The past of an empire - I

Lying on a bed, Crow's body was half naked only covered by a blanket.

In the room, some medicines mixed in fountains filled every corner with a relaxing aroma.

— Why I must be the one to take care of him, what is Eleine waiting for leaving me with him? —

Crossing her arms, Aisha looked at the calm smile on Crow's face which made her feel more upset.

— Maybe if something happened to you Eleine wouldn't care, right? —

Approaching slowly, Aisha drew a small dagger from her waist and pointed it at Crow's neck, but when she felt that she was capable of taking his life she stopped putting the dagger away and standing on the side of the bed watching Crow. .

— How many times have you already tried to take his life from him, five times, maybe ten? —

Surprised, Aisha turned to look at her friend sitting in the bedroom window.

— You know I don't like being a babysitter, because you keep me by his side if he still doesn't wake up after two days—

Eleine just looked at her friend smiling, she wanted to annoy her by leaving her babysitting seeing how long she could hold out.

— You know in the danger that we are, I don't have time to stay here if I can help outside—

— And that's why I'm here, information has reached me that has increased the number of low-ranking goblin sightings in the forest. They have probably set up a camp near us and I need you to find it—

Smiling the young woman she wanted to leave the room immediately, but looking towards the person on the bed she asked.

— And what will happen to him—

With a curious look Eleine looked at her friend and not believing what she thought she asked.

— Do not tell me that you have taken affection —

Seeing the exaggerated reaction of her friend, Eleine did not want to give her more problems that could affect her new mission.

— Don't worry, I already commissioned two people to take care of it, you need to leave soon—

Two days had passed since Crow had lost consciousness, during those days in the town of the sixteenth outpost a state of alertness of the highest level was maintained.

Eleine had used two orange phyphorite gems to activate a line of communication with the army headquarters in the capital of Asturias. In the message she commented on the appearance of a goblin alongside a group of horned lizards.

As if a stone had been thrown into a lake, the news spread everywhere, causing chaos in the army.

— Ah, the goblin lord reappeared—

In an underground room in the capital of Asturias, Aleha, the army leaders together with the King of Asturias observed a scroll spread out in an inn.

— Majesty, if the lord of the goblins reappeared, we must send our army to destroy them before he regains his strength—

Looking at the king, a young commander wanted to be sent to contain the goblin lord.

— Although Lian's thinking is correct, I hope that his majesty can consider the situation well. If the enemy has already regained his strength, the soldiers could die without posing a real threat—

The person who had spoken was Dante, the trusted advisor to King Erick of Asturias. The king had been accompanied by Dante since before inheriting the throne and listened to most of his ideas without thinking that he might betray him.

— Dante, you clearly know what the appearance of a goblin means and now that they lost one of them is a good time to take the offensive —

Without waiting for Dante to answer, Lian raised his voice, expecting to be chosen to control the goblin lord's appearance.

— Your Majesty, you only need to order and I will command ten thousand soldiers under my orders to eliminate that annoying goblin—

Dante just laughed inside him as he listened to Commander Lian's naive words.

— If you wish. Commander Lian, at this time we allow you to lead ten thousand soldiers towards the iron forest—

— Thank you, your majesty, I will not disappoint your expectations —

After finishing the meeting, Dante awaited the words of the king from him, he was sure that he would not only send Lian to his death if he did not have something else planned.

With a wave of the king's hands, five of his spies appeared in the room under the cloak of shadows.

— My little ones, it is time for you to know the future battlefield. His new mission is to get all the information on the rise of the goblin lord—

The spies' eyes flashed revealing a murderous aura as they thought of how they would help their king destroy the annoying goblin lord.

When the spies withdrew from the underground room, King Erick produced a time-worn book that he handed over to his advisor.

— Your Majesty, is this? —

— That is the book that my grandfather obtained before facing the goblin lord in the past—

Dante was surprised that the king passed him a very special book. At present in the kingdom of Asturias, all public records of calamities have been eliminated from history, only in specific moments this information would be released to face them if they reappeared.

While reading the book, Dante learned more about what happened before the appearance of the goblin lord.

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More than two thousand years ago, on the Deos continent east of Aios, an empire united more than eighty percent of the continent.

At that time, the goblin emperor Alef forced all the royal families of the different races to hand over the women who have the highest purity in their bloodline and ordered to assassinate all the males, leaving only some of them those who castrated and those who were castrated. they kept to control their race.

During those years, imperial concubines were forbidden to have children until the empress gave birth to a successor. Every time a concubine became pregnant, the empress behind the emperor's back called her most loyal guards and ordered the concubine to be kidnapped by locking her in a cage far from the imperial capital.

All women who suffered the fate of falling into the hands of the empress suffered terrible punishments until the moment when they lost their lives.

The emperor after learning of the actions of her wife decided not to get involved and allowed her to continue with her actions, he only hoped that she would soon give him a successor.

On a completely dark night, in the empress's room the sounds of men and women lost in pleasure echoed, leaving the maidens who guarded behind the doors flushed.

After several hours, one of the maids bore her embarrassment and called for the empress.

— Madam, one of her spies has sent you a letter—

As the door opened, a handsome blond young man with defined elven features took the letter in his hands and returned to the room.

In bed, the empress looked lustfully at one of her most beloved guards, without taking into consideration the letter in her hands, she wanted to bring the young man to her arms.

— What happens, why don't you approach this empress or is it that you have become bored with my body? —

Putting the letter aside, the young man continued to embrace the empress while in her mind he could not stop thinking about what he could read in the letter.

During the time that the emperor traveled across the continent to verify the status of her new territories, in the imperial palace the empress forgot about the concubines and was carried away by her lust, unloading it on her guards.

Unbeknownst to the empress, a rumor spread among the members of the palace that it affected the emperor of her.

Enraged at her spies for being the last to find out about her, she called everyone to explain what happened.

— My lady, the emperor kept that woman well hidden, so much so that not even his intimate advisers knew about her—

Without allowing the spy to continue with her words, the empress took a sword and buried it in the heart of the young man, who remained on his knees without showing any sign of reluctance.

— We have kept you under our protection for so long, and yet they were not able to prevent another woman from giving birth to a son for the emperor—

Without hesitation, the empress tore the sword from the inert body of the spy who fell dead to the ground and wanted to assassinate another of them, but a young voice stopped her.

— My lady, it is not too late, more than six moons have passed since the last time you are visit the high priestess, it is possible that you are pregnant and can use that against the emperor—

Feeling that some magic words entered her ears, the empress approached giving a kiss to the guard who warned her.

Running towards the exit of the palace, the empress thought about what her next move would be if she really was pregnant.

— Just wait, even if you have given birth to a son for the emperor, as empress I will order that you take your life if I am pregnant—