After hiding himself clearly out of sight behind a tree not far away from the treehouse, Harus picked up some sand from the ground with his eyes closed and after saying some dark spells, bunch of clothes suddenly appeared on the ground. The clothes were similar to the ones usually worn by the Agekians while a few quans he wants to use as payment after spending some days in the treehouse.
Afterwards, he picked up the clothes and wrapped them up with a black cloak that greatly covered the clothes. Then he began to walk back to the treehouse,
"I hope that no one saw me a while back and I better stay focused to my task at hand in order for me to overcome any distraction especially about that pretty Agek woman which made my heart flutter and skipped a bit the moment I saw her face earlier", he thought as he began to climb up the stairs to the treehouse.
Far north of the realm where dark red clouds floated the sky which obscure the bright serene sky that would have illuminated a dark castle surrounded by dry black trees that had no leaves on the coastline of an island.
A black bird flew past the trees making way for the castle that sat on an upper region of the valley near the black waters. The bird alighted on an open window where it perched comfortably rotating it's head with eagerness. The cool air disturbed a vague light from a red candle lit up a cracked wall at the far end of the dark room together with a red curtain dangling loosely on the side of a bed and a weird shape that lay on it.
"There you are, my sweet pet", a hollow voice spoke out through the dark room, "Any news for me?", the voice spoke again. Then the bird hopped forward and rested on the cold floor swiftly transforming into an ugly creature with long ears and black teeth. It held a short axe that was well curved,with a leather light armor on his torso and some at his legs. The candle light could barely make out some of his ugly countenance but only reflected some shiny rays of light from his armor around the room.
"Yes my liege, there are news relayed to me by Harus before he went out again to fulfill the other mission in Ataxia you assigned him to carry out before we commence the attack", the messenger replied immediately after recognizing the voice of his master,
"That's good to hear but before you tell me about it, let's go to the great hall where my throne awaits me", the voice said again as something rose up from the bed and then moved towards the door which leads deeper into the castle,
"You can leave now and do inform the generals of the army, that they should wait for me together with some of their fighters, at the great hall", he commanded as he indicates the door to the messenger, using the vague candle light,
"Okay my liege, I will leave and inform them right away", the messenger replied and opened the door, entering into the castle. Then the door was abruptly shut which created an echo effect on the top areas of the castle. The figure in dark room that held the candle light, then moved closer to the window and took out more red candles from his wardrobe which he lit up using the other candle on his right hand. The room brighten up slowly as he continued to lit up the room with the candles making things in the room more visible. The figure, now visible in the bright room turns out to be Vedon who wore a long white linen that was transparent enabling his well built muscles a little bit exposed. He kept the red candle where it was earlier and went to have his bath at the corner of the room where his silver bath tub lay. After wiping off water from his body, he we the closet besides the bed that was covered with a red blanket which had pretty embroidery of flowers and wild beast.
The wall was made of solid tiles with numerous inscription written all over it, most of which are dark spells and warlike images drawn on all sides of the wall while the the red carpet that the bed rested upon, was thick and smooth but had a picture of a murder between two beast for one had severed the neck of the other. His father, whose name was Dav Venon gave it to him as a gift when he was at a tender age of four, after his father had conquered the Bashu nomads that lives in small groups in the wild grasslands twenty kilometers away from the land of Tyron, during the flourishing era of Zoa.
After putting on a dark robe made of fine silk with black flowers embroidered at the back together with an inscription which was written boldly in Zek characters that means, "The dark One", he closed the opened drawer and took out another one that was filled with a lot of golden jewelries and golden quans most of which he got from various expeditions he carried out to enlarge his territory.
He took out a medium-sized golden box and removed a silver crown inside it which he frequently kept inside each time he wants to sleep in his room. Then he placed the crown on his dark hair which he had styled and woven to the back of his head while he looked at the dim mirror in front of him which also reveals his red face for his eyes were pale yellow and had dark lips with a well shaped nose.
Afterwards, he took out some golden quans from the drawer together with a gold chain which he wore round his neck, dangling on his chest while he put the quans inside the box and shut the drawer. Then, he strolled towards the door after wearing his red boots adorn with embroidered flowers, opened it and shut it behind him as he continued to walk hastily through the narrow hallway where two torches at opposite sides were lit up earlier by the messenger he had sent to the great Hall.
Walking briskly, he passed two rooms, then turned left towards the stairways that ran upwards to the top. Then he passed two labyrinths at the corner and began to climb upwards to the great Hall for the hall was built at the upper chamber that was closer to to the stairs.