You swore to protect him, but yet he died near you, this what most generals think about Zeral...The queen in shock, her son in tears...The sadness flows in the kingdom, most of them shocked to hear the news, "How the king died?" many wonders...while others start claiming that "The kingdom will fall after his death and they are doomed"

After hours of news of the king's death spread across the kingdom, the funeral held at royal palace backyard to join the rest of the kings that come before him, the most beautiful graveyard in world, a graveyard with many jewelers and gold covering it while pretty flowers surrounding it, a glorious place to put the king's tomb in.

The main priest in capital start the funeral by speaking about the king's heroism life and how he is safe in the god's hand and his way to heaven then he prays for him and for the kingdom

After that when the tomb is about to close people come from everywhere to witness one of biggest funerals ever, all of the comers in tears they sing a special anthem for the king.

Zeral himself was there singing with them, the tears in the beast's eyes, guilty he feels but he is guilty in many things in his life and yet he is going to live with it...

While he singing, he notices Donatella looking at her father's for last time but with no tears or sadness, a face with no emotion in it but he can feel the fury and rage inside her, he can see that she is about to explode and the vengeance already in her eyes

Then when tomb is closed and funeral about to end, Zeral went to speak to her once again, he approaches her from behind and slowly says

"Dona, I swear to you, I will avenge your father death, that man was my hero I loved him and respected him most of my life so don't worry or anger yourself, this will not help you so I suggest you start thinking about the future of this kingdom since you are the heir now until your brother grows to be the next king"

Dona didn't say any word, as she still looking to her father's grave and while Zeral about to leave her, she stopped him by asking

"Wait, tell me when we will start to training?"

Zeral looks strangely to her and asks "Training? what?"

Donatella asks again " I don't care about being an heir or the princess so tell me when the hell we will start training?"

Zeral asks her again "Wait for what? but I told you I will avenge your father..."

Donatella interrupts him by saying this in anger tone

"Tell this to others, for me I don't care, they killed my father so I'm going to fight, the war is coming and I must prepare for it I will end all of the monsters or I will die to try"

Zeral holds her head by his hands and looks to her eyes and says

"Hey, you don't need to fight them...I will kill them for you so please Dona..."

Donatella removes his hands and move on while saying "Tomorrow we will start"

Zeral follows her saying "Hey wait..." then she turns her head and ask Zeral

"No more Dona, no more pitting me please, I'm not sure are you the same Zeral, the beast, that once I knew or what? staying in the capital makes you a weak?"

Zeral immediately stops walking, in shock from what he heard as watching her leaving...Then he says to himself "The beast will be unleashed soon, just wait and see" then he goes to join the generals in last pay to respect stand at funeral

Meanwhile at Hirvan's cave, after he captures a soldier, then after he read some pages from the book of Nolloros, he says "Finally I found it now give me this soldier" ordering his monster to bring him the human so he can make a spell on him...

The poor soldier in tears begging for his life, Hirvan start reading the spell as he painting the man with blood, a spell with ancient language that only druids can read so not even monsters understand what was it and as he did the spell, the soldier starts screaming "NOOO...STOP...NOOO"

Hirvan took some herbs and put them in the soldier ears and nose and continue reading spell while soldier starts losing control of himself, he starts screaming and freaking...

Then Hirvan screams with unknown words "GASSHAR...HOSHAVA...BAVVA...ZUKASSUUU..."

the soldier stops moving and screaming as he biting his tongue then he falls down...The scare in the monsters faces as the wondering about this spell...

So one of them asks "My lord, what is going on? what are you doing to him?"

Hirvan with a smile says "Don't worry his fine is that right?" asking the soldier who just stands up and says "Yes my lord" everyone gets freaked out from hearing this...

Then Hirvan says "Great, now let me introduce to you my first human pawn, bow to them now!" The soldier immediately bow to monsters as they watching him in a shock

One of them asks "My lord what happened? you mind controlling him?"

Hirvan answer with a smile "Yeah that is hahaha now I control him and he will help us to win this war"

Another monster asks "What? but how? Is he a mere human? or did you made him special? like Zeral?"

Hirvan says "No, he still a mere human and that is why he is going to make us win"

The monster asks again "But how?" another one asks same...

Hirvan answers them "Okay let me explain as you see, he is a soldier and he is under my control and he will say what I want him to say so he will go back to capital and report that Zeral was the killer of the king and he is traitor so by that humans will lose fate in him and cast him away and that will give us easy opportunity to kill him using the same spell that killed Zeralizion years ago and after that nothing will stop us"

All the monsters impressed by Hirvan plan but one of them asks

"But are they going to believe him?"

Hirvan looks to this monster and says in low voice "Oh, it is you again..." then he says "Well, he will swear, and since he is under my control he will swear as normal human, and he will swear to the religion book that humans follow and as you know humans believe you if you swear in that book, which is stupid as you know hahaha I'm the only god here and I got no book to tell my people what to do because I do exist here and I don't need books..."

The same monster asks "But you used that book to do this spell..."

Hirvan looked to him with anger and says "Are you disbelieving my well again? you think I really needed that book to do this spell? how dare you?"

Monster says "No, of course, no, I'm sorry God I didn't mean that, oh my stupid tongue again damn it I'm really sorry my lord" then he bows to Hirvan

While he bowing he says to himself "You are just fake and useless god, someday everyone will realize that, you've used a spell to make a human a pawn to you then he says it is his mighty power"

Hirvan says "Alright stand up, anyway, my sweet pawn come here let me give your next move and I want to listen carefully so you can convince them"

The pawn soldier says "Yes my lord" as getting close to Hirvan to hear his plot

While Hirvan talking to the soldier and explaining to him what he will do when he gets to the capital...Kevin walks off the cave but there was a monster following him and when he notices him he turns and asks

"Why are you following me? you need something?"

The monster says "I need to talk to you Kevin" then he gets nears him and says "Listen I know what've you done wasn't it easy and you got a huge reward for it but tell me aren't you afraid of Zeral reaction? or maybe the better question is will you be alive to get your award?"

Kevin yells of this monster by "SHUT UP! I had enough with this...He will kill me for sure but he will kill the entire monsters and nothing will stop him! so he will kill you too"

The monster says with a smile "So you are in the same boat as me hahaha and you called us monsters, not holy beings and to be honest that what we are, monsters because only monsters eat humans flesh instead of animals"

Kevin asks "Yeah we are monsters but Hirvan told us years ago you must never eat animal's meat so you only need to feed in humans..."

The monster says in low voice "Fuck Hirvan and his insane mind, he wanted us to do that to end human race so he can establish his own race like a god while he is not and you know that, I ate some animals food and were fine and more delicious than before"

Kevin start walking away from the cave then he says "Well you got a point, well I saw you how many times you've been interrupting Hirvan by asking straight question about his God things, in that case, let me tell you a secret, the truth why I did that to Zeral"

The monster wonders "Wait you didn't do it for revenge and to kill the king?"

Kevin answer with a smile "Not just for revenge, it is for making Hirvan the main target as me, who humans will blame for their king's death? of course Hirvan and even if Hirvan plan to cast Zeral outside the human side works, still Zeral will avenge his king no matter what and I know Adomas so well, he will kill Hirvan as me but before he does get me I will tell him why I did that and my plans for the future as the king of monsters and He will spare me"

The monster asks again "Plans? what kind of plans?"

Kevin says "Well, I will tell him I did that so the king finally got a heroic death also give a new purpose for humans to fight and avenge them so if they kill Hirvan and me survive I will stop this war and make peace with humans and live with them and be sharing animals food with them and why not let's try vegans and lets back as one race, one unity, no more fights"

The monster so impressed by Kevin ideas so he says while clapping his hands

"Man, if this work, you will be a hero as well, the monster or as Hirvan call us the holy being make the first peace between two races and make us one, in that case, I can back to live with my wife and daughter I really wish this will come true and again fuck Hirvan"

Kevin says "Yeah fuck him, so we have to work together and the first important thing no matter what humans will react to Zeral after they heard that he is the killer of the king from this mind-controlled pawn...We must protect Zeral and not let Hirvan kill him with the venom"

The monster says "I agree with you, Zeral is only hoping for us creating this new kingdom"

Kevin stop walking and look down as saying "Even if he kills me before Hirvan I hope you will continue my way and make the peace with them and help Zeral to kill Hirvan that is only way to make this war stop"

The monster stopped walking as well and says "Yeah I will and don't worry I'm not only one who hates Hirvan and wish him to die, there are others but they all afraid of him..."

So both continue walking back towards the cave while discussing their plans as well meanwhile back to the capital, inside the castle the queen asked her men to bring her Zeral to talk to him, after they finally find him outside the castle, he went back with them...

The shame and sadness in his face as he entering the throne and without a word, he bowed to her and waited for her to tell him to stand up as she did seconds later so she started talking to him

"Hey, Adomas, I brought you here to talk to you alone" then she ordered all the men inside the room to leave and let them alone...

Zeral says with a low voice "My queen I'm sorry for your lost, I really shouldn't let him go with me, you know he insisted to go and I didn't think that this will happened I swear if..."

The queen interrupts him by saying "No no, it is fine, I know it is not your fault, you never let this happens if you were able to prevent so I believe in you but I brought you here not for the regrets and sorrow...My dear husband is gone and nothing will bring him back but his kingdom needs a new king"

Zerals ask her "Well I agree with you but who will be next king? since your son is still at a young age and even your daughter is going through a rough period now and I don't think she is ready to fulfill her father duties she even asked me to start to train her tomorrow as she thinks she will fight in the army so what do you think?"

The queen answers "Hey don't listen to her, there is no training for her and she is not leaving the castle after this, she is not a soldier to fight in this war, she risks her life just to some people will call her a warrior or hero...So I refuse it and also about the next king, as rules say it needs a general get votes from rest of generals and approve from priest to get position as temporarily king until my son grows up and get his place"

Zeral ask her once again "Well I do remember the rules so who do you think can be good from the current generals to be this temporarily king? this is a tough decision and need to be good otherwise it will cause the kingdom a lot of troubles in future"

The queen answer him with a smile "Well I've someone in mind and I think some will agree with me even this is maybe hard one, I think the only the king that can fit right now in the middle of war and make us win it and the man with experience from wars and the inventor of one of greatest battle strategies in world also my childhood friend, the immortal himself, you Adomas, you can be a great king of this kingdom until my son grows up"

Zeral in shock quickly asks "What? me?"

The queen answers "Yeah, I believe you can be a fine king for them and you will be alive until my son gets older and be on his side as well you did to his father and probably his son and grandson and list go on and I completely trust you also people need strong king just like you"

Zeral says "Well, to be honest, I'm not sure about this, the death of the king and all the souls I took is under my skin and I'm not sure am I able to rule this kingdom as good as you think"

The queen "Just believe in yourself and try to forget what've you done and always remember that God can forgive you for your sins if you did great things in your life for others so this is your chance to get redemption"

Zeral after seconds of thinking about this proposition he finally answers "Well if that what you think then fine, I will but let it after couple of days, let me first prepare for this and in same time we have to find solution for your daughter"

The queen says "Alright, I will talk to her..."

The end.