Next morning
Wies or to be exact Zarina opened her eyes slightly and looked at the windows and saw it was already morning and when she tried to move more she felt trapped and when she felt a familiar smell she looked in front and saw a gray t-shirt and when she looked up slightly she saw Axe's face that was still sleeping and she caressed it a bit and felt a little sweat and she knows this scenario
'He is having those traumatic nightmares again' She knows this since he sweated a few buckets the last time they slept together without doing 'that' he confessed his back story
A few years ago
"Zarina my life before working for the emperor was not peaceful but somewhat chaotic and confusing me to this day why did he do it why would he do such a thing our family was rich but not powerful and used our family as a bargaining chip but I was lucky to not be present" he looks down on to the floor with frustration and anger radiation form his body and after a few seconds it died down and Zarina spoke
"So what was your family like"
He looks at her contemplating whether to tell her a secret only the emperor and some military officials know
"My family are from the Tiamat empire and is well known and are merchants and are the richest of all and have few enemies since were the neutral party and I was the heir to that family and when it was time my time to travel around the world a relative of mine who was also loved by the family since our motto was always 'All for one' and we treat everyone equal and he is a militaristic person even our uncle felt proud of seeing him leading a group of guards to punish a giant syndicate and hen he was about to die he used a nearby wood and coat it with hot iron hence he was called ironwood even i was also impress but something struck me in him"
He looked at Zarina and said
"He was too ambitious, too ambitious even will use the available resource and that resource is our family when I began my adventure I went to the Khazarn continent and established trade and joined an order"
"What order?"
"The Assassins creed and the kingdom were quite happy of me joining them and elevated me to overseer missions across the continent and the world since i have the knowledge and sent me sometimes as a diplomat and that order has a specialized skill that can change our appearance and use these so-called talismans do i have used it and i have these elemental ones that can summon a companion of those elements" he showed her multiple ones
"And i have exchanged letters with my family and i was about to be the head of the order i received a worrying letter that said my cousin joined the military academy they worried since we are not a militaristic family yet he joined and after 2 years he graduated and led a small army and a few months he gained high prestige and honor and the family and also myself was quite proud but due to the fact he's very ambitious he made a lot of enemies and those rats begin striking us"
He looked down to the floor again and spoke
"And that was the beginning of the fall of my family, i had to get myself involved and after a few months of requesting i was approved to use my assassins to protect my loved ones so i sent my best students and they began defending my family but to him, it was an act of treason he begins to distance from the family and sent soldiers to patrol or harass our business"
He inhaled and exhaled and spoke
"And after a few months, i saw movements of his soldiers and that made me suspicious and sent people to gather information and prepared for the worst and it was true he was trying to fabricate evidence to blame my family to collude with the other enemy empires"
He looked at Zarina with a small tear falling from his eye
"And he reported to his monarch for the treasonous actions and he sent his private guard and himself and attack the house and when i received such word i went there as fast as i could and ordered the assassins to protect my parents and get a quarter of the wealth and since our families wealth was scattered around the world i was able to send an alert to all merchant fleets and they switch allegiance to show let them think our family collapsed and once i arrive all i saw was carnage"
He grabbed the glass of water near the nightstand drank it and continued
"I arrived at the front gate and i saw the house burning memories of me playing around burning right in front of me and i saw his soldiers killing the guards and servants even the servant's children were killed also and i saw some of my relatives running away only to be shot down by a crossbow and saw that man, that man that caused all of this looking at his father and cut him down with his war axe"
He looked at his fist and gripped it very hard and Zarina heard some bones cracking and held it
"He just looked at me and he had no emotion in his eyes and charged at me and I went into my battle mode the flaming tiger to my right fist the icy winter horse to my left and the thunderbird As my wings i released all of my anger and it was an even battle since he wore that legendary armor that the emperor of the Tiamat empire bestowed him and i was still not giving my all since i hope that we can still fix it but when i ask him the reason for doing this he just said"
"All for the sake of my legacy"
"And i realized that he was very ambitious to the point he wished himself to be immortalized in history and was ready to sacrifice everything and i remembered the atrocities he committed on the innocent people and at that moment i went all out and drew my powerful sabers and was able to decapitate his left arm and massacred 90% of his guards and threw a spell to destroy the house since i receive a message that my family is safe and some members of my relatives and escape that compound and went to the harbor and one of the merchant ships and escape back the continent of where i served and after doing research i believe that Pangea was the best place to let my family settle down and hopes for them to rise again and after sending a letter to a certain city-state that we had trade deals with Draconia accepted the offer and my family stayed in the east side of Pangea since that was the best place and they living in a country that was allied to Draconia or to be exact"
"Their puppets"
"I continued my work as assassin grandmaster and receive a disturbing information that my cousin became the military of the Tiamat empires commander in chief making him create expeditions and expand in the name of his monarch and that he did he expanded and nearly conquer the continent until he was told to stop and turned his sights to the khazarn continent and attack multiple kingdoms and also the kingdom i was serving and i did everything i can to stop them but everytime he appeared either we lose or they do a tactical retreat and when the kingdom was about to fall i was ordered by the king to place my powers on a summoner and when i activated it over 10,000 soldiers clad in black armor came out and spoke that they are from draconia and will withheld in their end of the bargain and begin massacring the troops that is sieging the capital even my cousin interfered but was mercilessly stop by the onslaught of attacks by the man leading the 10k men and they routed making us win temporarily
And i questioned them if they would defend themselves again but they said this was only one time and would never help when i tried to ask them who is their leader they said the city lord is their leader and nodded when I asked the king about what's gonna happen to this kingdom he said that he will accept that this kingdom will fall but he ordered me and the remaining members of the order to go to draconia with the remaining civilians of this nation while he holds them off and of course, i nodded and left
Over 150 ships gathered and over 100,000 civilians and with me 2,000 soldiers that remained with us to guard us and over 300 members of my order" he looked at her with a small smile and it was relief
"We were attacked by 300 warships of the empire and the remaining soldiers tried to defend but failed when i was about to use another talisman multiple explosions erupted on their side and when i looked at the distance over 70 draconian steam warships and were Ironclads and begin massacring the enemy warships and over 270 were sunk some were captured and escaped and i was escorted to draconia and meet with the city which right now is the emperor had some private talks and gave me two choices"
"Either serve me and i will give your vengeance or you will have to work as a citizen and a refugee"
"And i chose to serve since i was being given the option to be stronger and even lead the forces that will destroy the Tiamat empire although it took a while he gave the same choices to the assassin members and only 10 members agreed since the rest were to tired and some have families and doesn't want to serve another monarch and retired but agreed to train future members so the city lord gave us the name the Assassin X since the founders were 11 but 10 since i was the one who joined later on since i was late for the declaration treaty"
"And our numbers grew and the emperor told us to train children that were abandoned in the streets since they have no family and they will be treated as one when they join the group and i can our techniques grew along with hundreds of new members and during that time the Tiamat empire sent expeditions ordered by my cousin but failed miserably and the City state of draconia along with other allied nations sent a large navy to the Tiamat empire to blockade them and sent sanctions making the economy of the Tiamat empire bleed since the City state of draconia in that time has a say on were trade should go and all of the other city-states and trading companies followed"
He sighed and looked out the window and saw the city below
"The Tiamat empire asked for a treaty and i was also present there the one leading the signature of the treaty was Alex and I was next to him as his guard the one signing the treaty was none other than my cousin he spoke that the Tiamat empire must have the territory but after Alex released his aura the man felt scared and Alex sent one of the warships to devastate a port city to make an example to not mess with Pangea"
The treaty altered the treaty that the Tiamat empire would never expand and harm the world economy and if they broke it the former coalition members would begin attacking and destroy the Tiamat empire
Back to the present
Wies continued to wipe the sweat off his face she indeed felt bad of his past and wished that she could partake in this revenge plan and when she requested it they agreed
Her train of thought was snapped off by a voice
"So i was having another nightmare again?" axe said since he felt a hand wiping his head off meaning he was sweating he was already used to this nightmare before he questioned himself even the family questioned why would he betray and now he knows the answer not just power within the empire but the fame he will receive
Axe looked down and saw Wies wide awake and patted her hair and spoke
"so what do you want for breakfast?"
"Pancakes and iced tea that's all," she said closing her eyes a bit and opening them again
"Ok, orders are taken down just a few minutes, and better change clothes"
Axe removed the blanket opened the car door and went outside and wies raised her back and felt something wet in between her legs and went to touch her crotch she blushed
"Bastard" she muttered and went to her bag that was in the front seat changed to her civilian attire and went outside and helped Axe set up the table
Continent of alkemla
A Fleet of warships and troopships were docked and helicopters flew over carrying supplies the chancellor of the Aurella kingdom met with the commander of the Draconian soldiers that would be stationed in the kingdom
"Army general Fulgrim of the Draconian empire we have sent her to create military bases and assist you in the war and to whom am i speaking" he finished as he reached his hand out for a handshake
"Chancellor of the Aurella kingdom," he said as he shook hands
Both nodded and right there in a military port that was controlled by the draconian empire
"How many soldiers are to be stationed in the kingdom general?"
"The initially stationed troops are over 50,000 but currently 100,000 are to be stationed" he finished as he looked at the horizon of ships and planes flying in formation
"Then how many naval ships are to be patrolling"
"The Coast Guard 7th patrol fleet over 15 destroyers 10 torpedo boats are to be stationed here and with the piece of land given to us it will be transformed into a city and 10,000 soldiers will be stationed and the extra soldiers are to assist the construction and regional peace"
The chancellor was in shock seeing how much resource the empire was placing on their nation
"Why he would do this?" he was questioning since the emperor could evacuate the entire alchemist from this continent but why
"The emperor's third objective make the Tiamat Empire fall and establish hegemony" That is what the general said since he had known the empire's objective ever since the officer academy
"So you saying he's just laying down the groundwork?"
"Correct"
Back to Pangea
Axe finished cooking and gave the food to Wies who ate happily after eating both of them began to pack up and Axe checked for any problems
And after a few hours, they went on the road again and after a few hours they arrived in neutral ground looking at the desolate snow field they had a small chat and after a few more hours of driving they arrived in a nomadic region of Emberstep expanse and their objective of coming here is to attend the ember festival were the celestial caravans come from another world to trade in this land for a week and return to were they originated
Alex POV
To be continued