Framed

Grandpa Yi looked up to see twenty imperial warriors standing in front of him, with their weapons drawn. The captain of the twenty imperial warriors stepped forward, looking down on this elder from the Yi clan screaming.

“For the crime of killing five elders of your own Yi clan, plotting against the Imperial family and the Sun Empire. The sentence is death for both you and your family. Elder Yi Cho follow me to the imperial palace and recive your sentence.“

Grandpa Yi looked back at the captain and the imperial warriors, he summoned his earth armor as he charged towards the left side of the twenty warriors, knocking some of the warriors to the ground.

The group of warriors were all taken by suprise, they never belived that anyone would do what grandpa Yi did, including the captain. The captain thought that infront of him and his mighty warriors, elder Yi Cho would give up and surrender.

The captain and his warriors were all wrong.

The captain quickly realised his mistake as he shouted to his imperial warriors to attack, but it was to late grandpa Yi had already escaped.

They could not belive what had happened, infront of them was one man, already tired. It should have been easy, but the old man still had strength left and he used his experience to weed out the easiest point to break through.

The captain and his warriors could do nothing but see their target escape, they now had no other choice, but to alert every guard in the city and the palace about Elder Yi Cho.

The crime of one of the elders of the Yi clan was soon spread throughout the city.

#############################################################

Somewhere inside the imperial palace.

A man dressed in black with a golden mask was sitting on something like a throne, three men all dressed in black clothes with covered faces entered the room and kneeled in front of the man on the fake throne with the golden mask.

They were the three assassins that had killed the five elders of the Yi clan and tried to kill elder Yi Cho.

“My liege“ They all said unanimously as they kneeled and raised their right hand infront of their chest.

“How did it go?“ The man in the gold mask asked.

“We killed the five elders of the Yi clan meeting with elder Yi Cho, but Mei was killed and elder Yi Cho managed to escap. “ One of the assassins acting like the leader answered.

“He escaped!“ the man in the gold masked screamed looking at the assassins with fire in his eyes and his fist banging on the fake throne.

“Yes, but he has been framed for the murders of the five elders. “ The assassin meekly asnwered.

“Good, what about the book? Did you get the book?“ The man in the gold mask asked as he calmed down and the fire burning in his eyes dissapeared.

“Sorry my liege, we couldn’t find it on any of the body’s. Elder Yi Cho must still have it on him. “ The assassin now clearly afraid, answered as he tried to avoid eye contact with the man in the gold mask.

“You don’t have the book, and you let elder Yi Cho escap!“ The man in the gold mask could no longer contain his anger as he screamed.

The man in the gold mask walked to the assassin graped his throat and strangled him to death, dropped his now lifeless body to the ground with a thump.

The two other assasins just stood there to afraid to move a muscle, hoping they would not be next as they looked at their former leader dead on the floor right infront of them.

“You.“ The man in the gold mask said, pointing to the assassin closest to him signalling him to come forward.

“Yes my liege“ He answered while bending one knee and raising his right arm to his chest, afraid, but what else could he do.

The man in the gold mask looked at him closely which made a chill run down the assassins spine and said “You will now be the leader of the shadow core of the imperial palace, no more mistakes.“

“Yes my liege.“ The assassin answered still bending the knee with his right hand raised to his chest no longer feeling the pressure from before.

The man in the gold mask returned to his fake throne as he sat down, he said in a chilling tone. “You may leave“

The two assassins dissapeared into the darkness, leaving the man in the gold mask alone, sitting on his fake throne looking into the darkness smiling behind his mask.

##############################################################

Grandpa Yi had managed to escape from the imperial warriors and their captain, he was moving qiuet and stealthly through the city, moving towards a little shop specialising in the delivery of messages. He entered the shop looked at the attendant and said. “Take me to the back“

The attendant nooded his head and lead grandpa Yi to the back, inside the empty room in the back the attentant pushed the wall and a secret passage opened up.

They both entered the passage and walked to another room, there grandpa Yi sat down and wrote three letters.

He looked at the attendent and said “I need you to deliver this message to my youngest son, he is defending the border to the elf kingdom, this message I need someone to deliver to my other son Chu and this message must be delivered to Guan-Yin at The tower. Hurry we have no time to loose“

After giving the messages to the attendent, grandpa Yi took what eqiupment and essentials he needed, before he left the secret room and the city.

#########################################################

Inside the tower Guan-Yin was going through her books and old scrolls on magic, putting them all inside her spatial ring when she suddenly turned around, said in a cold, icy voice. “show yourself“

A man stepped out of the shadows and gave her the letter grandpa Yi wrote, before the man dissapeared back into the shadows.

While Guan-Yin read the letter her face changed from a passive and frozen to a more serious one.

She quickly took all she needed before she left the tower in a hurry and moved fast towards the city gates and the forrest Jin was training in.