Her Heart, His obsession

27. Caught By The feared

Dante was sitting behind his desk in his new base up north while his top two commanders were standing on each side of him in military stance. He was staring at the horrified border control guards kneeling before him. It seemed like they did not know the extent of his threat otherwise they wouldn't have sent an average group around to defend their outer borders. Well they were almost average.

It had been only a few hours since his army had arrived outside the Northern Territory borders. Dante's architects had done well to build a series of shelters using the same circular design of his headquarters in Arkansas.

Once, his army had settled, he had ordered for the capture of the outer border control guards who were patrolling outside the safety of the resistant border enchantments that kept outsiders away. But Dante had laughed as he had felt the power of this so called protective layer. North was known to be quite a strong and resistive territory. Not so much when the enemy was Dante. There was no way they could resist his powers. He could easily attack the northern borders. But he liked to get to play with them abit. He wanted to test out how many people would become loyal to him willingly and surrender and then the rest of the population were going to be fair game.

Right now, those unfortunate border guards brought in by Tanya's and Dylan's forces were kneeling and shaking in fear awaiting their faith. Too bad they could not imagine the horrors that would fall upon all of them. Almost all of them.

Dante smirked "it's good to see you are wise enough to show respect to your superiors. Too bad I have to dismiss all of you but one." He waved his hands and all the guards except for one were restrained using metal like strings.

"Xavier and Sean, you may accompany these men to the captive's section here at our base. We may have some uses for these men before we attack their land. But Make sure the fighters don't kill them when performing their usual spell target practice. I want them alive. After delivering these unworthy men to the captive section, I would like you to summon Alexander and get the daily report from him in your own base. You are dismissed." Xavier and Sean immediately knelt in respect and took away the terrified guards.

Dante now turned his attention to the only remaining guard who was still kneeling on the floor.

"You see I don't believe in wasting my breath talking to low life, low ranked excuses of warlocks. I only give my time to those who I feel are worthy. You are of strong blood. I can feel it. Tell me do you have any Arkansan blood in you."

The girl's heart was now beating fast. If she told the truth, this man in front of him would most likely punish her family quite harshly. It was a high level crime to keep an Arkansan blooded noble away from their true heritage. But if she told lies, Dante was going to kill her. Lying to a Ronas was even a heavier crime. So she made a decision reluctantly and spoke slowly "master, I am adopted. My adoptive parents told me that my place of birth was Arkansas and I was taken under their care 16 years ago when I was 2. But I know not of my family's identity."

Fury was evident in Dante's tone "Did they ever try to get you back to your real home land?"

As though each word cost her dearly, she spoke the words "no master."

Dante was furious but also impressed. He hadn't seen the quality of talking without quivering in his presence very often. Especially when he was unleashing his anger. Most people who had this quality were his commanders. Even young Edwin had a strong presence but Dante had deliberately sent special powerful waves to him at times to intimidate him and he had succeeded to make him speechless once. Too bad he couldn't enjoy the show because of his empathic excuse of a brother.

Dante was now even more curious "so, are you telling me you don't know anything about your biological family? You must know something. Tell me all the details you know. You may rise and look me in the eye now. But be careful girl, and choose your words wisely. I don't take too kindly to the people who try to deceive me."