whom is the enemy

"any border state of a defensive territory is a place that we as war vagrant tribes should approach carefully...speak less of the retipuj household territory" a muscular woman with bright reddish blonde hair spoke.

"Border state defensive territory? I've never experienced the taste of defeat from all the siege's and raids we have launched against the border state territories in the past" a tall dark skinned bald man spoke as he sharpened a strange looking spear.

"Defeat by a mere border state without any reinforcement? That hasn't happened for centuries now" another with completely dirty blonde hair said.

"Why not?" A dark haired youth asked, this specific youth was way younger than the others present at this meeting.

—"look around you... We move only with certainty of our victory and after so many decades of wandering we have devour many other vagrant tribes and speak less of those barbarian's,our numbers are well over seventy five hundreds and over twelve hundred of us have top tier equipment.... Thanks to the 'masters' that is" the dirty blonde said with a matter of fact tune.

"I've been told that the retipuj household are more than meet's the eyes" the youth said.

"I've been there a few times and I haven't seen anything special about it... Except the fortress of gae-el, that shits bulky for a castle" the dirty blonde said.

"when was that? " The youth asked with a raised eyebrow.

"I have a false identity as a escort... I've escorted about two to three clients there"—the dirt head said with pride.

"How can a simple escort identification grant you access to their inner structure of power,do you perhaps only see shallow thing's?" The muscular woman asked.

"executioners of the holy temple use to chase us around endlessly" another woman spoke, this one was much slender than the other and was cover from head to toe with linen straps while wearing a black robe and pants over them.

—"but thanks to the hideout and false identities provided by the 'masters' we are able to avoid their pursuit....well most of the time" she added.

"But the way the 'masters' treat and behaves whenever they is an operation concerning the great many is very suspicious... " The skinny man said with a little uncertainty.

"yeah, whenever we try to know more about the 'masters' and his plans for us,the envoys would respond with 'the masters has great plans for you...You shouldn't question his benevolence' and waerehorse shit like that" the muscular woman said with slightly grudgeful voice.

Looking around the slender woman began speaking—"If he truly has great plans for us and isn't simple using us then he should tell us his origin and his connection towards the great many, isn't that what trust was meant—"

"Enough!"

the slender woman's words

was cut off by a powerful voice from the dipper area's of their housing structure.

The owner of this voice was unseeable thanks to the darkness that was ever so present at the depths of the structure.

"Namier, display the maps arrangement and statistics of the retipuj household range of governance"—another person spoke, this one was an elderly man.

That same day, in the fortress of gae-el. The servants of the retipuj household were constantly moving back and forth without rest nor quiescence.

Their valor without stop was as resulted from the grand event of mate-meeting between lorsheir and his to be bride.

At the training grounds,the soldier were everso uninterested in matters such as this, especially when it involves the weak heir whom has little to no interest in the act of war and the path of strength.

At this moment they were cheering on two people whom were engaged in combat at the center of the training ground.

One was a slim man while the other was a broader and shorter man.

The shorter man was using a long polearm weapon while the other was using a long sword.

The two opponents where throwing their best at each other.

This was a retipuj warrior's tradition in which two people with faud would be set against each other in a fierce contest of skills and strength.

This two were fighting over a maiden, after a long and tiresome argument and constant disturbance in training, the captain of their units training field made arrangements for their dual.

Long story short... At this blessed day, unknowingly falling into this ceremonies day, yet the people of the retipuj military cared not about it and continued with their training and the appointed dual, which to them is more important than a spineless lorsheir's introduction to his bride to be.

At a certain corner,two man where seen talking each other. A bare chested man with large and broad physique wearing nothing but a simple animal skinned clothes below, and a slim scholarly looking man with a beard and a black straight robe with leather belts around his waist which buckled a small leather bag to his waist.

Both of them were considered handsome by certain standards, both having a dark or brownish hair respectively.

But this men have something in common,that is both of them are part of the retipuj lineage... actual members of the bloodlines and not mere household members of servants, worker or even slave origins.

This were gnamgash and vetnum from the side family, although they DO possess retipuj bloodlines in them, their ancestors have been deployed towards far ends of their territories and given an timeless mission to expand the forces of the retipuj household.

This deployment is a defensive program which happens every two enthronement of a household lord, this is so the household members never rebels against the mainstream descendants. Which means if one was to be a son of one of the Lord's brothers, they are transfered towards other of the household defense point or sent to create a new stronghold in a foreign land.

Infact something the master of the household would die before his descendants are of appropriate age,so some near relatives would course conflict between the mainline descendants and state a bloody right of passage.

"The information I have received states that the bride will be from the fifth household...and it's going to be a daughter of a fallen war 'hero'" the scholarly man,vetnum said with a look a scorn in his eyes.

"a fallen war hero or an unfortunate fellow used as a form of sacrificial lamb.... Truly all the households are bloodless from root" the muscular man,gnamgash said.

"but... How is vanmier doing? I heard he was ran over by a scorched bull"—the muscular man,gnamgash asked with.

Looking around with a little vigilance, the scholarly man,vetnum said in a low voice ·"the bull ran over his spine and snapped it....I heard he was returning from a mission for the main house,when he was unexpectedly chased by a scorched bull and the probability of it being related to the secret gathering of hidden opposition of the Lord are high"— sucking in a large amount of air, he continued—" you remember that one time, three years ago at the end of cetber when all the resources were being blocked by strange mountain bandits with advanced weapons and a certain level of discipline?"

"yeah? It was truly made a big deal out of that time and the third special legion was sent... Must of us wanted to participate, to gain more information on what's happening yet we were refused participation by the commander of the legion"— gnamgash said with a lower voice.

Topics like this are mostly not talk about in public areas and most ordinary household member went ment to speak about or even know about in most cases.

"It seems that... they were the ones whom disclose the information to some fallen noble family whom immediately started gathering there members and some other bandits which they have connection with to try to seize the transported goods and sell them to have enough money to start their own families again... "—vetnum looked at the sky and sighed with a look of frustration.

"How come you look so frustrated... Are you perhaps feeling sorry for the misfortune that befell them afterwards,that unlike you?"—gnamgash said with a raised eyebrow.

"pity? Feel sorry for them? No, no, no I only feel frustrated over the fact that this human trash's would even consider stealing from us, the retipuj household... What stupidity"–vetnum said as he look sharply towards the center of the training ground.

"These two are very skilled... They seem to be equal in skill" the scholar said.

"I think some as you... But it seems as though the spear would win over the sword this time" the muscular man said with his person thighs thick arms crossed.

"I think to defer..."vetnum said with his robe fluctuating slightly from a short and sudden wind.

"Why so?"

"You'r about to find out,the dual has entered it's final stage"

At the stage.

the spear man was in a frenzied of attack, continuously cornering the swords man. Original, they were both exchanging blows repeated proving their strength's equality but suddenly around four minutes ago the attack patterns of the spear man changed once more... It has always been changing throughout the dual but this time it was different, the spear man suddenly had a large boost in strength and speed, directing all his power and destructive force towards the spear sending an spaceless amount of jabs towards the swords man.

Everyone was cheering for spearman constantly and the pressure mounted on the swordsman was constantly increasing.

After all how is the swordsman supposed to close the long range of the spear.... That is were the superiority of the polearm lay's.

Suddenly the surrounding went quite as an unexpected turn developed over the split second of their blinking.

The swordsman logged himself at the spear when everyone thought it was going to pierce throw him, he twisted his body and strengthen his left hand to grip hold of the spear.

This caused the spear man to immediately pull the spear back with force of his entire body, gravity and both his arms expecting the force to be strong enough to let the wooden body of ths 1

arm.

This ended up in loss of balance as the swordsman didn't grab the spear as it originally seemed instead he avoided it and bald his fist.

Swinging his sword towards the spearman, the spearman couldn't retreat immediately because of the temporary loss of balance.

The spearman did a sudden twist slightly avoiding the swords with only a small cut on his chicks,this in turn allowed the swordsman to throw his left balded fist towards the spearman whom was struck directly on his face, smashing squarely on his nose forcing it into his face.

Blood gushed out from his nose and he fell on his back.When the spearman opened his eyes again, the swordsman was standing in his line of sight with his sword pointing towards his neck.

It was the swordsman victory.

vetnum:–"I told you didn't I?"

gnamgash:–"How did you know?"

vetnum:–"I didn't... I simply trusted my intuition, as always"

vetnum, started walking away while gnamgash looked at his back.

Turning his head slightly, gnamgash saw the swordsman walking towards him.

"Captain, I have won the dual and I have come to thank you for hosting this dual.... It is a great honor to work under you" he said as he bow his head in greeting.

"raise your head warrior.. a true man knows when to show appreciation and that what you are, you may go back to training and good work" gnamgash said.

Afterwards the spearman came over and thanked him as well, he gave the spearman few words of encouragement and sent him back to training.

...

At the main entrance of the retipuj household and an one of the main gates of the fortress of gae-el, a small group of fourteen carriages enter through.

Of the fourteen, seven were of the retipuj emblem while the others were of another household entirely.

The retipuj carriage lead the other household carriage towards a packing field, upon packing two groups departed from both household carriages.

One wearing black clothing armour, while the other in red and black mixed.

At the front of the retipuj which were infact the blacks clothed, was a tall and fit individual with an heroic air to his form, his clothing wasn't much of armour but at his belt was a sword shaft hiding within it a renown sword.

This is hyiel, the youngest of the former household lord's children and the current household lord youngest direct brother.

At the side of the red mixed black, standing at their front were three people in either bright red and dark black clothing or simply black clothing, this were the guest of the retipuj household and their once more to become in-laws.

Leading this group is a tall and handsome red hair man, his hands resting on a pair of sword at his left thighs side, if historian were present there would immediately recognize the swords as the twin sword maze and raze.

This man is non other than the renown graham sram, from the household of sram

whom is famous for his war contribution and his love towards Felo-de-se in his younger day's.

At his left is a young man in his late tens. His hair was of ginger red and he was considered handsome for the set standards. This young man is non other than enroid, whom is currently wearing a red clothing with little bits of reds to its sides and on his thighs were a pair a small daggers made with top quality materials.

And to their right is the young and youthful Pherelyn whom was still wearing a veiled clothing over her face and had changed to another formal dress entirely, in her right hand is a red mixed black silk and solid material made folding fan.

so this is were I'll be spending the rest of my life at? How muscular—Pherelyn thought with mixed feelings whaling in her chest.