Capital city of Mandellan empire.

The capital city was located on an entire hill and it even covered it's surrounding areas. On the top of the hill was the castle of Mandellan, where the royalty resides along with other people working for them. The area surrounding the hill is known as the outer circle while the area comprising the hill is known as the inner circle of the capital. The inner circle is the place where many nobles and big merchants reside, while the commoners reside in the outer circle.

The inner circle had many beautiful and magnificent manors, but there was a manor , just below the castle, which was even more beautiful and magnificent then others. The manor looked almost like an another castle and its security was same as that of the castle- with numerous battlemages , knights and even the holy knights were here, but this kind of security would seem normal if one would have known that this is a manor which has been built upon a dungeon, and that dungeon is being used as a cage to keep a being who is capable enough to destroy a cheiftian frost giant, a s-league monster, with just a single punch.

Usually the streets in the inner circle are more quiet than the outter circle but you could still hear the sounds of conversation of nobels and merchants on the street and this was even true for the street which heads to that magnificent manor, but since a week things have changed.

The manor was now being heavily guarded and the only sounds you could hear are the sounds made by the footsteps of the soldiers patrolling the area which was true for even today , but suddenly a faint sound of a cart could be heard and this alerted the everyone in the manor.

The courtmage who was in front of the gate of the manor took a vintage binocular, made out of bronze and magical lenses, and looked in the direction of the source of the sound.

First he wasn't able to see anything but as the sound came closer he was able to see a black luxurious cart which was being carried by black horses, which looked quite majestic, but the surprising thing was that there was no one who was guiding these horses rather it was apparent that these horses were intelligent enough and they knew the location, route and how to move along this route.

The court mage was first quite surprised and alerted, but then his sight fell upon the insignia which was carved on the clothes of the horses and even on a black cloth which was hung down from the top front edge of the cart.

The insignia was similar to the one which was engraved on that crystal which was used by the king earlier. Just a look was enough for him to realise that whose carriage this was.

The court mage called up a soldier and told him to inform the holy sowardsmen about the incoming carriage. The soldier bowed and left .

Soon the cart was visible to the naked eye and the new soldiers who could see it were quite shocked and some of them even thought that they were being attacked by an evil spirit. This lead to quite an unrest among the new soldiers, but the new soldiers were quite surprised to see that the old ones weren't shocked to see those horses. So, they decided to ask them about it which was creating quite a noise.

" SILENCE ! "

The noise soon desipated into the air after those words which were said by a tone filled with authority. All the eyes were now fixed on the person who said this instead of that cart. This person was the general of the Mandellan kingdom and first holy swordsman who was also the owner of not one but two holy equipment. All the soldiers were quite surprised to see him as they weren't aware of his presence among them.

During the time when everyone's eyes were fixed on the general , the front door of the manor was opened and the person who came outside shocked those soldiers even more than the general.

Guarded by 6 holy swordsmen , this person was the absolute authority in the kingdom Mandellan : the king of the mandellan kingdom, Paul Mandellan.

Lead by the general the king finally arrived in front of the gate of the manor. Since the distance between the gate and manor was quite big so it took a while for the king to atlast reach the gate and in that time the carriage had already arrived.

The general took a stand as he came infront of the door of the carriage which was still closed and he said a loud " we of the Mandellan kingdom offers our utmost respect to his highness , the great hero Gilbert, and her highness , the great hero Emma. After saying that he bend down at a perfect right angle and along with him everyone , except the king, bend down even those who were the new soldiers, as they were now aware of their identity they couldn't help but bend down and show their utmost respect and gratitude.

The door finally opened and a beautiful nobel lady was the first one to get off the carriage followed by a middle aged man.

The middle aged guy had quite long black hair with a streak of white hair, a muscular build and black eyes. He was wearing a white shirt ,which was tugged in a brown trouser, and a black blazer. His clothes not only looked as if they were made with a precious cloth rather there was also a blue magical glow coming out of his clothes.

The woman who stood beside that guy was wearing same types of clothes. She had brown hair and eyes, a fair face and naturally pink lips, she had that mature beauty in her. She was wearing a long black dress similar to the one being worn by that man.

There was an insignia stiched on their clothes on the right chest area.The insignia was similar to the one on the carriage , but this one looked even more nobel and majestic . This insignia was actually made by a thread of gold and platinum.

Seeing the middle aged couple Paul bent a little to show his respect and was about to say something but Gilbert, that middle aged guy, didn't let him and said " Paul, how many times do I have to remind you that I don't like these honor stuff ? We really appreciate it, but this is definitely not our cup of tea."

" I am sorry, but we aren't doing this because of honorifics rather we are doing this because of our respect towards you and lady Emma, without your valiant efforts, 250 years ago ,we definitely wouldn't be here. So, please accept our respect. " Paul said as he looked down at the floor while he was still bending a little.

" HaHaHa .

You are definitely like your great great grandfather and your great grandfather and your grandfather and your grandfather's son, " Gilbert said aloud with a tone with which it was apparent that he was happy that Paul 's personality is similar to his ancestors.

" Oh please stop it dear, you are making me feel old now," the noble lady, Emma said.

" it's making me feel old too, can't disagree with you there. It still feels as if it was just yesterday when I and your great great grandfather cleared our first dungeon together, and you know his father was really angry at me, because his wasn't letting him to join us so I kidnapped him and took him with me to the dungeon. " Gilbert said.

" I can definitely say that my great great grandfather is really happy at the moment after hearing you that you still love him and miss him, " Paul said.

" Hope so," Gilbert said while looking at the sky.

Gilbert then looked at Paul and said with serious tone " let's wake him up. "

They went inside the manor through the front door and straight away headed towards the dungeon.

The holy swordsmen were following them and the general was the one who lead the way.

Just like the exterior the the interior of the mansion was majestic, but none of them were interested in this building rather the only thing on their mind was Dante.

They soon reached a room which was locked and there was an orb floating in front of that room. general opened that door by placing his hands on that orb and channeling his aura, the only things present in that room were stairs, leading down. The group continued their walk and went straight down the stairs. The stairs opened to a passage which looked similar ,in construct, to the upper house but as they continued to walk the lavish walls soon came to an end and what now had replaced them were dark dirty cream coloured walls, for they had finally reached the dungeon.

The atmosphere in the dungeon was really gloomy and it could be said similar to the dungeons shown in a horror movie. There were no windows, the only things which illuminated the room were candles, which were placed in a special holding place made on the walls with a constant distance inbetween.

The dungeon might have started but the passage was yet to come to an end. The passage was quite small, it was big enough for only two people to walk at a time , but instead they were walking in a single line as just at the start of the dungeon there were a stationed troop here on the right side of the passage.

The troop had worn a complete armour and even his face was covered by a helmet, the armour was black in colour and was giving off a weird aura.

As they walked past the troop Gilbert's and Emma's sight fell upon that troop because of that weird aura. The aura was quite weak and was not demonic even though it was demonic, it was something they had never sensed before but the aura was really faint and only a person at their strength would be able to notice it and because of all these new magiconoligies which are being discovered almost everyday they thought that this must be some kind of new magiconoligical armour, therefore they did give a look to the troop when they passed it but they never took him seriously.

The passage was quite long and there were many magiconoligical devices fit in that tunnel for security, not only that there were also some old age security ways and that were the magic circles, which were made by the head court mage himself.

As they continued their walk the tunnel became even gloomier and soon the tunnel came to an end and the conjested passage was soon replaced by quite a huge hall but it wasn't different from the passage in terms of construct. It was still lit by candles and there was no window.

Gilbert and Emma looked around and they could see two cells at front corners and two at the back corners, and in front of each cell there were guards standing at quite distance away from the cell door as they weren't allowed to get near the cell doors.

The cell doors were actually made up of a special magic , destructive in nature, which would kill anyone without the right to enter or leave the cell. These were special cells were only used to keep some important people like a rebel nobel, a corrupted priests of the church and once they had even put the adopted son of the Pope of the church.

The group started walking towards the cell which was at the front right corner, and as they walked Emma's and Gilbert's eyes fell upon the axe and an anvil which were kept at the middle, both of them were turned all dark red because of the frozen blood upon them, but what they saw after it made them feel quite uneasy.

There were 3 more guards standing right beside the axe. Well, seeing the such number of guards in such places usually wouldn't be abnormal but what caught their attention was that there was only one guard in front of the tunnel and there are 10 guards here plus 2 at the end of the passage.

They found it quite abnormal but it soon faded away as both of them came to a conclusion that that guy must have been someone who was sent to bring down the food. Gilbert and Emma both exchanged glances and continued on their path.

After they reached that cell, the general went ahead and he drew out his sword and raised it in front of the cell door, the runes on the sword glow a little and the defense system of the cell went offline as the door opened by itself.

The door opened slowly and as it opened it made the voices which were similar to the ones produced when a very old and heavy steel door is opened after a long time.

The door slowly opened and as it opened a foul smell came from inside. From inside the cell was just horrible, there were white bones lying in one corner and in the other corner there were excrete of the previous prisoners.

At the centre of the cell there was a big hard stone slab which was apparently the bed for the prisoners, not only that, this wasn't a normal stone, it was modified by magicians and it had a debuff and painful effect upon the prisoner so that they wouldnt be able to even think about escaping.

On the top of this so called bed there was a naked person sitting. Due to the darkness inside the cell they weren't able to clearly see that guy who sitting there. The king stood back and with him the holyswordsmen stood back too while the general, Gilbert and Emma went ahead inside the cell.

Emma raised her hand and a ball of light came out of her hand which illuminated the entire room. The light fell upon that guy and they could see his back as his back was towards them, but there was something awfully wrong.

There were marks of blood on his body and those marks resembled a hand and there if one see his back care full then there was steep soon like thing coming out from both the sides of his stomach though one stone was much higher than the other, and not only that, that guy had blonde hair !

Sensing that something was off, the general approached that guy and kept his hand on his shoulder and turned him towards them but something awful happened.

That guy's body broke from the middle and the upper part of his body fell down on the floor.

That guy had quite long blonde hair, blue eyes and a pale skin. His expression was frozen and was what a normal person always have, devoid of any pain, meaning that his death was a quick one. Blood flowed out of that open area along with intestines and other organs.