Chapter 7 – Assigned

      The next Dawn came along easily, Ghou jumped off his bed and freshened up. After a long time, Ghou was fully dressed up with the uniform and ready to leave, he immediately stepped out of the house with his hairs packed upward and instantly closed the door.

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“Ah, Ghou always the first to arrive.” Kiara praised sipping a cup of tea while sitting on her majestic bed, staring at Ghou who sat on an armchair with a smiling face

“Hehe, it’s actually isn’t my-”

   Knock! Knock!

   A loud knock interrupted Ghou and the next thing was the door pushed open allowing Cheng, Ying and Silas to enter the room.

“How do you guys always walk in together.” Ghou brows knitted upon seeing the three of them, this was two times that something similar to this happened and it looked all suspicious

“What if the three of us are neighbors.” Cheng instantly replied with narrow eyes

“Well, when last I checked you lived in the streets pickpocketing for a living.” Ghou retorted eyeing Cheng whose facial expression instantly got angered

“Well, have I ever pick-”

“Okay it was a mere coincidence so we shouldn’t fight before the empress.” Ying retorted to Cheng and Ghou with a faint brow. She turned toward Kiara and bowed avoiding eye contact with her dark eyes.

Ghou and the other two boys immediately bowed after seeing the cold glare Kiara gave towards them.

“I thought you all won’t stop fighting, in fact the only cool person here is Silas.” Kiara’s voice echoed staring at them. Silas face instantly replied with a warm smile which instantly disappeared from his face not long after.

“Thank you, Empress Kiara.” Silas first speech in the room sounded soft and thin almost resembling that of a female. Ghou eyes widened and a laugh almost erupted from his mouth but he instantly seized it leaving a small smile on his face

“Oh okay.” Kiara voice was a complete replica of shock, her eyebrows were shot towards the ceiling hearing the almost feminine voice of Silas whose face already flushed red “Well, you all are resuming today so first and foremost you’ll need a complete armor and weapon.”

   Kiara jumped up from the bed and walked to the door, she instantly opened it and walked out while the others followed behind.

      Creak!

    Kiara pushed a pebbled stone on the wall which suddenly began to part into two revealing a webbed room which were filled with different sword and armor of golden colors, everyone excluding Kiara exclaimed with amazement due to the magnificent sight

“Soo, just pick your weapon and then you’ll be ready.” Kiara backed away allowing them to come into the room

“Wow, so cool.” Cheng exclaimed while his jaw dropped on the ground with his hand caressing all the weapon

“Whoa, I love this gauntlet and this whip blade.” Ying muttered holding a thick metal gauntlet which looked more like a small shield attached to a gauntlet. On her right hand was a long whip which had all parts of its body covered with spikes except from the black handles “I’m going to take these.”

   Everyone gradually picked their various accessories according to their likings. Silas who was silent the whole time picked a complete body armor and a large sword while Cheng settled for a complete set of body armor, a pair of metallic claw-gloves and a small combat knife.

   Ghou on the other hand made sure to carry a complete armor costume since he was fully aware about his guarding location and how fragile he was going to be, he settled with a fitted horned helmet, a complete body armor ordained with spikes, a long silver-rapier sword and a special fire gauntlet which could support him with his fire element.

“Soo, I can see that you all are ready so why don’t the guards escorts you to your various post.” Kiara explained with a breathy voice as she walked across the pathway toward the great Hall.

      After some time they finally got to the hall where some guards arranged, they all bow instantly after seeing the empress walk toward them, within seconds they stood upright staring directly into her eyes while some into that of the new guards

“Guards, take these four to their various post in order.”

   The guards instantly divided themselves into four section with five guards in each section.

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   Ghou walked modestly behind the five guards who lead the way for him toward the southern wall gate. He made sure to walk as best as he could in order to impress the citizens along the pathway who stared at him with total dumbstruck since they were unaware of the trouble the wall was facing.

    After some time, they finally arrived at a tall brick wall which situated far from the main empire, the guards slowly opened a thick metallic door which was attached to the wall by twining a hard wheel which served as a lock. As the door opened, the bright brown sand of the ground came into view, Ghou and the guards instantly stepped in while he glued his eyes to the tall waves which continuously raised and fell on each other

“Cool.” Ghou muttered since was the first time he was seeing an ocean

“There is nothing cool about this place.” One of the guard who assisted the others in shutting the gate quivered with a dry voice. Ghou ignored the words of the guard and turned to the sea

“What is that.” Ghou stared at a figure which began to float on the water, he ran closer to the shore to see a woman who seemed to have been floating lifelessly on the water just about 20 meters away from the shore

“There is a woman in the river.” Ghou alerted the guards who turned their gaze upon him at once, they hastily walk closer to Ghou and finally saw the woman who laid on the water, her face were pale while her ash black hair displaced itself

“Run, run away quickly.” One of the guards screamed as the others ran rapidly far away from the shore leaving Ghou dumbfounded with their action

“You stupid…” Ghou turned around towards the guards throwing curses and pointing fingers at them as the silver-rapier on his scabbard jingled. Though his words were cut short by a loud roar which sprang up from the sea.