Good evening reader, today I'm going to tell you about a story that happened long long ago. It happened so long ago, that some people think it never happened, they think it's all myths and legends. Although there will be some legends in this story. Now whether or not it's true, it's still an interesting story. So let us begin on this journey. It's a rainy morning in the kingdom called Gods Crusaders, at the center of this kingdom there is a castle called Darllid. Inside the castle Darllid, there is a large bedroom where the bed is in the center of the room. The king of God's crusaders is sleeping in the center of his bed, he finally wakes up. He then sat up and started yawning, then he looked out his window at the rainy sky. He scratched his messy short black beard, hair just like the hair on his head, but a little bit longer. He then started to get out of bed and go toward his balcony. Once he got there he looked down at a huge town surrounding his castle, with walls just barely at eye's reach. The man walked away from his balcony towards the closet, changing into a black reddish suit with a black tie and a red coat. He then put on some red blackish pants. They're shaped like the blade of a dagger. He then grabbed two daggers from a drawer in his closet and put them in his pockets. The man then grabbed a black leather belt with a holster on both his right and left side, Ones that could fit a flintlock pistol. As he proceeds to put his belt on, he reaches his hand into the drawer where he had gotten his knives once more and pulls out two flintlock pistols. Then he put them both in the holster. Once the man was done getting dressed, a man with old white hair wearing a nice black and white suit knocked on his door and proceeded to open it. "Good morning my king, I have prepared you some breakfast," said the man. "Thank you, Zeke, you are too kind." said the king. "You are welcome my Lord, also there is someone at the castle doors waiting for you. I was wondering if I should wake up your pet, Hank." said Zeke, as he sets the plate on the desk next to the bed "come on Zeke, you know isnt just a pet, hes family. But yes please wake up Hank, and do let that person inside, I'm sure they are cold and wet" said the king. Zeke left the room as the king grabbed a long sharp black sword, on the blade of this sword there are gold engravings on it but they are so small and in a language, no one can read, the guard was black like the sword, and on the hilt was a wolf with red glowing eyes. He put this sword into his scabbard and moments later a wolf with dark black fur on his body but grayish fur on his fluffy face came bursting through the door ¨ah there you are Hank good morning¨ said the king as he reaches his arms out ready to catch hank, when hank jumps on him he falls to the ground and hank starts licking Elijah's face. After the king plays with hank he walks out the room with hank at his side to go greet the person at the door, they walk down a long hallway with doors along side of it and in the middle of the hallway is a wide and open staircase, as they walk down the staircase an older man in black clothes with a little white collar, was also walking up the stairs. "Good morning king Elijah and sir hank." said the man as he rasied his right hand up to wave "good morning david isnt this a very good morning?" King Elijah asked "why yes my king, a morning only god would bless us with." said david the priest hank barked in response to priest david "i think hank agrees with you david." Elijah says jokingly "as he should my king, for everyone should agree with gods plan." david replied "yes, yes they should but now david i have a guest to attend to so i will see you at dinner with the rest of the knights?" Elijah said "yes of course my king, may god bless your day." said david hank barked towards david "and you too sir hank may god bless your days and meals." david said nervously "thank you david may god bless your day too." Elijah said chuckingly as he waved bye at Priest david. Elijah walks all the way down to two very big wooden doors he opens one of the doors and sees a teenager that looked different then most people around his kingdom the boy had no horse or any means of transport, he had black hair like king Elijah but he had raggedy clothes like a peasant from the kingdom of naiz, in the boys hands was a piece of paper that had something written on it ¨good morning sir welcome to the main kingdom of god's crusaders how can I help you?¨ asked The king Elijah while Hank walked up to the teenager and started sniffing for the teenagers scent. "good morning my lord are you king Elijah?¨ said the traveler ¨yes that would be me¨ said Elijah ¨well sir I have been sent here to invite you to a new territory celebration at midday and to a diplomatic meeting with all the kings of the land¨ said the traveler ¨of course I will join, a new territory sounds great although I do have one question¨ said Elijah "what is it my lord?" the traveler asked "how did you get here, I see no horse or carriage" Elijah asked "oh well I ran from the new kingdom, which I think is in the center of all the kingdoms and then i got here" the traveler said ¨the center? you must've had to deal with the Spartans didn't you?¨ said Elijah ¨no my lord I didn't see any spartans when I ran over here I guess I was going too fast ¨ said the traveler ¨that's good well let us get you dressed and then we can go back to the center and see this meeting" said Elijah, the traveler nods and Elijah lets him in "Zeke will you please escort this boy to a bath and some new clothes" said Elijah said in a louder voice into his castle "yes my lord send him to the kitchen and I'll change him up" Zeke yelled back elijah looks at the traveler and points him towards the kitchen "there go look for Zeke and he will get you dressed then come back here and we'll go to the meeting" elijah said and then Zeke walked over towards the kitchen with hank following him to the kitchen. After an hour or so, the traveler gets cleaned and dressed he goes back to the main room where elijah is and sees elijah sitting in a chair drinking a cup of water, elijah looks up and sees the traveler standing there, elijah then starts to get up and put the cup down on a small table "are you ready?" elijah asked the traveler nodded and started heading towards the big doors, elijah follows him. Elijah and the traveler walk. When they are outside Elijah sees 3 other knights near the stable, they both walk towards the knights ``good morning knights, could you get me and this kid up with some horses please" elijah asked, the knights nodded and got two horses out of the stable then passed them to elijah and the traveler, Elijah, and the traveler hop on the horses ``alright let's ride" said Elijah as he gives the horse a little kick and the horse runs ahead as the traveler follow his lead. elijah and the traveler go to the border of gods crusaders and spartans paradise, you can easily spot the difference between the two kingdoms gods crusaders has wide plains of lands ready for villages and farming while spartans paradise has tons of trees practically most of it is filled with forest and wildlife, with little openings of light, the spartans live off the wildlife and have little huts or huge groups of tents they mostly practice being nomads and eat only things that take little steps to make. While Elijah and the traveler ride through spartan territory Elijah looks to his right and sees a group of spartans leaving on horses from a small house covered in trees and vines ``luy is that you?" said Elijah as he waved his hand the men on horseback turn to look at elijah and the traveler "good morning Elijah how have you been on this fine day" luy shouted as he rode across the path that would intersect with Elijah's horse "i am doing just fine, i am heading off to a meeting in the new territory, are you also heading there? "said Elijah "yes I am but uh who is that other person with you?" luy asked "this is the kid that invited me to the meeting." said Elijah "good morning king luy of the Spartans I am the traveler" said the traveler "it's nice to meet you, the traveler, anyways shall we continue on our way to the meeting" said luy "yes I think that would be a great idea" said Elijah, luy and his group of spartans joined elijah and the traveler towards the meeting. As they are leaving spartans paradise towards the new territory, the traveler rides up next to Elijah "hey so who is king luy?" the traveler asked "king luy is a very good friend of mine he's the king of spartans who are very good gorilla fighters he doesn't have a lot of national soldiers but he does have a lot of spartan just free throughout his kingdom so you really can not ask him about his wealth or number of people" elijah said. The group has finally reached the outskirts of spartans paradise forest, they look up to see that it is midday when they look ahead of them they see a bunch of small hills going for miles when the group is at the top of a hill they see a big village in the distance but it didn't look like it had a lot of big building for housing "that's gotta be the city were supposed to go to the right?" luy asked "it's the only village for days but it has no castle walls or any defenses. Hey, kid is that the village you ran from after he told you to deliver the message" Elijah asked as he looked at the traveler "No I didn't meet him here, the place I meet him had more villages than this, and there were fires now and then, the ground was also more mudder like it rained every hour" the traveler said elijah looked back at the traveler "wait do you mean new Valhalla?" Elijah asked the traveler, nodding "wait so you're telling me that you ran from New Valhalla to Gods Crusaders?" luy asked the traveler nodded again, elijah and luy looked at each other with curiosity and confusion "Wow that is very impressive" Elijah said, Elijah and luy both started to head towards the small village "well anyways let's start heading towards the town before it gets dark" Elijah said as the rest of the group started riding with him, the traveler kicks the horse with his leg so he can catch up to Elijah and the gang. When The traveler and the group got closer to the village they could see the sky was getting darker and after they climbed up one more hill, they could see a small campfire set up at the bottom of the hill. While they were riding towards the small camp Luy rode up to Elijah ``hey does that look like the mountain boy's type tents or is that just me?" Luy asks, Elijah looks at the tents set up near the campfire and see that they have some rocks near the bottom of the tents and double-stacked wool on the top "yeah it does look that way, do you think Mitchell is with them?" Elijah said "maybe, I'll go first with my spartans and call him out you and the kid stay in the shadows just in case it's some bandits," Luy said, Elijah nodded and rode over to the Traveler ``get off your horse and go hide over there, do it quietly." Elijah said as he too got off his horse the traveler listened and got off his horse then went to go hide in the dark at the outskirts of the small camp, Elijah grabbed the lead on both of the horses, he nodded at Luy who was watching Elijah and the traveler while they were doing all this then went to go join the traveler in the outskirts of the small camp. Luy and his spartans slowly start riding towards the entrance of the camp, Elijah unsheathes his long sword and gets ready to attack the camp. As Luy rides towards the camp he sees three people sitting around the fire, Luy gets down from his horse but his spartans stay on their horses ``Mitchell is that you? my old friend" Luy asked as he continued to walk forward, the three people stand up quick they pull out some knives and daggers, the spartans jump off their horses and pull out their own swords, Elijah jumps up and starts moving into the camp "whoa slow your roll gentlemen I'm just looking for king Mitchell and I thought he was here" Luy said as he started walking back to his horse but just before he could get back on his horse, a man started laughing as he walked out of one of the tents ``oh Luy you were always shit at finding people" the man said Luy smiles and walks towards the man "your an asshole Mitchell you know that?" Luy said as he and Mitchell laughed, Elijah smiled and put his long sword back into his sheath "it's okay boys you can put your weapons back" Mitchell said, the three troops then put their knives and daggers up. Elijah and the traveler come out of the shadows and into the camp, Mitchell was surprised when he saw Elijah and the traveler come into the small camp "Whoa were you guys gonna attack us?" Mitchell asked "yeah actually we wanted to take these rocks right there from you guys," Elijah said as he pointed to the rocks at the base of their tents Mitchell looked over at Elijah and laughed as he, Mitchell, and Luy go in for a group hug after the hug they look at each other "wow the last time we saw each other the war had ended and the last king had given everyone their new roles'' said luy the traveler had a confused look on his face "don't mean to be rude my lords but what war are you talking about?" said the traveler "why the war that brought you all this land and freedom, the war that built that huge wall at hells gate and protects us from the things inside," said Elijah as he points south toward hells gate territory "alright enough of the history lesson we have some left over goat that we were gonna eat, do yall plan on staying?" said Mitchell elijah and luy look at each other and then look at the traveler, the traveler get surprised because it seems that king Elijah and king Luy were looking at him for an answer "um i am okay with staying here for the night" said The Traveler nervously "well I guess we're staying" said Elijah as he smiles, Luy and Mitchell smile with him and they all started heading towards the campfire. After a couple of hours, the fire was put out and everyone was sleeping in their tents, the mountain boys in their tents, the spartans in their dark red hide tents, Elijah in his tent, and the traveler is in a tent that one of the knights had put on his horse, back in gods crusaders. An hour into the night, The Traveler wakes up startled from a noise he heard, he sat up and started looking around his tent, he tried to listen around and see what that noise was, after he heard no noise he tried going back to sleep, he slowly closed his eyes shut and fell back asleep and then he heard the noise again but instead of getting up he decided to ignore it, first he just wasnt gonna listen to ti anymore then he heard it more so he brought the blanket over his head but it seeed like that had just made it louder, he then grabbed the pillow and put it over his head which seemed to work for a long while, he was even able to get some sleep in. until he heard it again and now he decided he could not sleep and leaves his tent to see what is making the noise. He starts walking around the camp and sees this hill with one tree standing on top of it, the traveler became curious and walked towards the hill as he got closer he saw a fallen log next to the lone tree, The Traveler sat down on the fallen log and looked at the stars all over the sky. After a while of The Traveler looking at the stars, he hears some footsteps coming up from behind him, The Traveler jumps up and turns around to see Elijah tiptoeing up to the tree, Elijah looks at the traveler "I'm pretty sure I was quiet enough" said Elijah "apparently not my lord, since I was able to hear you" the traveler said, Elijah sighs in disappointment as he walked up the hill to "yeah yeah I'm still a little rusty since the war" elijah said as he sat down next to the traveler, they both looked at the stars in the sky "can you tell me about the giant wall and the war that you were in" the traveler asked. Just as elijah was going to answer the question; they felt a loud rumbling through the ground both of them jumped up from the rumbling and started looking around, Elijah saw a deer-like figure in the tree line moving fast towards the open field and after that more deer like figures were coming up, Elijah and The traveler hid behind the fallen log they were sitting on, they looked at the tree line and saw crowds of cervos deers run through the open field, Elijah and The traveler look at the cervos deer cover the open field in front of the hill "what are those?" The Traveler asked "they are called cervos deer definitely bigger than your normal deer, you see they use those giant antlers for killing prey and attackers, if we were closer you would able to see their sharp teeth they have to shred meat kind of like the ones you see on a dog, and their long tails I have no idea what they are for" Elijah said as he pointed at the different parts of the cervos's body "wait so they are meat eaters?" The traveler asked "yes but they aren't active hunters just like normal deers they eat grass and shit, then when they get attacked and win the battle they eat the attacker poisonous or not" Elijah said, the last few cervos deer were just getting done with running through the field; both elijah and The traveler stand up from the fallen log "I wonder where they are going" The traveler asked "well let's see we just left the border of spartans paradise and they are heading north so they will reach naizs giant walls" Elijah said The traveler looks at Elijah in shock, Elijah let out a short yawn then looks back at The traveler "well I'm sorry I couldn't tell you about the war but if I see you after the meeting I would love to tell you some stories" Elijah said then he started walking back towards the tents, The traveler takes a quick look at the stars and then follows Elijah back to the tents. In the morning The traveler wakes up and steps out of his tent the sun becomes too bright for The traveler but once his eyes get used to the sun he looks around and sees that the group is packing up their tents The traveler looks at Elijah who is putting his tent back into a bag on his horse Elijah looks back at the traveler "you better start packing up, we have a meeting to go to" elijah said. A little bit later they got to the border of the town there were crowds of people covering the streets and going to market booths after market booths, it was like the whole territory was just a market; as they are riding through the crowds of people they see a stable housing visiting horses when they got to the stable they saw an old man in a white shirt with some suspenders "excuse me, sir, may we drop off these horses while we go to a meeting?" asked Elijah, the old man looked up at Elijah with a smile "Of course my king" the old man said as he starts to kneel for King Elijah "You are a citizen of God crusaders?" Elijah asked the old man looked up at King Elijah "yes my king, im apart of the Fischer family, we was theresince you declared Saint Theodard a city, and I was born there before it was a city and lived there for quite some time until I heard a rumor that there was a room for more money here." Mr. Fischer said "well I am glad I have some friendly faces in this new territory" Elijah said with a smile, the old man smiled back Elijah turned to the others "my friends we have somewhere to stash other horses, let us continue on foot" Elijah said the others nodded their heads and followed Elijah into the stable once they hopped off their horses at a stable they started heading out towards the meeting "excuse me Mr. Fischer but do you know where I can find the capital building?" elijah asked "yes my lord if you head that way you should see a lake and in the middle of the lake would be an island with the capitol building on it" Mr. Fischer said "Thank you Mr. Fischer I hope god has you and your business within his heart" Elijah said with a smile "thank you my king, may god bless your day." said Mr. Fischer the group then started to head towards the meeting on foot through the markets of people. After a while of walking through the crowds the Traveler realized he had lost the others so he starts running through the crowd trying to find them, and while he was running he wasn't paying any attention to the people he was running into until he bumped into this one man with black armor, the traveler fell down and the man turned around to confront the Traveler, he saw that the man had some blood splats on his shoulders and the weapon he was carrying looked like a dagger on the inside of his arms, he had a mean look on his face "watch where you're going kid or I swear I will end you where stand do you know who I am?!" said the man the Traveler was scared out of his mind "I'm sorry sir it will never happen again I'm very sorry" said the traveler as he trembled and tries to get up from the ground "you know what I do not accept your apology" said the man as he takes out his arm blade and tries to stab The traveler but someone grabs the blade before it can stab the Traveler "that's enough you two" said Elijah as he lets go of the blade and steps back the man puts his blade back in his arm sheath "sorry about my friend the traveler here I'm sure he didn't mean to do what he did" said Elijah, the man looks at elijah and then back at the traveler still filled with anger "now my traveler friend why don't you apologize to this man now, speaking of which I don't even know your name mister" said Elijah both Elijah and the man look at each other "its Jonathan and I am the king of slum gates" said Jonathan "ah well traveler say you're sorry to Jonathan right now" said Elijah "yes sir I'm so sorry king Jonathan" said the traveler as he reaches his hand out for a hand shake and Jonathan grips the travelers hand and shakes it really hard than let goes "now then we have a meeting to attend to and it is not wise to be late" said Elijah as he grabs the travelers hand and flings the traveler ahead of him, the traveler starts to walking towards the meetin, Elijah turned around to Jonathan and they both start laughing "that was the best joke we have ever done" said Elijah "it most certainly was, he thought I was actually going to hurt him" said Jonathan "he definitely was scared shitless of you and nice blood is that dye or real?" said Elijah "oh it's just dye I couldn't find any animals to kill for real blood but I do hope he won't be too scared of me for too long he looks like a good kid is he your apprentice or is he just tagging along?" said Jonathan "well he was the kid that delivered the message to me telling me to come here but he could be a soldier with the right training so I'll ask him and see what he thinks" said Elijah "well then I'll see you at the meeting" said Jonathan "ah yes see you then" said Elijah as he shook Jonathans hand and walked away towards the traveler, Elijah caught up to the traveler "you ought to be more careful lad" said Elijah "yes sir I am sorry just in that situation I felt so scared that I could barely move" said the traveler "yes I could tell, but you know something I noticed is that you don't have a sword or any type of weapon on you" said Elijah "yes sir that is right I do not have a sword nor weapon on me I also don't have any experience in hand to hand combat because I didn't think I needed it for delivering the message" said the traveler "well then, you are going to have to protect yourself sooner or later so the only choice I see is for you to be my student" said Elijah "wh- wait your student?! I'm sorry my lord but don't you think that is giving too much?" said the traveler "no I don't think so; look you could barely do anything in that situation with King Jonathan and one day no one will be there to save you so while I'm still alive and healthy I'm going to train you so you can save your own ass and the others around you" said Elijah the traveler was in shock and inspired by Elijah's harsh words as he looked up to Elijah's proud face "yes sir, of course, I will accept this offer and become the greatest king and fighter in the world just like you sir" said the traveler "oh I don't know about the best king, seeing that the best king would be me and I'm the best fighter so you can be third best" said Elijah as he grins "now the first lesson never be late to anything you are attending like this meeting that we will miss if we don't hurry" said Elijah as he runs toward the direction of the meeting area with the traveler right behind him.
Minutes later, They show up at the lake and see the building where Mr. Fischer said the meeting was going to be they began to run over, when they reach the island they see the house which was white all around and had pillars all on the edges of the building and stairs leading up to the door. infront of them was a stone bridge from the island to the mainland on this bridge there were markets all over the side the bridge with people crowding the bridge up "This seems to be the place" said Elijah as they walk up the stairs and opens the doors. After they look for a sign of where the meeting is, they go down a hallway to see spartans, the mountain boys, samurai guards, one or two Vikings, Naiz guards in all black, and three female guards from waters hold, all waiting outside a door, they all look at King Elijah and The traveler "the meeting inside that room?" King Elijah asked the soldiers all nodded at King Elijah and The traveler. Elijah opens the door, inside the center room was a big round table with 11 kings and 1 queen already sitting at the table, having conversations with each other, at the end of the table is a man looking outside the giant window behind him, King Luy and King Mitchell look at King Elijah being late, King Elijah sits at the round table with King Jonathan to his left and King Luy to his right, The traveler walks up to Elijah "um excuse me King Elijah but where do I sit?" The traveler asked Elijah looked at The traveler "um well there isn't enough seats at the table so just stand in the corner for now" King Elijah said The traveler nods and stands in the corner of the room, the man at the end of the table grunts towards King Elijah, Elijah looks back at the man and nods down at him. "alright now that everyone is here let us begin the meeting" said the man everyone paused their conversations and looked at the man "I apologize for not requesting more chairs, I didn't expect anyone to keep their messengers and take them to this meeting" said the man as he looked at The traveler "Elijahs always had a soft spot for random peasants" king Tristan of Naiz said, some of the other kings chuckle a little "first order of business I'd like to thank all of you for coming to this meeting especially you King Jonathan I know it must've been hard to come here" said the man "I trust my people to be safe without me and protect themselves" said Jonathan "is it still that dangerous near slums gates?" Elijah thought to himself as he got in a relaxed position and continue listening to the man "now as the elected king of this new territory I'd like to make this a peace zone for all people on this island and call this new territory the black market, so that being said I will allow any stores that you want to set up here for your kingdom and they will be protected" said the man "do you get any of the money that we make from said stores" said a man at the table in bright red armor on the top left of his chestplate there is a yellow symbol with a khopesh facing right and mallet on it facing left, the man was holding a khopesh in his right hand, the man had brownish scruffed hair and a small brown mustache with a little bit of hair on his chin "no Austin king of Ussr I will be getting no money from what the stores make there will be no tax on the store any of you make except to be peaceful and don't cause problems anywhere in my kingdom I have already told my kingdoms guard to enforce peace and stop any acts or attempts at creating violence within the Black market" said the man "hell yeah sounds like you got a deal" said Austin "I don't know, this just sounds like a waste of land" said a man in blue leather dye and fur on his shoulders, the man had blonde hair and a beard so long he had to tie it together in the mans left hand he had a huge dale ax "what are you talking about a peace territory is a great thing to happen to these lands since we won the war and built that wall" said another man that was wearing dark blue samurai armor with a red oni mask that was only covering his mouth and nose, the samurai had his blue katana placed on the table infront of him "oh shut up you have so much land you have no reason to complain, I basically have no land at all thanks to you Nicky and that guy" said the man as he points across the table at a man wearing wolf fur on his leather armor, the man had long black hair and a little bit of hair on his beard the man was also holding a drink in his hands "you know Valhalla is rightfully mine dear brother Anthony" said the man as he takes a sip from his drink "you had help from that samurai fucker and the soviet while I had no one at all I was fighting a three vs one so do tell me brother neils who really deserves Valhalla" said Anthony as he yells at neils "we can fight again and I'll still win" said neils as he yells back at Anthony, the traveler walks towards Elijah while he sits quietly while the two are arguing "who are those guys?" said the traveler "ah they are royal brothers from an old kingdom called Valhalla that used to be one kingdom but then when the brothers got older they started asking themselves who would be delcared king of Valhalla and finally they had enough of talking it out so they started dividing amongest themselves. One side was Anthony and his followers that wanted him to be king and the other one was Neils who had his followers that wanted him to be king, unfortunately, Neils was more inland than Anthony so he didn't have a navy like Anthony did but lucky for him he made an alliance with the two big kingdoms next to them both, hikona and the Ussr, they helped Neils make Anthony surrender and now there are two Valhalla's the new Valhalla which is owned by Neils and the old Valhalla which is owned by Anthony and now they have just been yelling at each other anytime we have a meeting with all the kings, but I think soon they are going to fight again and Anthony will lose again" said Elijah "oh okay" said the traveler as he goes back to leaning on the wall as he watches the brothers fight. Elijah gets up from his chair and brings out his black flintlock pistol and fires it in the roof, everyone jumps to the sound of the gunshot "gentleman let's not fight over something that has happened a long time ago, now then is there anything else someone would like to say?" said Elijah as he holsters his flintlock back in, luy stood up from his chair "actually yes I would like to start an expedition to the other side of the wall and I want Mitchell, Jonathan, and Elijah with riley giving us some horses" said luy "that is insane and stupid, you will die immediately you'll probably die before you even make a base there" said Nicky "I think it's a good idea" said Anthony "what do you mean good idea what do you even hope to find out there where do you plan on making a base?!" said Austin as he yells across the table "this is a research expedition to see if they are on the other side of the wall and I do have an idea of setting up a base that's why I need Jonathan" said luy "this is crazy I deny you do this" said Neils "well me and my spartans are still going to do it whether anyone joins me or not this could change everything if my mission is successful than we could stop being cornered against the sea" said luy "I'm going too" said Jonathan "so am I" said Elijah "I guess I will too" said Mitchell "well than it seems like the people that wanted to go are agreeing to go" said the man Austin and nicky sit back down and stayed silent "when will we leave?" said Elijah "in 4 days" said luy "good I have enough days to at least teach the kid something" Elijah thought to himself "alright I think that wraps up this meeting" said the man as he stands up from his chair and everyone else also got up and started leaving the area of the meeting, before Elijah could leave the room the traveler runs toward Elijah and starts asking about what they will start doing first "so what are we going to do first? Sword training, gun training, combat-"said the traveler as he stops talking to the sound of a gunshot and screams outside of the house Elijah runs toward the noise with the traveler behind him "what happened here" said Elijah as he looks around and sees the king of the black market gasping for air on the ground with blood coming out of a hole in his chest while king Anthony, King Niels, and emperor Nicky are around him trying to stop him from bleeding out, Elijah looks all over the bridge trying to find the shooter he looks in the crowd, looks on the roofs of the markets and sees a figure on the shops running away "there, I'll go get him, kid stay here and if I don't come back meet me back at god's crusaders" said Elijah as he sprints towards the direction of the figure, Elijah follows the figure all the way till they are off the bridge then Elijah pulls out a black flintlock from his left side and shoots at the figure and the bullet goes through the figures hair which cuts some of the figures hair off, the figure loses balance but then regains their balance and still runs away, Elijah runs also while reloading his flintlock, the figure whips out a musket and jumps to turn around to shoot at Elijah but the figure missed their shot and hits the support of a store behind Elijah, Elijah ducks into another store the debris from the store when he gets back up he looks up to see that the figure is standing above him looking for Elijah within the debris, Elijah kicks the wooden store support and it breaks the figure starts run to the other roof but instead loses balance and falls in an alley way between stores, the figure screams as it goes down Elijah reloads his flintlock and puts it back in his pistol holder then ran towards the alley way as Elijah turns into the alley way, he sees the figure holding up its arm and tries to get up from the ground to run away, Elijah reaches into his boot for a knife and throws it at the figures calf and makes the figure fall back on The wall the figure sat down in pain, as Elijah walks up to the figure he pulls out his flintlock pistol pointing it at the figure's head then stops walking when he's standing in front of the figure "look at me" said Elijah, as the figure looks up at Elijah. Both of them made eye contact and Elijah realizes that the figure is a woman "is this better now?" said the women as she stares into Elijah's eye "actually it is, now why don't you tell me why you shot the king of The Black Market?" said Elijah as he pulls the hammer back ready to fire the flintlock at the womans face "because he told me to" said the girl Elijah paused for a sec to think "that doesn't make any sense why would someone that looks so happy, someone that just made a peace treaty with everyone, someone who just helped these lands, plan their suicide" said Elijah "I don't know man all I know is that he wanted me to I guess people aren't as happy as they seem to be" said the girl and then Elijah stepped back still pointing the gun at the girl, hearing a voice coming from somewhere "oh look what we have here Elijah she thinks the same as us maybe we should let her live she could be some fun!" said a voice in Elijah's head "now's not really a good time Abaddon" said Elijah as he hit his head with his other hand "who are you talking to?" said the girl "it's no one you need to worry about" said Elijah "okay well how about instead of letting her go free we take her in under our wing and teach her the ways you were taught mm that sounds like a good idea to me" said Abaddon "why do you show up now what have you been doing these past years?" whispered Elijah "oh you know the usual a little bit of torturing the weak, drinking, killing, adding in some more zombies and demons on the other side of the wall" said Abaddon. Elijah sighs "alright what is your name," said Elijah as he puts his flintlock back and reaches out his hand trying to help the girl get up, the girl reaches for his hand lifting herself with a firm grip on Elijah's hand "Meghan," said the girl "alright Meghan you are going to follow me to my kingdom and I will heal you once then I will train you or turn you in for murder I haven't decided yet but that's not the matter," said Elijah "what if I try to run away," said Meghan "well than ill find you and kill you in whichever way seems fit to me," said Elijah with a grin on his face "so do we have a deal?" said Elijah as he reaches his hand out wanting her to shake his hand "yes we have a deal," said Meghan as she shakes Elijah's hand looking into Elijah's dark eyes ``well let's get a move on back there is someone else I have to pick up before we go to my kingdom," said Elijah as he starts walking out of the alley way with Meghan following him. The crowd was still a little scared from the musket shots and everything but almost everything had died down lucky for Meghan no one knew it was her who was the one jumping on the roofs. Eventually, Elijah and Meghan make their way back to the capital house Elijah sees Luy and Mitchell walking around to find people who were hiding "Is everyone okay? Is anyone else injured?" yelled luy and Mitchell "Oi where's the man's body?" said Elijah "a medic team from old Valhalla came and picked him and Anthony up they are on their way back to old Valhalla" said Nicky "okay I wasn't able to catch the murder but I do have information about him, it's a guy that we are looking for" said Elijah "alright that is good to know" said Riley "but I can't stay here for long this girl is injured so I'm going to take her to get healed also where is the traveler?" said Elijah "right here my lord" said the traveler as he walked outside of the meeting house. "Okay let's go back home so you can start training," said Elijah as he puts his hand on his shoulder, the traveler has a huge smile on his face "Yes let's go home," said the traveler with excitement and starts walking with Elijah and Meghan. As Elijah, the traveler and Meghan enter Dillard, people come up to greet Elijah and see the girl behind Elijah "someone get the Holy medics" said someone in the crowd and a couple of knights who were carrying a white bag with a red cross on it and the others had a stretcher with them, the knights slowly take Meghan off of Elijah's horse and puts her on the stretcher, Elijah grabs the arm of one of the knights that was taking Meghan off "make sure she is heavily guarded" whispered Elijah to the knight, the knight nodded and takes Meghan away, Elijah sits straight up on his horse and looks at the crowd of peope surrounding him "we have a lifetime peace treaty with the new territory called the black market you can now go there to sell or buy goods for gods crusaders, you will not be taxed by the black market your money can go to you, your familys, and god" said Elijah to the crowd and they jumped with joy, Elijah moves through the crowd with the traveler following him inside the castle, Elijah and the traveler get off their horses and walk inside, they walk inside a room with armor and weapons on the walls, Elijah goes over to the wall and grab a sword with his right hand while he grabs another one with his left "alright" said Elijah as he tosses the sword in his left hand towards the travelers feet "show me what you got" said Elijah as he got into a fighting stance "wait what" said the traveler and Elijah came at him swinging from the right "block right" said Elijah and the traveler lifted his sword up and blocked Elijah's attack, Elijah jumped back and took another swing "block left" said Elijah and the traveler switched sides and blocked Elijah's attack, Elijah stepped back again and then swing at his right "block right and left and jump" said Elijah as he attacked the travelers right side but the traveler blocked that attack and Elijah spinned and attacked the travelers left side but the traveler just barley blocked it and then Elijah fell to the ground and kicked the travelers legs knocking him down to the ground and Elijah jumped back up and reached out his hand trying pick up the traveler "I told you to jump" said Elijah and the traveler grabbed his hand lifting himself up "well I didn't think that's what you meant" said the traveler "alright how did that sword feel?" said Elijah "it's a little too heavy, I couldn't move it that fast" said the traveler "alright that's called a two handed sword it's supposed to be good at blocking and heavy attacks but look awesome here this is a one handed sword it's somewhat lighter and usually is combined with a shield or something else" said Elijah as the traveler looked all over the sword "alright lets go" elijah said as he attacked but this time he didn't tell the traveler where to block so the traveler dodge instead of block "you can attack me also" said Elijah "you don't say" said the traveler and he went in for an attack but Elijah had clash his sword with the travelers sword while also getting on one knee at the same time, with the traveler excitement that he got Elijah on the ground he pushed harder toward Elijah but in a split second Elijah spun around the traveler and ended up behind the traveler "rule one don't get cocky in a fight" said Elijah as the traveler is left in his stance in shock and confused "now I think that's the end of that lets do something about your neck" said Elijah "my neck? What's wrong with my neck?" said the traveler to himself as he felt the side of his neck with his hand and looked at his hand that's covered in blood "my neck! What the hell happened to my neck" screamed the traveler "well when I spinned around you I also made a semi deep cut in your neck and because of your shock that you were already in you didn't feel it until I said something about it" said Elijah as he hands the traveler a little towel for him to clean up the blood "now then let's eat dinner and then I will start training you with physical combat" said Elijah "yes Sir! I'm starving" said the traveler as he gets back up from the floor and follows Elijah out of the room. When they walked out of the room you could hear a loud deep bark coming from the hall "ha we were being too loud" said Elijah with a smile on his face "what is that supposed to mean?" said the traveler "you'll see" said Elijah as he looked down the hall and hank comes running down the hall at full speed "its hank" yelled Elijah "that's a beast" yelled the traveler and hank jumps on Elijah bringing him to the ground "how's my favorite dog doing" said Elijah as he pets hanks fur "that's your dog?" said the traveler "of course he is, although he should be bathing right now "hank hello hank where did you go boy" said zeke "he's over here zeke" yelled Elijah "ah hello my lord, terribly sorry about hank and if I may who is this other person you have with you" said zeke "oh right where are your manners" said Elijah looking at the traveler "oh I'm the traveler lord Elijah is training me to be as strong of a warrior as him" said the traveler "and I am Ezekiel but you can call me zeke" said zeke "nice to meet you" said the traveler "well now that everyone's meet everyone, me and the traveler are going to eat dinner in the food hall will you please take hank and give him his daily bath" said Elijah "of course lord would you also like me to find a clean room for the traveler?" said zeke "ah yes please do that" said Elijah "as you wish lord come with me hank you still need a bath, it was very nice to meet you Mr. traveler" said zeke "yes very nice to meet you too zeke" said the traveler and hank gets off of Elijah and follows zeke. As Elijah and the traveler are walk down the hall towards the dining hall, a knight comes from another door "sir I have a report about the girl you told us to heal and have under heavy protection, she has gone unconscious but still needs healing and probably won't be able to use her arm for another three days" said the knight "alright that is fine keep checking on her and give me more updates" said Elijah "yes sir" said the knight and he started walking in the opposite direction of the dining hall "what was that about?" said the traveler "it's not important just about that girl we brought in" said Elijah "oh is she going to be okay" said the traveler "of course she will" said Elijah with a smile on his face "now let's eat!" said Elijah as he opens the door in front of us to a huge room with long tables in the middle of the room "wow" said the traveler "I know right this is one of six dining halls that we have in this castle, we need all the dining halls for my elite soldiers and each one holds three hundred men and six hundred men at full capacity some of the soldiers from the normal army also eat here too we switch every now and then between the armies, so whichever one is in here eating while the other one is outside eating" said Elijah "cool" said the traveler with excitement, the traveler starts running around and looking around at everything in the room "do you eat with them?" said the traveler "of course I do" said Elijah "nice" said the traveler "alright enough explaining things let's eat" said Elijah and he grabs a plate and starts putting food on it, the traveler does the same thing and they both go to sit down across from each other on the table "hey you know I never got your name" said Elijah "oh well that's because I never got mine my mother died from a group of zombies when she was protecting me and my father got taken by one of those giant humans when they attacked my home and then that man back at the meeting he found me on my own and he told me to go to your kingdom to deliver the message and now he's d- dead" said the traveler as he stops eating and stares into the fire place with an blank face and then Elijah starts laughing "what's so funny?" said the traveler as he stared at Elijah now with confusion and anger "you're the same as me kid you might as well be my son!" said Elijah now the traveler just has the face of confusion "and that's funny to you?!"said the traveler "heck yeah!" said Elijah as he dies laughing "alright old man let's hear your backstory" said the traveler