"uggh…" Aamon tried to open up his eyes, but his vision was still blury. He tried to move but couldn't. He was tied up entirely with chains and was laying on the ground of a very dark room, there was nothing but a candle that dimly lit up the room.
One of the guards who was watching him noticed Aamon got his consciousness, he quickly called others
Soon Tharil and Tharok entered the room
Out of no where the masked man appeared again
"How dare you threat us" Tharil barked at Aamon
Aamon just realized what he heard the last night
"How dare you plan on killing the king" Aamon tried to move but was unable to
"This king is nothing but a coward and idiot" Tharil said
"How dare you" Aamon got angry
"Our kingdom makes huge sum of money, if that king increased the tax rate, we could have brought more soldiers, more weapons and soon take over the entire world" Tharil said
"If the king finds out about you, he will execute you" Aamon warned
"That stupid king is soft, even if he finds out he will forgive me" Tharil said
"That's because after all of this, he trust you" Aamon said
"Who needs that stupid king when I can become the king myself and make this empire the greatest" Tharil said
"And I can make a great offer" Tharil looked up at Aamon "You can still be the Royal guard and have your own mansion"
"I don't want to be a part of your traitorous act" Aamon said still trying to move
"It's pointless resisting" Tharil said "No one will find out about you"
"They will look for me when they find out I'm missing" Aamon said
"I've already taken care of that" Tharil said
"I told them I send you off to a important job" Tharil said
"Like they will believe you" Aamon said
"Oh they will believe me" Tharil said "Like you said They have trust in me" Tharil said with an evil smile
"I'm putting you incharge of this" Tharil said to the masked man
"If you have to do extra work, I'll pay you for it" Tharil said
Tharil left the room
"Hey why did you let us escape from the cave with the scroll?" Aamon said to the masked man
"Like I said to you, I don't like extra work that don't pay me" he replied "I was only paid for stealing the scroll, not to protect it"
"You are a scumbag you know that?" Aamon said
"You are the one to talk" the masked man said "You knew all along that Tharil was the traitor, and you kept quiet about it"
"How did you know?" Aamon asked
"When I see someone's face, I can read them like an open book" The masked man replied "Their face reaction tells me everything"
"Yeah I've know from the start that Tharil was the traitor" Aamon confessed
"And You've kept quiet about it" The maksed man said
"Because Allesio will be the next king, I wanted him to figure out this kind of situation himself" Aamon said
"Allesio doesn't know how this world works" Aamon said "He relys haviely on others"
"Like the king, he trusts everyone others, he trusts too much on me" Aamon said
"I want him to be more indepent, I want him to become ready to become the next king" Aamon said
"That's why I didn't told him directly about it" Aamon said
"in this world full of betrayal, to find a friend like you is truly a blessing to a person" The masked man said
"How will a scumbag like you will understand the meaning of this" Aamon said
"You my friend is right about that" The masked man said
Same time, at the palace…
"Have you seen Aamon?" Allesio asked the king who was sitting in a room full of books, a library, reading a book
"Advisor Tharil sent him on a mission" The king replied
"that's strange, he didn't even said good bye before leaving" Allesio was thinking while leaving the room
Later that day…
Allesio was lying on the lap of Lilian in the same garden of flowers
"Aamon never leaves the palace before telling me anything, and now he went to a mission without telling me a single word"
"Maybe it was an urgent mission" Lilian who was brushing Allesio's hair with her hand said "He didn't get the time to tell you"
"Maybe you're right. But I'm still worried about him, what if something happened to him" Allesio said
"You trust him don't you?" Lilian asked
"Yes, I trust him" Allesio replied
"Than you'll see, he will return" Lilian said
Later that night, at midnight…
The guards gurding the palace entrance suddenly collapsed on the ground. One by one everyone was collapsing
A guard noticed that, someone was aiming arrow on the guards. He wanted to ring the emergency bell, but suddenly someone came behind him and cut his throat.
A group of people, was going towards the Kings room. A few of them was hiding in a distance, someon the top of the wall, some inside the bush decorated in the palace, some behind the pillars and some on the vassel. They were all holding arrows, including the girl from the cave
"Looks like the plan is in motion" The masked man said
"What do you mean by that?" Aamon asked
But the masked man disappeared from the room. Aamon noticed that the chain tieing him I cracked, without much effort he made himself free
"How did the chain… did he do this? But why?" Aamon though
"There's not enough time to think, I've to go to the king" Aamon rushed towards the king's room