining Archer!"

"I'm good, I'm just going to take my time and keep walkin--"

"Oh really? Then this is fantastic, because I'm going to chase you down then and take your--"

"Nevermind! Nevermind! I'll get running--" Noxious yelled, as he started to sprint away from the group.

Messiah couldn't help but chuckle, from seeing Noxious run away from him as fast as he could. Alexon then cleared his throat, and he turned to look at Paladin.

"Paladin, I'm curious to hear how you were able to get the two Kingdoms to unify. Do you mind telling the story?" Alexon asked.

"Sure, I'll tell you it," Paladin then cleared his throat, preparing to summarize the story. "Essentially, we went along with the plan discussed at the Tower of Barcesar. Dividing ourselves into two groups, one to negotiate with the Matriarchy and one to negotiate with the Crimson Kingdom--"

"Right," Alexon interjected.

"Going along with that plan, me and Messiah went to negotiate with Crazy. After some discussions, it went horrible. Messiah ended up getting into a verbal argument with Rabbit--"

"He fucking deserved it! Dude was honestly being annoying as fuck!" Messiah yelled, interjecting into the conversation.

"Which forced us to go outside and reconsider what we were doing. After some conversersing with ourselves, we came to an idea. We were going to have a meeting between the two sides. When we conducted the meeting, we were able to meet the terms Amy needed from us, with Noxious embracing his role fully as the Demon King and unification terms similar to what House Odin agreed to. When that was done, the only thing left was to get Crazy to unify. While attempting to negotiate Crazy into unifying, Rabbit started to berate Amy, calling her a lot of disgraceful words. Because of Rabbit doing that...Amy got pissed off and went back to her Mansion--"

"Not surprising. So anyways, what did you offer Amy, or what did you agree to in order to get her back at the negotiating table?" Alexon asked.

"Well, she said to me that she would agree to any terms I presented to her, concerning the Crimson King. On one condition--"

"What condition?"

"That the Inquisition, after the Legion of Death is defeated, assists in helping the Duumvirate reclaim their lost lands in the Underworld."

Alexon placed his left hand on the bottom of his chin. When Paladin told him what he agreed to, he immediately started to think about it. He was intrigued by the Underworld, however, he wasn't so keen on the idea of fighting another force so close after the Legion of Death was defeated.

"I'll assume that there was likely no other way at getting the Kingdoms to unify--however Paladin, I'm not sure if I like the idea of us fighting another battle immediately after beating the Legion of Death. We don't know how much destruction will be caused in this war, so we won't know if we're ready or not," Alexon explained.