There stood a man, an emperor, that emperor was giving a huge speech in his huge balcony, raising his fist and yelling with such high heavy voice that, everyone there, was hearing his voice, but this emperor was a special emperor, he was loved by his people. Even though this emperor was a special one, he was a sick one as well, he wasn’t like any of his dynasty. The Emperor's Dynasty always had healthy and strong bodies, huge magic power and many other good traits. This emperor wasn’t a strong one, healthy one or a genius one but still he was loved by his people.
Why ? You might ask. Because he wore a iron mask that covered his whole face, though he needed to see and breathe and so he put many little holes on his mouth part of the mask and to see he added two little cuts on his eye part of the iron mask like a soldier wearing a helmet, it did lowered his vision but he really didn’t care about it, the only thing he wanted was to hide his hideous face.
The emperor before him was his father, a huge man and a handsome as well maybe he was the handsomest man of his dynasty maybe even the world, and because of his handsomeness he built a harem for himself, this meant having sex with a woman every night, and so he did like a wild animal, but this came with a price, he was so lusty that he had sex with his pregnant wife and this caused the baby inside her to deform, and the birthday arrived.
Everyone was surprised to see such an ugly baby, the baby's nose was completely gone, his mouth wasn’t straight, the only thing good with that baby was his eyes they were just like his father, a blue pearl and this baby was the only heir at that moment and the emperor had a harem. This was nothing to him right ? Next day when he woke up with his wives beside him, he arrived at the bathroom and slipped, he lost the ability to reproduce and that man didn’t have any relatives.
The council of nobles agreed on putting a random kid as a heir but the emperor rejected them, but there was the same fact, no one was going to accept this child as an emperor and so they sheltered that kid in the castle only high officials and some maids were able to see this hideous kid and when the emperor got old, he lost his life to a heart attack and so the council of nobles was in chaos deciding what to do and the hideous young man arrived with a iron mask on his face, everyone in the council was surprised but there were more to that, that hideous young man had an army with him, he arrested and executed everyone in that council and he rose to power.
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That day was the fall of his empire, a two thousand year old empire came to an end. Who was at fault ? Nobody knew. And so the enemy was at his last gates. Maybe that was the end of him too…
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"No…My empire" Those were the words I said when I looked outside of my huge balcony, once a beautiful citadel, now a ruin, this was the end of my empire but it was not going to be my ending.
"Sir they are preparing for a siege" Said a lightly wounded soldier, these were the words I wanted to hear,I replied with a smile on my face that nobody saw "Those gates are made of dragon scale nothing can get pass through that"
As soon as I said that,a big explosion happened and when the dust cleared there were no gates left to defend, my soldiers got caught off guard, they started to go down so fast that we didn’t have the chance to close the door but I wasn’t caught off guard when the gates exploded I started to run to the secret exit but they were faster than me.
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"HERE IS THE EMPEROR!" They were on horses, thanks to my huge castle, they had no problem of getting stuck with the horse, one of them was about to get me with a lance. IF ONLY I CAN TAKE THAT TURN, I thought to myself, turning a turn was my only hope and I did but there was a surprise, a squadron of soldiers came rushing with their spears, that was probably the end of me but then one of them yelled "PROTECT THE EMPEROR!" They were my soldiers, I have already forgotten my flag so I didn’t recognize them and they put a spear barricade, now their horses were useless against the spears.
And I reached the secret exit, it was a painting of the first empress. I am going to escape from this place. But then I noticed some rocks were blocking my exit and I saw the squadron falling back to the last hall, but they weren't falling back, they were just running back,I ran to the door.
"SIR HOLD THE DOO-" And so I closed the door, leaving the soldiers to their death but I had no regrets no matter what, I was going to get out and this door was made of dragon scale and it had a dragon scale lock, but I didn’t have any keys,the only thing I had with me was my crown and my clothing but suddenly I realized that the front of my crown looked like a key without thinking about it I locked the door. IT WORKED THANK GOD. But they had the power to break the door, I needed to be quick.
Five minutes passed, I removed rocks with all of my might, some of the stones were sharp ones but I didn’t care like I said no matter what I was going to escape and I heard a voice coming from the other side of the door "GREAT MAGICIAN ARRIVED!" And I removed stones, faster and faster, every magician had to waste their time by casting the spell and this kind of fire magic had to take some minutes.
And I heard a big blast but I was already in the secret tunnel running with all of my might, it was only a matter of time that they were going to find the secret exit but after running for hours, I fell down with exhaustion and I passed out there.
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I was in the meeting hall of my castle. "How did I get here" I heard a voice laughing, a similar one that sounded exactly like my father, he was sitting right next to me. "Well, you are in the meeting hall" I looked at my father but I only saw his shadow sitting right next to me but then I noticed there were other shadows sitting in the chairs. "W-What" I had no idea what was going on. I heard a strong female voice, this voice belonged to the person who was sitting at the front of the table but she wasn’t sitting on a chair, she was sitting on my throne.
"WHO ARE YOU" I yelled with anger, I had to explode on someone, I waited for a response but all I heard was laughter coming from every shadow. And then the female shadow that was sitting on my throne responded "I am The First Empress Evlianna and you are The Last Emperor Julius, and welcome to the meeting hall of your family, every emperor and empress is here" I was stunned for a moment than I noticed another voice, an old one. "Hoh hoh Don’t worry kiddo you are not dead" This voice came from my dead grandfather, I was only six when he died but I still remembered his voice. "If I am not dead then what is going on"
The First Empress Responded to me "Simple because of some dumb fuck from my family you were born like that and because of some other dumb fuck of my family you didn’t have any magic I am speaking to you Arnold" The shadow right next to her responded with a surprised tone "W-What mother why ?" She responded with a sarcastic tone. "Well I am not the one who fucked a peasant and mixed some non magician blood in our family now I have to deal with this hideous kid" She turned to me, I wasn’t seeing any of their facial expressions because they were all shadows but I heard their voice tone and this tone was an annoyed one. "Ugh you are not dead yet, you are a coward we all know and laugh at that fact but you are still one of us so, just go outside, remove your mask, gain some muscles and be a hero,SIMPLE RIGHT ?" Before I could answer to this question, I woke up and I noticed I was already outside.