On the night, in a village that is at twenty-two kilometres from the Turkey Empire, our six Romanian knights have entered the village and walked on the streets while they were carrying their weapons, some of their back, like Lucian, Camille, and Josh, and other having on their belts, like Louis and Julius. But Julius was also having his spell book levitated on the left side because he doesn't have a backpack like his teammate or he doesn't want to put his spell book in other backpacks for some reason.
While they were walking on the streets, Gabriel saw the lights of some houses being switched off, which seems kinda weird, and also, the saw a few dogs who were in people yard and barking at them which doesn't mean anything sinister, they bark at them because they see them as strangers. Fred saw one of those dogs who was barking at them and he decided to bark him back, and the dog has started to bark louder at him and he even tried to jump over the fence is almost one meter and the not even a little dog like this one could do the jump. Gabriel has stopped Fred to bark again at that dog, by hitting him in the head with his fist covered in ice.
"Would please act like a normal person for a few minutes?"
"Do I get paid for doing that?" asks Fred while he is rubbing at the zone he was hit.
"We have to move." says Julius to those five warriors while they have stopped walking because Fred and Gabriel were fighting again.
And after a few minutes walking into the village, at the gate of one house they saw an old lady who was laying on the ground, and also, the house she lives in being filled with light. These six warriors acted quickly in this situation. Julius and Louis jumped to the lady and try to heal her because they are the only magicians here, but also came Fred, because they need some light to see the old lady's injuries, and Fred has turned on his passive ability, which is burning himself. He became a human torch for those two mages who were healing the old lady scratches by using healing spells, that every wizard or mage posses at a young age, like Judah. And the other three warriors have entered the house of the lady, and they found there, three hooligans who were searching the room, but when those hooligans have seen the six warriors they have instantly jumped at them with sticks and knives.
Lucian was not impressed, so he decided to do this easy fight by just punching their faces, grabbing their weapons and smashing with his knee and throwing those hooligans from the house. When they were thrown outside, they run from that house while they were screaming for help, but then, Gabriel launches a big ray of ice at these hooligans and they have been stunned in a few minutes by the cold powers of Gabriel, the Cold Mage. Gabriel and Camille were walking to those hooligans in ice statutes and they have taken from there the bags which contain golds, foods and also some clothes who could be sold. They left these hooligans there and they are walking back to the old lady to gave her things back if she will wake up, but she did because Julius and Louis have successfully healed the lady with their healing spells.
"Thank you very much!" says the old lady in a perfect Romanian language after she gets her bags with gold coins back.
"You can speak Romanian?" asks Lucian because this old lady is the first person they have seen in a while who can speak their language.
"Yes, my dear. The place I live in has a few great warriors and people who were running from Romania because of some sort of things. I am in this village for twenty-nine years already and I have ever wished to leave this one and go back to my home kingdom, but with this Empire, they cannot let anyone without money to leave."
"So that is why you need the money." asks Gabriel.
"Yes. I need approximately one thousand gold coins to leave this Empire, and those hooligans were just some money grabbers... A thing the Empire has to stop the people leaving his Empire. They come in the houses of some people and they steal money which they will send to their Emperor."
"Bastards." says Fred looking at those statutes made out of ice and then she looks at the old lady. "Fear not, madam. The king of this shithole will never know what hit him."
"What do you mean?" asks the old lady who was looking at Fred, and the rest of his teammates are looking at him like he was some sort of leader, which it isn't.
"... We will take this hole Empire and remodel it." says Fred which made almost everyone from there surprised by his words.
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A few years ago, on a pirate ship, three pirates are on the docks of Britking and they are waiting for somebody to come. And in that group of those three people is also Fred, who is wearing pirates clothes instead of knight armour and his black rocks because back then he did not achieve full fire powers, back then he was approximately ten percent with fire powers. And two of those pirates, are his seniors. These three are in this port because they had to take money from someone who has decided to make a deal with pirates to sell some great cannonballs. While they were waiting for their ships to come, one of those pirates has looked right, because he heard a female screaming.
The female was screaming because she got attacked by a Centaur who wanted to ride her in the public, Fred also saw this thing happening. He was about to attack, but the pirate stopped him by cutting his way with his blade with blood and powder from bombs.
"Let the prick do the thing."
"Why?" asks Fred to his senior.
"Centaurs are a very strong species in this world. They could even destroy our ships without sweat."
"Are you really going to let an innocent lady being violated by such a creature?"
"Do I know her? Or do you know her?"
"No, but-"
"Discussion over, Fred." says his seniors looking at Fred. "Or do you want to not eat or drink beer for two weeks?"
Fred, did not listen to his senior, so he decides to do a thing that his "Boss" did not anticipate, he threw a fireball from his right hand and that fireball has landed into the centaur body and he got on fire. The centaur was screaming and running like a horse around the Docks to find a solution to escape from this fire. While the Centaur was running and jumping around, the female who got aggressed has decided to run away from that thing, without thanking Fred for help.
Fred's seniors were looking angry at him, but the other pirate has stopped him while he was about to take out his blade and tell him something.
"Don't worry, Smith. If someone is going to punish Fred, it will be our Captain. Also, you cannot punish someone for doing something good, who do you think you are, Turkish Empire Knights?"
"Stand back, Luc." says Smith trying to take out his sword, but then, the guy named Luc is aiming with his left-hand crossbow the face of Smith. "Let him not be punished this time, and wait for our Captain decision, alright mate."
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Smith was looking at the arrow and he finds out that the arrow has poison on the top so he decided to forget about the action to cut Fred's neck and let him be free until the Captain will decide what to do.
Later on, Fred and the guy Luc were on the ship, and the Captain has heard the thing Fred was doing and he told him.
"You will be responsible to clean the ship for an entire week because your actions could be made us be discovered by bounty hunters or other things. Also, I admire your courage to save the lady but why you did that, though?"
Fred, who was then ten years old, says to his Captain the answer.
"Because protecting a female who cannot fight back is a man's duty, Captain."
Other pirates were laughing at him, but the Captain did not say anything. He accepted this response and let the young fella do his punishment.
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Back in the present day, those three ice hooligans were now interrogated in the old lady house, while she is on the bed with Camille, who is trying to calm her and make her feel better. Outside, there are Brothers Flint who are guarding the house, in case there are going to appear other warriors or hooligans. And on the interrogation, are Julius, Fred and Gabriel, who are interrogation those hooligans because they wanted to gain some important details about the Empire. Fred has left the room because he wanted to piss somewhere.
"The first question is..." says Julius in a calm voice to those three hooligans. "Who hired you?"
"Why would we tell you that?" asks one of those hooligans.
Then, Julius raises his left hand and a violet sphere which has a small size, magically appeared and he is moving that sphere closer to one of the hooligans which are started to act weird. The skin of that hooligan is started to turn from white and yellow, to dark, his teeth have started to fall off, the eyes are starting to become white like that hooligan is about to go blind, and also their body is starting to lose weight. This action is the power of the violet sphere which is known as the name of the "Sphere of Ageing". A sphere that can make the human age fast.
Julius did not want to see those hooligans die in front of him, so, he decided to make the sphere disappear and in a few seconds, those hooligans have turned to their original phase. And they have told everything to Julius.
"Two knights from this village told us to steal the treasure from this old lady." says the one who has long blonde hair and a nail into his nose as a symbol of power or something like this. "They did not want to do by themselves because this job ain't for them, and also, they are lazy every day. You can find them in every morning and day on a Bar drinking beer or Wine because knights get everything these days."
"So let me be clear... Those two forced you three to steal the treasure of an old and innocent lady?"
"Y-Yes!" says another hooligan who is wearing a helmet made out of fine iron. "If we did not do that, they would have arrested us for treason."
"Treason?... You did not work for them right?"
"No. We did not work for them." says the first hooligan.
"Then why are you doing their order? It is not normal for a pe- civilian to work for justice."
"I don't know how things are in your Kingdom, boy." says the third one who has short dark hair and wears an armour made out of iron. "But there, if you want to live a normal life and do not be executed for treason, every civilian has to flow the orders of those lazy Royal Knights, normal knights, and also The Emperor. The nobles, are the only ones who are trying to make The Emperor do something."
"This new," says Fred entering the house because he got bored staying outside. "Nobles trying to take down the big one." and he looks at Julius. "Ain't you a noble?"
"I was," responds Julius to Fred's question. "And also, you should leave this house."
"Why? are you afraid I am going to burn this room?"
"I am afraid you are going to burn the entire house."
"Look. I can control the power, pretty boy," says Fred making a spark on his right hand and make it disappear to show Julius he can control fire in a good manner. "Also. I wanted to know what this damn Empire is capable of from these three prisoners." and he sits on a chair while he looks at Julius interrogating those three hooligans.
In the room, Julius continues to interrogate these three hooligans, Fred and Josh stays there and watch how the interrogation goes and if those hooligans will decide to do a suicide move.
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On the room where Camille is with the old lady to calm her down, the old lady, after she took a cup of her berries' tea, she asked Camille.
"What has happened to the Romania Kingdom in these twenty years?"
"What do you want to know?" asks Camille the old lady.
"Who is the king?"
"The king is someone nobody has expected to become but someone which people can really rely on. He is intelligent, a good strategic and also a great mage, even though he is a peasant and not a noble like the previous kings." responds Camille to the old lady which seems intrigued by this person. "The King name is Yungay Julius."
The old lady was shocked at this answer, and, while she was shaking, she asks Camille, but this time slower.
"W-Who is the king?"
"Yungay Julius."
And the old lady has started to shed a tear from her left eye to Camille, and she smiles at her for no reason.
"That bastard actually did it." says the old lady wiping the next tear who is coming from her right eye.
"You do know him?" she asks Camille surprised.
"Of course I know him. He is my dear nephew and the only wizard who has successfully survived the Kingdom of Romania in the domination of that tyrant who hates mages and wizards. But anyway, did the boy did a great job?"
"He is doing a great job, he allowed mages to stay there, he invests much more money in creating new workplaces, he raised the payment for knights because he destroyed the bounty hunters agencies and he wanted to spend money on something, and he also captured some lost territories because of one king who sent his untrained Royal Army to fight Yugos Tribes, which are now extinct for much more than a decade because of those Hungarians who wanted to gain land."
"So... The things are going good in that kingdom. That boy was always saying he wanted to become the King because he read a few thousands of novels with kings who protect their country and help his citizens to become good persons. But one day, one of those knights, got an order to capture all of the magicians and execute them, and Julius has successfully escaped, thanks to his uncle who is a non-magician human. I will never forget that brave guy action."
Camille was kind of fascinated by this, and she is willing to listen to the story the Aunt of her King is telling.
"His parents were mages and wizards, both of them passed quite a big power, but unlike my sister (she is referring to mother of Julius) I am a non-magician human, which helped to leave that place because I cannot see how thousands of mages and wizards corpses are thrown into the river because they cannot burry peasants in the Cemetery."
"... Now the Cemetery belongs to everyone, not just to nobles."
"I am glad to hear that." responds the old lady after she let out a sight. "I just wish I could see my dear nephew one more time before I will pass."
"How old are you, madam?"
"... I am one hundred two years old, young girl." responds the old lady to Camille who was not expecting to hear that number from a lady who isn't looking that old but somewhere at sixty or seventy years old. "I could die any time, dear warrior. I could die tonight. Or tomorrow morning, who knows now? The Gods of Fates are the only ones who are creating people destiny, not us, humans."
"I see." she responds Camille to the old lady.
"And... Does the fire boy is a good guy?"
"To be honest, I have no idea. He seems a good guy, but his actions belong to a bad guy. One time I heard he burned a woman corpse by mistake, which was probably intended by him."
"... If consider him being a good guy, then I am considering too."
"Cool."
"Anyway, dear knight... How was the road here?"
"Kind of bumpy. But how is this Empire treating his fellow citizens?"
"Like a cat to a mouse. They send their own knights and hooligans to steal our pieces of stuff which will be on the King's hands and he will keep them forever. And because of him, this Empire is starting to fall by himself, because one guy without knowledge in leading something it is a bad decision."
"I see your point here. Our nobles haven't even been changed in these days, they have become the same bastards who wanted to regain their throne and start some massive Noble Families wars or some bullshit like that."
A few seconds later, Julius enters the room and he looks at Camille.
"We've got some company waiting outside."
Camille left the old lady in her bedroom, she takes her sword which was laying on the floor and she goes outside with her teammates, and there, they got accompanied by a few knights who are fully armoured and there is the guy from a few hours ago which is bandaged at the injures he is having after he got beaten by Lucian, Fred and even Julius.