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Chapter 24 - Liberation of Suncia

With the misunderstanding all cleared up about Julian we can now continue are mission toward the small city of Suncia. Even though Jade doesn't look like he trusts Julian we still need to do the mission Lord Zane gave us. We walk to the village while on are way there I spot a Tula soldier patrolling the road. I figured that there must not be very many men at Suncia seeing how it's only him watching the road. All of a sudden I see Jade run up to him and just knock him out. I ran up to him and said," What are you doing?" Jade answered," What? I'm doing this so we can quickly acquire the information we need." We then get off the road so any other gaurds don't see us question him. We're now a bit ways away from the road and Jade wakes up the guard so we can get some information out of him.

When he wakes up he immedianlty tries to get up and run away but Jade quickly grabs him. Jade said," I would like this to be fast and simiple so please don't run away so we can get this over with." Julian then holds him down while Jade begins with his questions. Jade asked him," What's your name and your rank?" The guard look scared and says," I'm Miller and I'm just a regular guard of the city of Suncia." Jade then looks up at me and says," Nikita what else would you like me to ask, sir?" To me Jade just seemed to be enjoying himself in his own weird way though I did have something to ask. I asked Miller," Do you believe in your Emperor?" Miller looks to the side and saying quietly to himself," He's not my Emperor." Julian lets go of Miller and says," If he's not your Emperor than does that mean you still believe in the Prince and your Kingdom?" Miller smiles and says," Yes and I wish to help my prince in his mission to kick the Kimlascans out of are country!" Jade gives Miller his sword back and says," Then we have a lot of work ahead of us, now will you tell us how many men are in Suncia?" Miller drew his sword at Jade and yelled," I won't let you attack Suncia!" Lucy interupted and said," But we thought you said you were against this new Empire?" Miller said," I am but Suncia has no Kimlascan there. Myself and the people drove them off." Then Miller led us to the town of Suncia where we saw the great flag of Tula flying high above the city.

The flag of Tula has a crown in the center of the flag with a blue and yellow background. The crown represents their Kings. While the blue and yellow background is the people's dream of one day touching the sky. Tula is the more peaceful nation but if they go to war they won't give up there nation so easily.

As we get closer to the town we see 3 more Tula guard and they greet us with a smile while one approaches us saying," Hello I am Captain Smith of the guard of Suncia and it's my pleasure to have you here." Jade says," Nice to meet you Captain Smith, I am Jade Curtiss and I am a Colonel apart of the grand O'khasis Army." Once Jade finished saying this he bows in respect for Captain Smith. Smith then bows back and says," It's my pleasure to have someone so important coming to are village and I would like to ask when you'll return to Lord Zane?" That last sentence surprised us cause we didn't know that the guards of Suncia was already aware of the army not to far down the road from here. Captain Smith then took a bow to Lucy and said," It is an honor to us to know that Lady Lucy came all the way out of the safety of the homeland to make peace with us. It shows how much you really care about yours and are people." When Smith said this Jade's eyes got wide and stepped in front of Lucy while pointing his short spear at the Captain. I was surprised and confused while I notice that Julian also pulled out his sword. I asked Jade," What's going on and why are you pointing your weapons at him he's an ally of are Empire?" Jade didn't even look back at me and said," The only people who are supposed to now that Lucy is here is you, Julian, and the Royal Council! Everyone else is supposed to think that she's in the Imperial Capital!" Smith smirks and says," I'm sorry if I'm good at acquiring information. Now if you will kindly lower your spear and I can direct you to the Kimlascan camp near by. I'm sure you can handle the enemy camp seeing how there's only 30 men there." I tell Jade and Julian to lower their swords as I ask Smith," Where is this camp and how do you know everything about us?" Smith explained to us that he's had people in each town that work for him who spy on the Kimlascans progress in taking the each town. From what he tells us is that his spies spotted us and have been following us for some time now. Also most of the towns near the border are all part of the Kingdom. While the deeper you go into Tula their more under the control of Kimlasca.

With the town of Suncia declaring that their apart of the Kingdom of Tula. We continue to grow support against Emperor Alata and the Kimlascan Empire. While there's a Kimlascan camp near by the guards of Suncia promised that they would help us in the fight against them.