Chapter 51 His primary assignment
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He took a deep breath as he stared ahead, his entire armor was covered with the blood of his enemies. Bodies were splattered around him in the most goriest way ever. Both the human bodies and the wolves, he kept Killing to return the favor of them slaughtering his soldiers. He wasn’t tired even after fighting for many hours straight. The back of his armor was stabbed with many arrows, some of which penetrated his body but he barely felt any pain as he continued cutting any threatening flesh as if he was slicing butter.
The warriors of Nati fought under his command, they were like demons from hell. They cannot be killed and each time the enemies used the magic of Hwaja, the warriors were not affected, they only kept on fighting under his command. Their wolves already got trapped in the ditch he had his men dug the other day, he only ever wanted to end everything and go back to his Queen. He hasn’t heard anything from the hornets and it bothers him a lot.
” Your majesty” General Kim said from afar, like the King, he was also covered in blood and grime. His sword was placed on the neck of the tribe leader, a man who was three times bigger than him. The hands of the tribe leader were raised in surrender. Immediately after Treven turned, General Kim forced the man on his knees. The face of the defeated man was blazing with hatred, they had failed once again. They failed to win a war against Nayak, and Nayak once more smacked them like a mother would do to her child. It was humiliating for him.
” Just kill me! Why are you not killing me?!” The defeated man yelled out angrily as Treven placed his elbow on the hilt of his sword.
” Trust me, you don’t need to beg for it. When I’m done killing you, your head will be the first I will display at the capital, then my aunt’s head and her foolish cronies but first you need to answer my question” The King said with a calm voice. Seeing that their leader had been captured, the barbarians were already dropping their weapons one by one in surrender.
” I will not tell you anything!”
” I only wanted to know if you have a family. Perhaps, a son who will maybe succeed in your position”
” Do not touch my family! I will…” The man tried to threaten the king but he was stopped by his loud laughter.
” You will what? You are not getting the hint here, are you? You lost already and I’m not planning on harming your family. They did nothing to me, I don’t want to leave Aransas without a leader that is all” The king said with a smile, the man sighed in defeat. The war was over already, if the King wanted to burn the entire Aransas down, it would only take a snap of his fingers. He should have listened to that strange woman in the first place.
” I have three sons, the eldest is Anko, He is a warrior like me and he is at home protecting the rest of the family” The man muttered and the king nodded.
” your son shall be the first king of Aransas,” The king said before giving his general the go-ahead to slit the throat of the tribe leader. General Kim did as he was told almost immediately.
” Bring his head to Nayak with us. It shall be displayed at the market square in the capital”
” We must thank Nati for the victory! We leave for the capital tonight!” The voice of the king rang throughout the plain and the soldiers all cheered in excitement. The warriors of Nati started disappearing as the king mounted his horse back, he removed the piece of wood in the ears of the horse.
” But Your Majesty, we need to check your wounds” Valtar stepped in and tried to say but the king only gave him a side-eye.
” My Queen will do that for me, she is waiting,” The king said steering his horse forward.
” Who is going to tell him that he kind of looks like a porcupine” Valtar said with a smile and General Kim almost collapsed from laughter. The king indeed looked like a porcupine.
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” The Queen is in danger!” A young woman shouted at the top of her voice along the empty streets of Nayak. The people who were sleeping peacefully in their homes jumped out of their beds at the cry of the woman. Natalí had only blessed them with a Queen a few months ago and someone was already after her life? If only the king didn’t leave for war.
Doors started opening one after the other as the people ran out of their houses holding various objects like Spears, pitchforks, knives, and daggers. They would gladly lay down their lives for the Queen without a thought.
” Sweet Natalí! Where is she?” one of the men said.
” At the temple. I saw Princess Cixi leading many assassins towards the temple. They are going to kill her” The girl cried hard, She was dressed in the Temple’s white attire which meant that she was indeed a temple maid.
” The king’s Aunt? Why would the king’s Aunt want to murder her Majesty? At the sacred temple of all places?”
” What else would be the reason? She wants to kill the Queen so the king will die and her son will take the throne”
” Let’s protect the Queen!” A man shouted and the others cheered.
” With our lives” The other men yelled carrying their weapons, the women stayed in to look after the children but some of the women also followed them.
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I blinked as I stared at her, I thought she was crazy but I could never thought that she would be this wicked. She will kill five innocent people just to get me out of the temple?
” You wouldn’t do that, ” I said and she laughed bitterly.
” I will do anything to rip you apart, you have less than three minutes now.” She sneered and I felt my resolve weakening. Eria and the consorts pleaded with their eyes, they didn’t want me to risk my life because of them. The princess just stared ahead miserably and little Aria was just too sleepy to realize the danger that she was in.
” We are going to protect our Queen! Lead the way!” Suddenly the echoes of Nayak echoed outside the temple, they matched forward and some of them started fighting Cixi’s men with whatever weapon they had, There were too many for assassins, it was as if everyone from the capital came to the temple for me. Tears gushed out of my eyes as I realized how much they loved me as their Queen.
Cixi became desperate, seeing the people fighting her men. She grabbed little Aria and raised her hand, a little black mist formed on her hand and suddenly the girl started choking.
“These people won’t save you if you don’t come out this instant, she is going to join her mother right now in hell”
” Alright I will come out,” I said after a lot of swallowing, for the first time little Estella started crying out loudly, Annalise grabbed my dress and pleaded with her eyes but there was nothing I could do. If I don’t, Aria will die. I promised Meisi that I would take care of her daughter
With a silent command, the tears stopped screeching and went back to their normal state slowly and I crossed the boundary to meet her. The people were still bellowing out curses as they kept on fighting with the assassins to reach me. Eria had somehow managed to get herself untied and she untied the other ladies while the commotion ensued.
I watched Cixi drop Aria and I nodded sadly. She had a shit-eating grin on her face as I stepped forward to surrender, suddenly the tears I had only calmed down came back to life and started screeching again, they took the shape of a whip immediately and before we could blink, I already landed it on her neck, the black mist protected her from burning instantly but the tears were still choking her.
” How does it feel to be choked? You had quite a fun Choking the innocent little girl just seconds ago” I asked while increasing my hold on the whip at the same time.
” You bitch!” She growled while I refused to let go.
The screeching tears started purring all of a sudden and I wondered why. The purring sound made me release my hold for a while and I could hear Cixi cough but I didn’t care.
The Dawn broke slowly and I heard the sound of his horse’s hooves before seeing him in all his glory, covered in blood as the sun suddenly rose at his sight. But because I was distracted, I didn’t notice when Princess Cixi stood up and kicked my stomach hard.