***

A few moments later, I get back to the room, after I've been discussing with my old friends at the cage. I told them almost everything about the story of how I've got here. But I didn't told them about Fiona because it was a bit too much for them when they realized I met the King and got put on two warfare campaigns (technically speaking, it was only the one against Turkish Empire, the one against Moldovia was not even a campaign, more like a small battle, then a combining force moment).

"Oh, Judah." says Fiona worried. "Where have you been?"

"Um... I was outside." I lie to her. "I-I looked at the sky."

"Judah. I know when you lie you look left-right-left-right and bite your lips."

"What? No. I do not do that." (I did that.)

"Judah. You can tell me. You are my squire for almost three years. Soon you will become a fully fledged knight."

"Partially?"

"Right... Partially." (I become half official knight because of the king deciding to build an Academy for us warriors where we will learn three years of basic fighting).

I sigh, and then I tell her about the situation of my two childhood friends being captured, looked in a cage and probably about to be killed and transformed into dishes for this family of demons disguised in human skins.

"I see. In that case, we will try and start a possible attack tomorrow."

"Huh?" I say surprised. "That soon?!"

"We did not get the information. But we got something much more important. The Big Father will send us tomorrow to a mission to gather the poison he ordered from someone at the marketplace. And, if the memory of the slave woman I possess tells me right, the poison won't belong to us or nay human, rather to someone on his level."

"How?" I asked feeling a bit sceptical about all of this.

"The woman slave was once... used (raped) by the Big Father Thornosian. And he said something about poisoning someone the same as him a few days later." she looks at the small window on this room. "If he will poison the other member of the Demons, we might be able to hit two rabbits with one arrow."

"Tomorrow it will be the day."

"I hope so. You can summon an animal of yours to send a message to the king."

"You men Vulture?"

"He can do that? I remember he can only tell us the surroundings and the terrain."

"He can also send things to a location. But he can only send it. So writing on a parchment it will be great."

"The only problem is that we do not have any piece of parchment." says Fiona.

"We will have to "borrow it" from the people here." I say to her, and she nodded her head in agreement.

I was about to head outside, but Fiona, told me to stay here, and sit here. She told me she has to do it because I am a valuable asset to this small mission. And I agree with her because if I get caught, who will summon the "Vulture" with the small wand hidden under the clothes of mine?

It didn't took long for Fiona to come back with a piece of parchment and with a small feather in ink used to write. Fiona quickly used all of the ink on that feather to write a short message to the King. The message written was: "Dinner tomorrow. Prepare the elite forces and strongest knights.". And after this, she looks at me and told me to summon the eagle to deliver this message to the King Julius.

I summoned the bird by suing the spell "Vulture". I told the bird to fly to the Kingdom of Romania, Palace and deliver this message to King Julius. The bird nodded in agreement, took the parchment by using his beak, and fled out of this room fast.

When the bird left, Fiona and I are going to our beds. We stay up for a few more moments until our eyes closes, and we are fading into the dream's world. I don't know if Fiona was dreaming, but I sure as hell I was not dreaming, I just slept without dreaming about anything.

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***

Tomorrow morning, we are wakened up by the sounds of an explosion outside this house and our basement. We quickly get on our feet, we put our boots and leave the basement in a hurry. Thankfully, we have slept in our slaves clothes from the days we have come here. As we got outside, we see there the source of the explosion.

Outside, there is a man, dressed in noble clothes, huge, fat and with orange long hair, having a big cigar on his mouth. He has a cane that radiates fire and his shoes are literally on fire. Outside it was not only us, it was also the demon family, who were not surprised as us. They looked happy at the huge man with fire.

"What are you two doing here?" asks the Big Father Thornosian angry at us. "You two have to go to the marketplace!"

"Y-Yes, sir." says Fiona acting scared.

Fiona and I are walking inside the house, we go into the storage room, and we take from there the basket with a parchment list put by the Big Mother Thornosian. On the list it says we have to take more than what we thought we have to take. And there is also a small bag with gold coins which it is going to be used to buy the things.

"Before we leave." says Fiona to me. "I want you to inform you, that man is the third demon. He is dangerous as these. So we have to be careful how we will act tonight, okay?"

"What is going on tonight? We will attack, then?" I ask her.

"Maybe... If things go well."

"If it is. We will save the people from the cells?"

"We will, Judah."

We both then look at the door from the hallway, that it leads to the cells where the unlucky people are trapped, locked and await for their death. On this night, it might be their day of freedom.

***

After we left the huge house, we are walking on foot to the nearest market zone where we have to take the poison Thornosian Father will need it to use on tonight dinner. But on whom exactly? This is a question I and Fiona we are asking. A poison can be either used for one or one more people. I remember in one novel I read at the Orphanage, a man made a big quantity of poison to more than six people rather than putting small equal parts of a small poison bottle on all six people. And this caused only a stomach ache, not death.

Anyway, we left the big house, and head to the marketplace by walking rather than taking anything else. Thankfully, that said marketplace it is not very far, at approximately of almost half a clock of walking. We did get there safely and not attracting much attention after us.

At the marketplace, we see lots of merchants, all selling weapons, goods, potions, clothes, food and much more things. We did not got overwhelmed by this because this might be a big marketplace, but not as big as the ones in the kingdom I live in and I with Diana use as a source to get income by selling meat, fur and weapons.

Fiona goes to the stalls where merchants are selling vegetables and fruits, while I stay behind her, playing the role of the slave child even outside the house of Thornosian family because the marketplace it's familiar with Thornosian family slaves. Fiona buys a few carrots, potatoes, onions and any other vegetables, enough to almost fill the basket.

After she bought the vegetables and some fruits, she looks at me.

"Can you go to a stall and buy a knife." she says on a tone as she speaks on the same tone on the Thornosian family house.

"Sure thing." I say to Fiona and I walk to a stall that sells knives and weapons.

I look at the stall, I observe their very many types of weapons. From small daggers to swords, and appliances such as a wooden fork, a wooden spoon, knife made out of cooper and many other types of weapons. But I was only interested in a small knife. So I ask the merchant about a knife, and the man sold me a common knife used for cutting and peeling. I bought that knife by using three gold coins Fiona gave me before I was going to the stall to buy the instrument she desired.

I take the knife, and I was about to hand to Fiona, but she tells me.

"Keep it hidden under clothes."

"Oh. Alright." I do as she say, I hid the knife under my clothes and I walk with her to the next stall that sells potions.

After a few moments, we arrive at the stall that sells potions, we take a bottle from the seller that was specially made a few days ago by the Thornosian family. The seller only handed the bottle, not wanting a gold coin back.

"Enjoy tonight dinner." he says after has a look at the vegetables on Fiona basket.

Fiona only nods her head in agreement, and we left the marketplace. Ready to go at the house by taking the same road we took to get here.

After we left the marketplace, a few soldiers got in our way, Romanian special knights have stopped us from moving, and they look at Fiona.

"We have got the message."

"The attack will begin tonight. Has the King sent one of the ten powerful knights?" asks Fiona in her normal voice.

"He sends five." says the knight who is believed to lead the group of nineteen knights.

"Good."

"We will be hidden at a distance from two hundred steps from the big house. When the time will come, we will attack the house and seize the targets."

"Not seize. Eliminate them." says Fiona to that man. "The third target is also there. If we manage to kill all two of them, we will be able to stop the event."

"What event?" I ask Fiona, but she did not listen to me. Nor any knight from the special category.

"The Majesty ordered us to either seize or kill the creatures."

"So, we will kill them." says Fiona feeling a bit irritated. "Now. we have to go. Tonight I will signal you by burning the roof of the big house. When the burning will happen, this will be the signal to go all out."

"Got it." says the knight, and the band of knights is going in the marketplace.

After the squad of knight left, Fiona and I continued to walk to the house. None of us wanted to talk about the event. After we arrived at the house, Big Father saw us coming with the grocers, and yelled at us to go at the kitchen and prepare the breakfast for them. He ordered us to make scrambled eggs with sheep meat. We obey the orders and head to the kitchen zone, preparing the breakfast.