Warrior of the world

CHAPTER 10: THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF THE WAR

After completing the speech, King Jason returned to his royal chamber inside the palace. Then King Jason sat on his royal seat to have some rest and during this time one of his messenger’s appeared with a message thrust in his hands. King Jason requested the messenger to read the message aloud and the messenger read it. The message began as

“From King of Lemonas to King Jason of Credia.

I am planning to wage war against your kingdom. Your contribution to your own kingdom was so beneficial that I felt your kingdom would be a beneficial place for my economic activities. So if you care your life abandon your kingdom and run away before I capture it, hurt you and take you as my prisoner.”

After the messenger read the message, King Jason felt furious but his messenger said “Your Majesty, sometimes patience will lead us to victory. We’ll do our best we can to protect the people of our kingdom and increase our strength and protection”, after King Jason heard this piece of advise, he thought to be patient and wait for the days to come. Days pass by, King Jason prepares his own kingdom for the war. He was confident because he knew that past few days he has improved his war skills, he has trained his soldiers hard and King Jason felt as he was ready to face the war. He knew that victory lay ahead for him but he forgot that King of Lemonas was not an easy opponent, instead King of Lemonas was a master in war skills and strategies.

King of Lemonas was ready too, to face the war against Credia. So he ordered fifty ships to be arranged for the war and as per his order it was done. The ships were equipped with weapons, clothing for soldiers, food and soldiers were in it too. The voyage to Credia began on the same day. It took one month time to reach Credia and the Lemonese army had to face a lot’s of difficulties and challenges such heavy storm and tidal waves. Once the troops reached Credia and landed on its harbour, King of Lemonas ordered the troops that a sufficient amount of men had to be camaflouged with green because the harbour was located at the end of the Credian forest. After a while, forty men from the trips of Lemonas were camaflouged and sent to the forest to find their suitable position of attacking the opponent. Unfortunately, there was a wood cutter during that moment. The wood cutter was asleep until he was woken up by the shouts of the army at the harbour. The wood cutter wondered why would and army enter their kingdom during afternoon. Then the wood cutter realized that it wasn’t the Credian army but it was another trying to invade the Credia kingdom. So the wood cutter ran to the palace of King Jason right away to inform about the troops. It took a long time to reach the palace as the palace was far away from the harbour. Once the wood cutter reached the gates of the palace, he informed to one of the guards about the situation. Immediately the guards informed King Jason about the current situation. King Jason ordered to arrange his army to face the war and also he said to one of his messenger to inform the whole kingdom about the war. King Jason said his own troops that they should not wait until the opponent reaches their kingdom, so he suggested that it’s they who should be moving forward to face the war. During this time the Lemonese army were on their way to Credia kingdom. The Credian troops left their kingdom in a grand procession that the people of Credia have never seen of. The Credian army had 600 soldiers, 250 men on horses and 400 chariots and the Lemonese army had 500 soldiers, 40 camaflouged soldiers, 120 men on horses and 600 chariots. Both the army’s faces each other at the middle of the forest. The fight began brutally, where the soldiers began to fight bravely, horses running both sides with soldiers on them slaughtering soldiers of the opposition. During this was King of Lemonas massecred the Credian soldiers easily with one swipe from his huge powerful sword, while King Jason was battling like a monster. Both the Kings met each other, King of Lemonas felt a fear shot through him as he saw King Jason because King Jason was young, muscular, handsome and he looked sturdy. Not only King of Lemonas felt fear, King Jason too felt that he could not beat King of Lemonas easily and King of Lemonas was taller than him, strong for his age and had a big powerful sword. The both Kings started to battle. King Jason and King of Lemonas fought skillfully and roughly with their mighty swords. King Jason was never a master of handling a sword but he could just do well, but when it comes to the King of Lemonas, he was a master of handling a sword or two. Every move taken by King of Lemonas was too quick for King Jason, so King Jason began to dodge the incoming attacks. This made King of Lemonas to make many mistakes, and this situation made King Jason to have an advantage. When King Jason received and incoming attack from the sword directly to his head, he dodged below and thrusted his sword through the enemy’s heart. King of Lemonas wailed, staggered back and fell back in a thud onto the ground. As soon as the remaining attackers from the Lemonese army realized that their King was dead and also many of their own soldiers had been deceased, they dropped their weapons on the ground and surrender themselves to Credian army except for one soldier.

This one soldier stood behalf of his army and spoke out. He said “Even though our is deceased, we will continue to wage war against your kingdom as our King wished. If we win this war we will be able to take this victory to own kingdom and also honor our King with great due of respect”. After speaking out, one by one from the Lemonese army began to stay along with the soldier until the whole remaining army gathered around that soldier to face the war. King Jason noticed this approach and figured out that he had to give two choices for the Lemonese army to make. One was surrender and return to their own kingdom in peace and the other was to die. King Jason presented these two options for the Lemonese army and yet they chose to wage war, it means die. So the war began and the Lemonese army felt that they were out numbered but still, they kept their spirits night. The Credian army was astonished to see that the Lemonese soldiers were battling like a group of super soldiers and this made the number of soldiers in the Credian army to fall. King Jason began to fight like a monster during that particular moment which resulted in the death of all soldiers of the Lemonese army. Once the war was over, the spoils of the war were collected and distributed to the people of Credian kingdom. People were glad that they won the battle and King Jason was glad too that the Kingdom was unhurt. People had a doubt of why King Jason did not take any spoils from the war for his purpose. King Jason was asked by the people of Credia about it and King Jason replied “Many of the soldiers from the opposition had families and kids. They were killed by us and the reaming of the spoils do not belong to us. So we distributed the spoils to all of you. As for the families of those deceased soldiers, I have planned to deliver gold to Kingdom of Lemonas filled with gold under a high protection. This gold will be distributed to those families as a respect to the deceased soldiers.” King Jason finished his few words of speech and he returned to his palace while the people of Credia were giving him a huge applause. King Jason walked up the staircase and he reached to his living chamber where the portrait of his father was hung. King Jason looked at the portrait and said “Dad, I have fulfilled your destiny” and he returned to his royal chamber.