I sent my spiders to scout the surrounding area for any orc survivors, it's better to kill all the orcs then let them road around the forest.
Right now I am inside the orc leader Khargol's tent, I wanted to sleep a little it has been a long day and I am exhausted from the battle against him, I am lucky I have this black skin or armour whatever it is, without it that blow would have split me in half no doubt about it, I can still feel the pain.
I look around the tent, I can't see anything interesting one square table in the middle and on it some rings few silver coins some gold nothing much and of course no bed, I don't know why I thought an orc would have a bed "sigh" well at least there is some lined up straw that looks like a bed.
I guess anything is better then nothing right ?
I lay down on the straw bed and close my eyes and it wasn't long before sleep took over me.
"Dranei DraneI !!" I heard a voice close to me, I opened my eyes and saw a black haired little boy running towards me, I recognised him immediately "Rey......" I held out my hand but Rey just passed through me.
I was surprised I turned around and saw another boy running in front of Rey, the other boy was me.
"ahh I see this is just a dream of the past I thought I already decided to forget everything but it seems I just lied to myself"
I look at the two boys running in the gardens of Eldenor and show a sad smile.
"You truly loved your friend huh?" I hear a familiar voice behind me.
"Lady Ariade..."
"that's me hehe"
"Did I die again?"
"What? ohh no hahaha silly boy ups I mean girl hehe" Lady Ariade joked and giggled.
"Than why are you here?" I wanted to know why lady Ariade showed herself to me.
"Oh right I almost forgot I have some interesting information" Lady Ariade stopped laughing and put on a serious face.
"Those stupid humans have done something that will break the balance of this world"
"And what did they do now?" I am curious now I wonder if I will be surprised the humans always do things that we don't expect them to bad or good.
"The Triben Empire have gathered all the best magicians they could find and summoned a champion or what they call a hero to aid them against the demon legions and the dead king"
I am a little confused "demon legions didn't we destroy them in the last war and how come a champion can break the balance of the world what about me then?"
"Oh dear that's right I didn't tell you this the last time I was too excited about getting a champion, well let's start with the demons shall we"
"By all means please tell me everything"
"Ok then, well as you said the demons were beaten back to their burning hell and their gates to this world have been closed but.......that was fifty years ago the time flows differently in the space you and I met"
My eyes are wide open because of the shock right now, fifty years how is that possible I......what about ShalDun my former homeland?
"then.......what about ShalDun my homeland please tell me"
Lady Ariade puts on a difficult expression I can already guess what happened but I didn't want to believe it I wanted to hope.
"Well.....this will be difficult for you to hear but you will find out sooner or later that why I will answer you and when you hear I hope that you can move on with the new life I gave to you"
"please tell me" I want to know...I need to know.
"After you died, It wasn't long before the city Eldenor was overwhelmed by the dead every living being was slaughtered mercilessly by the undead king"
"After slaughtering your people he took over the land and spread the corruption it was not long before he invaded a former kingdom Astia, the human kingdoms in an attempt to stop the undead formed an alliance the later grew into an empire that is today, the humans managed to stop the undead but they could not slay their king he retreated to Eldenor and made it his home, the former proud kingdom of ShalDun is now nothing more than a land of the dead and Eldenor is now known as the great necropolis of the dead"
"That is all"
"..........thank you for telling me.....I wanted to know what happened to my people and now I know I can let go of my past now, but sooner or later I will have to face all my enemies so instead of letting my past go I will learn from it, I have my new kin to protect and I will not make the same mistakes like before"
Lady Ariade showed me a bright smile the biggest one I seen so far from her "hehehehe that is good to hear"
"oh it seems our time is over for now the little ones are coming to wake you up....oh and they are bringing something interesting too, with them hehehe oh and be aware of the empire and their so called hero"
"hmm wh....." before I could finish my sentence someone woke me up "queen queen we captured humans what we do we don't know we kill filthy orcs but what about humans.."
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I yawn and rub my eyes, I see a little green spider beside me, I pet his head "were are they now little one?"
He started purring "outside outside"
"Okay then let's go and meet our guests"
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Kael's POV
Ahh what a blunder to be ambushed by spiders truly disgracefull.
We were riding through the forest towards the orc encampment, the captured girls told us the direction the encampment is but to reach there we had to dismount and go on foot, some of the knight didn't like that idea but with some convincing and using my authority as the prince they listened to me.
We dismounted our horses and headed through the thick forest.
As we were moving forward I kept thinking about the spider lady the girls mentioned I really want to meet her, from the description Enis gave me she looks like a monster from a nightmare but somehow I have hard time believing anything that women tells or any women in general, they all lie and their smiles are fake they only want to marry into a royal family or because I was blessed with some of my mother's good looks, it disgusts me.
While I was thinking one of the knights yelled behind me, I turned around and saw a big brown spider jumping at one of the knight, he was pushed to the ground, I pulled out my sword and rushed towards it, I slashed at the spider but my sword didn't even make a dent in the spider's carapace, it's like the carapace was made out of stone.
The next thing the spider did didn't only surprise me but even the knight that was pinned down as well, the spider jumped back and carefully looked at all of us.
"kiiiiI!" The spider released a loud shriek and soon we were surrounded from all sides.
"this is bad" One of the knights spoke and I have to agree with him "sigh" I guess I won't be meeting the spider lady after all.
"spider......lady.......that's it !" I yelled and surprised some of the knights near me.
"has the prince lost his mind?" One of the knights whispered and no I didn't loose my mind.
"drop your weapons men!"
The knights looked at each other "huh with all due respect but my prince have you lost your mind!?" the knight yelled.
"no I didn't you just have to trust me if I am right we will live to see another day if not.....well we will end up as spider food so.....just drop your weapons."
"urgh.....fine I will trust you my prince"
The knight dropped his weapon and soon after all of them did the same, I looked at the spider who stared at the dropped weapons, he started moving towards us and stopped in front of us, he stared for a few minutes but soon he moved behind us and pushed us forwards with his legs, which hurt like hell I wouldn't wanna be pierced by those.
The spider led us towards the clearing within the forest we saw the large wooden stockade and within tents we entered through the gate and we saw many orc bodies as well some spiders here and there I'm guessing this was the orc encampment and I guess the spiders really did kill the orcs, that means the spider lady story is true as well.
The spiders led us towards the biggest tent, one of the green spiders went in, I am guessing their leader the spider lady is inside there.
It's probably weird that I am not scared in this situation on the contrary I am excited I can't wait to met her.
The small green spider stepped out and behind him she came, I opened my eyes wide and looked at her, she had black eyes like the darkest night her hair looked like black silk, her face was small but extremely beautiful her figure was so great that any women would kill for, she had pitch black skin that looked more like a carapace that those spiders have and the six blades that are stick out proudly from behind her.
She looks at the knights first and then last in line me, she stopped her eyes on me, my heart started pounding loudly I thought It would jump out I look at the other knights they are shaking in their armours I wonder if I am the weird one here not that it matters.
She spoke her voice was clear and soft to my ears but the word that she spoke confused me and made me feel a little jealous.
"...............Rey........."
Who Is this man Rey?
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AN: Sorry for not writing this chap. sooner last two months in high school so a little busy but I shall prevail! :)
Enjoy!
PS: I have read the comments from the last chap. and thank you Leafyeyes417 I will try to Improve my future battles and for the question about the queen's form it's a humanoid ^^