Chapter 218.

PART 1.

Raven receives the report of Hatori. it is an interesting read, to say the least. it starts like no military report will ever do. Still, Raven forgave this since Hatori is not a military-trained person, something which he reminded Raven of before he left to capture the City of Hills.

> Yo!

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> I arrived with Shin, and the commander was not ready to yield to my authority. He is a senior from our Academy days. Still, we have never come in contact with him. After showing him who is the boss around here, I formulated a plan.

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> I sent a force to distract the enemy from the front, while a secret force attacked from the river behind the city. The mountains were scaled to capture the mages who were bombarding us with grand spells to cause panic among us. during this time, a lot of dueling challenges came my way, but I ignored them all since I was here for a war, not a duel.

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> I did accept the challenge, however, when the other side sent their general. Either I am overtrained, or these people have fools on their side who overvalue their skills. The general went down in seconds, and this is when the force from the river attacked the city.

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> After we took the city, the noble bitch was acting quite haughty. To teach her a lesson, I executed all the people with “superior blood”, and then asked her whether she would cooperate or not. unfortunately for me, she agreed, and I have now transferred her to the prisoner’s camp about which Badri informed me.

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> Anyway, this is how things went on my end. Hope you are satisfied with my performance.

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> Looking forward to further orders,

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> -Hatori.

“Don’t you think we made a mistake sending him there?” asked Josh, when he read the report.

“Nah, he did what was required of him,” said Raven. He formulated new orders for Hatori and sent those.

For now, he has ordered Hatori to stay there and take over the surrounding area if he can. whereas Raven leaves to check up on the siege going on at this moment, the second one that the City of Throne has experienced in the last three years.

“How are the things here?” asked Raven. Last night, they were here late at night, and Avinash and Raven both were dismissed by Zeko to get some rest.

“Not much has changed.” Said Zeko. He has not taken the advice of resting, and unlike Hatori, none of them have the guts to say that to his face. “The position has remained the same.”

“Why are we not pushing the attack?” asked Raven. He does see a possibility of entering this city, and squashing the enemy.

“Because we have to watch out for the wards.” Said Zeko.

“We have the king with us,” said Raven. “Those wards will do nothing. I believe we should push on.”

“Do you say that as a general?” asked Zeko, glaring at Raven, and putting his magical pressure on him.

“Yes,” said Raven, doing the same thing.

The pressure suddenly lifted, and Zeko smiled. “Very well general. We push on. Just let me call my master.”

“Sure.” Said Raven in a dull tone. He never thought he would have to stand up against Zeko like this.

PART 2.

Subhash is getting desperate. Things started out so well for him. he basically rolled into this city without any resistance. But now, he has been surrounded, his forces have taken a beating, the population is out for his blood, and he has no access to the food storage of the castle.

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His forces are also close to mutinying against him since they are tired of facing the civilians on one end, and forces of the new king on the other end. They know that he is failing, and they don’t want to go down with him. he resent all of them, since they were so quick to throw their fortunes with him. and now faced with some difficulty, they are abandoning him when he needs them the most.

Large explosions shake the city, and no one comes to inform Subhash of what is going on. He goes outside of the castle, to see Porus, Avinash, the new king, Zeko, and the new general, whose name Subhash does not know gunning for him.

‘They must have seen me outside.’ he thought, running inside of the castle.

Still, he has one last card to play. The previous king and his successor enter the castle, and immediately, the wards start to hum in response. They arrive in the throne room, to see Subhash standing before the throne.

“You may have gotten one over me, but you will not beat me. Watch me, as I take this throne in front of you,” after saying that, he sits on the throne.

For a moment, nothing happens. But then, two arms come out of the chair. These arms restrain Subhash, and slowly, in front of their eyes, he is absorbed into the throne screaming for help all the while. not even his clothes or his shriveled body remains as proof that he dared to sit on this throne without beating the previous king.

“I saw that coming.” Proclaimed Raven. “Anyway, it is time that our new king takes his rightful place.”

“Indeed.” Echoed Porus and Zeko.

Without hesitating despite witnessing the grisly scene moments before, Avinash takes the throne. The city breathes a sigh of relief. In almost three years, there is a king in the city. Later, he goes out of the castle to make a speech, to show the people the face of their new king. the work for Avinash has just begun.

PART 3.

Hattori shared the new orders of Raven with Shin. “Honestly, does he think that I’m some great general or something? Take the surrounding area my ass.”

“No need to get angry.” Said Shin. “I’m sure we’ll get some success.”

“Yeah, but I am not built for this.” Said Hatori.

Shin plays him a song to make Hatori asleep and tells Badri that no one should disturb him for a while. “Sure.” Badri agreed. “By the way, I get the feeling that I’ve seen you before.”

“Where?” asked Shin.

“That is the thing. I don’t know where.” Said Badri.

“Others have said the same thing to me,” said Shin.

“I suggest you ignore it for a while,” said Badri.

“Yeah,” nodded Shin. “Right.”

PART 4.

Alan walks down the corridor of the hotel where they meet. He is furious with the latest developments.

‘Is that why Amelia died at the hands of those monsters?’ he thought to himself.

Amelia liked him, because, unlike other humans, he was able to resist her allure. He liked her because she was able to keep up with him. together, they formed this group to rid the world of the strong mages, and make this world their playground.

But they keep running into obstacle after obstacle.

“Have you got the news?” asked Alan, getting down to the point directly.

“What?” asked the Incubi and Succubi together.

“The new king has taken the throne. Those nobles are now useless to us,” said Allan in disgust.

Justice is unable to contain himself and slams his hand down on the table in the middle of them. “Dammit.”

“Looks like we have to rely on those outside powers to cause trouble for them.” said the Succubi.

“I don’t trust those either.” Said Alan. “At this rate, we have to reveal ourselves.”

“We are not ready for that!” countered the Succubi.

“We have no choice!” said Alan with the same level of heat.

The argument raged on, while Justice kept watching them, saying nothing.