THE QUEEN WAS BORN The Birth of the Queen

Chapter 8 Capital Traders

Staring straight at the blazing flames from the pile of wood arranged into a cone, Mr. Dalmar was still immersed in his memory of the figure of his youngest daughter he had seen during the incident two days ago. He still could not believe the incident, which made his daughter into something foreign.

After the war fifty years ago, man could no longer use magic in his life. Only people of high noble descent could possess magic according to his family's heritage, but if ordinary folk had magic in his body, then he would be exiled. This is due to fears of rebellion and crime. However, the fact that Acie has such great magic makes Mr. Dalmar worried.

For the past fifteen years, ever since he took care of Acie as his daughter, Mr. Dalmar has never been able to figure out the true origin of Acie. Now he began to worry if one day Acie had to leave him.

“Dad, why are you still awake? Rest is late.” Ciero said as he walked up to his father who was sitting by the fireplace.

“What should we do?” asked Mr. Dalmar ambiguous.

“Meaning Father?!” Ciero frowned.

“Acie is not an ordinary human like us, she has magic in her body. If the villagers find out, there will be a big problem. I haven't paid much attention to Acie's origins in the past, but it seems like I should start figuring out the girl's origins. Whatever the risk.” Break up Mr. Dalmar.

Ciero just stared straight at his depressed-looking father. He can't suggest anything. He himself was also very worried about the current state of Acie. It is not a good thing if the villagers know the advantages of his sister.

At four o'clock in the morning Acie had woken up from her sleep. He immediately took an axe to split the wood into small halves. It was as if winter was endless in the northern hemisphere. One by one the logs of wood that have been divided into small parts. Doesn't look tired from the look on Acie's face.

Acie recalled the incident two days ago, she began to think with her body's response back then. He had never expected that it would give off such great energy. It was as if that energy had been buried for so long within his body.

He was also confused by his possession of the sword that had belonged to the rulers long ago. However, Acie could not dodge the fateful path that had been set for her.

Finished with the pieces of wood, Acie went back into the house to retrieve his arrow and bow. He immediately headed to the hunting forest.

“LUNA! Out!”

The light came from Acie's body, which gave off the figure of a large white wolf named Luna.

“Today I want to surround the hilly area, let me ride you.” Pinta Acie on the shield.

“Please, Tuanku.” Say it with respect.

With a small run, Luna surrounded the Albion hills which were filled with cold snow. The forest area where the villagers hunt is not far from the road that is usually passed by the villagers who come out of the village.

In addition to hunting wild animals in the forest, residents of Alba Village also sell goat milk. Villagers also sold blankets and scarves to nearby villages to make ends meet. Although their trip did not reach the Capital City, but the survival of Alba Village was quite good.

Surrounding the area of snow hills is a new thing done by Acie. For fifteen years of his life, Acie never left the Alba Village area. His father forbade him to step out of the village territory, arguing that there was something dangerous out there.

Acie understood enough of his father's worries. However, for this time Acie felt he had to get out of the Alba Village area, he was eager to find out how things were outside Alba Village.

On his way around the hills of Albion, Acie occasionally asked Luna the situation and circumstances around them. Although very eager to see the scenery around him, but it is an impossible thing for Acie. He could only guess the atmosphere around him by relying on his sharp listening senses.

“The world is vast not ...,” said Acie slowly.

“You know Luna, I'm a little jealous of you. I want to see a world like you. I used to be jealous of my friends in the village, I was so envious when they told me about their father. At that moment I could only quietly hear their admiration. To this day, I still feel the emptiness in my heart. I would love to see the happy faces of the people I love, their sad faces, their upset faces, I would love to see them. It doesn't matter if I lament my flaws like this, Luna?” acie said with a sad face.

Luna felt the sad feeling of her master, “My master, there is no harm if humans lament their fate. For more than a hundred years in this human world, there is one thing that cannot be taken from man, namely determination. If people are determined, anything can be done by them. It is impossible for them to destroy this world.” I'm Luna.

Acie was a little stunned to hear Luna's words just now. He never thought like that, Luna's words were a science to Acie. There is no harm in having an absurd thought. This allows man to cross the line of his incompetence.

The sun is just above the top of the head. The heat from the sun is felt on this sunny day.

“Luna, today just get here. Let's go back to the village!” acie said to Luna who was disobeying her master's orders.

As the distance between Acie and the hunting forest stayed a few meters, Acie caught a sound from the direction of the hills a kilometer away from where Acie was.

“Luna! You hear anything?”

“Iya, Milord.”

“That voice seems to be coming from that direction.” Acie pointed towards the Albion Mountains.

“Should we go there, My Lord?” ask Luna.

“Come!” exciting Acie.

Luna immediately turned her direction towards the mountain range of Albion. Luna ran quickly towards the direction the sound was coming from. There's a bunch of Muz mustards there.

“Moster! What are they doing?!” acie said as she looked at the blue object with her inner eyes.

“Sir, there are humans there,” Luna said.

“I saw it too. Luna, put me down!” acie Pinta.

Soon Luna lowered her head to the ground. Acie quickly glided over Luna. Acie took the bow on his back, he pinned the arrow in the middle of the bow. Quickly the arrow shot to the head of one of the mustard that almost bit the human who was there.

“Luna ..!” Acie hints at Luna attacking Muz's bunch of musters.

Luna quickly ran towards those morsters. It only took five seconds, the bunch of hairy mustard was reduced to ashes due to the fire magic cast by Luna. Acie slightly flinched seeing the blue object disappear in an instant.

“L-excellent.” Mumbled Acie amazed.

Acie immediately ran towards the three humans who looked weak and frightened there. A cart was overturned near them.

“You all right?” ask Acie politely.

“My master, it looks like they can't speak at the moment.” Luna said to her master.

“Alright, we better take them to the village.” Acie's advice was received by Luna.

When he arrived at the hunting forest and the distance with Alba Village was near, Acie stopped his steps followed by Luna.

“Luna, drop them here. Go back inside my body.” Acie Pinta.

“What's your Master? Why should the servant go back in? What about these humans?” luna said confusedly.

Acie glimpsed three unconscious humans on Luna's back.

“I will send the bandits who are on guard here. You come in, the villagers will be afraid to see you.” Acie Clear.

“Alright, Milord.” Said Luna obediently.

Acie immediately ran towards the security post that was close to the hunting forest area. There were two bandits sitting relaxing in the post.

“You two! Come with me for a minute!” pinta Acie to two people who look confused.

“What's Miss?! What happened?!” ask one of the bandits.

“There are some injured people there! Let's help me get them to the village.”

Although a little confused, the two bandits immediately followed Acie's steps. The two bandits were shocked to see three people lying on the ground unconscious.

“Come quickly!” exciting Acie.

“Nona! What happened to them?!” asked one of the bandits while looking at Acie with a puzzled look.

“I'll explain later. Take them to the village first!”

“Alright, Miss.”

Soon the bandits brought the three people who came out of nowhere to Alba Village. Seen shocked and confused faces from the villagers who saw it. The three men were taken to Mr. Dalmar's house. Ciero was shocked when the bandits broke into his house.

“Eh! What's the matter? Who are they?!” ciero asked confusedly when he saw the people that the bandits were carrying.

“Sorry Brother! It's an emergency.” Excited Acie who walked into the house.

Mr. Dalmar and Mr. Caezar returned home when they heard from the villagers that someone was injured and taken to his house. Mr. Dalmar was slightly surprised to see three strangers lying unconscious in his home.

Mr. Dalmar approached Acie sitting next to the stranger with a plain face.

“Can you explain this to Dad, Acie?” pinta Mr. Dalmar to his daughter.

“Dad!” jerks. “Previous ... Acie apologizes Dad for bringing them here.” Say Acie with a sad face.

“Nothing son, try to explain to Dad, what happened actually.” Said Mr. Dalmar while sitting cross-legged beside Acie.

“It happened while Acie was hunting in the forest earlier. I took Luna for a walk around the Albion hill. When Luna and I were about to go home, we heard the sound of people asking for help from the hill. We immediately ran towards the voice, and when we got there, we found a group of mustard attacking these three men. They almost got killed, but Luna helped me fight that mustard. Seeing these people unconscious, we decided to take them to the village.” Acie was obviously on the father.

“Luna is Acie ready? He's our villager?” asked Ciero who was walking from the kitchen to bring a glass of water to his father.

Acie slightly flinched at her brother's question. He did not expect that his older sister did not know about the figure of Luna residing in his body. He also just remembered, if the only ones who knew about the existence of Luna were his father, Caezar, and Basilio the bandit boss. As for the Basilio's men, they had forgotten the figure of Luna, because Luna herself made their memories of her disappear. However, unlike Basilio, he could remember the figure of Luna on that day, because Luna who instilled that memory in Basilio.

“E ... day ..”

“He's a friend of Acie, our villager.” says Caezar cut off the stammering Acie speech.

“Really! Why didn't you bring her here?” ciero said innocently.

“You asked a lot of questions! Is lunch ready or not?!” caezar hatch.

“Can't not interfere! I'm talking to Acie!” sahut Ciero was upset.

“Ayo ...! come ...!” Caezar pushes Ciero's body into the kitchen.

Acie and the father were still sitting where the strangers were lying. A moment later, one of the strangers opened his eyes. He looked confused when he looked around him.

“You're okay?” ask Mr. Dalmar politely.

“Dad, they're aware?” ask Acie to the father.

“Only one person.” Mr. Dalmar.

An old man with a white beard had sobered up from his stupor. He immediately got up and sat down cross-legged to calm his mind.

“Drink,” said Mr. Dalmar as he held out a glass of water to the old man.

The old man took water given by Mr. Dalmar with his two hands, “Thank you ..” Said the old man.

“Master, if I may ask, what happened exactly?” ask Mr. Dalmar.

The old man regained his breath,

“Three days ago, my employees and I took a trip to sell my merchandise. Previously, I was an antiques dealer in the Capital City. However, due to the economic situation of the Capital City in a state of crisis, I was worried about my unsold business. Seeing other merchants beginning to suffer and having to let their wares rot or decay because they were not sold, I decided to get out of the Capital Territory and travel to peddle my wares, our journey did not go well, in every area we traveled there must be a guard post. The royal guards there drew a considerable wage on everyone who passed through the territory. Since none of my items sold a single one and no pennies, I could not pass through the region. I had to go back to where I was. However, one of my employees knew of a shortcut that was not guarded by the royal guard,"

"I decided to take his advice. Our steps came to a halt when we saw the vast white mountain range before us, but we did not give up, we continued to travel until one afternoon, suddenly a black cloud enveloped the sky of the mountains we passed through. A moment later a huge storm suddenly came out of nowhere. In panic we continued to walk to seek refuge. But when we got to the white hill, we could no longer walk. Our energy is no more, for we have not eaten or drunk for days. That's when we were lying there for a long time. Until a voice rang out in my ear, however, I could no longer speak nor move. After that I don't remember anything else.” Obviously the old man was long.

Hearing the story of the old man who worked as a merchant from the Capital, Mr. Dalmar and Acie could only hear carefully. It turned out that the disaster caused by the sword Bahoun Zeme also had an effect on them.

“Then, rest for a little while, Mr.” Said Mr. Dalmar.

“Thank you very much.” The old man said with a relieved face.

The moon shines beautifully in the cold night sky. Ciero was busy with his cooking in the kitchen.

“Acie ....! Bring some wood here!” Pinta Ciero on his sister who was relaxing ate dried acorns by the fireplace.

“Siap ..!” put the acorns into his mouth, and immediately ran out picking up the wood.

“Evening is ready?” ask the father who is standing in the kitchen doorway.

“In a minute, Father.” Ciero Sahut.

Acie walked into the kitchen with a bundle of wood in her right hand. “This is put where?” ask Acie to her sister.

“Bring here,” pinta Ciero.

A few minutes later, dinner was ready. Potato soup, toast, and boiled tuna are the dinner menu this time. It was seen that the merchants were eating their food voraciously.

Ciero was delighted to see his cooking favored by the merchants.

Dinner was over, all sitting by the fireplace to digest the food they had just eaten. A glass of warm goat milk Ciero gave them.

“We are very grateful to you, Mr.” Said the old man sitting cross-legged in front of Mr. Dalmar.

Hearing the old man's words Mr. Dalmar simply smiled wryly at him.

“We also don't know if we can still survive if you don't help us.” I am a young man who is an employee of the old man.

“We are here happy to help others, not a big problem to help others.” Said Mr. Dalmar wisely.

“I am really amazed by this village. I have never found such a strong bond. If only everyone in the Emerald kingdom had thoughts and humanity like here, maybe no people would suffer.” Said the old man with a sad face.

“If the war had not happened ..” add the other youth slowly.

Mr. Dalmar's face was slightly surprised to hear the young man's words.

“Warships?” said Mr. Dalmar.

“Iya Sir. The great battle between the Emerald kingdom and the Armond kingdom ten years ago made the situation of the Emerald kingdom very bad. Many people have lost their homes and homes. Thousands of people have been captured and enslaved by the kingdom of Armond. If only the King had not given up and submitted to the kingdom of Armond back then, then this kingdom would have been destroyed without a remnant.” It was clear that young man with a disappointed face.

“I don't wonder why you didn't know about that big war. The distance of this village with the Capital and the area of war is very far. Almost no one knew about the existence of this village. I was also very surprised to see there is a village in the middle of the ice mountains like this.” Add the old man.

Mr. Dalmar's face was shocked to hear the story of the merchants. He did not expect that a great war had taken place in the Emerald kingdom ten years ago. Alba Village is a remote village. Not much is known about this village. Even the information from the Royal Capital was very difficult to know by the residents of Alba Village.

“Uncle, can I ask you something?” acie said to the old man.

“Of course Son,”

“Why did Uncle get to a secluded place like this? Uncle said this afternoon that uncle wanted to sell Uncle's merchandise, but didn't uncle's decision to come here feel wrong?”

“What a question you have is son. Before, our goal was not to go to this place. We plan to go to the Ligni region. There was a very beautiful place, the trees flourished on that land. Besides being far from the Capital Territory, Ligni was an area that was not affected by war. The area was indeed not large, but a peaceful and quiet life still lived there. I thought that if my merchandise could not be sold, I would settle there and become a farmer. However, my steps came to a halt when I discovered the region had been scorched by fire.” Sighs.

“Near I lost right then and there. I don't know what to do. However, looking at the two of them,” looked towards the two youths beside him,

“I think a second time. We decided to continue our journey.”

“Uncle!” sela Acie, “Why can that Ligni Region be scorched?! Who burned it?” acie asked with a curious face.

“Em .. I didn't have time to ask the residents there, but when we stopped at a small tavern near the area, I overheard the conversation of some people in the tavern. They say that a group of horsemen and armed men came to the region, and as they went from there a very thick black smoke was seen in the region. I don't know exactly what happened, but maybe they were robbed or a bunch of mountain bandits who came to take over their territory.” explained the old man.

Acie looked a little confused by the story of that Capital City merchant. However, most of the story is already understood by Acie. Tired faces began to appear from those merchants.

“It looks like it's late, we'd better rest first.” Said Mr. Dalmar.

Everyone agrees with Mr. Dalmar's advice. Ciero immediately cleaned the empty glass there helped by Acie. The dark and cold night ended the story of the Capital's merchants.

Seriate...

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