951 Trust
"Lord, you still don't want to talk about the elephant in the room?" Sakaar asked in the calmest possible tone, but he wasn't calm, and everyone around him knew he wasn't calm.
With his soul sense he felt half of his army being wiped out, with his hearing technique he heard half of his army scream their last scream before it was interrupted in the middle, with his sharp nose he smelled the fear and involuntary urination before they vanished… That terrifying scene is impossible to forget.
But in front of Sakaar's silent anger, Robin kept his silence: "…"
When Sakaar was about to say something else *bzzzz* Jura's space portal activated again and a group of demons came out of it, and this time another person came with them.
*Shiiii* Theo walked out of the portal with a number of Shadow Swords, all of them dispersed except for Theo who made his way to Robin's location and bowed immediately, "Father, I brought some news from Nihari, but..." Theo looked at the people present for a moment.
Only Sakaar, Caesar, and Amon were present, if any other Shadow Sword had made such a move he would have been instantly beaten up, but because he was Theo everyone was silent, only he had the right to have this kind of informational power over them.
"Speak, what's the problem if they hear? All walls were taken down, there's nothing left to hide." Robin rested his head on his hands again.
"Well then, the monitoring network has confirmed information that there are 300 high-level martial emperors from the Great Serpent Empire who came out of the eastern portal, the report says that each one of them has an aura equivalent to that of a fleet general." Theo didn't hesitate after taking the statement, "And a much stronger person came out with them, Marshal Lacrosse who is crouching in Hope City bowed to him and called him Your Majesty, we believe it is Pythor."
"300 people with the strength of a general? Are they the imperial guards you spoke of, father?"
"There is an additional Marshal present in Hope City?!"
"The so-called Pythor himself is currently on the back of Planet Nihari?!"
Amon, Sakaar, and Caesar jumped from their seats, each one focusing on the part that gave them the most goosebumps.
Then the three of them turned back to look at Robin again, "Father!" "Lord!!"
"…I guess I should have listened to the report separately." Robin scratched his head under the three's piercing gaze, in fact, Theo himself was watching him in surprise.
Each item in the report was devastating on its own, the 300 individuals with the strength of a general could turn the war around on their own, in fact even if those dark cubes didn't appear, the appearance of those 300 would be enough to destroy any one of the three demon army, even forcing them to retreat to the point of being trapped next to one of the portals, their presence suggested that the dark cubes' attack came as a psychological barrier first and foremost and not as a last resort!
Secondly, the presence of an additional marshal means an additional person who can fight the likes of Sakaar, Richard, and Caesar.
His mere presence on any battlefield means changing the balance or turning it, especially since according to the report, he is a new marshal who has not participated in any battle yet, meaning that he still retains his strength and trump cards!
Finally, the arrival of Pythor himself... If this does not show his absolute determination to prevail and seize the planet, then what will?
Before the three of them could press him further, Robin took the initiative to ask Theo, "Is there any other important news?"
Theo nodded and then continued, "There is a report from one person saying that he saw 5 dark cubes in the senates' hall before the incident occurred. We do not know if the two cubes that were activated before seeing them were distributed to the five, so it is safe to say that there are still five or two of those cubes."
"Two? Did a third interversion happen that we don't know about?" Sakaar grabbed a clue
"Yes, it happened in the Northern Edge Mountain, but our spies there fled as soon as they saw the dark cube activated and didn't witness the outcome."
"How certain is the information about the five cubes?!" Caesar took a step forward
Theo answered without beating around the bush, "It's certain enough, it came from one of the tower's maids who had the Soul Enslavement Seal, so she can't lie unless the seal was removed somehow."
Sakaar raised his hand, "Wait a minute… the Soul Enslavement Seal is either used by secretly inserting it into a book and having the ignorant target read it or by personal intervention to implant the seal directly into the target's initial soul, and no one can complete the second process currently except the Lord." He then turned to Robin, "All of the palace servants are cultivating in the internal energy system so the book move won't work on them, that leaves us with only the second method… how and when?!"
Caesar frowned slightly and then snapped his fingers forcefully, "During the chase from the safe city to the northern region?!"
"That's right after Jabba refused to join the battle, my father ordered the Shadow Swordsmen around him to increase the presence of spies within the sect, so they secretly captured a number of servants and guards and brought them to him to implant the seal on them while he monitored the chase, and he also allocated a number of live surveillance arrays to monitor the city of Hope day and night." Theo, who had read all the reports about what had happened during his absence, spoke confidently, "Of course, that's in addition to the spy networks and relationships we already had before that incident."
"Lord, you… did you know that there was another Marshal in Hope City all this time?" Amon asked in agitation, "You knew that the Nehari Union Sect was colluding with the invaders?!"
"…" Robin's response was to look at Amon from top to bottom and then back to the Jura city portal that was still letting out a number of survivors as he muttered, "Tsk~ I don't need to hear lessons about how to run my own empire, thanks."
Theo smiled and answered Amon, "Father knows everything that happens in the empire, he knew about the people's movement and knew what was happening in Hope City step by step, that's why he formed us." He then glanced at the three, "Your question to Father shouldn't be about whether he knows something, the information comes to him before you think about it, the question should be why he doesn't act on this knowledge."
Theo then slowly turned to Robin, "And actually, I want to know the answer to that question too, father."
Robin raised his head and looked around at the four skeptical faces, a hint of anger appeared on his face, "Because Jabba would never betray me you fools, even if he told me himself I wouldn't believe him!!"