You'd normally think we would be travelling in a carriage to the castle, right? Well, you are horribly wrong. I was escorted in a limo considering the fact that the entire town seemed rather ancient, but then the limo wasn't the only car around. The town from outside would seem ancient enough but the people living were living lives like it were New York. Everywhere you could see cars zooming by but one thing was that no one got in our way.
Also, when Friedel said he would tell me why I was here on the way, well that didn't happened since it took us a mere 10 minutes to reach the castle. Just at the entrance, the entire castle seemed straight out of a magic book. It was a replica of a British castle yet it was magnificent. As he guided the way I could see multiple servants either glaring at me or murmuring stuff among themselves. As we went through multiple corridors of soldiers and guards holding guns and a sword which was weird as well. Then he bowed and pointed at the last door I presumed which big and laden with gems. As the doors opened, there were 4 seats up front at a pedestal with multiple other seats around at a lower level and none of the seats were empty. What shocked me the most was that my step-father and mother were sitting on the side with my siblings standing beside them.
At the centre stood a huge white man with a black beard and a grim look on his face wearing clothes that didn't suit a king rather like a slave. It seemed courtesy so I knelt. Even in this room there was enough murmur until a single word "silence" surrounded the room echoing from behind the huge man, the actual king was sitting behind on the pedestal I mentioned. He was a weak looking man with a small beard. Beside him sat an old lady who was probably the queen and a boy and a girl roughly my age. Then the king started speaking "I the king of immortalis 'king Magentus crios' declare that you who are guilty for killing a village of innocent people I sentence you to death by guillotine just as how you killed the people of that village on the date 3rd of June. Guards take this man from here." Then he turned his sights to me as if he were analyzing how to send me to hell. He started talking "welcome, you must be the second born of the greenwood family." Then he whispered to one of his attendants beside probably asking what my name was then said "Drago was it, so how does it feel to be reborn in this world?" for once in my life I had no answer, I hadn't known about the fact that I had been 'reborn' till now but I answered "it feels quite weird your majesty. I hadn't known about rebirth till now. So why am I here by the way and not dead"? then a huge screen fell behind him and so did a projector above me, even though it did seem like it was gonna fall on me, it didn't. it showed pictures and videos of which I made no sense. Then he said "Drago, this world is known as the 'Immortalis Vi Vales" but we call it simply as immortalis. For years this place has maintained an equality between the heaven and hell. We are the prison wardens of the heavens and hell. We protect the people of the 'mortalis' or what you'd call the earth from invaders from both heaven and hell." Then quite as an idiot interrupted him to ask "wait I understand why hell would wanna invade?" he replies "you see the boundaries of the 3 realms are not so clear. Souls after passing from the mortalis get sorted to either heaven or hell by us the judges. Of course, as humans they would want freedom from the 2 realms and freedom comes at the cost of the body so they roam as free souls in the mortalis." The entire time he was talking about this my family was being quite fidgety while intently staring at me. My little sister didn't bother looking at me, my elder brother had a look like he could kill the king while my mother's face actually seemed like she held concern for me but I decided not to dwell on it and concentrated on the king's voice. He continued "you see in basis we are just the judge who decide where souls go but the souls always hold more power when compared to us and that is why the gods that existed, created the 3 realms. The goddess of trials 'Embargo', the god of the earth 'Zweigo', the god of the trickery 'Hart', the goddess of the 7 sins 'Dentura', the god of the syzygy 'Archus" the god of knowledge 'Umbrea' and the goddess of purity 'Ichorus' and many others." That is when I made my first mistake of saying "king if I may ask, what about the goddess Creshiel, why hasn't she been included". The next moment all I could see was that everyone's face became grim as the king sighed "you know you could've kept your mouth shut but you didn't. now you have to face execution." Guards circled the room while the other royals sitting had quite the distasteful look on their face. My family looked quite flabbergasted for once. The next thing I know is me getting knocked out and dragged across the room to someplace.