Taking the Mafia to the Magic World

1065  Change in the Dwarves Tribe

Hervi received Vicenteʼs signal and did as planned. Making his way to his fatherʼs work area, he took a deep breath before coming across his old man on the floor, bloodied and cold.

Hervi shouted in false surprise, approaching the kingʼs body while feigning surprise and lamentation.

”Father?!”

Soon a group of dwarves rushed to their kingʼs office, each of them alert to their princeʼs repeated calls.

As the men moved towards the spot where the Dwarf King had died, other cries of surprise, laden with negativity, spread around the estate, with other bodies being discovered.

The four other dwarves who had come to the tribe with Vicente in addition to Hervi took in the scene, coming across the different bodies of their fellow race members while exclaiming in shock.

”There are signs of elementals here!” Said one of these subordinates of the Fairy Tribe, telling the dwarves that they didnʼt know what was going on and seemed to be innocent of the betrayal prior to the story Vicente wanted spread.

”The elementals killed my father!” Hervi said when he saw the traces that Vicente had guaranteed would lead to suspicions among the enemies of the fairy alliance.

As soon as these cries and their ideas spread among the dwarves unrelated to Vicente, the rumors spread along with the tribeʼs alarm trumpets, causing the entire core of this community to go into a state of alertness.

Dwarves from the guard immediately formed groups to scour the tribe in search of enemies, while the common people themselves positioned themselves to increase the number of eyes available.

Dwarves were known for their brute strength, so even the women made themselves available when the whole tribe went on alert.

Larissa and Rex saw this, but made an effort not to do anything more than they had to. A group of dwarves even came up to them and invited them to give up their weapons and stay under supervision, but they didnʼt stop them.

Having received Vicenteʼs signal that he was finished and left clues of a distant enemy for the dwarves to blame, they were calm about the current situation.

With Hervi being the only available heir and having an agreement with Vicente, there was no way they could be more than suspects at the moment.

Like the good innocents they were, Vicenteʼs two partners collaborated with the dwarves, pretending not to understand what was going on.

”Did someone kill the king?” Larissa asked in an altered tone. ”Who did?!”

The dwarves positioning themselves around their camp said nothing. Meanwhile, several torches in the hands of dwarves illuminated the outskirts of the non-underground area of this raceʼs domain.

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Vicente returned from his action after almost an hour and a half, entering the mansion of the dwarven royal family in the same way he had done earlier.

When he appeared in the main hall, where Hervi was sitting on the kingʼs throne, receiving reports, Vicente saw the 8th stage dwarves there turn on him with their weapons raised.

”You! Where were you?” Asked the strongest of the remaining dwarves there, a 3-Star individual from the Grand Magus stage.

Vicente raised one of his hands to ask for calm, before explaining in a solemn tone. ”I heard the warning signs earlier and tried to act to find my friendsʼ enemies. Unfortunately, whoever carried out this brutality against the tribe was quick and effective in their movements. I havenʼt managed to catch anything in the last two hours.”

Some dwarves believed him, but even the most skeptical lost some of their doubts when Hervi spoke up.

”Vicente, havenʼt you gotten anything useful? They killed my father! I want the heads of those responsible!”

Vicente said, looking at that dwarf who had just been promoted to the 8th stage, ”I only found a few traces of earth elementals. But I didnʼt find anything else that could lead me to their escape route. Itʼs as if they simply disappeared after completing their objectives.”

”Thatʼs the same thing my group found,” said one of the suspicious dwarves with Vicente, losing some of his suspicion as he spoke.

”So what do we do?” Another dwarf asked.

The prince suggested, ”I think we should worry about the tribe and scale back our actions. Letʼs first see how we were invaded and make sure it doesnʼt happen again before we hunt down an enemy.”

”But what about the enemy? Are we just going to let him get away?”

”Heʼs already gone.” Vicente muttered, but everyone there heard him very well.

”Letʼs do it,” Hervi said firmly, not wanting to take this discussion any further.

Vicente secretly nodded at him while mentally guiding Hervi.

ʼBe firm, Hervi. These men want a leader, not an heir. Now that youʼre the only one in this position, be a little more authoritative. Your words must be firm and final. You are the new leader and you decide the future of the tribe. So do that.ʼ

Hervi felt Vicenteʼs advice working as his men began to follow what he had just ordered.

Some were clearly unhappy, but they had nothing else to go on to try and counter-argue.

At this point, the situation began to turn out exactly as Vicente had predicted earlier, with the dwarves naturally turning to Hervi as their new leader, not realizing that the big culprit in the night was among them.

Most of them didnʼt even know about the betrayal of those Vicente had murdered, so when Hervi suggested later about asking the fairies for help, hardly anyone would see a problem with it.

Vicente stood in the corner while the situation seemed to resolve itself. He made himself available to hunt elementals as soon as the tribe felt comfortable sending out groups to search for the ʼculpritsʼ of the nightʼs tragedy.

Hervi naturally ordered his men to prepare and join Vicente when things calmed down and they had absolute control over the core of their tribe again.

The tribe would continue to worry for the next few hours, unlike the five dwarves, Vicente, Larissa, and Rex, the only ones who knew that no one had breached the tribeʼs defenses apart from one of their own.

They secretly sent their results out so that the fairies could correctly interpret the changes that would soon take place and better combine their actions against their enemies.

ʼPart of the plan is ready. I just need to use the dwarves to get my pentagram and guarantee Hervi some time in charge. In a few days, Iʼll be able to leave them and move on to other battlefields.ʼ Vicente thought to himself, satisfied with the results of his murderous action that night.