THE THREAT

Listening to which foremost Vermithrax got bit anxious and spoke simultaneously after minister Icarus ended reading the note

"We need to stop her before she should take any step further towards her intentions which she has clearly mentioned in the letter and thus conduct a meet with her as soon as possible and no one will come with me there , not even you"

Responding to which minister Icarus states

"You are going to meet her and that too alone?, You know how cruel and dangerous she is and still you want to meet her alone and what about the place?"

"Underground for sure , because thirsty walks towards well and as we need to stop , this we should be the one to meet her"

Foremost Vermithrax cleared her vision , soon after which expression of minister Icarus changed and he shouted in anger

"I cannot allow you to do so because you're protection is my responsibility and if anything happens to you then how come I'll show my face to the subjects of Socotra?, I will come with you in the meet or else there is going to be no meet as you are really unaware of cunning nature of Alevina

As not everyone in the world is as real and pious as you , And thus I will come along with you in the meet your highness"

Seeing the stubbornness of minister Icarus , foremost Vermithrax gets ready to take him along with her in order to meet with Alevina and right after reaching the royal palace , she sends a message for the meet to Alevina in the underworld

Whereas on the other hand , King Gianpiero who was now in his royal palace tells about whatever happened in the meet with foremost Vermithrax along with his decision , in response to which her wife queen Moshary speaks

"He is our only son and you want to sacrifice him and that too for a useless battle of winning the fronin?, How could you even think about it even after knowing the rules and regulations of the competition as it's not something new which Socotra is going to face and rather it is ritual which is followed on the planet from billions of years"

"I know everything very well , but I want him to become a great ruler and hence the reason why I want him to see the reality of life at very young ... ", King Gianpiero was giving his explanation only to be stopped by queen Moshary as she puts a question before him

"And what about death? , You know very well that the very first rule of the competition is that participants who will lose it , will also have to sacrifice their lives , for the sake of the subjects of their kingdom or else the winner will wipe out the whole population of the losing kingdom and thereafter will expand their own kingdom"

"I know everything very well because in last few centuries , my ancestors who lost the battles has sacrificed themselves so that the subjects of Neirith kingdom should live their life peacefully , instead of being wiped out or breathing the air of slavery"

King Gianpiero responded to the allegations of queen Moshary , but instead of listening to him , she left the court while fuming in anger

Whereas simultaneously in underworld , Alevina comes across the letter of foremost Vermithrax and thus gets ready for the order right after which she along with minister Icarus visit underworld

But both were stopped at the palace gate itself and was asked the reason for the visit upon which minister Icarus responded to the guards with the following sentence

"Tell superior Alevina that , foremost Vermithrax is here to visit her"

And listening to his statement, even the guards get shocked and without wasting even a single moment, one of them runs towards the palace and after a while, he comes with the good news that both are permitted to enter inside the palace

"You can go inside the palace but before that, you have to touch this magical stone as it's the tradition and compulsory for every visitor to go through this test to get inside the palace after getting permission from the palace officials"

Then another guard tells him about the process of getting inside the palace which was by placing both the hands on the structure before him which was like a pillar with a round and white-colored transparent stone placed on top of it and the stone was also made up of diamond and was shining like a twinkling star

So without any further delays, Minister Icarus kept his both hands on the stone, and soon after he kept his hands on the stone, it transforms into a pitch green color after which he was permitted to go inside without any restrictions and the same thing repeated with foremost Vermithrax

"Can you tell me a bit about this process because it looks very fascinating to me", He questioned them after passing the test

In response to which one of the guards started telling him about the whole test which was kept for everyone who entered the palace with the following statement

"This is called the Satya Patthar ( stone of truth) which reflects the reality of anyone who keeps hands on it and thus it also changes its color accordingly and hence if it turns red, then the person is not trustworthy and accordingly if it turns green, that person can be trusted and the visitor is sent inside without any further inquiries"

"And what if it turns red?", Minister Icarus shoots a question out of curiosity

In response to which one of the guards, opens a portal, and on the other side of the portal supreme both of them was able to see a pile of skeletons and ashes alongside adjacent to each other with many snakes roaming around it and after showing the scenario to both of them , he closed the portal and starts telling him