*4 days before the banquet*
The royal capital of the Marphas kingdom was divided into 3 layers.
The highest was the Nobility layer.
Here are residing nobles who don´t have their own land or left management of their own land to their heirs or subordinates. The streets were clean and the buildings gorgeous. You could see expensive carriages riding on the street and different shops and boutiques that only nobles are allowed to enter. Not like any commoners could afford any product that was selling in these kinds of shops. Statues made from gold or marble..night light and magic artifacts were common in this place and just mere appearance made it look like a different world compared to the other 2 layers. In this place lives around 500 000 people taking into account servants and soldiers.
There is also located a gorgeous white palace where the king lives with other members of the royal family. The palace consisted of 5 white pointed towers that resembled blades that were tearing the sky apart. It was said that in each of these towers reside one of 5 swords that protect the kingdom. It could be seen from afar that ordinary people and even lower-class nobles could only dream of entering such a sacred place.
The second layer was Commoners District.
It was the liveliest place in the royal capital and most people lived here with a population of an overwhelming 25 million. It was a gigantic city where you could find everything you could think of like: an adventurer's guild, auction house, church, hospital, orphanage, and many others institutions. Commoners lived here in peace and the crime rate is just slightly above average. As long as you don´t break a law or catch the eye of a noble, you can live a modest life with a certain degree of freedom.
The third lowest layer was Slums
Place, with around 1 million residents, It is a place without order that none dared to visit. You could get killed ra*ped or kidnapped and sold for organs and none would care a bit. A place where one can release their inner animal and act based on their instincts without being judged. None here has the luxury to judge the actions of others when they had enough work trying to survive. This place could be called the shame of the kingdom but none really cared about that. King or other nobles didn´t do anything in order to improve this place and tried to ignore its existence. Like a smoker that is ignoring cancer that is slowly growing in his lungs, the kingdom was ignoring this place that was worthy of being called cancer of the kingdom. The crime rate was 100%, but even though it was the most chaotic place there was one law that everyone obeyed.
Don´t get in the Underworld King's way as long as you value your life.
He was absolute existence in the underworld and some people called him the shadow ruler of this kingdom. None would mess with him and everyone respected him and everyone related to him. It was common sense that evolved into the instinct of everyone in this kingdom whenever they were from slums or commoner districts even nobles to lower their head in his presence.
In one of the filthy streets of slums, was a tavern called [Poisinous Ogre]. It was a shabby building full of holes in walls and wood that was obviously rotting..simply on the verge of collapse. In front of this tavern were multiple drunk men dancing, chasing around prostitutes just as any other day in slums.
On the inside was the old owner of this tavern looking at a band of a drunk men screaming and beating the shit out of each other. The only thing these drunk punks had in common was a symbol of a red rose with black thorns on either their clothes or a tattoo that was clearly visible to others.
—Old man pour more of that beer!!
—What did you say!!
—Hic...Your mother was slut!!!
—Motherfucker how dare you!!!
—Hahaha guy calm down brothers shouldn´t fight...
It was a symbol of the Underworld King that everyone even young children on the street could recognize.
Crash!!
Everyone fell silent as if magic was cast on them when they heard the sound of a wall crashing from the second floor. It was because they knew very well who did that and what follow after that person is enraged. They could only pray that they won´t be the next victim of their furious boss.
*Possinous Ogre's second floor*
On the second floor were two people sitting opposite each other on coaches with red leather and a golden frame. Something that clearly didn´t match the appearance of this room that is looking like is about to collapse at any moment.
The man who could be big enough to be mistaken for a monster was holding a small letter that looked like a miniature compared to his big hand. He had crimson hair like flames and tattoos covering his whole left arm and chest that were visible because of the torn shirt he was wearing. His right eye was covered by a black eyepatch and his face, which made him look like a brute, matched the rest of his gigantic, bulky body. He was well over 230 cm tall with multiple scars on his light-brown skin.
"Kavi, tell me this is just a joke you made before it's too late...I don´t want to raise another right-hand man from the beginning" the underworld king said menacingly to his right-hand man that was sitting opposite to him
Kavi his right-hand man had a calm expression on his face even though he was well aware that he really meant it. And the Underworld king will kill him without hesitation if he doesn´t prove the fact that this was not his joke.
He took a deep breath and looked straight into the underworld King's remaining eye.
"This letter was delivered to me yesterday from our branch of the Dark Guild in Botis..."
The reason for the underworld king's rage was a letter that Kali gave him. Normally it would be impossible to send a letter to him directly unless one is the king of the nation or someone on friendly terms with him. But this letter was special because it was sealed with a special magical seal called [Selch].
It was the special seal that the underworld king used for his letters and less than 15 people in the world know about its existence. The seal worked like a puzzle where the person who send the letter created something akin to a miniature magical labyrinth in a small place where the seal is located which take ridiculous control over mana. The receiver will then use his magic power to pass through this complex labyrinth that would unlock the context of the letter. In case someone trie to forcefully open it or use any other means to pass through this test will destroy the seal along with the letter and the one who will try to open it.
The problem was that the seal protecting this letter was exactly the same as the one that the Underworld king is using. Which should be impossible since each [Selch] is unique and impossible to reproduce by another person. Or so what they thought until now.
Crash!
Again underworld king smashed his fist against the wall that wiped the whole wall from existence and revealed the outside to them.
Kavi stood up and with a swing of his finger sealed the hole with his ice magic. Without chanting and at this speed it would be an impressive feat. But for Kavi who was 6 circle Grand Mage, this was easy as breathing.
"I know you are angry but you need to calm down first what was written on that letter?" Kavi said to calm him down and tossed him a bottle of alcohol he cooled down with his magic.
Kavi understood why he was angry. Just the act of copying his seal was the same as saying that the underworld king is inferior in terms of mana manipulation. Which greatly hurt his pride.
Underworld king was not a battle maniac but he took pride in his strength as an individual that reached the rank of the saint. The individual that broke past the limits of humans.
Underworld king caught the bottle and gulped the content of the 3-liter bottle full of 600% alcohol in a few seconds.
He then showed the letter to Kavi whose´s eyes widened from shock after he read through it.
"What kind of crazy bastard would even write such a thing!!?? The man who wrote that letter is clearly not sane..!"
"Yeah I know hahaha" Underworld king chuckled at Kavi´s reaction as he calmed down.
The content of the letter was so ridiculous that even Kavi who gave it to him started thinking it was just a really bad joke. What else could it be...who else could be foolish or brave enough to try a control underworld king
"What should I do boss? Should I track that person? And bring him here?" Kavi´s face turned serious as he awaited his orders
He never saw anyone being so disrespectful to his boss for the whole 20 years he was working under him. Not even that bastard king would dare to act rudely toward him. If his boss ordered him to bring that person´s head on the silver plate he would do it even if it means to fight someone whose mana manipulation is like that of gods.
"No...We will fulfill his request...if there is just slightest possibility that what he wrote is true then I must do whatever it takes even If I need to become his dog and lick his feet for rest of my life..." After the underworld king calmed down he realized that proposal given by an unknown man was too tempting for him to ignore it.
He who in his long life never bowed to anyone from the time he was just another filthy child of a prostitute who decided that he will rise to the top. Was now willing to become the dog of man for the sake of his wish.
It is proof of how desperate he is after 30 years of trying and failing over and over again.
"Boss you..." Kavi who understood his boos, couldn´t find the right words to describe the feeling inside him. He hated himself, he hated that couldn't do anything for the person who saved his life and gave it meaning.
His wish was something that even the most powerful man in the kingdom couldn´t fulfill. Can really some unknown person who appeared out of nowhere do something like that and if he can..what would that make them to be..god or a demon?
No matter how hard Kavi thought about it he couldn´t guess the identity of an unknown man. The way he wrote the letter was as he was an old friend of the underworld king and knew everything about him. They couldn´t take it as a joke or bluff because the unknown man clearly wrote information that should be known only to the underworld king and him as proof.
Kavi didn´t want to think about it and realized he can only follow the wishes of his boss. He would be there no matter what path he will choose. Just like his boss was there for him in the past.
"But...if it's a lie.....I will find that man whenever he hides and crush his skull with my own hands and feed his corpse to the dogs!"He said as he clenched his mighty fists.
"He will regret giving me hope..." as he said that underworld king took another bottle from the table and gulped it down like water in the hope to wash away all the negative emotions raging in his heart
Kavi bowed low and left the tavern. He put a cigarette in his mouth and took an artifact that could transmit sound on short distances between two people from his pocket.
"There is a lot of work to be done...." He mumbled as he disappeared into the darkness of night.
[A/N I thought it would be fun to sometimes include fun facts about characters or world and items starting today. Please write comment so I can improve my writing and the quality of the novel.
1. Orion's exact age is known only to Dalia; even Orion himself is unaware of the exact number, and she often used it to tease him during his training in the dream dimension because it irritates him when someone calls him old.]