“Knight Commander Laurier has sent you a letter and it needs your immediate attention.” Raelynn took the letter from the knight and stepped aside from the group after giving a curt nod to Talay.Her expression had turned serious as soon as she had noticed the knight as it was unusual to receive a letter from Laurier, especially when he knew that she would be returning that day. ‘Unless…,” Raelynn thought in her mind and swiftly went through the contents of the letters. Although Raelynn had stepped away from them, Talay had kept an eye

“Sir Warren, can you get me some cayenne powder? It’s time to make the punishment more interesting and agonizing; interesting for us, agonizing for them.” Raelynn requested politely, making sure to lower her voice. Only the three men could hear her; Raelynn made sure to keep her victims in the dark. It was a surprise for them for not cooperating with her. Although she was the Commander of the battalion, the two men beside Laurier was more capable and experienced than her. She respected them, without putting an air of arrogance in front of them. And just like Laurier, the two men too were not dejected to be led by a woman. Although at first, they were apprehensive and dubious about her skills

The next day.In Hollis, Dimitri was going man as time ticked by. The fugitive had escaped from, his prison and as each second passed, Dimitri was sure that the man had left Hollis. Otherwise, given his manpower and skilled guards, there was no way he would have caught up with him. Dimitri's paranoid mind had gone to the extent to even doubt his loyal guards and in a fit of anger, he had killed more than twelve knights.Dimitri stared at the knights he had killed, his blood thirst not satisfied by their blood on his hands. He wanted more and preferably of the man who had escaped from his kingdom. He knew who the man was; he was a spy from his enemy's kingdom ad his escape was nothing but a huge blow to his power as well as ego. Unlike his spies who were getting caught by the knights of Volar one by one, the fugitive was the first one he had ever caught in his kingdom.With a loud roar, Dimitri chopped off another guard's head, his blood splattering on his face,

Dimitri ran his eyes over the carriages and saw the way each of his men were butchered and killed. The gore scene and the blood stench made many blood stench people to move away from the area. It was too much for the common people to bear. However, that was not the case for Dimitri. For him, this scene evoked a sense of provocation, a sense of failure, a taste of defeat. Dimitri walked around the carriages, keenly observing the dead bodies. Nobody could decipher what was running his mind. However, only he knew how impressed and stirred he was by what he was seeing. ‘I must applaud your army, Eldrick.’ He nodded, an evil glint flashing in his eyes which nobody noticed. ‘But I have not accepted defeat yet, nor will you be able to defeat me. I will take this as a challenge and let me assure you that you will not like the outcome once I take

Cathal had reached Hollis the previous night and had waited for the break of dawn to meet the Lord of Hollis. Although he had prepared himself to meet the Lord and speak to him, he could remove the distress and uneasiness in his mind that had taken its seed the moment he had departed from Volar.His trepidation only grew and terror settled in when he too heard about the dead men found at the entrance of the kingdom gates. He knew that the Lord would be fuming by now, and this was not the right time to meet him; especially when it was his kingdom men who killed the men of Hollis.The moment he had arrived at the palace, the guards had given him a look of hatred and disgust. It was not that the men hated the people of Volar, no. Unlike Dimitri and some fawning and fussing ministers who agreed with everything the Lord demanded without thinking, just for their greed and selfishness, everybody else from the kingdom of Hollis, including the knights and the other men treated