Erast - The Capital

He just noticed that today's moon is shining with unusual brightness, which made him wonder.

What will the future bring? Many unusual things are happening in the capital.

Once the situation in the capital changes then it directly affects the whole nation, for better or worse than it has to wait and see.

With this thought, he sighed and walked out of the basement, and went into the house.

That man who was talking with the City Lord went on his way while hiding as he doesn't want to be noticed by anyone.

He just went to his home which was just a mud hut, he was wrapped in dark clothes and the whole road was black so no one really saw him.

When he entered the mud hut, he took out the cloth which was wrapped around his face. He is a good-looking man in his thirties, and after removing all the clothes, he entered the house.

He saw a woman mending her clothes in the moonlight, she was also a beautiful woman who was in her mid-twenties.

Even though they don't have anything expensive on their body, they both look good, not like the ones who are on the border and in poor countries.

"Love, what are you doing tonight? Don't do such work at night time it will hurt your eyes," The man said while sitting down beside the lady and hugging her.

"My lord, you came?! it is just mending some patches in this shirt; this is your youngest son's; he went to fight with someone again today, I don't know why he always fights with others. I am fed up with his fights," The lady complained

"I will talk with him, you shouldn't worry about this; love, there is something I want to talk with you about…. about our daughters," The man said with hesitation.

"What about them? Did something happen?" The lady asked in panic while she threw the cloth which she was mending aside and her full attention was towards the man.

"It is just the City Lord who ordered us to send both daughters to this bride-choosing ceremony, he believes that our daughters will pass all the tests and may both enter the Prince's mansion," The man said slowly to let the lady digest the news.

"Wh.. what?" The lady's face suddenly drained, and she became pale.

"Why? I thought we could send our one daughter, and she wouldn't go further than the county test, so she will also come back, but now both of our daughters need to be sent.

No! No! No! my daughters will not go to the capital nor they will be entering the Prince's mansion, Lord, I won't let my daughters go into that hell!! Please do something, please I beg you," That lady was crying and holding that man's

hand's like the last straw.

"I tried to deny, but the City Lord ordered strictly and I am hopeless on that matter, I am sorry I wasn't able to save my daughters," That man also have pain and helplessness on his face,

"Then what shall we do, my lord?" The lady asked while sniffing.

"I don't know love, what should we do, I think there is no way for us to save our daughter, we have to send them for the ceremony," The man said with a dejected sigh.

"No, no, I will not let my daughters be part of this dirty game, my lord, if you don't do anything then I will take my daughters and will run away from here," The lady said with tears running down her face.

"Love, no I will not listen to anything, what type of parents are we that we are not able to save our children" the lady was sobbing softly

Seeing that man also felt pain, how can he be happy to send his daughters whom he has raised like a flower to send to someone who will just use them and throw them, he never wants his daughters to marry high, but he just wants them to marry someone who can love them with all their heart.

But now, they have to send their daughters to the tiger's den, why doesn't he feel the pain?

"Okay, my love don't cry, we will see what we can do, but we will do our best to save our daughters, now let's go and I am hungry, don't cry children will wake up then we may not be able to answer their question," The man tried to comfort his wife.

He knows that he has to do something to save their daughters.

Everyone has their own thoughts and plans, the future is long and everything will be revealed one by one.

Far away from here, the capital of Domhnall, Erast.

In the dark room, a man was sitting in a chair languidly, with two people standing behind him, and another person standing in front of him.

"Master, the King has already spread words about the 'bride-choosing ceremony' and everyone will surely send their daughters within the age of sixteen to eighteen, no one would dare to defy King's decree" The man who is standing said.

"Hmm," the man sitting said without interest.

"Also I have checked with others for security around the capital, and no suspicious activities are spotted, but we are keeping tight eyes on everyone's movement in the capital." The man started to give all the information regarding the operations they have.

"Hmm, you did a good job, maintain the same," The person laying on the chair said.

All of them are in the dark and no one's face is showing as there is no light to see, but their voice is echoing throughout the dark room.

"Okay Master," With that the man standing in front walked out of the room and vanished into the darkness.

Suddenly the room fell into silence, and the man laying on the chair started to play with the white milky stone.

And in the room that is the only sound coming.

The two men who are standing behind are looking at each other, one is making a sign through his eyes, and the other is shaking his head in 'no'.

"What? Spill out" The man asked without looking back.

"Master, are you excited about this ceremony?" One of them asked with a trembling voice.

He took a deep breath and he was trembling from head to toe.

"Excited? Hmm, I'm very excited. I am waiting for to see the surprise that will be bought by this ceremony," The man said with a chuckle, but his voice held no extra happiness.

"Okay, disperse, I need to get my sleep, if not then tomorrow I may have to listen to an earful from father," With that the man got up and left.

As soon as he left, the person who asked the question fell on the floor.

"I felt that today I would have died, my mouth always brings me trouble." The man cursed himself for asking questions.

The other person who is standing beside him looks at him and sees the sweat on the other man's face, and a dress that is drenched in sweat.

He thought that he was lucky that he didn't ask any questions because he is not as strong as the other who is lying on the floor.

"Brother, was it hard? Did the Master go hard on you?" He asked with caution and tried to pull the other person up.

After that person was up, he stretched his hands, and his legs, and after that, he tried his inner power flow seeing that there is no restriction, he sighed in relief.

Then he looked at another person who pulled him up and then started to beat that person.

"You bast***, you are the reason today Master almost crippled me, if you had doubt then ask the Master yourself, why did you drag me, today I will kill you"

"Hey, hey stop it hurts stop, please stop, don't punch my face, don't hurt my face" The other person who is getting beaten up was trying to cover his face as he doesn't want any punch on the face.

Because he tried to save his face, he got beaten up badly in other parts of his body.

Many guards who are in the dark saw this but they didn't come to save, let alone save, they didn't even bat the eye like they see this every day.

"Okay, brother stop, enough I can't bear more punches from you, ahh, please stop" Seeing the other person screaming in pain, the man who was beating stopped.

"Remember, never ask any questions regarding the Master's decisions, your work is to follow what he says, not what you thought, and this is your first lesson to serve the Master, understand?" The man asked the beaten person.

The beaten man was new here, as another one was sent to on very important work, so this person was chosen, but he always makes fun and never takes things seriously just like today.