Love of the Empress 2: King and Queen

The Goluth Invasion

Back to Nevarest.

The search for the Queen and princess of Goluth kingdom continues. Neither the military of Daffa nor the personal guards of king Elfran.

A few days have passed, but Queen Charrine and princess Rinaya have not yet been found. The queen and her daughter just disappeared into the earth. Because no trace can trace their whereabouts.

Daffa increasingly suspects that there is a mastermind behind the disappearance of Queen Goluth. Because clearly the impact of this incident is the relationship between the two rulers of the kingdom that is getting worse.

On the sixth night, King Goluth returned to his native land with all his guards. His return was done secretly without informing the royal court of Nevarest.

At that time the king of Bahima and Queen Madis, the other two rulers are still in Nevarest. They still survive in the country until the next day to watch the opera and entertainment that has been prepared by the palace.

Faced with the attitude of the king of Goluth, Daffa just let it go. While he still continues to make search efforts against Queen Charrine.

While Daffa intel has investigated that no figure of the queen or her daughter in the entourage of king Elfran who returned to the kingdom of Goluth.

Despite not finding the figure of Queen Charrine in the Goluth royal entourage, Daffa still sent his intel to follow the entourage. While he did a thorough search of the city.

The next day, King Bahima and Queen Madis followed home to their respective kingdoms.

In the end, the treaty of Pizzloff en Muah was signed by only three kingdoms. The kingdoms of Nevarest, Allain and Enmar.

In response to this strange situation, Daffa had a bad feeling that the king of Goluth would not stay silent to let their queen disappear.

And his guess is true. Because in the third week, after the meeting of the four kingdoms, Daffa received news that Goluth's forces had attacked the Nevarest border region in the north.

This is the first war drum after a hundred years of his Nevarest people living peacefully without war.

Of course Goluth's attack on the North of Nevarest is quite shocking not only Nevarest, but also the kingdom of Allain and Enmar.

The Goluth attack was predicted by Daffa. But still, Nevarest bore the loss of two cities on the northern border that were successfully controlled by Goluth forces.

"How's the situation there?" Ask Daffa to the military chief of the kingdom, Antes.

Antes was an old friend of Daffa in the palace academy, long ago. The two are close friends. Daffa deliberately appointed Antes to be the new military chief replacing his earlier more pro-military chief to the side of Alul Lazam, the defense minister.

With Antes Daffa felt calmer trusting in the internal security of the enemy from within.

"Report to the King! The city of Bloom and the city of Devas before him had been successfully emptied before Goluth's army attacked. So there's no fatalities on our side. Unfortunately, we lost two major oil palm producing places. So it is feared this will have an impact on the number of stocks of palm oil commodities in the country later," replied Antes spryly and straightforwardly.

Daffa frowned. He asked the trade minister.

"What about the oil palm this year? Is the amount sufficient for the next 2 years? Or what about other oil palm producing areas? Is there any land that can be converted, if necessary?" Ask Daffa in detail.

The trade minister immediately replied.

"The amount of palm oil commodities is still enough, king. Slave will divert some of the other land to become a new palm oil producing land."

"Good, Da wait for your report!"

Daffa's eyes then looked back at the head of the royal military again.

"Has there been an envoy from Goluth to explain the purpose and purpose of initiating this war?" Ask Daffa again.

"Yet, Your Majesty. The servant sent an emissary to ask the king of Goluth. Unfortunately, our messenger was even treated vilely by king Elfran!" Antes's condemnation restrained the anger.

Antes initially hesitated to tell the condition of their emissaries who were treated so vilely by the king of Elfran. But because the king himself asked him, the end of his Antes told him what his eyes saw last night.

"We returned home ushered by his steed in the condition of dozens of arrows that stuck on his back. Some even stuck it around the soldier's neck. The body of the soldier can remain on the horse because it has been tied with the body of the horse" said Antes honestly.

"The most heinous thing was, when we lowered the body of the soldier from his horse mount, we found the face of the wounded soldier burned quite badly. It seems that before it was harvested, it had experienced torture first, ", Antes said with his head bowed.

A silent atmosphere filled the void in the Audience room that morning. Daffa was infuriated by the treatment of the ruler of Goluth who had been arbitrary and ignored ethics in war.

Because in war, a messenger should not be hurt or hurt by enemy forces. Even if small. Because it can show the height or not the dignity and dignity of the ruler of the country.

"Earth the warrior with hero-level reverence. Santuni his family with proper gifts," Daffa gave his edict.

Antes nodded his head.

"Place all troops at the border. And send the fastest signal when you see enemy troops. And Alul!" Call Daffa to his defense minister.

Alul took a step straight ahead and lowered his head briefly.

"Hamba, your king!" Alul Lazam.

"What about the recruitment of the population with typical military inner power so far? How many have been collected?" Ask Daffa.

"There are only about seven hundred registered owners of military inner power, Your Majesty. Most are the rulers of the earth element and also the owners of the inner power of immunity. Only a few people have a special inner power," reported Alul Lazam.

"Special how?"

"We found about eleven wild animal controllers, seven firebenders, one mist-creator, and two poison masters."

"Poisons?! Did you include those two poison masters in the core army ranks?" Daffa asked half-bluffed.

Alul Lazam seemed hesitant to answer at first. But after being quiet for a while, he finally answered.

"His plan Servant will only use them as an urgent weapon only, Your Majesty!" Answer Alul Lazam.

Daffa observed the solemnity of the minister's words. Unfortunately he could not judge the true not his Alul's speech.

"You remember your words, Alul. He does not want any foul wiles in our war strategy against the enemy. We must, however, keep a view of humanity under any circumstances. While also minimizing the number of casualties as small as possible," added Daffa back.

The minister looked at his king with a strange look. It is hard to believe the king's words.

He thought, Daffa's words might be just pleasantries. So that he can be impressed as a king who is 'clean' and authoritative.

According to Alul Lazam, no member of the kingdom has the mind of a good leader.

After a long silence, Alul Lazam also gave a brief warning from the king of Daffa.

"Ready, Your Majesty!"

And the audience continues to go on to a different topic of conversation.

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