Building An Empire Starting From The Labor Camp In Exile-Chapter 289: What to do

Atrox grunted. "Commander Garran, thank you. For now, we are not trying to directly attack the Akatsuki. I would have preferred if they left them alone to focus on the Soryu Clan for now, but it seems to be something out of my hands. Very well, Commander Petel..."

Suddenly, there was knocking from the door. Atrox paused as the temperature in the room spiked. Every Knight in the room sent their senses out, trying to feel who was behind the door.

But of course, they couldn’t. The door had been engraved with different words of power that prevented people from listening from outside, but it also stopped those from inside from listening out.

Valtor stood up, his hammer materialized in his hand as he strode to the door and pulled it open.

Outside, a man who was sweating was surrounded by Knights in gold armor, pointing their weapons at him.

"What is it? We are having an important meeting," Valtor barked.

The man shook and trembled when he heard that. He was an ordinary person, after all, and the pressure he was feeling from the room was making his legs numb. "Ah! It... it’s important!"

Valtor narrowed his eyes. "You are from the message information center."

Immediately, they heard "message" and "information." Everyone tensed. After all, they had left people behind, and the message must be for one of them.

Valtor allowed the man entry. "Who is it for?"

The man went to his knees, mostly because his legs were about to give way as the eyes of those powerful Knights focused on him. "For the Clan leader! The Clan leader!"

Terrix stepped forward to collect the letter.

Although the message was sent from somewhere, the enchanted tools here would decode it and imprint it into a sealed letter, imprinting the seal of the sender in.

"Who is it from?" Atrox asked casually. He was curious about who could be sending him letters.

Suddenly, Terrix stopped as he saw the seal on the letter. If he were a fur beast, then his hair would have stood on end. "This letter is from the Akatsuki."

"Say that again?" Atrox blinked.

"The Akatsuki sent this letter."

Atrox sat up, as did everyone. The Akatsuki sent them a letter? It was the truth that all the Clans in the Hinterlands had a frequency where they could send messages from one Clan leader to another, but it’s not something that is used frequently.

So, when they heard that the Akatsuki sent a letter, everyone was surprised.

Atrox smiled like a cat. "Now, that’s something I wasn’t expecting. It’s almost like they know we’ll be here. Interesting. Terrix, open it. Let’s know what they want."

The message was dismissed, and Terrix did read the letter after he confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it. He began to read.

"Greetings. This is the Clan leader of the Akatsuki, Eirikr Akatsuki. I congratulate Atrox Soryu as the new Clan leader. May your time show fruits like the tree of the mouthful pale.

I am letting you know that the Young Master of the Akatsuki Clan, Svenjar Akatsuki, will be visiting the Soryu Clan to broaden his horizon. He will be arriving at the border in five days’ time. Thank you. I look forward to future encounters."

The room returned to silence.

Atrox was the first to break it. He turned to Pomora. "What is mouthful pale?"

Pomora hesitated. "It’s a very rare tree found in the desert. It only bears fruit once every ten years, and its fruit is extremely bitter. It’s used for making tea, very high-quality one, but it must be consumed in small quantities. Taking more will be eating poison."

"Is that so? Eirikr Akatsuki wishes my time as the Clan leader to be as fruitful as this. I love the sarcasm. But I wonder if he knew about its poisonous side as well? Anyway, what’s this bullshit?"

Valtor was just as angry. "The disrespect! He’s sending a message as if we are his subordinates or something. So we should do what because his son is coming? He didn’t even ask if we want to host the boy!"

"What face-slapping disrespect! And I’m sure the son is some decoy that was sent to look at the state of things here!" Valtor fumed.

Even Commander Garran’s eyes flashed. "I don’t know what they are planning, but it can’t be anything good. This is not good for our security. We need to reject this, My Lord."

Everyone gave their suggestions, and Atrox listened to them one by one, slowly turning everything in his mind. Some wanted him to come, but others didn’t.

After he heard them all, he made his decision. "I will allow him to come."

"I will let the Akatsuki show the power they have. Why stop them? We know next to nothing about them, and this opportunity will give us a glimpse into them. Valtor, you will be in charge of his protection. Do not let anything happen to him. We do not want to fight the Akatsuki now."

Valtor didn’t like it, but he bowed.

Atrox sighed and waved his hand. "All of you should not concern yourselves with this. I want everyone to focus on their matters, but know that I might call you to war anytime. Be ready. One thing the Soryu Clan is, is that we are rich, and I’ve thrown the vault open. We need to build a stronger army, and with the Ito, we should be able to get even more quality tools."

With that out of the way, they began to talk about the other things that needed attention. The meeting lasted deep into the night, and they even ate both lunch and dinner there.

The reason was that not only was the meeting important, it was something that could only be done occasionally. It’s not something that could be decided on a whim. It took almost three months just to organize the one they were doing.

After all, Atrox pulled all the strongest warriors for the meeting, and they all had their own important things going on. Even Atrox himself had a lot to do.

So, they took advantage of the meeting where everyone was gathered to hammer out a lot of things.