A few days earlier, on the Turkish Empire, the squad who got sent there to capture the capital has successfully infiltrated the city with the help of a few dragon raiders and some parachutes. The squad who has infiltrated this part of the city are the six who got sent by Fiona, who was the commander back then for the part of the soldiers who were sent in Moldovia to invade and try to destroy that Kingdom, but everything was fake and those have decided to join forces and try to conquer a part of Turkish because one noble wanted to take that part of the land for a reason, which peasants and other nobles doesn't fully understand.
Those six fighters who got sent is Fred, an ex-pirate who has inverted the fire element into his veins; Gabriel, an ice warrior who has inherited into his blood the ice powers and also he is one of the best friends of Fred; Julius, a powerful wizard and an expert in gravity spells; Brothers Flint, one of the best duo in fighting because one got the muscles, and others got the intelligence; and there is Camille, a great swordswoman who has trained almost her entire life to become a knight, who is still far away from Fiona level, but almost every knight from the Kingdom of Romania is weak compared to Fiona.
These warriors were supposed to arrive much faster, but the transport to that Empire has taken longer because they have been fighting with police who are on the border of Turkish for almost an entire day, and from there they have to walk four days and hide from citizens, and also, of their knight of Moldovia who was assisting them got injured by someone who stabbed his heart, and now, he is resting in an abandoned house, where other two Moldovian knights, which they were helping these warriors, have decided to remain here and take care of their comrade. And in just almost two days have arrived close to the Turkish Capital.
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A blonde warrior is walking on the Turkish Empire Capital streets, while he is carrying a big basket that contains almost eight kilograms of flour that will be delivered to the store he is working on. While he was transporting that basket, two Turkish warriors have stopped him by just putting their spears into that teenage way. The teenage boy looks at those two knights and he asked him while he started shaking.
"W-What is the matter?"
"You are carrying something valuable here, young man." says one knight who is smiling seeing that big basket on the teenage both hands filled with flour. "It would be a shame if you dropped this, right?"
"Y-Yes... It will be..." say the teenage boy who is looking at those two knights frighten.
"But, it will also be a shame to not fine." says the same knight is looking at the teenage boy like a fat man is looking at a snack.
"W-What?"
"You are carrying a basket with flour, and this thing is not legal." says the same knight smiling at the teenage boy, and he turns to his teammate and says to him. "Take this basket."
"Y-Yes, sir!" says his colleagues who are hiding the fact that he hates his colleague he got to be to patrol this part of town.
The second knight looks at the teenager with a mercy look, and he whispers to him while he takes the basket filled with flour, "I am sorry." and then he handed the basket to the first knight who is then looking happy at the boy and he says into an enjoyment accent.
"You did the right thing, civilian. You could've been tortured until death if you haven't done it." says after he left with a basket filled with flour.
When the first knight has left, the second one looks at the teenager, he inclines him to be at the same eight because the teenager is one meter and eight centimetres and the second knight it is two meters and nine centimetres. He told him that he will try to get the basket back and he also told him the thing why that jerk took the basket.
"This guy uses flour to himself. And that is illegal and he can be punished with the death penalty."
"But why it is not punished?" asks the teenager who is trying to hold his tears to fall from his blue eyes.
"It is because that knight is the second son of the Sultan who controls the Kingdom."
"I hate that Sultan." says the teenager not realizing he is speaking with someone who is working for him and dedicated his life to protect him, but the knight just patted his head and told him.
"I know... you are not the only one who hates him." and then he looks around and tosses the teenager a bag of gold coins and before he left, he told him. "This should be enough to buy flour, but next time, buy a little mass instead of an open basket and hide somewhere, like in a well-barrow, okay?"
"T-Thank you." says the teenager who is shaking the hands of the knight and he runs to the place where he got the flour, windmill.
The knight left the scenery and he walks to the building where knights are gathering chattering and eating, a building which was built by some knights because going to a Tavern is not cheap and also, chatting with someone will not be easy in a Tavern because everyone can listen to what a knight is talking. When he walks on the streets who will lead him to that building, a few citizens saw the knight going by himself and a few have started to “BOOO!” him, throw some tomatoes at him, and there was also one who was about to run with a knife at that knight, but a few people have stopped this suicidal gestures. A peasant trying to kill a knight who has been trained as a knight at age nine, armed with a spear, and also fighting in eight battles as the frontlines, would a total suicide. Then, the knight stopped when he saw that aggressive man being held by three citizens and he told him.
"I am sorry!"
"You lie?! You LIE, bastard!" yell that man who is trying his best to escape from that grip.
The knight looks ashamed at that man and he continued to walk away ignoring the things a few citizens say to him, and the rage of the man. He felt ashamed for himself for working for someone corrupt, yet so idiotic. He really wants to see a change in this Empire, but this, would not be possible that easily because trying to do a change in a big Empire it is one of the hardest thing's humanity will ever accomplish.
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Meanwhile, in a Tavern who is located twenty-four kilometres from the Capital of the Turkey Empire, there are five men and a woman, who are sitting at a table and are eating soups with chicken wings and livers. On that table, there is Fred, who has stopped his fire abilities to eat the soup, and also, that what his best friend, Gabriel, has ordered him to do because they do not want to burn a tavern, again. The last time when they did that, the squad almost has been discovered and about to be killed. The other four members are Camille, who has finished her chicken soup, Lucian, who is eating a whole chicken instead of the soup because he is a meat lover, Louis, who is analysing the map of the Turkey Empire land, and Julius, who has finished eating a low size soup and he is wearing for his teammates to finish eating.
"Looks like, these adventures are quite hungry, ey?" asks the owner of the Tavern (who is a muscular old man with a white long beard and who is wearing some clean clothes which are mostly used by Tavern owners because even in this fantasy medieval world, appearance it is everything) when he walks on the squad table they have been reserved, and then he saw Louis map. "You two are trying to go somewhere?"
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"Yeah," responds Louis to the Tavern owner. "To the capital."
"Capital. It is a great place, fellas."
"You know where it is?"
"Sure. All of you wanted to walk there?"
"Yeah," responds Fred. "We are some bounty hunters." and he lied to the old man.
"Bounty hunters?" suddenly says the old man who is looking sceptical at those warriors. "You six doesn't seem to be bounty hunters."
"T-That is b-because we are new," replied Camille who is quite frightening.
"New bounty hunters?" says the old man looking suspicious at those guys.
While the old man was looking suspicious at those adventures, Fred has started to light one sparkle from his left middle finger, in case the shit will hit the fan, and a fight will start, but then, someone has entered the Tavern, someone who has made the old and muscular man started to shake uncontrollably, and Fred with his gang looking surprised at the man who has entered the Tavern while he is carrying a big axe.
There is a massive man, wears heavy armour, has a red axe made completely using iron material, wears a red cape, has long blonde hair, and also, a huge scar on the left green eye. This man was so massive and menacingly that the older man who owns the Tavern has already started to shake like he has seen a ghost of one of his dear family members.
The massive man walks slowly to that older man, and he told him in a heavy and also scary voice which would have made every weak person tremble.
"Do you have a free seat?"
"Y-Yes, mister!" said the older man frightening and escorting that massive man to his seat. "W-We have one, sir. R-Right here."
"Thank you." says the huge man walking to that table, which is free because who would dare to say to that huge man that he has to pay to eat here. "I'd like a free bear and also a free pig roasted."
"O-Of course. I-It'll be ready in a few minutes."
"Thank you again, Lazlo." says the massive to the owner when he goes scared to the kitchen.
On the other table, where our six knights who are on a secret mission, saw that massive man, and also what was happening. Gabriel whispered to Fred because he saw that fire on the middle finger on his harm.
"Don't dare!"
"What?" asks Fred to Gabriel. "What are you talking about?"
"Try to beat that, asshole," whispers Gabriel to Fred, and the other four are looking at Gabriel and Fred talking.
"You know me. Why would I even do that?" asks Fred who has extinguished his left finger with a sparkle. "Besides, this guy looks weak compared to those five guardians."
"Five guardians?" asks the massive guy from the other who has heard Fred's sentence (because he spoke kinda loud) and he turns his chair to that table. "Who are those five guardians you are talking about, you weakling?"
"Why would I even tell you that?" asks Fred.
Then, that massive guy has started to look pissed because Fred was disrespecting him. Those other five guys have started to regret that they have accepted the mission, but then, the massive guy gets up from his chair and goes to their table.
"Do you know who I am?" asks the massive guy looking menacingly at Fred.
"... No." responds Fred with a smile on his face. "And I don't even care who you are, because let's are honest. You are not that strong."
And at that moment, everybody from the Tavern has stopped what they were doing, the owner almost got a heart attack, and also a drunk man has dropped his seven beer on the floor. Everybody was looking at that table where the massive guy was there and he was looking angry at Fred, who still, doesn't even give a fuck about that massive guys because he has seen a lot of massive things while he worked as a Pirate helper, and this dude, it isn't even bigger than the huge shark his pirate boats was fighting for twelve hours by using only words. The massive guy was about to throw the chair at Fred, but then, a hand was hitting his hard face, and that hand belongs to Julius, which was the closest to the massive guy. That hit did not even budge the warrior, and he has started to look pissed at those six adventures. He stands up from the chair, takes his axe, and was about to hit Julius, but then a big fireball, launched by Fred, has hit his armour and then another fist, this time from Lucian, has hit the massive warrior which has made him go back few meters and then Lucian has grabbed the axe and threw him out of the Tavern because he does not want to see someone die in this nice Tavern.
The massive guy, after he has come back to his sense after that first has hit his face he has screamed at those six adventures.
"HOW DARE YOU HIT A KNIGHT FACE?! ARE YOU SUICIDAL, OR WHAT?!"
"Suicidal?" asks Gabriel that warrior. "Not. But from the place we came from, people like you are treated much worse, and you know why because here, your King is just a piece of trash."
"And a bastard." says Lucian to the massive man.
"A, weakling." says Josh.
"A noble." says Fred.
"A motherfucker." says Camille.
"A coward." says Louis.
"And your kingdom sucks." says Lucian, who has started to make the whole Tavern looks angry for the reason that he criticizes their Empire at them, but they also looked impressed at their courage because they have provoked the second-best warrior of this kingdom.
The massive guy, which was so angry, he has decided to try to fist them one more time. But this time, Lucian has caught his fist who was about to his Louis, his brother. When Lucian has caught that guy's fist, he has decided to twist it for a few mere seconds, and then there the guy from the Tavern. But the things he has done to him would have been worse if the fist would have actually hit his brother. When that warrior has been thrown from the Tavern like a drunk man. he grabbed his axe and he has decided to call his reinforcements who were sitting on a cart and they were waiting for his leader to left, but now they are going to fight those six adventures.
These six adventures take one last sip of beer, and they are going outside to fight those knights of the Turkey Empire. When they have left the Tavern, the thirty-three knights have jumped at them, only armed with swords, shields and also spears, there were no wizard or mage there because the magic here it is illegal and the people who are using any kind of magic are punished with the death penalty.
But our adventures has decided to take out their weapons and defend or attack those corrupted knights. With one single slash of his sword, Josh has cut three warriors in half. Thanks to the blacksmith who has upgraded Josh's sword before he was about to leave Moldovia. With one single punch, Lucian has sent one man into the sword of one of those teammates. Camille has defended herself with the help of her sword by three knights, who were then made ice by Gabriel who has launched a big spell of ice into those corrupted knights. Fred has burned eight knights while he was laughing like a crazy man, and those burned men had a low chance to survive the fire magic because their armour isn't that strong or have any magic resistance because there are no magicians or mage here. And Louis has used his wand and "Shotgun" spell and he pierced five knights' bodies or heads.
The massive guy started to look scared by the power of those warriors and he has decided to hop into the cart and leave the place, by letting the rest of his teammates there, while they were beaten. And the rest of them, when they saw that the cart with his strongest warrior was leaving, the rest of them, which were five, because other seven were destroyed by Julius gravitational spells and thrown into the forest. Those five corrupted warriors, when they have surrendered to those six warriors, have decided to tell the six warriors everything. About the corruption, unfair laws, nobles are much stronger than warriors thing etcetera, etcetera.
Those six warriors have taken that valuable information and they have decided to let those five remaining warriors leave and go into the castle and tell their Emperor they want to discuss something. But, Fred also said to them.
"If he does not want to discuss, we can burn the entire Empire until we will get what we wanted to get."
"A-And what do you want?" asks one warrior who has started to tremble when Fred has mentioned the thing they wanted.
"Your Empire." says Gabriel while he shut Fred's mouth because he could tell any other thing which will make things go much harder for them and this mission has to be easy for them because of that "second-best warrior" this Empire is offering.
And after a while, those six knights, have let the corrupted knights run to their Empire to tell the king that they are going to be attacked anytime soon because of a piece of their land. While those warriors were running, the owner of the Tavern and the other customers there have left the Tavern and congratulate the warriors for the things they have done to protect them from these weaklings who have much more power in society and this corrupt system than Fiona strength power. The owner has let those six warriors eat for free, and also they have offered each one of them a bed to sleep in tonight, but some of them have refused because.
"We do not want to cause you any danger, old man." says Lucian to the owner and he whispers to him the next sentence. "And also, our fire guy burns things while he is sleeping."
"I understand." says the owner who looks quite frightened because he almost let a guy who cannot control his powers sleeping in his own home.
Later on, after these six warriors have finished eating for free in that Tavern they have continued to walk to their destination, while the night was about to come.