Nethrowl City; the third city on the pyramid in the empire.It was a city that shared a border with almost every city in the empire, a very dry, rocky, harsh city with harsher dwellers. The places in the city that weren’t often visited or lived in by the Neths were spiked with thorny bushes and their houses were mostly wood because any other form would cause too much heat in the harsh city and those houses were painted in mostly brown and grey.The whole city is surrounded by the scent of heavy metal and everything about it was hostile; it was strictly advised never to bring an adult who couldn’t watch after himself, talk less of a child. The city was recorded to be the dwelling place of great generals and many warriors when the Slave War broke out centuries ago, it was chosen because the open desert space was close to every major city which allowed the soldiers to enter any city quickly once help was requested.Centuries later, only people whose upbringing was similar to the harsh cl

Every one of them assumed a fighting stance as they readied for the attack of the wild animals, their eyes glinting dangerously as they prepared to kill them.Oliver had already taken out his rope, Rex had his sword out, all the ones with the military had their sabers out while Ashton stood vigilantly with no weapon in his hand while Elaris rested his hand on his sword.But to all their surprise, once the animals saw their pose, they retreated back behind the housekeeper and stared at them.“What is with the hostile reaction? This is your surprise!” The man had the nerve to look like he had been deeply betrayed by them.“Surprise? How about I slice your head off your neck as a surprise for your surprise,” Azacia asked angrily, she was already marching forward to the man who was stepping with the animals and Estrina quickly wrapped her hands around Azacia’s arm to stop her.“I don’t mean any harm! This is a nice kind of surprise in Nethrowl! The animals aren’t going to do anything to y

Elaris stared at the desert in front of him and exhaled heavily, the land spread wide ahead and there was no trace of any other thing than the desert that he was seeing.At one glance, the place didn’t look dangerous but Elaris had heard about the story of the place from his father, it was a very unpredictable place where people could die without knowing what killed them. It wasn’t the sort of place that he could just bring either Ashton or Caden to.He was a dead man anyway, but the others were great assets to the empire and they would bring about many great changes. He could die with a little bit of peace knowing that they were out there somewhere and didn’t like the bad things that the Visterian king was up to.He started walking forward, taking one step after the other without catching the sight of anyone. He was all alone here and that was what made him even more vigilant because he had to watch out everywhere.He hadn’t even gotten halfway and was walking beside a cave before he

Rule #10; Never trust your teammate or your partners in the desert of Faded Mountain. Not because of their cruelty but because of the desert’s credibility.The group had remained around each other in order to be able to defeat the beasts, it was easy for one person to distract them while the other attacked from behind, they were creatures with no brain so they had no idea that it would be better for them to help one another.The controller must be feeling so frustrated.Elaris glanced around the group as he got behind another outlander and stabbed it deep in the back, he peeped from behind it and observed the group.Yute was helping Hete out of danger while the rude guy stabbed the outlander who tried to get him, the leader was acting as a decoy while the gentle one stabbed another titan from behind.Elaris smirked, the controller was really angry at his pets.He got away from behind the outlander as it fell to the ground, he removed his sword from where it was lodged on its back and

“What the hell are you talking about? Leth is not like that! He had been with us even before we started his journey at all and had been helpful throughout,” The temperamental guy said and Elaris raised a brow at him in something akin to amusement.“You think that he has been helping you?” Elaris replied.“Of course, he had been doing that! He is from the same village as ours and grew up alongside Yute and Hete, he was the one that was there for them when their parents died and their family victimized them. He was their only rock, there was no way he was the controller that had been directing the outlanders in the forest even before we got here.” The leader said, but his voice was calm and tight, it was so obvious that the accusation wasn’t sitting right with him.“So that was why you hesitated why the outlanders tried to rip Hete apart?” Elaris asked but Leth didn’t say anything, he only stared at the floor intently as if he had found something important.The temperamental guy went to