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-" who are you ? ". LINIAS said , looking at the ten men kneeling as if they were before the king.

Their leader answered in a trembling voice:

“We are hunters , esteemed emperor .”

"Emperor? Honorable? What are the hunters doing here? Why did you attack us?"

-" We are hunters..we are hunters." The captain replied as if he was about to cry. 

 Sirius said :

-"They are not animal hunters as we know, but rather they are from an organization called the Hunters, and they specialize in exterminating beasts, and human threats."

LINIAS said, narrowing his eyes.  

-"And we consider it a threat. That means they are murderers, right?"

"Yes. We are murderers. Bastards, Rams. Worms."

"What is the sermon?" . said LINIAS , addressing Sirius. But Sirius shrugged his shoulders as if he didn't know.

Perhaps they were afraid when they signed their deeds . LINIAS thought so and said:

- " Why did you do that? And where are you from?" . 

The commander replied:

"We are settlers from the kingdom of irem , and we were asked to do this job, and we never met the client." LINIAS had been living in the woods all his life, and had known only Verna. The Dark Forest was enormous in size, larger than all the countries combined. It was like a wild green continent.

That is why he said:

" irem ...I've heard of her, but I don't know her in particular." 

-"Excuse me for this, it was not a good time for me to tell you. It is the kingdom on our northern frontier. It is called irem , and its inhabitants are not men, they are of the race of Teles ."

- " Teles..but .. Sirius . These are human beings, so how is that?" Sirius stared the commander with a look that almost melted the bones. The commander trembled in response and said:

"We are settlers. The Queen has allowed some people to live on her land."

Sirius answered with a contemptuous smile:

"And in return for her generosity and kindness to you, you wanted to take the whole kingdom. You disgusting worms." 

“Mm, what do you mean?”

-"What I mean , Emperor, is that her stupidity caught her in a trap. She took pity on some humans, but it turns out that the humans wanted to take the kingdom to them.. They are in a state of conquest now because of it, and they may fall any day from now."

A sour smile appeared on LINIAS ' face from this hadith, and he said:

 -"You mean have mercy on these pigs.. They remind me of Palestine and what the Jews did to pigs. I'll tell you about that later. But, I don't understand. Was it irem that hired them to attack us? But that doesn't make sense."

-"He is one of two, and if they succeed in their mission, it will be great for the foolish agent who hired them. And if they fail in their mission, the kingdom of irem will be blamed by us. I expect such ridiculous stupidity from them."

Then the professor shouted :

- "Sheep!"

"Isn't that exaggeration, whatever. They don't know us, they don't know anything about us, didn't you say that to me before, Sirius? "

-"It is as you say, and I.. I meant personal knowledge, they have known for years, that there are people who crush anyone who dares to enter this land, that's why they did this ridiculous, whoever did this does not understand nor know anything about us. I made sure Just over it. I was planning something. But... it just doesn't matter anymore." He turned to Blander , who was for a moment upset that she had acted on her own. But Rivera didn't care about all that. 

 

"Are we going to kill these people?"

" No, Rivera , let them go." 

Rivera replied , looking at her nails, which were growing like knives:

" But. Sir. They attacked you. They must pay the price." 

 LINIAS looked at the men who were shedding tears like children. They knew that their lives would end in one word. But LINIAS felt pity for them, and said:

"Let them go, none of us got hurt anyway." He gave them a look of freezing blood in their veins, and said:

"But. You must tell everyone you meet that this land is no longer Verna , and it belongs to Vintos . Get out of my way, or I will change my mind!"

The men fled, crying and screaming. They think this is a hoax and they will be killed after they escape. But this was not the case.

LINIAS said uneasy:

" Sirius , do as you told me before, but keep the words unprovoked, we don't want to be seen as savages." Sirius smiled in response. But that smile did not like LINIAS .

LINIAS continued his walk, inspecting the ruins around him, and everyone followed him happily.

 

 

 

 

Chapter six :the settlement-1-

It was a beautiful wide corridor, in which stood beautiful girls, the age of flowers between sixteen and twenty. Each one differs in her appearance, eye color and hairstyle, like various flowers in a beautiful orchard.

 

 Their dresses were long white, so that their white shoes touched. Their clothes were made in the shape of tree leaves, decorated with red threads over their chests and at the edges.

  Their beauty, elegance, and strange clothes made the onlookers gasp.

 They were a hundred in total. They stand in neatly organized rows. But. When they knew the reason for their meeting, that one of them would be the servant of this day for their master or the great master , as they like to call him, who occupied a great place in their hearts.

In an instant, chaos and agitation erupted.

They scrambled, jostled, shrieked, raising their hands, frantically running each one of them. Like a group of raging girls battling for an autograph from their favorite star. 

 Elvia sighed at the chaos, and muttered:

"What is this pain?" I clapped hard, and silence prevailed for a moment. She stared at the girls in front of her, with her serious face, and her violet eyes, and said in a serious voice that did not know jest: 

"Don't shame me!" Those words made the maids return to stand in rows as they had been. After Elvia saw this, she was satisfied with them and continued saying:

"I know how you feel. We all desire and wish to serve the great master , but. Your behavior is not at all befitting .Have you forgotten yourselves, you are the servants of the great castle of Vintos !"

 

The lips of some of the maids moved, and they were about to speak but Elvia glared at them, shutting their mouths.

 She said:

- “ The situation has changed from what it was. So. It will be five of us a day, maidservants of the great master .. I am not finished yet !. It will be done by lot. I wanted to put ten of us a day. He even asked, to be one maid per day. Silence!.. I understand your annoyance with this.. but I insisted on that until I convinced him to do so."

 

 In fact , Elvia wanted to be the first person to serve her master. She waited eagerly to serve her master, and if she took advantage of her position to satisfy her selfish desires, it might reflect on her. Rather, her master might know about it, by one of the maidservants who would be jealous of her for doing so, then her master might look upon her, as if she were incompetent for her position.

 Those thoughts that swirled in her head, that her master, whose heart was filled with love and respect for him, telling her this, cooled her heart like ice.

For this. She asked Sirius insistently, but it looked like a quarrel. Sirius was as quiet and silent as ever, listening to her excited request, and at last, having a headache, Sirius agreed to have five maids a day so that her turn would come quickly at a time.

And Elvia had no idea why Sirius shrugged his shoulders and said you wanted it, not me, don't forget that.

 Elvia sighed and muttered :

"What is this pain". 

 

"Well, as I said. There will be five of us a day, and one of the five will be chosen to be the captain of the servants that day..

 Don't look at me like that.. I know what you want to say. Therefore, the leader will not be constantly, but will be drawn every time, to be fair. The one who was a leader before will not enter the lottery again, to give the others a chance.. Is this understood?! "

.

The maids shook their heads in satisfaction, their faces adorned with bright smiles.

 

" Sandra. Get the ballot box off that table." Sandra bowed her head respectfully, and went to get the box. She handed it to her boss, Elvia, with an innocent smile, bright as the sun. But , Elvia

sighs because of slag and deception that was leaked from that smile.

 

And Elvia said in a tired voice:

"Let's start with the work schedule."

 

-2-

LINIAS lay on his bed. Ten days had passed since he left the castle when the hunters attacked him.

 Now he knew, that the castle consisted of twenty floors, and that the entire tenth floor, which he was in now, was for his personal use only.

This was ridiculous to him, for the castle was enormous in size, and in contrast the castle floors were vast and endless. A small room was suitable for him. As for this room, it was more like a luxury apartment. Interior doors led to other rooms. A bathroom, a dressing room, an office room, and a room containing strange things made by the professor such as magic potions. 

 

In fact, he was bored and bored with it all. Even when talking to someone, the person starts to sweat without any reason.

He moved his eyes to the corner of the room, staring at Sinoria, who was standing still, so unmoving, that he thought she was not breathing. But Sinoria proved to be a real headache. She refused to leave LINIAS alone. He was asking her to come out.

In fact, she would go out, but only for a second and then return to the corner, staring at him with unblinking eyes. And he returns asking her to leave him, but