Chapter 289 Fear (8)
They were pretty fast since they were ten kilometers away from the capital. Still, it was a dangerous mission since Billy was also pretty famous, and he was the reason those people were forced to move. However, without the tunnel, they couldn't communicate with the spies. It was a necessary risk for him. Fortunately, many people were traveling while covering themselves, and the guards didn't have time to check all of them at the gates.
Before anyone could notice, they headed and began to walk behind one of the many caravans. After they finally blend in, they begin to walk toward the middle of the group, where the guards would have fewer chances of noticing them. Billy had forgotten about what it was to walk for hours, but in the end, he was fit enough not to care about it.
As he had expected, Billy and the spies infiltrated and crossed the gates without drawing any attention from the guards. The capital of Toles state wasn't much different from the one Billy lived in the right at the moment, but the buildings were a lot more gray since they were made of a special type of stone. Meanwhile, back home, most houses were made of wood. Regardless, when Billy looked in the distance, he frowned when he saw a castle being built there… Jeannette moved her base of operations because of him. However, she still wanted to live inside a castle… that place certainly didn't have many free lots, so she probably demolished some residences to start there.
"If the information of reincarnated people becomes widespread, then people will truly fear us," Billy thought while furrowing his eyebrows. "Before that happens, I will deal with you. You who don't value properly the second chance that you obtained for whatever reason… You who seek nothing but your own selfish desires. You may be more powerful than me, but that power brought you arrogance, and that arrogance fried up your brain."
The immigrants followed a line toward many places across the capital. Some were guided to tents in some alleys in the back of some buildings, while others were moved to the largest streets. However, most of the people found shelter on the many plazas across the capital. It seemed that the person who designed that place imagined that something like that might happen, so they prepared many locations. While Billy and the spies were moving toward those places, they saw many blacksmith shops working even though it was past midnight. The sound of forging echoed through the entire city. Jeannette was truly finishing the last preparations for the next war.
"She probably doesn't understand a thing about supplies and logistics. Even if she has three countries under control, she can't feed all of them if she wages war with dozens of soldiers when the states don't have more than one hundred fifty thousand inhabitants… Doing that every year is hoping to go bankrupt," Billy thought.
In any case, fortunately, Billy and the species were moved to one of the many alleys of the capital, so he could start worming there inside the tent that had been prepared for his group, and so he did it when the alley was full, and all the people there were sleeping. Still, before that, he has heard some pretty interesting things.
"The blacksmiths have been working to forge weapons for all of us for the past weeks."
"It seems that the higher-ups were right, it was only a matter of time before those people, and the devils would have come to attack us."
"I heard that the harbinger of death buried thousands of men and women alive in Filigalia… even those that didn't have weapons and were just trying to escape."
It seemed that Jeannette had some individuals doing the shady work of propagating her supposed good deeds while making Billy and his friends look as evil as possible. Still, that only added oil to the fire… Billy was even more determined to kill that bitch.
In any case, Billy worked hard during the day because he couldn't show his face, and only at night does it make sense to cover his body and head with a cloak due to the cold. During those two days, he didn't hear anything aside from slanders that he and his friends were the focus. The spies didn't hear anything either… The enemies were leaving the population in the dark regarding the important things. In any case, Gilles and Svan truly looked relieved when he showed up exactly behind them; they had no idea how Billy was able to dig the tunnels and make an exit wherever he wanted.
"How were things there?" Gilles asked.
"Not much different from what I had expected," Billy replied. "The enemy is controlling all networks of information to make sure that I will look even worse from the perspective of the people curled there. Life will be difficult for them as long as they stay there. While they have room to keep so many people, I doubt that they will be well-fed."
Gilles and Svan could easily imagine that, while he led a group of thousands of barbarians, Svan knew how to work with logistics and supplies, and what Jeanette was doing was only madness in his eyes. Eventually, the people will revolt since you can't do much while hungry all the time, and there are few things that make people madder than a few weeks or even days of constant hunger.
"So, what is the plan now?" Gilles asked.
"I take it that Jeannette doesn't make many apparitions, and since I have no idea what she has put in her castle, invading directly isn't a good idea," Billy replied. "We will have to wait and see for a while, and then I will decide our next few steps."
Billy wanted to take the battle too far away from the capital since Jeannette might use the entire population against him. He was almost certain that that was her plan by using such a crazy tactic as filling the capital with refugees.
