The Golden Throne

Chapter 146 - The Troubles Of War

"That is not for me to say. The people who should be satisfied are behind me.", the boy said as he helped the younger boy get up. He looked at all the civilians and smiled pleasantly as if he was promising them that he would take care of them.

He then looked at Damascus again and said, "This was not waged against the kingdom. It was against demons. A war that is rightful in nature cannot be defiled by acts such as these. We have already faced horrible things in our past. We have already faced demons. Most of us have already taken first blood. We shall not hesitate to do the same again.". The soldiers next to Damascus looked menacingly at this seeming threat.

"How dare you speak like this to a king?! You dare threaten us boy?", he was about to step forward but Damascus looked at the soldier with a threatening gaze.

"If you step forward, you will be stripped of your rank.", he said. The soldier stopped dead in his tracked and turned back at Damascus, who was now looking at the boy.

"I will take care that this shall never happen again. If it does, you are free to act as you wish.", Damascus said as he turned around to leave. He barked at the soldiers as he did, "You heard me! If any one of you so much as touches one of these civilians, then you are going to be fending off for yourselves, and you saw that even a small child was more powerful than you could ever hope to be.". 

The soldiers listened to this with horror. Murmurs filled the plaza, with everyone disgruntled with this verdict.

The boy, however, was not even remotely thrilled. The elder boy just nodded and helped the other boys up. The smaller boy said, "But those aunties still need medicine. They were shivering for some reason."

"Don't worry. They will be fine once those soldiers leave this place."

"Really? Why is that?"

"You don't need to know about all of this. You must have become orphaned naturally. Some of us had to go through so much more to come to the position that we are here. In the future, maybe you will see the truth about who you really are fighting for."

The elder boy took the smaller one by the arm and dragged him away from the scene, while all of the soldiers watched them with interest. Damascus was eyeing the elder one, who was presumably the leader of all of the troupe that came. The master of the mage tower did not come, saying that he would not leave the mage tower unless something truly catastrophic happened. So, a child was leading the delegation from the mage tower. 

The night passed slowly and gruesomely. The whole city was patrolled, and the soldiers worked on shifts. Because there was just more area to canvas and patrol, more and more soldiers were losing sleep. All of this was just essential, but the fact that only the junior officers and foot soldiers were facing the consequences was causing quite the unrest.

Meanwhile in the king's tent,

All three kings were seated, with the generals on the side. Balor was just furious. He was shouting at Liu Man.

"Do you not have any shame! You humans are just useless. I knew this would happen. I knew that the humans could not keep it in their pants. These children are going to be our main force. Not the stupid foot soldiers. I should have killed the damn idiot.", Damascus was furious.

Liu Man did not speak at all. He looked calmly at a distance.

"This is much bigger than some simple threat. The child was apparently so important that my spirit warned me not to mess with him, and that he was important to the bigger picture. My spirit rarely ever tells me anything, and what it does is supposed to be followed, no questions asked.", Damascus said.

"Now, what do we do? The kids could rally against us! We need to bring your son here. He is their leader right. He will keep them in check. And I want to make sure that the stupid mistakes your father made will not be repeated here. That time, he allowed pillaging and other unspeakable crimes that I cannot even imagine happening in my command. I thought that I would not need to go through that horror again. Don't prove me wrong.", Balor said.

Liu Man raised his head and looked at Balor, and then at Damascus. Damascus said, "The kid spoke the truth. We are fighting for survival. This is not our usual fight between kingdoms. It's one against another continent. We are fighting for survival. We must act carefully, as anything we do will be reflected forever in the annals of history."

Liu Man sighed. "I will put them in control. George, give the command to all of the group captains. I want all of the soldiers to behave. Now onto the reason that this meeting was even held, when the hell are the students from the magic academies going to arrive? I thought that they would be there from the beginning, but they were all gathered in some hotel in Dilheim, and they have not come yet."

"Why are you asking us? You should ask your son."

"Liu Feng is in the city castle working on something related to the guns apparently. He said that Alderan, the prince of Elvan, was in charge of the student evacuation. He is the one to talk to regarding this. Damascus, talk to your son. And send people from your own royal academies. Mine are coming next week, I expect yours to arrive soon as well."

"Are you sure you want to put these children on the battlefield? They could freeze up at the crucial moment and cost a few lives, or even worse, the battle."

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