'What was the name of the necromancer in question?' Arthur turned to Norman and said:
`That's actually a good question, did we ever get to know his name?'
'I don't remember anyone saying it' Norman tried to think back as much as he could, but nothing came of it.
'If you'll excuse me, I'm going to read that letter that I got from King Richard' said Count Silverwood. A few moments later, he said: 'There's no mention of the name of that necromancer'
'What! Preposterous! King Richard was interrogating him and he never asked for his name?! To forget about doing that you have to be the stupidest person in the world!' shouted Armando. The whole hall went silent.
'Well Arthur, that's King Richard in a nutshell.' Norman whispered.
'The letter also states that the necromancer was executed after the interrogation, so his identity will be lost forever' declared Count Silverwood.
'Arthur, did you bring that black sword with you, you know, the one you took from that necromancer?' Norman asked. Arthur was trying to remember what he did with it, but he wasn't able to.
'It's possible that sword could have a name on it.'
'I don't remember seeing one... hold on...' Arthur decided to speak to the whole hall.
'What has naming the necromancer got to do with anything?' Armando almost immediately responded:
'If we could identify who he was we could know whether or not he really did know Queen Juliet.'
'Norman, should I say anything about that sword?'
'I don't know, why do you ask?'
'I'm still wondering how the sword was black, was that magical, painted, or what?'
'Go on then.'
Arthur again rose his voice. `When I captured the necromancer-'
'Wait a minute, YOU captured the necromancer?!'
'Yes, I did, I found he was carrying a very evil-looking black sword, do you know anything about this?'
'Why yes, swords like that are made by our own magi-' He then stopped and started panicking. `Oh dear lord!' The audience gasped as they heard this and were absolutely incensed, after five minutes everyone quietened down.
'Representative Bersa! You've got some explaining to do!' Armando looked more nervous than ever during this debate, he was just completely lost for words. Arthur decided `I'm starting to think that you vampires were behind the attack of Ashford!' Armando looked at Arthur in disgust.
`We're not vampires you twerp! We are humans just like you! And no, we had nothing to do with the attack on the town of... whatever it's called.' Somebody then politely reminded him that the town was called Ashford. Count Silverwood was listening to both Arthur and Armando and started to inform them on his view on things
`I do feel that accusing the Kingdom of Lucianna of being behind the attack of Ashford is... well I was going to say far-fetched but it seems like it is a very real possibility, I've yet to hear a good reason why you're not behind all of it, so now is the time! Give me one good reason why you have nothing to do with any of it!' Armando was silent, he had an assistant with him and he started talking with him, after about five minutes of deliberation, he had an answer
'We know nothing about these necromancers you're on about'
'Right, I think I can now safely say that the Kingdom of Lucianna was in some way involved with the attack on Ashford.' announced Count Silverwood. `So then, on to the next problem, over the past couple of months now our city has been attacked by various supernatural creatures, these include undead soldiers, skeleton troops,, and other things not too dissimilar to what I had just mentioned. Our armies had been diminishing because of this and it would only be a matter of time until they manage to take over our city' Count Silverwood then looked at Arthur.
'Prince Arthur’ he continued ‘will you be willing to take care of this problem?' Armando started speaking before Arthur was able to say anything.
'The Kingdom of Lucianna will happily destroy this army of demons if it means you join us or become an independent Kingdom!'
'Don't listen to them, Count Silverwood! You know they were behind the attack on Ashford! For all we know they probably created the monsters themselves!' Once again, the whole room started talking, though after a while they went silent.
'Yes Prince Arthur, I will entrust you to take care of our supernatural monster problem’ he then looked at Armando ‘Representative Bersa, you are dismissed, the debate is over.'
'But wait, we had nothing to do with those necromancers, or the monsters attacking your city, this is preposterous! Queen Juliet herself can come here and tell you that, I promise!'
'Enough!' shouted Count Silverwood. 'Guards! Take him and his assistant out of the city!' After that Count Silverwood announced that the debate was over and so everyone left the hall.
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