Chapter 5 Returns. part 8

-" 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.