“Uncle Leonard, are we there yet?” “Just a little more. Remember to stay silent, okay?”He changed his hold, taking the weight of the child to the other hand. He saw the child’s mother, Gina, giving him a grateful look, but he wasn’t expecting anyone’s gratitude. They were all in on this together, and they had to somehow make it to the Crimson Empire. ‘I hope the news is true.’ He was one of the escaped slaves of the Summer Palace city. He hid with many others in the mountains of the Blood Baron Kingdom, but it was not safe. Luckily, they found some contacts with human war refugees. He learned they

“That is it for tonight. See you guys tomorrow.” Mila finished copying the last few letters before collecting her parchments. She was happy to find out she was improving with the Elven letters. Most importantly, their teacher praised her for her work today. ‘I will be able to finish learning this soon.’Still, she wished to join the class until the end. The Elven language was not too different from the human language, but their letters were different. “Sister Mila, let’s go.” “Wait. I am coming.” She followed Maya out of the wooden building. 

‘Another group has settled.’Leonard felt relieved, seeing that his fellow Beast men stopped walking out of the camp gate. It has been a week since he came to this camp, and as they promised, it was not a prison. No one tried to stop them from leaving, but he knew better than to show himself to the strangers. The first day he came here, he went out, passing the two guards at the camp gate. Which was actually the crude opening in the wooden fence. ‘These people are so strong.’ This camp had to be enlarged once recently. He saw how these soldiers did that. They plucked out the wooden logs from a part of the wall and moved the fence using their bare hands. They even drove the logs

“Move-Move, leave while you can. Those idiots taking every poor bastard we send. Move faster!” Lyana gritted her teeth in anger. For the past few days, she learned the degree of treatment her fellow kin received from humans. She even wondered why her grandmother wanted her to go into a human kingdom.  She searched for information about the place called Crimson Empire from the other Beast men.  Many hidden villages didn’t know much about this place. Because of that, it took her some time to find a group of escaped slaves to gather information about this human kingdom. The only thing that attracted her was the ruler of the kingdom. As she learned, the Crimson Empire was the only human kingdom ruled by a human female.  Last Updated : 2021-08-11