Aftermath

following the end of the war with the triple alliance Ortania was left in a horrible state with a large part of its population dead and many of its military assets damaged or destroyed the nation was about to endure an era of hardships and struggles, the high ranking officials and confirmed soldiers had stayed behind to gather the corpses of the fallen heroes of Ortania, Ashhad and the rest believed that since Basit was a honorary minister hence he had stayed behind to help gather the corpses they were unaware of what had really happened as Ashhad said whilst looking at the time in his watch

Ashhad : it's been an hour since we returned from the battlefield yet niether Basit nor Sufiyan have returned.

Hussnain : Sufiyan was with us when the Bardonians and Navarres were driven out from our Kingdom, I'm sure they must be busy and nothing more.

just then a knock happened on the door as Ashhad said

Alyne : their here.

Ashhad got up went to the door and opened it standing outside was Sufiyan as Ashhad asked

Ashhad : Sufiyan, where's Basit?

Sufiyan walked inside and said

Sufiyan : where are the rest?

Ashhad : inside in the lounge.

Sufiyan went straight to the lounge and Ashhad followed him as he entered the lounge all his friends stood up and Hussnain asked

Hussnain : Sufiyan, where's Basit?

Sufiyan : I'll tell you everything but can I get a glass of water first?

Ashhad : sure.

Ashhad gave him a glass of water and after drinking it Sufiyan sat down with them and said

Sufiyan : our Kingdom has went through one of the darkest nights in its history never have in my whole time on this server have casualty rates soar so high.

Sufiyan took a pause and said

Sufiyan : in total 3000 soldiers fought for the defense of Khanville but only 1513 made it back and in the north the number is even lower.

Sufiyan took a pause and said

Sufiyan : the defense of Asteronia was a complete disaster, our logistics and tactics failed miserably, of the total 3000 soldiers only 987 made it back, in total our once powerful Kingdom of 6000+ people has now been reduced to just 2500 add in that the members of the disabled community and we have a grand total of 2700 people.

Hussnain : that is nothing compared to the 10000 people population of Navarre.

Sufiyan : and to make matters worse the Crystonians captured Asteronia.

Hussnain banged his hand on the couch in anger and said

Hussnain : those damn Crystonians are gonna pay for what they did.

Humzah asked

Humzah : I wonder what's taking Basit so long?

Sufiyan : he's not coming back.

Humzah : what, why?!

Sufiyan sighed and said

Sufiyan : his dead body was found near the border.

hearing this sentence Humzah was left expressionless, Alyne burst out into tears and Aaron tried comforting her whilst shedding a few tears himself, Hussnain was devastated but both he and Ashhad somehow kept calm as Sufiyan said

Sufiyan : I will be leaving for Stevenburg soon wish me luck.

as Alyne whilst crying said

Alyne : I hope Arthur can fix all this.

Sufiyan looked at her in dismay and said

Sufiyan : he can't.

a confused Hussnain asked

Hussnain : why not?

Sufiyan : cause he's dead to.

loosing Basit had left the friends heartbroken but the fact that their King died made matters even worse, Alyne lost it Humzah was still silent it was as if a part of him had died, Hussnain, Aaron and Ashhad were upset as Sufiyan remarked

Sufiyan : with Arthur now gone by Ortanian law I'm now King and I promise you guys I will make Ortania great again.

Ashhad : we wish you the best of luck Sufiyan.

Sufiyan : thankyou, oh and by the way Humzah this is for you.

Sufiyan handed Humzah a book, a pen, a key and some papers Humzah began reading the papers as Sufiyan said

Sufiyan : when the King called me and the honorary ministers to his tent, Basit gave me this book he told me to give this to you incase he didn't made it back, he said it was his repayment for something he referred to as "the best tea" he had ever drank.

Humzah smiled as tears rolled down his eyes and said

Humzah : these are the papers for Basit's property he sold it to me for free.

Humzah signed the papers and without spending even a single emerald, Humzah became the owner of Basit's property as Sufiyan smiled and said

Sufiyan : the position of minister of law and relations and Prince are now vacant if you guys want I could give you one of those positions.

Ashhad : no thankyou.

Humzah : no.

Hussnain : I'm not cut out for this yet.

Alyne : no.

Aaron : can't take the responsibility mate.

Sufiyan : as you wish, now if you'll excuse me I have a Kingdom to rule.

Sufiyan left, while reading the book Humzah found a letter it had Ashhad's name written on it in Basit's handwriting as Humzah said

Humzah : hey Ashhad this one's for you.

Ashhad took the paper and read it the following message was written inside :-

Dear Ashhad

If you are reading this letter it is very well possible that I'm now dead, I wrote this letter because I wanted to inform you about a treasure I had hidden in the forest it is a chest containing 500000 emeralds and I want you to take them the map to it is in my house inside my bedside table furthermore, mine and Hussnain's mentor sir SYED ZULQARNAIN ABBAS will be arriving at Khanville tomorrow at 10:00am I want you to go to the border and receive him, don't tell Hussnain about Zulqarnain OK I want you to surprise him, finally I want you guys to equally divide my treasure.

Your Friend Basit ♥

Ashhad smiled and decided to reveal the contents of the letter during tea.