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Mike and Anon are sitting in a quiet room inside the Royal Castle and both of them have a very serious expression on their faces.

"So, Tell me about it... How strong are they ?" Anon asked breaking the silence.

"They are strong master, Very Strong. Their skin is hard to cut through, even with the advance magic, they are experts in hand to hand combat and Weapons as well." Mike replied with a serious expression.

"So, you want to explain... How you got into this shape ?" Anon asked as he summoned a cigar and lit it up.

*Puff-Puff*

"Yes..." Mike replied.

6 hours ago in the Elven kingdom, Lucy's house...

*Chii-Chii*

A blue bird dropped a letter in Lucy's chimney and flew away.

Mike and No.300 were sitting in the same room, as the letter came down, No.300 got alert immediately.

"What the fuck is that ?" No.300 shouted loudly.

"Just a letter, No.300. Calm down." Mike said as he looked at No.300 with a smile.

"Oh... A letter." No.300 said as she went ahead and picked up the letter in her hands. She then read the name on the envelope.

"Sir, Mike... This letter came for you." No.300 spoke as she handed the letter to Mike.

"A letter for me ? It must be my daughter, she is- Wait, It has a Royal seal on it." Mike said as he noticed a small golden seal on the back of the letter.

"A Royal Seal ? Who does it belongs to ?" No.300 asked with a curious expression.

"It's a golden feather, It means... Queen Derein. I think you mistook my name for master's name." Mike said as he turned the letter around and noticed that it was his name on the letter.

"I know how to read, sir. Don't take me for a fool." No.300 spoke as she went back to reading her newspaper.

"That's a bit odd... Why would she send me a letter ?" Mike Questioned as he turned the envelope back once again and noticed a small red coloured dragon on it's bottom right corner.

"An Urgent Speed-Post ?" Mike said as he removed the seal and took out the letter.

No.300 peeked inside the letter, as soon as she heard that it was a Speed-Post but she was left shocked, when she saw that the letter was blank.

"No.300, it's not a good thing to peek on Someone's letter." Mike spoke as he looked at No.300 with a straight face.

"Hehe... I was curious, Sorry. But, there is nothing on the letter... Is it a joke or something ?" No.300 asked.

"It's a secret message, written with Magi's ink." Mike spoke.

"Magi's Ink ? What's that ?" No.300 asked.

"Magi's ink is a special type of ink, that is used to write secret letters to spies or to receive information from them.

This ink is odour less and invisible to naked eyes. It's contents can only be revealed with a secret word that is used while encrypting this message." Mike explained.

"How do we know the word ? If it's a secret and only the writer knows it ?" No.300 asked with a confused expression.

"There are clues on the envelope for that... Like this one." Mike said as he pointed towards the Red dragon that was on the bottom right of the envelope.

"A Speed Post sign ?" No.300 asked with even more Confused expression.

"Yes, Queen Derein sent the letter with the help of a Messenger bird but it has a speed post sign on it... Why do you think that is ?" Mike Asked with a smile.

"I don't know." No.300 replied with a confused expression.

"Of course you won't, A speed post Sign is used when a letter is sent by a postman. Since, this letter is sent by a messenger bird, the Speed-Post sign is useless here.

Do you understand now ?" Mike asked again.

"Okay, i don't understand anything. Just tell me the secret word, Sir Mike." No.300 spoke with a straight face.

"Reveal your true nature, Red Dragon." Mike said as he used mana while saying these words and suddenly the paper started glowing.

As the glow faded away, Only one word appeared over the letter, "HELP".

"Help ? What's that supposed to mean ?" Mike asked with a confused expression.

"Help means when someone is in-" No.300 started explaining the meaning of the word 'Help' but Mike interrupted her immediately.

"I know, What it means No.300. I am just saying that because I don't understand, why and where she needs my Help." Mike spoke.

"Well, she didn't write that on the letter, right ?" No.300 asked.

"I can see that as well... No.300. I think, i should show this to master." Mike spoke as he stood up from his chair and placed the letter in his pocket.

"What if it's an emergency ?" No.300 asked.

"I have to show it to master before taking any action, last time he scolded me too much for hiding the company thing." Mike spoke as he looked at No.300.

"She could be dying and Master is busy in some royal Queen making process... Didn't you say it yourself, yesterday ? Are you sure that you want to disturb him ?" No.300 asked with a smile.

"No, No, No... That's what you said when I tried to tell him about the companies and you manipulated my mind into not telling him.

I am not doing this again." Mike spoke as he looked at No.300 with a straight face.

"So, it was No.300 who holded you back from telling me about the companies huh...?" Anon asked as he interrupted Mike's story.

"Yes, Master..." Mike replied.

"Hmm...? Why would she do that ?" Anon murmured.

"She said that... If she did naughty things, you will punish her." Mike replied.

Suddenly a smile appeared over Anon's face.

"Hahaha... That's what I expect from my army's Chief Commander. Well done." Anon spoke as he laughed out loudly.

"Master... Should I continue ?" Mike asked.

"Oh, Yeah, Yeah.... But before that... Mike I want to ask you one thing." Anon asked as he leaned in with a serious expression.

"Yes, master ?" Mike replied as he leaned in with a serious expression as well.

"How does it feel to be manipulated by an Ogre girl ? Pfffft... Hahahahahaha..." Anon laughed as he tapped Mike's shoulder.

"Fuck... No.300... I will take revenge for this." Mike murmured under his breath.

"So, Should I go to the Human Kingdom by myself ?" Mike asked No.300.

"Well, She would've wrote this letter to master if she needed master... But she wrote this to you, it means she needs you." No.300 spoke as she looked at Mike with a smile.

"Okay, i will go to the human kingdom and take a look at the situation, if it's just a small problem... I will deal with it and report it back to master.

Here, hold this crystal ball and if something serious happens here... You immediately inform me, do you understand ?" Mike asked No.300 as he gave her a big crystal ball.

"Yes, Sir." No.300 spoke as she took the crystal ball obidently.

After that, Mike left the House and headed directly for the Human Kingdom.

He ran through the forests, jumped over the rivers and killed every monster that came in his way without any hesitation.

In mere 13 minutes, He reached in front of Derein's Castle...

"Who are you ?" A guard asked as he stopped Mike From entering inside the castle.

"Name is Mike... I am Master Anon's Servant. I am here on Queen Derein's orders." Mike spoke as he looked at the knight with a smile.

"Why are you smiling ?" The knight asked.

"You don't know me, that came as a surprise to me." Mike replied.

"Why should I know you ?" The knight asked.

"Are you new here ?" Mike asked.

"Yes, I was working in the Dwarf kingdom for the last 5 years. I came back home, yesterday." The knight explained.

"Oh, that's why..."

Suddenly another knight, who was also his partner came upto him running...

"What the *Huff-Huff* Hell are you *Huff-Huff* Doing ? Why are you stopping Sir Mike, here ?" The other knight asked his partner as he tried to catch a breath from all the running.

"I-I was just checking, who he was and-"

"I am so sorry, Sir Mike... Please come and Forgive this idiot... He is new here. Apologise to him, you fucking idiot." The knight said as he punches his partner in the back.

"I don't have time for this, just don't do this when master comes..." Mike said as he left after that.

"Wait... Sir, Anon is coming back ?" The knight asked but Mike was already gone by then.

"Hey, Who is Anon and Who was that Vampire guy ? Since when are we permitting these guys in the 7th ring ?" The knight asked.

"Let me tell you a story, Son."

"I am not your-"

"Just listen to the fucking thing."

Inside the castle...

*Knock-knock-Knock*

Mike Knocked on Derein's gates.

*Click*

A maid opened the door and looked at Mike with a straight face.

"Hi, Is Queen Derein here ?" Mike asked in a polite tone.

"I am sorry, Queen can't meet anyone. Please go back." The maid replied as she tried to close the door but before she could've closed the door, Mike stopped it with his hand.

"Okay, tell her that Mike came to meet her and you are one rude maid. I am going, Bye." Mike said as he removed his hand and started walking towards the exit door of the castle.

"What's with this new staff ? They are so rude... I bet if master was here, she would've been dead by now. If only I had the permission to kill people too." Mike murmured under his breath.

Inside Derein's Room...

*Click*

The maid closed the room's gate and walked upto Derein.

Derein is sitting on her bed and she is crying loudly.

"Who was it *Sob-Sob* ?" Derein asked with a sad face.

"It was a Vampire named 'Sike' My Queen. But, Don't you worry, I sent him back and told him to come back at a suitable time." The maid informed Derein with a smile.

"You Fucking Stupid... His name is Mike not 'Sike' and I called him here. You are fired from this job, get the fuck out of my castle." Derein spoke as she immediately rushed out of her room.

"W-What ?" The maid was left surprised when she heard all of this.

Mike was walking towards the outside door of the castle with an angry expression on his face but his steps were halted when he heard a voice calling his name from behind.

"Mr. Mike, Please stop."

Mike immediately turned around and noticed that this voice belonged to no one else other than Derein herself.

"Queen Derein... I thought you didn't wanted to meet me ?" Mike spoke as he looked at Derein.

"N-No... It was just a misunderstanding." Derein replied.

"Well, I don't think it was... because your maid cleared it pretty well to my face." Mike spoke as he continued to walk.

"Sir, Mike... Please, I already fired that maid and I assure you that it won't happen again, Please come back." Derein spoke as she grabbed Mike's hand and looked at him with big emotional eyes.

"Okay, Okay... Let's go." Mike said as he and Derein went back to the castle.

"My Queen, Please forgive me... I won't repeat this mistake ever again. Please my Queen, I have two children to feed." The maid spoke as she grabbed Derein's legs.

"Nope, you are already fired and you are grabbing wrong pair of legs." Derein spoke as she looked at the maid with merciless eyes.

The maid immediately understood what derein meant and she grabbed Mike's legs.

"Sir, Please forgive me for doing this... I was unknown of your identity. Please sir, I have children to feed."

"Okay, Okay... Can't you give her the job back ?" Mike asked Derein.

"Well, if you say it like that, Okay. But, one more mistake and you are a goner. Go now." Derein spoke as she looked at the maid with an angry expression.

"T-Thank you, Sir. Thank you, My Queen. I will never forget this... " Maid said as she exited the room immediately.

"So, why did you call me here ? And not master ?" Mike Asked with a Confused expression.

"Sir, Mike... I have something that I have to show you. Please come with me..." Derein said as she walked upto her bookshelf that in the middle of her room.

She pulled a purple coloured book backwards and suddenly the shelf started moving from it's position as it revealed a secret staircase way.

"Where does this staircase lead to?" Mike asked with a confused expression.

"I will explain everything, for now... Please follow me," Derein spoke as she continued to go down, and Mike followed her.

"So, why didn't you write the letter to master?" Mike asked.

"I did... He never answered. That's why I had to write it to you," Derein replied.

"Yeah, he is really busy taking over the Elven Kingdom. Today is the day; he is finally going to take over the whole kingdom by replacing the Queen," Mike explained.

"That's good," Derein replied with a straight face.

"I thought you would be more happy after listening to this... Wasn't this your dream from the start?" Mike asked.

"Sir Mike, at this moment... My own kingdom is on the line, and I don't have anyone to protect it," Derein spoke as she looked at Mike with a very serious expression.

Although Mike didn't understand what was going on at the moment, he thought it was best to keep his mouth shut and just follow her for now.

After walking down the stairs for about 12 minutes, both of them finally reached in front of a highly forged gate made out of Travertine.

Knock-knock-Knock Knock-knock Knock Knock-knock-Knock

Derein knocked on the door with a weird knocking pattern.

Click

Suddenly, the door opened up, and both of them entered inside the room.

As soon as Mike entered the room, he noticed that the room wasn't a normal room... It was a lab.

In the middle of the lab was a thick tube filled with yellow liquid, and inside that tube was floating a half-dead body of Arthur.

The tube was connected to 21 huge mana stones, and inside the room were five healers trying to keep Arthur alive.

"Is that King Arthur?" Mike asked with a confused expression.

"Yes... He is Arthur. Look what those bastards did to him," Derein spoke as she walked up to Arthur and touched the tube from outside.

"Who did this to him?" Mike asked with a shocked expression.

"He was on the Borders of the Dragon Kingdom, and suddenly a fight broke out. Every single soldier from their side tried to kill Arthur, and when they couldn't kill him, they tried to burn him alive.

Arthur lost half of his body in that process; the healers tried to heal him immediately, but the burns on his body were very deep, and the fire that he was burned with is made out of negative mana.

Now, neither the healers nor the healing potions can heal him," Derein spoke.

"So, why is he inside that tube?" Mike asked.

"Although we can't heal him, we can slow the process of his death, and that's why I asked Anon to come as soon as possible, but he didn't reply to letters, and that's why I had to call you here.

Please, Mike... Convince Anon to come here and heal Arthur. I will do anything for him in return. Please, Mike," Derein spoke as she started crying in front of Mike.

"H-Hey... Keep yourself calm. I-I will inform master about this immediately," Mike spoke as he immediately used his spell to teleport from the room to the outside of the castle.

'I wish I had a spell that could teleport me to a more faraway distance.' Mike thought as he started running back to the Elven Kingdom.

As Mike was running towards the Elven Kingdom, he encountered something unusual.

Six dragon warriors in the middle of the forest, and they are bullying a family of wild vampires.

Wild vampires live in the forests and they usually live near demon hidings. These vampires also know everything about herbs and the forest fruits.

"Oi, tell us... Bitch. Tell us, where is the demon hiding or we will kill all of you," one of the dragon soldiers spoke as he pointed his spear towards the male vampire.

The male vampire immediately hid the rest of his family behind him and started growling towards the Dragon soldiers.

He had two small daughters and one wife.

Grrrrrrrrr

"Ha... Look at this fucker. Growling at me like a dog..." one of the soldiers spoke as he kicked the male vampire in his face and broke his skull immediately.

"Aahhhhh... Dear. Please don't hit my husband... Please Sir, We don't know any-"

Slap

"Shut the fuck up, bitch... We will talk to you when it's your turn to talk, you understand?" another soldier spoke as he slapped the female vampire.

"H-Hey... D-Don't you dare... Hit my mother." The daughter vampire spoke up as she walked up front to protect her mother from the dragon soldiers.

"Look at this fucking shit... She thinks she can stop me from hitting her family.... Let me teach you something kid. Nothing-" Before the dragon soldier could've killed the Vampire kid, a hand stopped his spear.

"Hmm...? Who the fuck are you?" The dragon soldier asked with a confused expression.

"I am a Vampire..." Mike said as he broke the spear with one hand.

"A Royal Vampire? What do you want?" The leader of dragon soldiers asked.

"Why are you beating these people?" Mike asked with an angry expression.

"Well, I am Volkov... The 3rd Commander of the Immortal Dragon Army, and I can do anything I want. If you have a problem, then leave or die." Volkov said as he hit Mike with the big hammer that he was holding in his hands.

Thud

Mike went flying and crashed down into a tree.

"Yes, he is dead after that." One of them spoke as he looked at Mike's broken body.

Crack

Crack

....

"Fuck... That thing is heavy." Mike spoke as he stood up from the ground, and his body got healed back to normal.

"What the fuck ? He is alive ? Well, can't say I wasn't expecting that from a vampire." A dragon soldier spoke.

"Well, if you want to die so bad... Why don't I take my weapons out ?" Mike spoke with a smile.

20 minutes later of fighting....

Mike killed 3 of them and got beaten up preety brutally... At last, he had no other choice as he went ahead and used his teleportation spell to run away from the place with the vampire family.

After that he came back to the Elven Kingdom.

-_-_--_-_-_--_-_-_--_-_-_--_-_-

In the northern valley of the Human Kingdom...

The environment is calm and silent, with remains of war break out on the border...

Dead bodies are lying on the ground, and rain is pouring heavily with no signs of stopping.

Dome is sitting inside the mess room with his soldiers, and they are having dinner. Everyone has tension clearly visible on their faces.

"What happened, back then... Can you tell me? I am new on the post." A soldier asked as she looked at the other soldier.

The old soldier turned towards the new soldier and looked at him with a grim expression.

"I-It's okay, if you don't want to tell me. I mean who wants to kno-"

"King Arthur banned wine after an incident that took place two days ago. The weather here is cold, and soldiers are practically living on wine.

Our bodies won't work without Wine, and when King Arthur banned it, we were pretty depressed. We didn't know how to deal with the cold weather here, and our heads started hurting after 1 day only.

But, we were dealing with it pretty good... Until those dragon fuckers started drinking right in front of us. They started tempting us with wine and hot girls.

Our cravings started jumping out of our bodies, and one of our soldiers lost his will. He ran across the barrier, and as soon as he crossed the barrier, they killed him like a fly.

King Arthur couldn't take any more of that crap, he crossed the barrier and started killing them one by one.

In just 10 minutes, he killed over 3 thousand soldiers, but suddenly, an original dragon came from their camp and released his fire breath on King Arthur.

His armor couldn't take it, his body got burned, and he died on the spot. Although I never saw his body, those who saw him... Told me that he was dead.

That's why everyone is so serious around here, and those dragon fuckers are celebrating our king's death." The soldier explained.

"Wait... If King Arthur is dead, then who is leading us?" The new soldier asked.

"I don't know, but for now... Sir, Dome is all we have."

"Fuck... We are doomed."

"Yeah, we are... That's why, the environment is so tense."

Suddenly Dome stood up from his chair and broke a glass...

Crack

"Everyone listen carefully... We lost our king today, and we are sitting here like cowards filling our pits. Are we really that pathetic?

Can't we even fight those bastards and avenge our king?" Dome asked as he looked at everyone, but no one spoke anything; they just kept looking at their food like shameless cowards.

"Okay well, I guess... I have your answers. I am going to fight those fuckers... Alone, and I will not back down until I die. You guys are a shame to this kingdom." Dome shouted as he picked up his giant hammer from the ground and started walking towards the exit gate of the mess.

Knock-knock-Knock

As soon as Dome touched the door's handle, someone started knocking on the door from the other side.

Dome was confused; he didn't know who would knock at the mess door and in the middle of the night.

Everyone stood up from their places and pointed their weapons towards the door of the mess.

Dome looked at his soldiers for one second as he nodded his head towards them and started twisting the handle to open the door.

Click

Dome opened the door and looked at the tall figure that was standing on the doorsteps.

This man's figure wasn't quite clear as there was darkness outside, and only two red glowing eyes could be seen from inside.

"W-Who are you?" Dome asked with a confident face, but in his heart, he was scared of the man's aura.

The unknown man stepped inside the room, and his face was revealed; this guy was none other than Mike himself.

"Wow... That's a very warm welcome." Mike said as he looked at all the soldiers, pointing their weapons towards him.

"A Vampire? What do you want?" Dome asked with a confused expression as he lowered his weapon, and so did the rest of the soldiers.

"Hello, Soldier. I am here on the orders of Madam Derein, and I am your new Vice-Commander. Name is Mike." Mike spoke as he tapped Mike's right shoulder with a smile.

"Wait... Vice-commander? How can you be the Vice-Commander... I am the Vice-Commander of this Army, or did I get promoted to the Chief-Commander of this army?" Dome asked with a confused expression.

"Don't dream that big, Soldier Boy. King Arthur is coming back.

So, you guys better get outside, or he will get angry. Do you understand that?" Mike explained.

"King Arthur is dead, you fool." Dome spoke.

"Here..." Mike spoke as he tossed a crystal ball towards Dome.

"What is this?"

"DOME, IT'S ME ARTHUR. CAN YOU HEAR ME?" Suddenly Arthur's voice resounded from the other side.

"S-Sir, Arthur? Is that really you?" Dome asked with an unbelievable and shocked expression.

"Yes... Listen to that vampire man and get outside. I am coming back to the camp in just 10 minutes." Arthur spoke as he breaks the crystal by throwing it.

"Now, do you understand? Get outside or..." Mike spoke as he looked at Dome with a smile.

"....But it's pouring out there. The soldier won't survive long if they were to stand for another hour in that chilling rain." Dome spoke.

"I don't know what rain are you talking about?" Mike spoke as he pointed towards the outside of the mess.

All the other soldiers looked outside the dome and noticed that it wasn't raining anymore.

"What the? It was just raining a moment ago-" As soon as Dome looked up, he noticed that rain was still pouring but the mess is now covered with a big invisible mana dome.

One by one soldiers stepped out of the mess and started making lines in order to show their manners to the king.