The next day came, the sun had risen making the sky and cotton clouds reddish.
The previous day was full of surprises. Sol found out that he was an illegitimate child of the Emperor and his biological mother was a worker in the castle. The Emperor told directly that Sol and his mother were nothing to him. And Aron used Sol to humiliate the Emperor and then threw him away, warning him not to enter the capital and be near the Emperor and Dukes.
Despite all that Sol slept peacefully. He was staying in the small inn of a small village. The room didn't have anything that much, a bed, a light bulb, and a widow, but was clean and looked good.
White Sentinel, a big white snake, over 10 meters was beside the bed, on the floor. Sol had ordered it to guard and notify if anyone comes to the room at night. White Sentinel could sense a living being with 15 meters and it could talk mind to mind with Sol.
Sol slowly woke up. He slowly rose his fat body that covered most of the small bed. He was a 5.5 ft. fat boy with a big round belly. He had slept with his clothes on; a decent half blue shirt and black pants. He looked at the White Sentinel at the side.
He said," Nothing happened. Good!" He brushed his yellow hair back by hand and wore his black shoes. "Good Work! Thank you," he said while standing.
The White Sentinel entered Sol's body from the back.
Sol picked his brown satchel bag and went down to the floor. He got ready to depart.
After 20 minutes, Sol got out of the inn and walked left, in the opposite direction to where he came yesterday.
Sol got ready, "Ffuuu! One hour! One hour walk. I hope there are wagons or carts to take to Graha Village." He started walking forward.
Sol couldn't get any carriage, wagon, or cart. He had to walk to another village to get on to the wagon and then head to Graha village where there was a magic-engined carriage and wagons. He hoped to ride to his home village.
It took 3 days to get to the capital from Widefield that is, by magic-engined carriage, driving day and night. This carriage was half mechanical and magic and was fairly fast. With norma, animal-driven carriage, it would take more than 10 days to reach Capital from Widefield or vice versa.
If Sol had taken a magic-engined carriage or wagon, he could have returned back his home in 3 days if drove day and night. This was the reason why he wanted to go back to his village on a magic-engined wagon, he wanted to return back to his family soon, within 2-3 days.
He would have ridden on a magic-engined carriage or wagon to his home if hadn't been thrown out of the Capital. Also, not anyone had a magic-engined carriage or some sort of transportation that was not animal-driven, only wealthy people and nobles had such.
Sol slowly walked. He also looked around the village.
It was a small village, encircled by a stone wall. The houses were well built, one or two-story houses made up of both wood and stone. Few houses were fenced with stones.
Sol got out of the village and saw green hills and few trees here and there. The sight was beautiful. Looking at the green hills Sol said," At least the weather and the place are good to take a long walk." He then started to head towards his next destination. " I miss my village," he said.
* * *
Meanwhile, in Sol's home village, Widefield; the villagers including Sol's parents were already out of the bed, had breakfast, and were onto their daily task. Some were doing house chores, some farm works others were feeding or taking out animals. Everyone was busy.
Widefield was a small village on lowland; scattered houses separated by farms, one or two-story medieval designed houses, and a small thin forest at the back of the village.
While the villagers were on to their daily work, at the same time, someone was watching them, from the tree of the small forest, behind the village.
A 7 ft tall, black and yellow humanoid bee was looking at the village from a tall tree. Then it flew in the opposite direction of the village, away from the village. The humanoid bee flew inside the forest so that no one can see it. It crossed the river and flew towards the hills range. A hill range at a distance from the village where Sol used to hunt beasts. The humanoid bee then flew above the forest and above past the hill. Nothing but a sky was in front of it, and hills beneath it. It continued to fly forward in the sky and it suddenly disappeared. The humanoid bee went into some sort of invisible layer. And now it was in front of an enormous black metal wall.
The humanoid bee flew close to the giant black wall, touched it, and opened an orange hexagonal tunnel. The tall black and yellow bee went into the hexagonal tunnel. The tunnel disappeared. The bee was now inside an enormous airship, Adam, who was hovering above the hill, being invisible.
Adam was Sol's flying wing design airship, 13 km long and 3 km wide, hiding by using the invisible mode, one of the abilities of the ship.
The tall humanoid bee was the worker bee, one of the servants of Sol's vassals, Sara the Queen Bee. The orange hexagonal tunnel was an ability of such humanoid bees; they could open such orange hexagonal tunnel anywhere only on and in Adam, leading to most of the places of the ship.
Adam had a bomber shape design, with a central elevated, capsule shape fuselage in middle with slightly swept-back wings assembled on both sides. The elevated fuselage was a called Royal tower or simply tower. It was the middle part of the ship and the tallest and biggest, 3 km tall 3 km wide. The wings were 5 km each.
Adam could be divided into 2 parts: tall capsule shape fuselage in the center and wings on both sides. Inside it had 3 layers from one wing to another, with a large royal tower cutting these 3 layers in the middle.
The first layer was a large, black city, with different shape structures. Every structure was made up of unpolished black metal: structures, roads. There were streams, gardens, trees, and a few small forests.
Area 8, a black metallic circular structure was on the first layer of right-wing.
Suddenly Eve appeared in front of Area 8's large black metallic door. The black door had two crossed swords symbol in the middle of it.
Eve was a pretty, tall, blue transparent, hologram-like lady, wearing a white sleeveless top, black pants, and white ankle boots.
Eve passed through the large black door and heard a loud sound of metal clashing. A little further, there was a large circular brown arena, partially enclosed by a large concave black structure with a large door. There were 4 large statues of knights with different weapons in front of this concave building.
In front of the building, two red knights were fighting in the brown arena; one was a big built red knight with hammer-axe, the other was a slim red knight with conical lance and rectangular shield. The sound came from their battle.
They were Red Knight Twins. They were sparring.
Clang, clang! the hammer-axe and the scutum clashed.
The Red Knight Twins were one of the knights of Sols. They were his creation and vassals just like Eve, Adam, Drago, and others. They both were 7.5 ft tall, fully.
The twins were Mino and Sano.
Mino was a big red armored knight, with gauntlets on his hands, wielding a large black and red hammer-axe, a hammer, and axe in one.
Sano was a lean, red armored knight wearing a big right pauldron and vambrace. He wielded a long black and red conical lance and a large red scutum shield.
They were all armored; they wore full helmets revealing their dark eyes with yellow pupils.
Mino swung his black and red hammer-axe horizontally with the hammer part.
Sano stepped back and evaded the hammer. He then struck straight with his long red and black conical lance.
Mino dodged, but Sano gave multiple strikes pushing Mino back, dodging, and blocking. Mino leaped back.
"Ground Smasher," Mino cast a magic spell and ran sideward towards Sano.
Sano thrust the lance towards Mino's head. Mino warded off the lance by swinging the axe from the left; from the same position, he attacked with the hammer with a magic skill. Mino hit the Sano's scutum.
Bang!
The magic attack pushed back Sano up to 4 meters.
From that distance, Sano incanted, "Thrust of windstorm." A small blue magic circle appeared on the tip of the lance. Sano thrust the lance; from the magic circle, long and powerful wind attacked Sano.
The wind attack blew the big Knight far back on the ground.
Mino stood up. "My turn," he said. As he was about to run towards Sano, he saw Eve beside the arena. "Let's continue later," he said to Sano.
Sano also saw Eve. He agreed," Okay."
They walked to Eve.
Mino asked," Has the king arrived?"
Eve answered," No, he hasn't."
Mino said, " It's been 4 days since he left the village and 5 days after he last visited us."
Eve said," The king was taken away suddenly by Flaming Family. The villagers are still talking about it. From what I have been told, the villagers are surprised and worried."
The humanoid bee from earlier was tasked to watch the village and find out about Sol without being seen.
They did not know where their king was and how he was. The only thing that they know is that he was ordered to go somewhere immediately.
Eve complained," They came and took him away with them. What if he is in some kind of trouble?"
All of them remain silent.
Sano who doesn't talk much asked," What should we do? Do we wait for him? Or we go and find our king?"
Eve replied," But we are ordered to stay hidden?"
Mino rests his hand on his hammer-axe. He said" Following our King's order is important but right now knowing the state is more important. I think we should go out and look for him."
Eve said," What if we get into trouble with Flaming house while looking for the King?"
"Yes, that might happen but we don't know," Mino said," We can only know once we find the king."
Sano spoke," We are the King's knight; We do not fear; If that were to happen then we will respond the same way however - our first priority would be to finding the king and saving him."
Eve asked," Then when are you going?"
Mino said, " I think we should wait few days. If the king doesn't return by then, we will head in search of him."
"Three days," Sano said, " We will wait for 3 days."
Eve and Mino nodded, agreeing.
* * *
In the CapItal of Ducas, Duke Aron, in his office, was going through some work papers. He was wearing a white t-shirt and was looking good with his mid-long black hair. He had sharp features and always had calm, pride on his face.
" It looks like your grace is not affected by yesterday's event," asked Marcus, a tall, young, red-bearded Flaming House knight. He wore upper body armor with a red fire eagle crest and black tabard and was sitting on the sofa.
Aron stopped looking at papers and looked at Marcus. He said, " I won't say I am not affected by what happened yesterday, it's just that I don't want it to bother my today, me, and my works. And... it wasn't that bad either, of course, we, no I didn't get what i hoped for but the mere fact that old man has trash illegitimate child, a kosong, puts my heart at ease, brings me joy, knowing that man is not perfect as all think. " He smiled " I always wanted to see a kosong once in my life but who would have thought that would be the Great Emperor's son, Hahaha. "
" It really was shocking, I never thought such a thing would happen," said Marcus.
Aron said, " Not just you, others too, whole Royal Family, other Dukes."
Marcus asked," What about the boy? Should we had just let him go like that?"
Aron replied, " His own father didn't care about so we should waste time on him too. He is nothing. Unlucky him - if he wasn't Kosong then we wouldn't have thrown him. Sigh ... We wasted our time finding such a useless boy."
Serious looking Marcus said, "We didn't know that the boy we were finding would turn out to be a cursed one. We can't do anything about it now. "
"You're right," Aron said, " I guess I should be happy that we found something."
" But one thing is strange, your grace," said Marcus with a serious expression.
Aron asked, "What is strange?"
Marcus answered, " How his mother died?"
"Didn't she died in the fire? with 3 others," Aron said.
"Yes," Marcus said, " But the people nearby said only the mother, her child, and another woman used to live there. But when they took out the body, there was two more burned adult body." He continued, " They said two bodies had holes in their body and there was no body of a child. The people thought the child was burned to ashes."
"Didn't you plan to search for the baby after hearing about that two unusual bodies? " Aron asked.
Marcus answered, " Yes, and we found him after a long time?"
Aron said," But what disturbs you is the two bodies and the child being found in the road?"
"Yes, your grace," said Red bearded Marcus.
"It is strange," Aron said, " Fire, Two more bodies with holes as if something pierced it, the baby being alone in the road. It is strange or maybe we might be overthinking."
Serious looking and prideful Marcus agreed," ... Maybe we are."
Aron said, "Whatever happened it doesn't concern us? We have already wasted our time and resource finding that useless boy, now let's not waste our energy and time talking about that boy."
" Yes, your Grace," said Marcus.
* * *
Somewhere in a green field, goats, cows, and their baby were grazing. There were 3 people herding those animals.
One was a pretty long red-haired, tall black woman. She black wore a white and gray gown, a peasant dress. She had a calm expression and yellow eyes.
The other two were men: one was middle age bald black man, wearing a white and brown garment; another was a well-built, brown-haired and eyes, white man, wearing a blue tunic and brown garment.
The red hair lady picked up a white goat baby in her arms. She asked, " What did master call?"
The bald middle age black man hold his hands on his back and said, " He called to talk about the assigned task from 13 years ago? One where we had to take care of mother and child. And where we lost two of our men."
The brown-haired, white man spoke, " 13 years ago, we weren't part of the group that time."
The black lady asked, "What about it?'
The bald man answered, " We thought we completed the task but, yesterday I found that it wasn't the case. We only managed to get the woman but not her child."
The brown hair man asked, "How?"
The bald man said, " Don't know how but the master has confirmed it. He said the child has grown up very healthy thanks to our failure."
While caressing the baby goat the lady asked, "Are we gonna take care of that boy?"
"No," the bald black man said," He said there is no need to."
The lady said, " Is it okay to leave it like that?"
The middle-aged bald man said, " It was the decision of our leader."
The built man said," And I thought we get to have some actions after a while."
The lady caressed the baby goat and released it on the land. It ran to its mother.
The three stood there on grassy land, herding the animals on a clear day.