Chapter 8, part 4

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I woke up I a hospital where I saw no one else. I got up and left the ward where I woke up. Went down the hall where I bumped into a  male nurse. The nurse was a little worried, but I asked him, "Do you know where I can get my clothing back?" The male nurse gave me my clothes back and let me go so I could change in private before leaving the hospital to find that I'm in the centre of the dark kingdom city. That was when Prince Murasaki Chikara and King Oranji Chikara came over with eight guards marching in unison.

The Prince and King of the Dark Kingdom then got me to the castle where I met Mystia, the princess of darkness and chief scientist Slade, who greeted me for standing up against the Viper Guild. I told him everything that I know about all of the Viper Guild slave camp, giving all the details including where the slaves are, the rookie soldiers being kept at and elite members who were loyal to their cause. I also showed them where their infrastructure was as well, just to be safe.

King Oranji told me that he'll send an army that will involve me in 2 weeks' time, enough time for my training to finish. And that's how Mystia and Murasaki trained me, but in different ways.

Mystia taught me how to be steedy, aggressive, and even downright powerful whilst Murasaki taught me how to be careful of my surroundings, defensive and move dodges, or block hits from my opponents.

Near the end of my two weeks training, I took part in a capture the flag game where I was part of a three person team against another three person team. I was able to swiftly defeat my opponents before getting the flag and make it back to our post in under a minute. Mystia and Murasaki Chikara were watching the battle and celebrated. King Oranji Chikara was also there chuckling with my success.

Then came the day of the attack of the Viper Guild slave camp. I was on cart 68 with three other knights who performed similarly like me either because they were training as teenagers or who trained using kickboxing or taekwondo as a baseline.

There were 308 knights involved with taking down the Viper Guild army, 154 horses, and horse riders, half of which were cavalry knights involved with pulling 77 iron carts full of knights, weapons and supplies as well as 40 nurses and 15 doctors. It's been half an hour since we left, and already, we can see patrols for slaves trying to escape, but they used donkeys for mobility.

The thing is, with donkeys, here is that despite having a quicker pregnancy, they grow up in a year or two and consume less food than horses. But they are slower, less endurance, and less manoeuvrable than horses. Because they have fewer donkeys than we have in horses, we would be able to turn the hunters into the hunted.

A week ago, my son said telepathically that all rookie soldiers are sent to be tortured by daily training sessions, and although they have the freedom to explore the Viper Guild slave camp, they were not allowed to leave until they prove their loyalty. He even gave us simple details to look out for loyalists and rookie soldiers who don't want to fight with the Viper guild, even for a few slave masters and mistresses.

Luckily, my son gave us the full details of the slave camp, and there was one more thing that stopped us from victory. He said that there was a physical robot called Rogue AI who can plug itself in and even send out distress calls in case of an invasion or a slave escaping it's post or job for freedom, due to the fact that the rookie soldiers are given a tour by a slave master and then after that are given citizenship.

I was nearly right about that, but the fact that I didn't even know that Artificial Intelligence was running the place was even worse than imaginable. So we came up with a plan, protect the slaves, persuade the rookie soldiers not to fight, isolate the donkey cavalry, take down all the members that work for the Viper guild, and destroy and prevent Rogue AI from making a  distress call. By then, the slave camp will become a city and become a desert nation, making an alliance with the dark kingdom.

It was going to be a few minutes before we initiated the plan, so I telepathically asked my son if he  was ready for our plan, which would get most rookie soldiers to switch to our side. He telepathically said, "Yes, dad, I'll  make sure to keep watch like I'm interested in the view." 

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