Back in the capital, a group of guards is starting to split into multiple companies for each part of this side of the capital.
A few moments later, General Ulman arrived. The people whisper; some shut themselves inside their houses.
They then move thier forces to the market and arrived at the place where many seller kept their cart and carriage at. The moment the guards entered, a bunch of people suddenly shouted from afar.
General Ulman immediately ordered the guards to stop all of them from entering the area.
The Seller: What are you people doing,
along with a bunch of other shouting and pushing the guards to step aside
Multiple guards started to search all the carts and carriages. The guard then leaned down; as he touched the bottom of this carriage, he noticed there was a small amount of white powder falling from the carriage.
The guard immediately stood back up and shouted to Ulman,
The Guard: General, it seems the info is correct.
Then suddenly another guard also shouted about finding a big bag of white powder,
Ulman immediately looked at the seller and the merchant,
The Seller and the merchant went silent, sweating, many starting to take steps back; suddenly, some of them ran away from the area.
The guard noticed and chased after them; the rest immediatley grab by the guard.
They struggled; the guard grabbed them, but the people retaliated. A few had cuffs, and some ran away,
The guard chased after them,
Ulman then ordered all the guards to rip the carriage and the cart apart. The guards drew their swords and started slashing it all.
Ulman got off his horse, then walked toward the breaking carriage,
The Guard: General, almost half of these carriages are smuggling about 30 to 60 bags of a very strong drug. How should we proceed next?
Ulman: Gather all the drugs and take them to the forestress,
The Guard: Understood, sir
Meanwhile, in the middle of the capital, a large number of soldiers have entered the capital; then suddenly a group of people walk in and stand infront of their path.
Commander Gaden: Move,
They stand there in silence, eye twitching, hands shaking, then one of the men shouts at him.
The Man #1: Get out of the city, you bastard
Commander Gaden: Man, make them get out of the way.
A group of soldiers rush in and grab them. As both the soldiers and these people are struggling against each other, suddenly one of the men punches the soldier in the face, and one of the soldier suddenly collapse.
The man is standing, shaking, mouth open slightly, his eyes flickering, holding a knife with blood dripping off of it. The man then turns his gaze toward Gaden,
Gaden's eyes widen; he pauses as his heart starts racing, sweating uncontrollably. his stomaches starting burn;
Gaden leans forward, then one of the soldiers shouts.
The Soldier: Grab that man,
The man runs, then other starting to fight back,
During the commotion of the soldiers and the people fighting, Gaden snap he look at them.
The Soldier: What are all of you doing? Go in there and assist our man,
The bunch of soldiers join in and push all of these men against the ground.
Commander Gaden: Capture all of them
After all of them are tied up by the soldiers, then Gaden gets off of his horse and sits down on the wooden chair infront of a stall,
He grabs his chest as he sweats intensely; he breathes heavily and faster; his heart keeps on beating faster; then suddenly one of the men shouts as the soldiers tie them together,
The Man: Oh, help me, do take me to prison. Help me
Gaden then breathed even faster. One of the soldiers noticed; he ran toward Gaden, one hand on Gaden's back and one hand grabbing his arm, as Gaden was bleeding due to his hand apply too much force on his hand, his finger starting to injure his chest,
The soldier tried to shout at him to snap him,
The Soldier: Commander? Commander
Gaden can hear a faint voice of the soldier, then the other also starts shouting as well.
It immediately triggers Gaden's memory during the war.
During the war, in Ranpi Kingdom's territories, Gaden and a few other commanders and army captains were captured along with hundreds of soldier that are still alive.
Gaden was tied up to the wooden pole, lips dry, skinny, fingers nailed to the wood pole, a piece of wood forced into his mouth, ripped clothes, exhausted, scorn heat of the sun flashed to his dry and sore eyes.
Gaden opened his eyes slowly, pain burning his eyes, as his eyelids dried out and stuck together.
He saw a soldier sating infron to him, then another soldier entered his blurry vision, and the faint voice of the soldier made Gaden open his eyes wider,
The Soldier: General, he has awakened
Gaden's neck is locked in a heavy iron collar with the chain that anchors to the ground. Gaden turned his head to the left and rotated what was in front of him.
His body bent; his back revealed his spine through his skinny body, his waist injured and has left for month untreated cuase the injure to cover in dry blood; the color turned pale purple, and flies surrounded his injured waist,
Gaden looked at what was in front of him: a camp with a table full of food, fruit, and well-cooked meat; the smell flooded his nose. Multiple soldiers stood on duty, looked at him, then Gaden turned to his left.
His eyes widened, his mouth opened and shook. Gaden then moved to the right in panic; his voice cracked.
He nailed the dripping blood from his finger, then a tall man with full armor walked in to block the sunlight and stab Gaden's calf. As he struggled, Gaden screamed, but no voice.
General Vale Caf of Ranpi Kingdom
General Vale Caf: You can even look at your own men; you are too afraid to look at them, aren't you? Then let me show you instead. On their right , 4 men- a captain and commander- they are cuffed just like you are; their are eye are longer with them; their tongues are already fed to the doge; the spear later does the final job to end their endless screaming last night and on their left, well I don't need to explaint much their decay corp and the smell should explaint it,
Then General Vale Caf shouts at the soldier standing guard there,
General Vale Caf: Hey, you there, how many days are you intending to keep it like that? I look like a hill, it unsightly, and the smell ruins my appetite. Burn it by tomorrow,
The Soldier: Yes, General
Then General Vale Caf turned around, pointing his finger at the soldier.
General Vale Caf: You, remove his collar and tie his head to the pole, open his eyes wide
Two soldiers rush in and unlock the collar; they then grab Gaden's hair and pull his bending body straight up. A small voice of cracking bones suddenly echoes in the soldiers' ears as they push his head against the wooden pole,
Gaden opens his mouth, drooling, and his eyes keep on tearing up; his body keeps jerking in pain.
The soldier then stands up,
General Vale Caf: Where is the device to keep his eye openThe Soldier: Apologies, General, but we didn't have it with us.
General Vale Caf: well whatever, bright all of his remaining men here; if he doesn't want to watch, let's let him listen instead
Then multiple soldiers, holding a bucnh of chain locks to a collar on each soldier; their heads are covered by rice bags, feet locked together.
20 war prisoners standing in line; the soldier then kicks the back of their knee to make them kneel down
General Vale Caf: Alright, brave men, let him introduce you to someone you already know, your army captain. What is his name exactly, Gaden? Panen? Whatever, I just wanted to let you know, since you can't see through that bag, this man is well fed, his still has his full strength, He may be unable to respond back due to my order to my soldier to seal his mouth shut, but I can assure you, if you scream loud enough, it might trigger something within him to save you.
if still had his strength, we would only put him in a camp with a powerful barrier,
Then suddenly General Vale Caf pointed his finger at a magic user; then he moved his finger toward Gaden,
The Magic user then walked to Gaden, squatting down, grab Gaden throat.
The Magic User: Soldier, stay strong. I'll do what I can to break free. This game of his may be twisted, but we can play along and escape,
The War Prisoner: Captain Gaden.
The War Prisoner #2: Please, sir, save us
General Vale Caf: You see his desperate voice is powerful, isn't it?
Gaden turned his gaze toward the magic user and stared at him as he walked away. Gaden started to breathe faster and faster, his heart racing intensely, his eyes tearing up again.
General Vale Caf: Ready your sword, man.
Then suddenly one of the war prisoners had his head grabbed; the soldier pushed his head to the ground,
The War prisoner screamed at Gaden, "Captain, I beg you, please save me"
Then he went silent; the soldier then kicked the war prisoner's head toward Gaden.
Gaden froze, despite the heating sunlight; his eye stuck, unable to close. Gaden wanted to move his head, but his body was completely frozen,
Suddenly, all of the war prisoner, starting to screaming and shouting for help all at once as the soldiers went through them one by one.
Everything went silent. The soldier continued to kick each of their head toward Gaden, as he looked at one of the war prisoners' eyes still open and staring directly at Gaden.
General Vale Caf: What do you feel now? Tell me, you want to scream, right? Then scream; if you can't scream, then I'll force it out for you.
Suddenly, a big explosion destroyed the north side of the camp; a soldier immediately arrived.
General Vale Caf: What is going on?
The Soldier: It's the general of the army of Limness Kingdom, General Tranor Warlash