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captive [chapter 3 part1]

captive [chapter 3 part1]

“In our world history, only one thing remain the same with every race : Luderik. We do not know who or what he was. We only know he appeared one day from nowhere. He fought the monster and the fallen gods. Behind him, army of free people from every race. When the last fallen god fell, he disappeared. The races tried to stay together but the human were looked down on and decided to go their own way. Nowadays, thank to the summoning, they stand on equal ground with all the race.”

“World history” chapter 2 paragraph 2 High elf elendur

[Asulf pov]

Father disappeared!

I don’t know how it’s even possible. We fell victim to a powerful magic and kept sleeping.

Only father was unaffected from what I understand.

When we opened our eyes, father wasn’t on his bed any more.

Surprised we followed the sent he left behind.

It led us near the edge of the forest.

When we reached it, his sent disappeared and no matter how hard we tried, we sere not able to found him.

Bihild tried to use the magic from our memory but even this was ineffective.

The place was devastated. Father fought hard.

The three were broken and hole were made in the ground. I could spot clean cut on the trees.

Did he fight against human?

I could smell the blood of stranger on the ground. Who ever it was, they did not capture him without sacrifice.

My sisters were a bit restless so I took a decision.

We will wait for him.

Father is strong, stronger than mother.

We just have to wait for him.

Father….

Bihild cried for one week.

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[Unknown pov ]

It has been a few weeks since we went to this forest.

Everything began when the princess ordered us to capture a strong beast for her.

We presented her a wyvern but she said it was too weak.

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We tried to present her other beast we found in the kingdom but she told us they were too weak.

When the king heard of our failure to give the princess what she wanted he gave us one last chance to found something that would please the princess.

Scared for our lives we went to see the hight mage to ask him where we could find such beast.

After a few days he told us to go to the prohibited forest to find the beast we sought.

He gave us a scroll and told us only a strong beast would react to it.

He also told us to bring at least a hundred of the strongest knight if we wanted to succeed in subduing the beast.

Having finally a clue on where to find the beast, I assembled the best knight of our kingdom.

I asked the hero for his help but he just told us he had no interest in hunting a beat for a flat princess.

If he wasn’t so important, I would have beheaded him for disrespect… Not that I could ever do it, he is way to powerful.

Anyway, when we finally reached the forest, I deployed the knight and used the scroll.

At first nothing happened but after a few hours, a shadow appeared.

What looked like a man covered with fur came out of the woods.

One of the knight, serge, approached him with his sword out to ask him what he was doing here.

I thought the stranger would just answer but then I saw his eyes, the eyes of a wolf.

I tried to yell to serge to get back but before I could do anything, the stranger punched right through him.

Serge fell on the ground lifelessly.

How could I be so stupid… Monster with humanoid form were already seen before….

I ordered the knight to attack.

The beast simply took them down one by one, killing them with his fist or his axe.

As I was thinking I would die here, a powerful wind hit the beast and pushed it back.

The hero was hovering behind me.

He nodded to me and began to throw spells at the beast.

The beast dodged most of them but still got wounded.

The hero looked concentrated on the fight.

It was the first time I saw him so concentrated while fighting.

As the beast began to weaken, he tried to resist a last time and threw it’s axe at the hero, cutting his left arm.

The hero screamed and fell on the ground.

Seeing this, I ordered the knight to subdue the weakened beast while I went and used holy magic to stop the bleeding on the hero.

The beast, even weakened fought against the knight.

In the end we had to use the mithril chains to stop him from jerking around in the cage.

The hero was put in the cart, covered with fur.

I was happy to find the beast her highness wanted but the fact that the hero got hurt wasn’t worth it…

Back to present, the king is furious. Not only is the hero wounded, but the beast we brought back couldn’t be tamed. He called me in the throne room to give me the next instruction.

As I was kneeling, he entered in the throne room and sat.

“Knight alain lionhead, you served us well. You can stand?”

“Your highness?”

“As you know, the beast can’t be tamed. The tamer can’t come near the cage and are too frightened to do anything to it. We have yet to see what is under its hood. Only my daughter seems to know.”

“How could the princess know if no one dared to approach the beast?”

“The beast do not attack kid. The guard saw some young slaves go near it without hearing it growl.

As for how she know, it let her see under the hood.”

“Does it mean the beast is tamed?”

“You fool, did you listen to me? It is just king to youngling. The moment we set it free, it will either flee or take revenge.”

“What do your highness wish to do?”

“Luckily for you, some … association heard of it and cantacted us t buy it for a really, really good price.”

“Luckily for me?”

“Yes, If not for the sum they offered for it, I would have you hanged for having the hero hurt and the loss of twenty of our best knight.”

“Thank you your highness! By the way what is the name of this association you highness?”

“Did you ever heard of the red crown ?”

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“Few things are known about the red crown. The only thing sure is that only the queens or important knight are allowed to be a part of it. We do not know what they do but some thing led us to understand a few thing. For example, slavers swear they sold strong, young, old, weak male to the red crown. The only common point with those slaves? They were handsome from a woman point a view.”

King seriaphel the third , cicle -200

elendur is a high elfe name meaning servant of the stars. It’s a name often given to elves recording history or working as priest for yggdrasil.

Seriaphel Moonstone was a human king known to have destroyed the slave system during his reign. His son restored it after he passed away. He died soon after he discovered the existence of an association he shouldn’t have heard of.