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Chapter 3 - Hunter’s loss. 

2 years ago, 20 minutes since the first blood was drawn. Hunter Bloodhearth, husband of Lady Maniele Tirian. They were in the operation room, she was giving birth to their second child, a daughter. Both of them were happy, but the happiness did not last long as Castle Black, their domain, was attacked, killing Hunter's wife and newborn child.

He rushes into the main yard and grabs a sword. He rushed toward a large group of enemies. He cuts one of their heads, one pulls out a blaster, but is too late as he is killed by a blast cannon, his body being half eradicated, the other 4, looking like they've seen a monster in action. Hunter cuts two one after another and blocks the attack of a third, the same cannon kills the 4th man pursuing to end Hunter's life, but he ends up like his other comrade. Hunter pushes the last one alive to the ground and stabs him 11 times.

He won this fight and the battle was still going, the damage has still been committed. His clothes were soaked in sweat and blood from his enemies. He falls to the ground crying, holding his wife's engagement ring in the rain. The blood slowly clears off to the bottom of his shirt, the rain cleaning some of it. He gets up, looking for his older daughter. "Milena!" He shouts. He rushes to her dormitory. He thought for the worse, with his weapon in hand he charges through the hallways. He reaches the hallway where the bedroom of his daughter was.

His daughter fought with a man from the Libertan army. She was struggling and nearly lossing, he grabbed Milena by the neck and tried to choke her, Hunter waited no more and stabbed him in the leg. The man falls down and so does Milena, she was heavily breathing and in shock, but she still managed to crawl a good distance away from the attacker.

Hunter turns the man to face him and starts torturing him.

Hunter grabs a knife from his boots. "Listen here you son of a bitch! You people attacked us on a peace alliance!" Hunter gets the knife close to the man's eyes and the man screams: "STOP! We did not attack you first your king did, we just heard our orders." Hunter smiles, the smile was not in his eyes, in his eyes was only hate and suffering, and with that smile he kills the man with 25 stabs one after another in rage, screaming.

Hunter takes out of his pocket a pack of cigarettes, opens it and grabs one out. "I swore to your mother I will never smoke again, but now it doesn't matter" He puts it in his mouth and saps his fingers at the other end. It ignites. "I should've thought he would start a war because of that shit…"

He gets up and walks toward his child. "Are you ok?" She was stunned by what her father did. "Where is mom?" Hunters looked away towards the medical center, it was mostly destroyed. He also sees his men cleaning up the rest of the attackers. A tear flows on his face, making way down to his shoes, dirty by blood and dirt. "She is dead"

Milena gets up and looks at her father and hits him. "YOU LIE!" He lets her hit him, he feels at fault for her death. He knew he was not, he knew who was. "Why don't you talk? Why are you crying?" She looks out the same window and sees the medical center destroyed. She hugs her father. "Who did this?" Hunter kisses her forehead. "A man that will pay the price sooner or later."

He grabs his mobile phone and calls his brother. "Michel, are you ok?" Hunter said, "Genialy brother you start by saying hello, but now it's no time for that, my son is nearly dead… The king started a~" Michel gets interrupted by Hunter.

"By the king, I know. I won't get involved."

"What happened?" Michel's voice turned sadder. "He killed my newborn child and wife in this war. I won't aid him, I will stay in grief. Hope Theodore will be fine " "Thank you!" He ends the call. And walks with his daughter down the hallway towards the war room.

5 months into the war, the hunter sat on his throne, beside him was not his wife but his daughter. She replaced her mother with the duties of a lady, she was reviewing complaints of the people and one mail got her attention. "Dad, you gotta see this" She hands him the tablet. It was an email sent by Theodore. ' As of the ninth month of the year 4023 day 7th my father has passed away. Killed in action.

I now take reign in the Bloodhearth clan through succession. I won't ask you for aid lord Of The East, Hunter Bloodhearth as I know you won't do anything for the king.' "Small email, tough information, poor Michel… How a fool, and his Kid too."

Milena coughs "I won't say Theodore is a foof, he proved everyone wrong and win every battle with 57 men and women. He sure is from our bloodline. And uncle tried to do what was right…" Hunter looks in the email and finds out a link with a video. He opens it and in the video is Theodore, and two other men.

"If you watch this and don't think I am a fool then thank you, as far I want to believe my father is not a fool, I can't. He was lied to by my own mother and poisoned by her own hand. She won't say she did it, and there is no evidence either…

But I know he didn't die by the enemy hand…" He presents the folder his father gave him 5 months prior. "This folder was supposed to get to the Goldhaven clan from Liberta. The king knew somehow about this file and wanted us to stop from sending it. I will fight this war until I have gathered enough skill and allies to pursue my own plan. Hope you will help me achieve it."