The Path to New Babylon

[Victor Wolfe]

Victor walked towards the castle noticing the hustle and bustle going on, the atmosphere was tense, something big had clearly happened he noticed the man who had been doing the bidding of the King before, and he walked towards Anos, his piercing blue eyes showing next to no emotion towards the assassin now approaching him. “I have news to report directly to the king, I am sure he will be happy to hear this so I ask that you take me to him" Victor said in an authoritative but non aggressive tone.
" The King is not seeing any visitors today he has requested that the kings hand take over his duties for today, if you have something to report, you bring it to him" Anos said still not showing much emotion other than slight disdain, Victor noticed the clipboard in the hands of Anos, reading it he noticed that it was an order of business for audiences with the kings hand." Could you please put me onto that list, I have something important to discuss with the kings hand" Anos scribbled down Wolfes name at the bottom of the list after a guy from a mining community. He then left towards the throne room "At least he is quick and straight to the point, efficient, not the most likable guy, but efficient, I can work with that" Victor thought to himself letting out a chuckle.

He pushed open the gate to the throne room now filled with people, the champion of the Abyss Sasuke Uchiha, the teenage looked surprisingly fitting sitting on the throne as a king’s hand. Victor decided to take a seat along with the other guests waiting until it was his turn to be called upon, he draw a few glances but most people seemed to accept his presence without much of a second thought, just to make sure though he started to suppress his presence blending into the crowd more until they barely noticed him.
Once Sasuke had finished dealing with the current audience Anos announced in the elderly man who was before him on the list, he had not paid much attention to the people before as most had relatively light squabbles that where easily solved without the need of an assassin however this man seemed different he seemed really shaken, as if his whole world had just collapsed.

The man named Elias went into the details of how barbarically his people had been murdered and cannibalized this went far beyond the actions of even the most violent of bandits Victor knew, some of the people started crying hearing of this brutality, Victor had to hold back vomit, he had killed a lot of people and even performed acts of torture on suspects, but to senselessly and brutally murder so many people made him both sick and extremely angry. The Old man spoke about how they had actually left a gift for them to see. Suddenly the sweet but stomach churning stench of death, filled the air, it was a smell he had been exposed to many a time but one that he would never get used too. The smell came from the mangled corpse of a lion brought in by three men, the dropped it at the feet of Sasuke. Wolfe knew this was a public deceleration of war, he himself had used such methods to announce the start of wars that his empire would wage.

Elias delivered the message that he had clearly been forced to say to try and spread fear, after what had happened to his people Wolfe could not blame him. Luckily for New Babylon and the people of Nippur the king’s hand knew exactly the right thing to say in this situation. As he announced the hunt for Baron Deathclaw Wolfe stood up being the first to start clapping until others joined in causing the people to suppress there fear and focus on the anger at this deceleration of war. Once all things had quietened down Anos announced “Victor Wolfe the Assassin of New Babylon" Victor walked over to the throne but maintained enough distance so that everything he would say could still be heard throughout the room.

“Hello Sasuke Uchiha first i would like to congratulate you on your success in the Abyss, you did all of New Babylon proud, second of all I have some news that might serve as some consolation to the current situation, I have just returned from a very successful mission against the Empire , we have acquired an empire truck full of supplies weapons and who knows what else. The truck itself could be useful in later plans. The king did promise a reward so I would like to request that this belt i discovered in the back of the truck be my reward, I think it will be really beneficial to me." Victor pointed at the cloaking belt around his waist.

" Now I would like to be involved in this hunt for Baron Deathclaw, his action sicken and anger me more than most things tend to do and I think the best way to release this anger would be to drag my blades through his entrails and put his head on a pike at our gate" Victor quickly regained his composure " Sorry, that was crude of me, I just get angry when people slaughter people that believe they are under our protection , anyway I do not think this is a job the rookies could handle alone without unacceptable losses thus I volunteer to lead the mission to destroy this barbarian" Victor looked at the young shinobi awaiting his response.