The whole party of Aldric was about to set out on a mission: first, to gain good allies, plot against Dreadbane, and then kill him. To achieve the trust of others and results, they needed to have a lot of money, enough that bribe anyone, that can buy anyone. The other problem was Dreadbane and the seventeen years headstart. While Aldric was in a coma, Dreadbane was roaming the world, he made a name for himself, and he also has a lot of money but that's trackable while Aldric's location would be anonymous.
The general of the royal army was the only person who could issue such a military card that would be in someone else's name while it could withdraw unlimited money. He agreed to issue such a card to Aldric at the request of Dr Einstein, on the condition that he would meet Aldric himself before Aldric goes out on a mission or something.
It was morning time and in the main market of the Northern District of Astradhal, where Aldrica and the general agreed to meet. There was a lot of crowd going to work in the morning. Meanwhile, the three idiots were outside Rajesh's cafe while only Aldric and Garrick Fireward, the general of the royal army, were sitting on the table owned by the three idiots on the second floor of the cafe.
Everything was the same except the ceiling was poorly patched up and painted with a different colour, making the area around the table look out of place.
The general of the royal army was 5'9 and was an old man aged 174, he had wrinkles all over his face, he looked like he could die any second, it was like he was living on an expiry date.
"I can't let you off, anywhere" General spoke slowly and every word had the essence of experience, "You are a Prince, not a secret soldier trained by the military... Look at your body, you are so thin, you look pale... You need to first take care of yourself and we will find the best for you who can do the job in your place,"
"You have no idea what's coming but I do, I know... what will happen... Great Mother Savitri told me everything but there are still many things that we don't understand right now... As much as I know, our kingdom will crumble in a few years... Just a few more wars and we will be doomed, everything will be lost if I don't stop them." As always, Aldric started using his powers, the skill of a liar to make the general convinced that Aldric was right and that he should just play along with whatever Aldric wanted to do.
"Them?" the general wanted more and more info, "Tell me I will have them killed"
"Dreadbane, the Wraithlord of Eboncrest, Crimson Fang of Primodials, the Windreaver, these four have to die in the bare minimum if we want to unite the world and complete our years long campaign we need to kill these four at least." He hit the nail on the spot.
"We can not take a fight with Primodials, Wraithlord is not someone we can kill right now, Dreadbane and Windreaver, I don't even know who they are."
"Windreaver is not a problem for now and someone you will know in a few years but you know Dreadbane, he is a magician, Parikshit Kuru, does that ring a bell?"
"Parikshit, that magician fights from our side, he is the best elite soldier seen in decades, he is going to be promoted to become the general, next week despite him not having the aptitude. It must have been a mistake, he is a good pawn for the country"
"He is not and I know that... He is just holding back, he might already be on the level of Wraithlord, he is too strong, and he is behind the strange areas where people are having time trouble. He needs to be killed. After all, he is a magician." Yet another lie.
"He is good, he even got recommended to wake you up from coma many times, but his master Arden refused... Maybe Arden knew something was off."
"A lot is off, he needs to be dead, you have to keep track of him and every single movement he is making."
"What did the great mother exactly tell you to do?"
"To save ourselves from the bad future that still awaits us if we don't do anything... And I know what to do"
"Then give us the instruction as well, tell us what to do and don't do anything yourself. You don't need to go all over the world putting your life in danger."
'Yeah I would love to do that but you don't know how to defeat them... I am the only person who has killed all four of them...' Aldric thought and then did the 'acting' to emotionally pressurise the general in the name of god, "Are you saying that the great mother was wrong, are you questioning her decision..." He stood up and looked at the stairs far in the cafe, "Are you in or not?" A simple yet the most important question filled with drama.
"I am always with my country... I am with you" A total movie scene that hits hard except there were just so many lies.
"Here," the general gave Aldric a Thoughtlink rune," If you need anything"
He had yet subdued another pawn in the name of the great mother.
They started setting out, They were going out through the western gate of the city which comes under the military, so they wouldn't have any problem in case the guards at the gate recognised Aldric.
All five of them had a horse, and they had a lot of stuff, placed onto a spatial artefact called Chrono Vault, a top grade B artefact that lets the user have a lot of stuff packed into a single artefact that is the size of a tennis ball, due to this they had almost no stuff on them.
It looked like a Rubik's cube, it was coloured all blue, it showed that the Chrono Vault was almost full if it was shining in green colour it meant it had a lot of space empty.
They were going on a stone paved high way where most people prefer the carriage over the horse, as it generally takes a lot of time to reach the destination.
" Captain, are going west?" Mukesh asked, he wanted to know where they were going.
"We are going west, There is a town called Mugstone, that is our first destination."
"Mugstone, that town was famous for the overpriced drinks... I thought we would set out to kill Dreadbane." Suresh only knew about a bar but the underground of that bar was a black-market, customers had to place an order through the bar and then receive the order at a safe place. The bar was only a disguise.
"If you want drinks... I know a lot of places, Captain" Rajesh jumped in.
"It's a bar on the front but in reality, it is a gateway into the black market."
"Going into a black market is illegal isn't it?"
"So what, we will have to break the law a lot of times"
"We need more stuff?" Mohan asked.
"That is one thing but we need something more important than that."
They started moving to a small town nearby just 145 km away. Their plan was to go to these small towns every day and make their way to the town of Mugstone 1300 km away from their current location.
Soon they were going from inside of woods, apparently according to Mukesh, this was a shot cut that would reduce the amount of time by an hour.
Aldric noticed a golden ball a little on their right and he understood what that ball meant, it was a signal from the great mother. He immediately stopped the advance and told them to wait for his return while he chassed that golden ball of light hovering in the air by foot.
He chased after it until it stopped moving, he was facing a cliff. That was when the ball of light spoke, it was a sweet female voice," Son..."
That voice was cut short by Aldric, " Great Mother, I... um... where do I start?" Aldric was so happy to be able to speak to someone who could understand the madness that happened to him," I time travelled and then-"
This time that voice from the ball cut Aldric short, "I know everything that happened, I was the one to save you from The SECOND DAWN, when you executed the Dreadbane, the world itself rearranged. Every single particle changed its position to a time exactly 167 years ago, even souls from heaven got stolen and your solar system became different from any other object in the world.
"When you executed Dreadbane, a wristband appeared on his hand last second and that thing had so much power that it shallowed the whole solar system and reshaped it into a higher dimensional object, even though it feels normal to use as your body and everything around you has changed with the same magnitude but your world is now an incomplete fifth dimension and that is a problem for everyone. Some places however became a complete fifth dimension, those areas are your strange areas or strange places.
"There is also that filthy magician, Dreadbane has something that can make him take those complete fifth dimensions with him."
At this moment Aldric had his mouth opened as he never thought any of this, his thoughts were simple, he time travelled into the past and Dreadbane also time travelled into the past with him but all of his theories and explanations that were given by Dr Einstein, were a very big failure. He fell to his knees and looked down.
"Choices have Consequences, to save your memories and soul, I had to take the impact from that thing head on and now I am also an incomplete fifth dimension like you. I will be dead in a few days."