It was early in the morning. All the captains and majors ran through every tent to woke everyone. They used a pan and a stick.
Ting! Ting! Ting! Ting!
"Wake up everyone, the general is about to leave!" Said one of the captains.
Aedric, Finn, and Karl are at the main gate. They waited for the troops to gathered. They wore black camouflage long sleeves, with no shoulder badge and name tag. Long black pants, and army boots. They carried only one pistol each and a knife. They hid the pistol on the inner pants and they put the knife in their boots.
All 2000 troops are now gathered in rows in front of Aedric.
Everyone is silent, you can see in their face that they are worried about what will happen to the general.
"Attention!" Colonel Karl said.
All troops do their attention post.
"The general wish to say something, all of you must listen. Understood?!" Karl added.
"Sir! Yes sir!" The troops said.
Aedric walks forward and began to speak.
"I, General Aedric, Colonel Karl and Captain Finn will about to leave today. We would negotiate the king in the best way we can." Aedric said.
Some of the troops walked forward to give the things they needed, such as food and cloth. Some give three horses with a saddlebag put in.
"The sun is rising we need to move" Aedric added.
All the troops faced forward then give a proper salute.
Three of them rode their horses and started to leave. They are now far away, they can still see their troops gives a salute without any movement until they can't see it anymore.
"Wow! Look at the green grass and the surroundings! It's all green!" Finn said with amazement.
The sun shined bright, and the grass reflected the sunlight, it giveth a golden view of the surroundings, a pleasant thing to see. The wind blew and gave a cold felt.
"Hyah!" Said Finn and his horse began to ran.
"Hey! Wait up!" Said Karl angrily.
Suddenly, he saw Aedric do the same what Finn does.
"What?!" Karl said, and three of them began to run.
It was late morning. The sun shined brightly. It is got to get warmed. They saw a river on the side of the road, and a tree.
"Let's wait there and eat our breakfast," Aedric said.
They got down to their horses and got their food in the saddlebag. They sat down under the tree near the river, they could hear the river streamed and ate their food. It is a fried fish and a piece of bread inside a small container. Then Finn started talked annoyingly.
"Colonel, your mustache is started to grow back hahaha!" Said Finn.
Karl is starting to get annoyed.
"What would that town look like? Is there any pretty girls their colonel?" Finn added with sparkled eyes.
"Stop it, Captain! We go there for a mission not for some pretty girls." Karl replied.
Karl smacked Finn in the neck.
"Stop it both of you, we need to go," Aedric said.
Aedric stood up and put the empty container in the saddlebag. Both of them stood up too and cleaned their mess. They rode their horses and began to travel.
In the middle of the travel, Finn whistled and looked at the surroundings, while Karl and Aedric talked.
"It's four hours now, 9 am in the morning. We still have four hours left." Karl said while watched in his watch uncovered it in his sleeves.
"If anything bad will happen there, don't use your pistol as much as possible. We don't expose our weapon unless necessary." Aedric said.
In distance, they saw a large tree. The tree split the road, there is no sign.
"This is it, we should go left," Aedric said. They started to walked.
It was now afternoon. The sun brightened warmly. From afar they can saw the town of Igread. It's wide, even from afar they can saw some of the tallest buildings. In the middle of it is the castle of king Darius.
"We're here," Aedric said.
They are now outside the town. There are a few houses and farms, there are some soldiers scouted the area, there are also watchtowers around it. The road is made of stones.
They walked towards the entrance and one of the guards noticed. He looked at them suspiciously. The guards wore a full syndian armor, a one-handed sword, and a heavy heater shield.
"Halt! You cannot enter unless you have a passage". Said one of the guards. He held his sword and ready to draw it anytime.
The Gate is huge and the walls are tall. The gate is opened, they can saw inside the town.
"The king sent us here," Aedric replied.
"Where is your passage" One of the guards asked.
The three of them tapped anywhere in their body and found nothing.
"Do you have a passage colonel?" Finn whispered.
"Of course not, the messenger didn't give us any," Karl answered.
"What do we do?" Finn whispered in a nervous voice.
Suddenly, they hear a voice.
"Let them in."
In a distance, inside the gate, they saw Augustus and his men came.
"Commander Augustus!" One of the guards announced, then bow.
The guards let them in. The town is wonderful, most of the buildings are two-story-tall. All are made up of stones. The town is crowded. Some people sold their products, some are busy walked in the streets. Some people talked.
"We met again General," Augustus said while smiling
"It is a pleasure to meet you, Augustus " Aedric replied.
He stared at his men and suddenly, all of his men walked out, around 30 of them.
"Come, follow me General Aedric, I will lend you to the king." Said, Augustus.
"It will be a pleasure" Aedric replied.
They started to walk. Three of them looked anywhere, observed the town. Finn saw a beautiful girl in a white dress bought some food.
"Colonel look!" Finn whispered while pointing at the beautiful girl.
Karl smacked him again. This time it was hard. Finn looks like he's hurt but still smiling.
"Stop it captain! You're the commander of 150 elite men and you behave like that." Karl said.
"Stop it both of you," Aedric said.
Augustus look at them and smiled.
"So you have two energetic men you got there General," Augustus said.
"There are not just my men, both of them are my high officer in rank. No one takes them lightly." Aedric said with a proud voice.
"We're here. I would be leaving today, so you on or own general" Augustus said then leaves.
They are now at the entrance gate. The gate opened. And they saw a bridge. They saw soldiers practicing under it. They saw 2 Knights walked towards the exit. The Knights' armor shined when reflected from the sun. It is a silver mail heavy armor. And a great helmet. They can't saw whose faces in it.
One of the Knight looked at the general while passes. The general looks back. They are now at the main gate inside the castle. The guards open the gate slowly. In distant, they saw the king sat on his throne, they saw also the queen and the commanding general Kurnias. Three of them walked towards the throne. The place is silent. The footsteps sound echoed. They are now in front of the king
Aedric and King Darius stared at each other fiercely. Two of them make the surrounding intense.