Draco looked around for a good 10 minutes to figure out the total strength of the Ghors. Draco was scared and worried to see such as massive army and such wild men, they reeked of aggression and filth. Draco can't help but ask "what are these...?"
Carth, instead of giving an answer replies with another question "What do you see?", Draco understood that Carth is not going to answer his questions directly so he gave up questioning. Carth whistled and called one of his men, he brought 2 horse with him, one was for Draco. He sat on the horse, Carth said "they will take you to our lord", the rider ties a piece of cloth on the eyes of Draco so he can't see the way to their leader. Draco wasn't surprised and accepted it, then both Draco and the other rider set their way to the Lord of Ghors.
2 men were caught by the Slithers right near the border of East Zone and a neighbouring country. They were suspected to be in the abduction of Draco, they were brought to Jon for further questioning. The two men were smelly, wore torn clothes, had long dirty hair and beard, an appearance similar to that of the Ghors. They were presented in front of Jon in the Slithers Headquarters, they were tied from head to toe. Jon took a look at them and asked his men to open the cloth on the 2 men's mouths and then he called Rudolph to take charge. Rudolph immediately ordered to take the 2 into custody and confine them in the 3rd degree torcher room and also inform Harlem of the arrests.
Domer and Denver were busy with their daily lives yet thinking about Draco all the time. Denver called Domer to talk with him.
Domer: Father you called me?
Denver: Ah yes, you see I'm getting old and now I wish to play with my grandkids instead of playing in the politics.
Domer: Well who's stopping you father, you can play with them anytime you want, they're your children more than mine or Matilda's.
Denver: son you don't understand. I'm saying that I don't want to be a president anymore.
Domer: But the nation needs you and Scorpions need you!
Denver: They need you more than me, I've fulfilled my duty for over 40 years and now I've grown old, I want you to become the leader of Scorpions and the next President of Takht.
Domer: But that's not possible! You can't just pass down the Presidency according to Takhtian constitution!
Denver: I know but I can pass down the Presidency for 3 months on a temporary basis. As a president I have the power to pass down the Presidency to anyone for upto 3 months.
Domer: ...and how are you going to do that?
Denver: I'm calling a conference meeting in 1st March where I will declare you as the next president for 3 months, so prove that you're the best person to lead this country in those 3 months. Draco is missing and is probably dead so I don't want you to think about him this much. I'm giving you this responsibility and hoping that you will not fail me... Can I trust you with it?
Domer: I'm your son, I never fail.
Denver has decided to relinquish his Presidency and pass it down to Domer, he sent the message to all the Cult Leaders and Harlem that a conference meeting will be sessioned on 1st March.
Harlem reached to the National Police headquarters, where he got 3 messages waiting for him. He opened the first message in which the Conference meeting was declared, he read the second one sent by the Slithers informing about the 2 arrested individuals then he opened the last message and was shocked to read the message. The message was from The Aves and they warned about a big attack on the Northern Mountains by the Ghors.
Draco was sitting on a horseback blindfolded taken to the lord of the Ghors. They stopped and Draco's blindfold was removed, he tried to adjust with the light and looked around the area, he realised that he was standing outside of a cave surrounded and guarded by many Ghors. He was walked insided the cave where he found some more men. The cave was large smelled of blood and mice, there were dead animals lying around. Draco covered his nose and kept walking, he was brought into a closed section of the Cave which seemed like a large den, where a man with superior stature resided on a throne carved out of a boulder. He was being worshipped by other men around him, Draco assumed that he was likely the "lord" Carth was talking about. He had an eerie and frightful aura about it, Draco can't help but get down on his knees and bow to him.
The man sitting on the throne was bald and had a long beard, he was only wearing pants and was wielding a big double edged Axe. He had big scars all over his body and a scar of a sword cut right on his face, he had no eyebrows and one of his eye was white while the other was brown. He had piercings in his ears, in his nose, on his nipples and area around his right eyebrow. He stared into the sould of Draco and Draco for the first time in his life felt death whispering in his ears. The man got up from his throne walked close to Draco and said,
"welcome Takhtian, I hope your journey was peaceful, I, LORD SOROS of Securisa invite you to work with me and take over Takht" with a scary look on his face.
Draco replied with calmness which was quite the opposite of his nature "but my lord why do you need me?", Soros explains how he was impressed with Draco's courage and ambition to get the presidency of Takht,
he also put an offer, "I will make you the commander in chief of my 3rd Blood Army and once we take over Takht, I will declare you the president of Takht"
Draco was interested but he thought the offer was too good to be true so to confirm it he asked Soros a question, "That's quite interesting of an offer but why will you do so much for me? What will you gain in return?"
To which Soros replies "I will get Takht under my Empire and you will be under my Empire. The Empire that I will built, I'll name it Sorosa and you will take care of Takht for me"
Draco was thinking about the offer, betraying his own country will make him a traitor forever but he can't go back to his country again and if he refused the offer then he might get killed here, Draco's thoughts clashed but he knew that he was helpless and this was his last option ro survive. Draco stood up and nodded his head. He said "I agree, I will lead you to victory my lord"
This put a smile ot Soros' face, he patted Draco's shoulders, took his knife and cut his palm then he took Draco's palm and shook his hands. He said that it is a ritual here to shake hands of blood after sealing
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