an early awakening and way to the battlefield (1)

Gahrkal continued to inspect the objects in the market but in the end he could not find anything else that would get his attention and his mind could not remain calm in any way as it is his head still circling the words that the elder Semael had said.

[Death to the king? Are not the subjects supposed to love their king?] (Gahrkal) said to himself again and again.

The moon was still at the top of the night sky and Gahrkal decided that it was time to return to the cabin and after another time of walking he found that the entire group was ready to leave.

[We will leave now if we are lucky we will be able to pass through the northern citadel, home of the king of the north, and from there we will go to the enemy advance camp.] (Arwen) told everyone present.

Gahrkal was surprised that everyone was awake at that hour, but he managed to understand that in this other world and the people in front of him were heading to war so time was essential for them.

The whole group started walking towards the citadel while Lhiara and Hiara reclined on the shoulders of Gahrkal and fell asleep again and Alinor stayed away from Gahrkal talking with the other 6 elven women.

[As you know we are heading to a battlefield where my sisters and I will surely die, so I will explain to you the possible dangers that we might encounter when the king and his soldiers and personal guards arrive first, the information that I have indicates that there are at least 15,000 soldiers 4 heroes the king and his 3 personal guards on the battlefield and that the battle has not yet started because the king of the north and the leader of the semi-human territory are trying to reach an agreement which will be impossible since the king of the north it is controlled by a faction of greedy nobles.] (Arwen) spoke with a tone of disgust

Arwen decided to explain the situation of the northern kingdom since she simply invited Gahrkal because he managed to talk with Yggdrasil and only for this reason could the elves fully trust in spite of their outward appearance.

[I really do not know why you trust me but I have something to show you.] (Gahrkal) said.

Gahrkal checked his inventory and removed this elven emperor's skull but Arwen's face did not change a bit.

[a skull? Is that supposed to be charmed or something?] (Arwen)

Gahrkal observed perplexed to learn that Arwen and the other elven women did not attack him immediately maybe talking to the tree of the world brought more unexpected benefits but Gahrkal decided not to play with the chances that these girls decided to face the only because he was groping the skull of a dead sovereign.

[4 hours later]

The hours passed as the group walked and Gahrkal adjusted his sight to the darkness and recognized the huge crater that could be observed at a distance that was previously the village destroyed by goblins and the crystal cave inhabited by the glass worm and one of the elf women spoke.

[do you smell that?] (elf woman) spoke in a strange way.

Sniff...

Sniff...

[blood...the air smells of blood, chaos and despair.] (elf woman) said

[Gahrkal she is Meryl our scout and loyal sister.] (Arwen) told and explained.

The young elf woman had beautiful golden hair and green eyes and a voluptuous body that would make any man fantasize but Gahrkal did not react much to his figure but to the fact that she could feel blood in the air.

[blood? Then there is a battle here or a corpse.] (Gahrkal) said.

Following the path without hurrying the way Gahrkal began to notice strange tracks that were marked on the path as if thousands of people had passed through but could not notice any horse print, so he decided to discard that those tracks were a company of soldiers.

[I fear that the citadel of the north is completely annihilated and made a quick reconnaissance, and I am afraid that all the people who inhabited the citadel are dead.] (Meryl) she said and explained.

Everyone remained perplexed but Gahrkal remembered that in the village that they had previously passed when he entered the city at the invitation of the church, the achievement witnessed a subjugation of a work caused by a necromancer and also remembered the traces that he saw where they were supposed to be. the pile of bodies being burned.

[I am afraid that the kingdom was going to fall in one way or another and I think I know why.] (Gahrkal) said observing in the distance the burning citadel.