Chapter 25: The New Mission!!!
The win over the air nation was a win for the entire world. The celebrations echoed in other nations, through rumors and loud celebrations.
There was a spread of rumors which spoke about how the air nation lost the war, and the more it spread, the more bizarre it sounded.
Lancelot sat beside Kendra, stroking her hair slightly, as she remained in her coma-like state.
"Lancelot, we have to take her to the forest nation, the forest nation has the best treatment for all kinds of ailments,"
Dice said from the side. He had thought it through and decided on the best course of action to heal Kendra. A general from the fire nation then stood up to speak;
'l am general Fwang from the fire nation, I pay my respects to Lancelot and the water priestess. I want to advise this gathering that it is for the best if we could conquer, other nations."
"They won't submit willingly to one rule without the show of power, however, if with the help of the king of the elements, we go from one nation to another to show our dominance then they would submit willingly, without a show of power, they won't bow..."
Feeling impatient and irritated, Xanthu then stood up to speak as he was in disagreement with the fire nation general;
"Instead of waging war against other nations, who have also suffered from the tyranny of the air nation, why don't we just send an envoy to other nation, declaring our goodwill and the need to unite,"
"We should build a single city that has representatives across other nations, while other nations hold on to their nations, but the element representative's nation would ensure no war rises among the element nations.."
Everyone nodded and there were murmurs and grumblings here and there in the room.
As all this chatter was going on, a scout ran inside.
Ever since the war had begun, the beast nation had given their support to the war against the air nation, but along the line, it was discovered that they never showed up.
The question kept lingering on Lancelot's mind as to why he never saw them so he decided to send scouts to secretly find out what happened and now one had returned to give a message of his findings.
"My lord' The scout said while panting heavily,
"Chief Goro and an army of 200 beast men were ambushed and killed by Lennon from the beast nation and his men, presently their bodies lay close to the border of the water nation."
The scout completed his information delivery.
Lancelot grew angry, as he heard those words.
'l should have killed that bastard when I had the chance.'
He clenched his fist as he muttered to himself.
Then he regained a calm disposition and looked around the occupants of the room.
Everyone else was staring back at him with an inquisitive gaze. Their attention was entirely devoted to him.
Lancelot stood up from Kendra's side and walked to the middle of the room.
"We will do as Xanthu said, by sending envoy from nation to nation, I will be joining the envoy in the show of both goodwill and strength."
"Also, we will build a central city in the major interconnecting ground of all the nations. We will need the abilities of all nations to construct towers for the new city."
"However, before any of that, I need to pay a visit to the beast nation first, I have unfinished business there."
Lancelot bowed slightly and walked out of the room. The people followed behind him as they left Kendra behind in her coma-like state.
Lancelot had already decided to visit the forest nation after the beast nation problem has been dealt with.
He needed to conquer the beast nation first and he wondered why the beast god never intervened in the attack on chief Goro and his men.
Three days later, they set out for the beast nation.
Some of the fire nation generals accompanied him along with Dice, Xanthu, and the water nation soldiers.
By this time, Cherry was already pregnant with a child for Dice so she stayed behind.
This had sparked a bit of dispute between him and Lancelot but Lancelot had kept it aside as there were more important issues to deal with.
Ever so often he will glance at Dice with anger in his eyes, but would not say a thing.
Dice had been confused about how to approach Lancelot, he had even apologized and promised to love his sister, but Lancelot kept asking him a question;
"Couldn't you have controlled your urges?"
Dice would smile bitterly but would not reply.
On getting to the beast nation, they saw about 30 beast nation soldiers guarding the gate which was rarely seen.
Due to the test imposed on visitors by the beast nation god, no one bothers to guard the gate, as taking the test is akin to a death sentence.
That was the case with everyone who attempted the test, well until Lancelot passed it shockingly.
However, seeing people guarding the gate was still a very questionable sight to behold.
A soldier walked out with confidence and boldness. He had a lion mane and a tail behind him. He looked at those that came around with disdain and raised his head as if he owned the entire world.
He raised his voice so everyone around could hear; "On the order of Chief Lennon, no one is
allowed in, unless he is granted access by Chief Lennon, who are you guys?..."
However, before the lion beast-man could finish speaking, a fireball struck him on the head and two other water arrows struck his chest, killing him on the spot.
He was dead before he could even get any word out. "You dare talk to the king of the elements, it's like you all have a death wish," Xanthu roared in rage.
Immediately after the other soldiers saw the death of their colleague, they knew that these visitors didn't come to play around.
Lancelot and his team quickly got into formation.
They attacked the remaining 29 beast-men soldiers so swiftly, that they couldn't organize themselves.
They didn't even give the beast-men soldiers a chance to defend themselves. Lancelot never even raised a finger before the soldiers were all decimated.
After they killed all the beast men guarding the gate, Lancelot and his team then walked in as if nothing had happened.
As they got further in, they saw something shocking. They saw about 10 beast men elders tied to a pole, with chains all over their exposed bodies.
Only a thick wrapped cloth was around their loins.
"Release them" Lancelot commanded.
He recognized them from when he was back in the beast nation. They were the only elders who supported Chief Goro staunchly,
'They must have revolted against Lennon to be put in this condition' Lancelot thought to himself as he shook his head.
Lennon then walked out with his fox-like appearance,
"You have guts to come into the beast nation to attack my people, normally I should hand you over to the soldiers to deal with you, however, I'm more than enough to handle you."
Lennon shouted pointing directly at Lancelot.
Ever since he had heard of the rumors of how Lancelot single-handedly took down a god, he had been bearing some jealous rage.
His only thinking was that his capabilities were higher than that of Lancelot.
Now that he was in the presence of that same Lancelot, he felt he had the chance to prove his truth to the whole world that he was stronger than Lancelot.