Introduction (i) The urge for power
It's the year 1468 in the kingdom of Azuhai. Here, we find the ruthless and arrogant queen of this kingdom who was the current monarch, yes, the kingdom of Azuhai was ruled by a young woman who was still unmarried.
One may ask why she was the absolute ruler or how she even became the leader when there were men to lead the Azuhai kingdom, let's find out as to why she was accepted to lead this kingdom and why she had not been dethroned even until now...
Alicia Roosevelt was a woman with intense desires in that if her desires were turned into energy, they would have blown the entire planet down, and what were the desires of this young queen?
In deeply, Alicia Roosevelt had the desire of one day becoming the absolute sovereign of the entire world, she was not just satisfied with controlling the Azuhai kingdom only, she wanted more, yes, this young woman was very ambitious and this was what made her to seize the throne from her lazy big brother.
Just like her late father, Alicia Roosevelt didn't like being controlled or being eclipsed by anyone, she didn't like bowing in front of anyone either. She liked to be the absolute ruler and master controller.
Although Alicia Roosevelt's desires were "normal" for a leader, her's had evolved leaps and bounds, she would do anything to get what she wanted.
Nevertheless, it's said that intense desire for power makes the heart of one to become dark, making their actions to deviate from the norm and that is what Alicia Roosevelt turned.
She went from one kingdom to the other as she dethroned their current leaders and took their kingdom to add to her's, yes, Alice Roosevelt had started her journey to rule the world and no talking would stop her. She wanted the whole world to bow to her. She wanted to be god.
Unfortunately, Alicia Roosevelt met a strange kingdom from the north when she was still on her journey to rule the world, just like any other kingdom, Alicia Roosevelt had decided to bring down that kingdom's monarchy also but to her dismay, the king of that kingdom was just like her - crazy and controlled by the desire for everything.
King Virtya Markov was not a person to be underestimated, using his inherent war tactics, King Virtya Markov managed to defeat Alicia Roosevelt's army, and as crazy as King Virtya Markov was, he went ahead and started to claim the territories that queen Alice Roosevelt had taken.
Alicia Roosevelt's army was helpless in front of king Virtya Markov's tactics.
Nonetheless, Alicia Roosevelt had seek every help that she could turn to but to no avail, she had sacrificed countless lives, seek the help of the necromancers, visited the priests but all was for naught, it was not efficacious. She even started to regret for having ravaged the crazy king Virtya Markov's place.
If she had remained contented with only her kingdom, would she have stayed in her palace peacefully? But as proud as Alicia Roosevelt was, she didn't like to wallow in her failures, she had to find a way to win the war against king Virtya Markov.
Currently, she had only remained with less than five years and then her kingdom would be overwhelmed completely by Virtya Markov. Yes.
"I have to get the dark stone, that is the only way to kill king Virtya Markov." Alicia Roosevelt confirmed with a determined look. In one of her tours around her kingdom in search for a way to kill king Virtya Markov, she met a wizard who told her about the mysterious omnipotent dark stone.
In addition, the wizard told her that if she managed to obtain that stone, killing king Virtya Markov would be a walk in the park and she would also have an easy way to rule the world with the help of the dark stone.
Alicia Roosevelt didn't believed in the words of the wizard first but her curiosity and the urge to rule the world overshadowed her skepticism, she then went forward and killed the wizard after getting all the information from him about the stone and then burnt the wizard's place together with him alive before she left for Collow Abyssinian, yes that was the place where the dark stone was said to be.
Alicia Roosevelt didn't even turn back to go to her palace in Whiddiff city, she led her minions straight to Collow Abyssinian. One should also know that her other army was still fighting against king Virtya Markov until now, the war never stopped.
"My Queen, Collow Abyssinian is not a place to go willy-nilly. That is a f*******n area that no one is supposed to walk into. No one that goes there comes out alive. Please, my queen, you should reconsider your decision, We can go to Golyo city in Kungu kingdom and take shelter there, I know your cousin will not kick us out. We can start a new life there, a free, simple life without a care for responsibilities of ruling a kingdom, let king Virtya Markov have Azuhai kingdom and save yourself..." Vlad Levitsky, the high priest of Azuhai kingdom tried to talk Alicia Roosevelt out of her determination but before he even went further, he was interjected by army-commander Tanya Belinsky.
Tanya Belinsky unsheathed her sword and pinned the priest against a tree making his pot belly to shake vigorously before she said dauntingly, "Say another wrong word against the queen and your head will roll. You came with us just to offer the queen good suggestions and advise. You are supposed to say only positive words to the queen, negative suggestions are not allowed here... Hmph, If I were you, I would have supported the queen on this journey towards Collow Abyssinian than going against her."
"The stupid priest doesn't know his f*cking place. He thinks that he could order the queen around, huh. What a shame... It was the queen who placed those restrictions but now that we want to go there, the f*******n word doesn't apply to us..." Cateline Brisbois curled her lips disdainfully. She was the queen's loyal aide, she never left Alicia Roosevelt's side since Alicia Roosevelt took the throne. She knew everything that the queen wanted and desired, Cateline Brisbois would never dare to go against the queen and she had always supported the queen since the beginning. One should know that Cataline Brisbois was beautiful and a slim menacing blonde.
"We are going to Collow Abyssinian. Mu! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! This is will actually be my favorite and most enjoyable adventure, I have always wanted to go to Collow for a long time, thankfully, her magesty gave us the opportunity this early, Hahahaha!" Alexandre Daviau laughed hysterically. One would have thought that the love of his life was in Collow Abyssinian but that was not it, the guy was simply crazy. Alexandre Daviau had a robust build with scars here and there which showed that he had fought countless battles and came back alive.
In the background, there were more than ten thousand knights who stood upright without batting an eye with their hands on the hilts of their swords. The knights looked serene and detached as if they were not a part of this world. No one among them dared to engage in the discussions of the uppermost echelon.
15 days later...
"We can't go on like this, we would only fall one by one until no one among us remained." Vlad Levitsky said with a jittering tone, he was protected by six special knights who had surrounded him not allowing any filth to defile him, but this didn't made the priest to be calm, instead, his plump body was quivering uncontrollably as if he was lying n***d on the iceberg.
"As I said earlier, I have to get my hands on the dark stone. Even if many will have to die here, their sacrifice will be worth it, so that many families of Azuhai kingdom are saved from the claws of king Virtya Markov." Alice Roosevelt said indifferently as she waved her sword which severed three walking corpses in front of her in succession.
Out of the ten thousand knights that came, only five thousand remained, those who remained were the war veterans as the weaker ones were the first ones to be taken out.
Alice Roosevelt swept a glance around her environment and at this moment, she realized that the priest was right, they were all going to die but her flame of desire to rule the world never faded, instead, it burned like the sun. Even if all the others were going to die, she was adamant in making it up to where the dark stone was and fulfill her dreams.
She has to get the stone, no matter what.
All around them, there were countless rotten corpses that wanted just a piece of their flesh. The rotten corpses were so many in that the eyes of Alice Roosevelt's group could not see the end of these corpses.
All of them were tired as they had been fighting for five days straight without rest, even the chatty Alexandre Daviau was quite and solemn. He didn't dare to be reckless, unless he wanted to be counted among those who had been dined on by the walking corpses.