Free Web NovelChapter 78: The Freaky Little Gnomes Pt. 4
Sprout was soon joined by Fate and his wives as they watched the competition. This moving around made the gnomes once again have to adjust their bug mounts to charge back towards their mistress, Kathy, and Fate, so they cried out.
"Brothers, defend the homeland. We must stand firm against this legion of soulless toe jam invaders."
Fate was not going to participate in this action to free Kathy, but he already had a plan for dealing with these freaky little gnomes.
The gnomes moved slowly, so Fate, being the nice guy that he is, walked up to a stage that had been set up in advance to meet his legendary foes.
After walking up three steps and onto the stage, with Ruby and Amara at his side, Fate waited.
The gnomes arrived a few moments later and, looking up at Fate with anger in their eyes, the leader of this group who called himself Daddy said to Fate.
"Fate Grimsever, our mistress has told me how many times you have insulted her honor, and after your most recent action, I can no longer sit back because Daddy is just not that kind of gnome. Now watch as I, Daddy, put an end to you, Fate, because you are an abomination in our mistress’s eyes."
Fate looked at this blue gnome and for a second time had to ask Ruby and Amara a serious question.
"Ruby and Amara, there are no hidden cameras around here, right? This is not actually a reality TV show with midgets that are dressing up as Papa Smurf-like gnomes, is it?"
Ruby looked at Amara as they both had a smile on their faces. This must be the reality TV shows that Fate spoke of often in his dreams. He spoke a lot about how people on these shows are often the trash of society, so Ruby could see how Fate would think this.
With a serious tone and doing her duty as a proper wife to not expose her husband, Ruby said, "What are you talking about, husband? This is just a bad case of a foot infestation. Something like this is very common."
Ruby lied through her teeth, even she has never seen something as weird as this, but Amara may have. free𝑤ebnovel.com
Amara followed Ruby up by saying with a very serious face that tried to conceal her laughter, "Yes, Fate, this is very normal. I’ve totally seen lots of women who don’t wash their feet for so long that freaky little gnomes move into them."
Fate decided to stop asking these useless questions, but he did pick up on his wives’ sarcasm.
Looking at Kathy, still rooted to her position a few feet away from him, Fate then looked at Daddy and said, "First of all, if your name is Daddy and I defeat you, how many generations of your ancestors are going to show up to fight me next?"
Daddy did not understand this question, so he said to Fate, "Are you asking about Daddy’s granddaddy? He’s in seclusion with our other ancestors back in our ancestral toe lands."
Fate nodded his head in happiness. So that means he will get multiple generations of jokes out of these guys. Then he felt better about what he was about to do. Fate looked at Daddy and said to him with a smile, "Well, Mr. Daddy, it is a pleasure to meet you. So you take care of all of Kathy’s dirty work for her, I assume."
Daddy looked up at Fate towering above him and said, "That’s right. Our righteous mistress, Kathy Primrose, often sends me out at night to hunt for money for her. We even guard her vast treasure trove of wealth in our sacred lands so that no foolish mortal will make off with our lady’s vast wealth. Why, just the other day, Kathy sent us to steal a bunch of gold crowns from Prince Nimrod. These fools never think to look out for the little guy when they are about to be robbed."
Fate nodded his head in understanding, but then Ruby surprised Fate by saying, "That is indeed a good tactic to rob that idiot prince. He probably did not have much left after we cleaned him out the other day."
When Fate heard this information, he figured that he must have something in his ears and was not hearing things properly right now.
Kathy, who was still the victim of a bunch of strongmen trying to free her, yelled out at Ruby, "Ruby Valentine, you dare to steal from the prince! You must be tired of living. As for you, Daddy, stop making nonsense up. I would never steal from the prince, and I’m broke. I don’t have a vast and opulent palace full of wealth and riches located in my enchanted toe forest that I sometimes disappear into during the night using the power of the primordial toe ooze."
Daddy, hearing this, caught on quickly and said out loud, "That’s right, I was mistaken. We would never take things from Prince Nimrod. But we will get revenge for all of the wrongs that our mistress has experienced today from you, Fate Grimsever."
Fate, still standing up on the stage, suddenly looked around as if he was not paying attention and said, "Huh, what? I’m sorry, were you guys talking about something? I was busy admiring the disturbing beauty of my new death zone moat. I’m wondering if I throw Maria in here as well, will this water cause the destruction of the world?"
Ruby and Amara’s eyes suddenly sparkled with a dangerous light as Amara looked to her subordinate, Ghost, and gave her a few discreet hand signals.
Ghost vanished to carry out the orders she was given. She would return in a few minutes to test this wonderful new abomination they were about to make.
Fate could never have imagined that his single sentence would give birth to one of the most deadly weapons that Phoenix Rising would have in their arsenal for decades to come.
When the great wars came one day, the people who survived and converted to Fate’s religion would sing songs of his glorious genius and how this tainted water saved the lives of millions of his loyal believers.
This would all happen with Fate being none the wiser about the foul use of this abomination against his enemies.
With a smile on her face, Ruby looked at Amara and Fate and said to them both, "Well, Fate, what should we do with this little thing that calls himself Daddy and his dozens of kinsmen who are riding mutated stink bug mounts?"
Fate looked at Daddy and struck a thinking pose all while Daddy looked at Fate, trying to figure out how to get up on this tall platform. The steps were too tall for his glorious mounts, and he did not bring the flying stink bugs out on this crusade with him. Most of his fellow gnome warriors were not even the elite of his tribe. Daddy did not think he would need elite soldiers to take down some stupid noble who liked to hide behind his guards.
Daddy looked up at Fate with a sneer on his little face and said to Fate, "Duke Fate Grimsever, why don’t you come down here and fight us to the death yourself? In fact, we challenge you to a fight to the death."
