Draco wakes up and tries to figure out where is he, he finds himself tied on a horseback getting carried. He looks around and sees around 20-25 horses running in the same direction, they were wearing rashed torn clothes and smelled very bad. The traitor who was along with Draco was lying on the horseback with a lot of blood spilling out of his chest, Draco narrows his eyes and tries to see him better, he looks carefully and finds that he is probably dead. Draco thinks it's bettet to keep his mouth shut for now and just observe what's happening.
The news of Draco getting abducted was reached in the capital and it's been 3 days since his abduction. All the Cult Leaders informed their men to stop and capture any horde of horsemen of more than 10 horses. The search operation to find Draco was started, National Police had seized every possible border way and were searching carefully for Draco and his abductors. Harlem couldn't understand if those men were with Draco and just made him escape from the grasp of police or was he really kidnapped by some dangerous people. All the Cults had reached their respective zones and ordered their men to patrol and check every gray area and crime regions in their respective Zones.
The gang that abducted Draco decided to take a break and rest in the deep forest, they had food and water with them. A rider picks up Draco and makes him sit on the ground with the support of the tree with his hands still tied, Draco was handed over the vessel of water, he drank some water without questioning anything. The man asked Draco "Don't you want to know who we are?" To which Draco replies "You're either a friend or a foe and since you still haven't killed me I assume that you're a friend". The rider smirks and replies "You're not completely wrong, you'll understand everything once we reach our destination" Draco questions in curiosity, "...and where is our destination?" To which the rider replied "Ghoriyar", After resting for a while they all started their journey again.
Things were quite problematic in the West Zone, Denver was devastated by hearing that it was Draco who hired one of the assassins, Domer got pretty strict while choosing new men, he can't afford another betrayal. The Mahato family was broken, Lilly (Draco's Wife) had been crying since she hears the news, she was more hurt that Draco tried to kill Denver than Draco getting kidnapped. Domer and Denver were talking about who could have abducted Draco and the Scorpions trying to find out every possible leads they could.
In the East Zone, Jon and Rudolph were discussing about how disappointed they are because of the elections results, their disappointment was valid since they were certain that Jon would have won the elections because he had the support from Sharks. Rudolph asked his father to increase the security at borders, he was more concerned about the Ghors than Draco getting abducted. Rudolph had suspicions that Ghors could be behind the abduction of Draco and the killings of National Police officers that were taking Draco to the Central Jail. Rudolph had learned new tactics in the Battle of South Sea, he ordered his weapons' group to develop a dart thrower and announced in East Zone for the selection of people who are good at using Darts, he was preparing for something big.
The Aves reached North Zone and as Brian expected, his wife had handled the Zone very wisely. As soon as Brian came back from the capital he had a long conversation with his wife and his father-in-law Arthur Gees, Brian's father-in-law was the former leader of The Aves' which he then passed on to Brian. After the conversation Brian decided to visit the Norther mountains once and see for himself how is the situation there. He travelled and found out that the situation was same as it was when he left North Zone. Brian had his fears, the murders by Ghors in the mountain and the news of attack on the South Zone led him to think more about outside dangers this country could face.
Meanwhile the Spiders' were busy building an arrow machine that could shoot multiple arrows at same time, since the Central Zone was surrounded by other regions and was landlocked they didn't have to worry about any foregin invasion in their zone. Although Haroon Beram was still cautious, he knew that Central Zone is the safest place to be in Takht and that he could use this as an advantage to gain people's trust and win over the presidency.
Harlem was busy finding Draco, it has been a week since Draco was abducted and there was no signs of his presence in Takht, Harlem assumed that Draco has either been killed or had been taken out of Takht by the abductors. Not just Harlem but every leader was thinking the same, since the Presidency was returned to Denver, he took some decisions to improve the saftey of Takht and hence he sent messages to every leader in the nation to increase their man power and cease any battles or fights in between the Cults. This request was accepted by all the Cults without any questions, Denver for the first time was more worried about his nations safety rather than just West Zone's safety.
Over a week passed and Draco found himself in a shack which situated in a big group of houses surrounded by a barren land. The shack was dark, Draco was sitting on the bed and thinking about his kidnapping when a man came inside the shack and asked him if he wanted food. Draco accepted the food and questioned the guy, he asked him where is he? To which the unknown man replied "you're in Ghoriyar, in the Ghors' territory" the man also told Draco to eat his food and after he is done, their lord will meet him. Draco was confused who that man was referring to, but he didn't want to ask more questions and make him angry. Draco knew that he was in an unknown territory and he will probably a story of the past soon. Draco started devouring his food and soon finished it, as soon as he finished his food he felt that someone was coming towards the shack and his commotion was right. A tall muscular man entered through the door of the shack, he had multiple tattoos on his body, he was bare chested and was wieliding a sledge hammer in one hand and an axe in other hand, he kept his weapons aside, sat in front of Draco and looked at him for a while before speaking.
Carth: You don't know me so I'll start with my introduction...
Draco was impressed by how deep Carth's voice was, it sounded as if a monster was talking.
Carth: ... I'm commander in chief of the Ghors and the right hand man of our lord Zorawar. Zorawar is the lord and creator of the Ghors and you have been abducted to fulfill our lords wish.
Draco: and what is your lords wish...?
Carth: To capture Takht and make that land his own.
Draco was surprised by hearing what Carth just said, he had never heard someone so casually speaking about taking over an entire nation and that too a nation like Takht. Draco then surprisingly replied.
Draco: Takht is not as easy to conquer as you think, they have got some very good warriors and an entire National Army.
Carth: and that's the reason we've abducted you, our lord wants you to help him side by side.... Shoulder to shoulder, you will be helping our lord to take over Takht.
Draco: Why do you think I will betray my own nation?
Carth: because you have betrayed it once already, you tried killing your father but he got saved, you have no where else to go, you have nothing else to do so you will help us because you have no other choice.
Draco realizes that Carth was not wrong. Draco was in a bad situation where he can't refuse but accepting it will mean Treason against Takht, but he was willing to take the risk.
Draco: I want to meet your lord and talk to him about it, where is he?
Carth: My lord is resting in his palace which is several kilometers from here, it'll take 2 days to reach there.
Draco: so where are we now?
Carth: we're at the Western Army Base of Ghors.
Draco: an army? Haha how many men do you have? Because the combined military strenght of Takht is about 70 thousand! Scorpions themselves had about 12 thousand men.
Carth: come outside and have a look, you will understand Ghors' Strength.
Draco gets up from the bed and moves out of the door, he is suprised with what he sees, a big army base with thousands of weapons, thousands of horses and camels and thousands of men scattered around the big area. He then realized this was Ghors' Strength.