Torches flicker as the wind blows, chains clanging as the almost dark room slowly starts to be filled with light.
It was a prison the massive door opening my gears and chains.
A royal knight led a man towards a cell, as the enter the floor was nothing less that a butcher's shop, blood spilled in patches as a faint breathing is heard groaning in pain.
"Who beats a kid like that!?", the man asks to the knight.
"He tried to assassinate the king and took out one of his majesty's eye", the knight says firmly tough his voice cracked a bit too as he looked at the bloodied Arman tied in chains.
"Is... ughh is m.. mom okay?", he asked as he coughed off blood.
"For now", the man replied.
"enough talk to you let him talk", the man said to the coughing Arman, then his eyes slowly turn red and in a shaking voice he says "How do you even know about me General".
The man turned out to be Jacq and he said "I noticed it pretty easily, soldiers or workers who ridiculed or hurt lily started disappearing and the sweet, brains genius slave boy suddenly becomes rude and sword genius".
"Save mom please, I know you're strong", the other personality begged Jacq.
"You're mamma's boy too huh!", Jacq said in mock voice.
"Ridicule me, beat me more do anything just save mom!", he said almost crying "Please!".
"Give me promise and I will save your mom, what name do you go by or you both are Arman", Jacq said.
"What promise?", he asked with girthed teeth.
"you won't come out until absolutely necessary", Jacq said in a cold voice.
"Make sure she's unharmed", he said as his eyes turn back to blue and he fainted.
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"Arman no matter what happens I will always support you my son, forgive momma my dear child", a faint distant crying voice of lily spoke "Remember THE STRONGEST ARE THE ONES WITH A GOOD HEART".
Imperial Calendar 4067, Royal capital Kingdom of Hammer
Arman jolted awake in a dark room and his hands tremble.
"Hey kid, your girlfriend is going to the prince's quarters tonight, thought I give you a heads up", A fat guard with long braided beard and bushy mustache, dressed in a baggy robes and gauntlet around his forearms.
He looked up at the guard and said in a mocking tone "How about a booze for that news, sir?".
"Be in your limits Dark Knight, you don't have any weapons to order around others, especially not in our kingdom of hammer", the guard said as he threw a glass of beer inside the cell and it shattered near Arman.
As the guard went away Arman took a small magical device hidden in his hair and activated it to slowly scan the entire prison facility.
"I'm done here, Geld you know what to do", he said.
A few minutes later the wall of the prison broke down as a chubby and tall boy barely 20 of age came into the corridor of the prison.
"Here", Arman shouted from his cell and the fat boy jogged towards his sound.
He stopped in front of a cell and snapped to summon a fireball to see, he saw Arman sitting inside and said playfully "You shouldn't laze around during an active mission Commander".
"Really Geld!?", Arman said as he stood up pushing himself off the ground by pushing his back on the ground as Geld broke the cell's door.
Geld handed Arman a black katana with deep red blade edge.
"How are the others doing?", Arman asked Geld.
"All set for fireworks Commander", he replied cheerfully and swing his giant hammer around in style.
They walk along the silent corridor of the prison as almost every captive was barely alive. The reach a long staircase at the end of the hallway torches spread far occasionally lighting the stairs.
As the reach a door they wait before it.
Several hooks land on the walk way of the thick castle walls and are pulled back to make them fixed.
The guards heard the small clangs and waved their torches towards the wall to see generally nothing different and went on their fixed patrol path.
A few people in black hoods run through the lavish castle halls, the floor made of white mana tiles and walls made of red sandstone with intricate masonry work done on them proved by the beautiful carvings.
They hide behind objects or blend in shadows thanks to the all black outfits.
As they spread out and hide in front of several rooms throughout the grand well lit castle, they raise their left hands to their mouth and whisper into a bracelet around their arms "All set Commander, we're ready".
Before the big gate Arman nodded at Geld as he heard the message from a similar bracelet around Geld's arm.
Geld spoke into the bracelet "Lily, you're up".
A young guard with muscular arms and young beard was pushing a young slim girl with long dark hair and majestic alcoholic red eyes with long eyelashes and a smirk.
"Come on, don't shove me that hard", she said playfully to which the guard paid no attention.
They stopped as they reach a big door with two guards outside.
The two guards opened the door for them and he shove the girl into the large room with golden chandelier, a large balcony and a huge bed with rose petals.
A young boy with blonde hair and pretty face with cut physique came into the room from balcony wearing just a bathrobe with gold buttons.
"Ahh my trophy is here, you can go now filthy guard", the boy said expecting the guard to buzz off.
As the guard doesn't move the boy shouted "Are you deaf filthy commoner, I prince of this country ordered you to get lost".
The girl went and pushed the prince on the bed and said in a seductive "My lord ignore commoners, you did great capturing my boyfriend and throwing him into the prison".
"Begin", Arman said into Geld's bracelet and soon the castle walls were filled with many people in black hoods who climbed through the ropes and hooks.
Inside the castle several master mages detected presence of the intruders and rush out of their rooms to alert guards but the hooded people hidden appear behind them slitting their necks and drag their bodies back into their rooms.
Geld swings his hammer and smashed the door off its hinges and it slowly fell on the ground the sound echoing throughout the castle.
The hooded intruders jump inside the castle walls and started killing the guards with magic and short bows.
Geld pats his chubby stomach and shouted in a very loud voice "The Ashen Knights are here!".