Black Gem on the Hill

Sturdy but fragile

The early morning atmosphere at Silvercast Palace was noticeably different after a natural disaster rocked the area, goidam is currently trying to build several destroyed buildings and some of them are ready for general use.

Some of the kingdom's causeways were flooded with land so they had to make new roads or clear old roads from the soil pile.

"Report your Majesty.." The soldier looked down respectfully.

"Yes, what's wrong?"

"Our war general was killed by falling from the ravine, and the Prime Minister also found the body of a woman beside him. He thought it was his wife or concubine, Your Majesty"

"Then we must find a new General of War" Goidam closed the book and left.

"Mom, please carry me" Tara pointed her hands at the mother who was putting all her jewelry up.

"Silence Tara!" snapped Sasha, Tara immediately cried because of fear.

"You should have treated Tara more gently to Queen Sasha" Selima said at the doorstep.

"He's my son, I have every right to do anything to him"

"If the King sees your treatment of her, it is certain that you will be punished by Queen Sasha" Selima walked up to Tara to carry her and take the little girl away.

"Then take her away so she doesn't bother me" Sasha said.

"Without you telling me to do it" Selima replied.

Gamiroku is still tied to a large tree, it has been almost two days he was silent there. His wounds have now closed again, his old horn tied to the rope until it left a bruise mark on his body.

He had often shouted to seek help until his vocal cords were running out, but no one came. The boy was unaware of the rumors that were spreading about the forest where he was bound.

It is said that the forest is a haunted forest, it is famous for the appearance of astral figures dressed as nobles and other strange sounds, sometimes there are ghosts of small children who appear.

Charcoal Forest is a place where the death hole is located, no one knows, only a few royal soldiers and the authorities who know it.

Asuri is buried there with the children killed by Goidam, and Gamiroku is tied to a large tree not far from the death hole.

"Tolooooong!!!" Gamiroku tried to shout again in a hoarse voice.

Then dots of light resembling orbs surrounded him and slowly began to gather to resemble a human body.

Gamiroku's eyes widened when he saw the light changed into a woman he had never even met before, curly hair like Sohana. Her face is also very beautiful and bright. "Who?" ask Gamiroku.

"I came here to help you my son, aren't you looking for help?" the answer.

"You're a ghost, how can you help me? Oh yes one more, I am not your son" said Gamiroku plain.

"My name is Asuri, former Queen of the Silvercast empire. From today on, I will always be by your side to help you"

"No need, it sounds troublesome, you have to repeatedly pass through the door between the mortal world and the afterlife" he said, as Asuri smiled sweetly.

"What if you don't want to, right now, those people will come back to take you to the camp in the middle of the forest. Are you sure you don't want me to help you?" ask Asuri.

"Of course help me!" Gamiroku kicked the ground, exasperated.

"Wait a minute..."

Then the rope that was holding him was cut off so easily. His tiny body could not withstand the pain of the entanglement, as a result he could not walk because the blood had not fully flowed throughout the body Gamiroku.

"Wear this...." Asuri wears a pendant necklace that she wears all the time.

"What's all this for? I don't have to accept ghost stuff" he said.

"Keep it, one day you will need it" said Asuri then he disappeared in the wind, then Gamiroku fell unconscious due to dehydration.

"Come there!" shouted the commander of the troops who was looking for Danma.

The woman was confused looking for a hiding place, finally she ran towards the Arang forest to hide there.

"Where is he?!" ask the soldiers after losing track.

"Go there!"

Slowly Danma recites a spell that turns her into a beautiful girl. The Silvercast soldiers were completely unaware that the one before them right now was an old granny not a young girl.

"Beautiful, did you see a wrinkled grandmother running this way?" ask the soldier.

"WHO DO YOU CALL WRINKLES HMM?" inner Danma.

"Ah, no sir" replied Danma timidly.

"Well, thank you" they went by.

"It's a good thing they're easy to fool..huft..." Danma continued her steps into the forest while breaking her bangs. He returned to his original form.

Danma still feels guilty because until now he can not find Gamiroku, news about Asuri's death also makes him sad. He had not expected to lose his beloved Queen so quickly.

His feet continued to step until he reached the front of the big tree, fortunately Danma looked to the other side and found Gamiroku lying unconscious.

"Jeez...there are people apparently" Danma approached Gamiroku's tiny body while checking her condition.

The necklace pendant then protruded out of her clothes. "Black jewels? This is like a necklace that Queen Asuri often uses....Is she..." Danma frowned.

"Gamiroku.." - Danma, her tears were welling up.

"Oh....Oh my God, this child is still alive." The old woman wept beside Gamiroku.

"Water.." - The boy was weak.

"All right, I'll take you" then Danma lifts Gamiroku on his back.

"Sasha, where's Tama?" ask Goidam to panic.

"I don't know, at most he climbed the cherry tree again" Sasha replied as if unconcerned.

"He wasn't there Sasha!"

"I don't know"

"YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF OUR SON!" snapped Goidam, his emotions increasingly uncontrollable because Sasha always concerned himself rather than his two children.

"Whatever" heck.

"Basic.argh!" Goidam left his wife upset.

He mobilizes all his soldiers to search for Tama and Tara, they both disappear after being invited out around the palace by Selima.

"Are you really not seeing Selima anymore?" goidam asked the worried Selima.

"Yes Your Majesty" Selima replied softly.

They are in a hurry to find the two boys, until the dawn of drowning they still can not find Tama and Tara.

Apparently, someone had kidnapped and taken the two boys to a camp in the middle of the forest without Goidam's knowledge.

As sturdy as a shield will still be fragile if not used properly, maybe it's the right term to describe security in the Silvercast region today. For many traitors have broken the king's command.