CrisisofMankind - Profile

"Oh no…" Hatim and Zera both spoke in sync, after all, they have travelled enough with Athena to understand what's coming next. Athena gazes deep into Captain Alika's eyes, and so, she took the seat, set her hands on the table, and refused the liquor glass. "How does Artelia still abide? It is remarkably amusing this country has not perished yet, in this havoc of war and without any precise politics." She knew Captain Alika was just the person to be questioned. Though, a wry smile came into shape as a sip of liquor gulped down to his throat. "Now, now, this is going that far, huh? Aaah… where should I start from…" After a lanky silence, his words began. "Now, first, let's begin with Artelia itself… Artelia, in my viewpoint, is like an egg-shaped land, kind of… with the south having Melidiona, also the smallest city, while above connecting with Marina and Leos… Marina is at the west and holding against Artelian, Devian sea, a massive sea between Land Dev and Artelia. And lastly, the two legendaries, Leos, the largest city and Helot, the winter land, the east and the north. It's silly that both are the capital of Artelia now… Leos…" His gaze untied from the bottle of liquor and wandered the room. "Maybe everyone here knows what happened to Leos. The Eclipse Night?" It was a mere guess yet struck right at the mark "Indeed." She spoke as call and gentle as her voice was. "Well then, the last one, Helot…" A smile curled and his thoughts mystified with a deep stare into his liquor glass. "Artelia, despite being the smallest and weakest country in the Butterfly Realm, is gifted with many natural capabilities, gem mines, wool, unique woods… fields blessed with hundreds of kinds of growths." A sudden pause occurred in his words as ice in the glass melted with a click echo and along his smile faded. "However, to run all that in a system was, simply, impossible, given, it needs thousands of men to run that labour every single day and hiring that many men with that kind of work would simply cost… unthinkable." Athena knew what precisely Captain Alika words implied. "Slavery." She let out her choice of words, and once again brought a smile to Captain Alika's texture. "Now, now, you're a smart girl. Yes, slavery. The system was corrupted till to its very core. Hundreds die each day due to overwork and yet, unacknowledged. To hide that savagery they were stated as 'Soldiers' and crammed into Helot with very little supplement while everyone else closed their eyes to them. Given, the country needed that work to be alive or so they told everyone…" Again after again his pause halted the moment, none knew how to proceed, none knew how to pay that debt on Artelia, from whom they never met. "Now, don't look all sad little missy." His words pointed at Zera, though, though her grasp tightened at the Hatim robe corner and in that exact instant Hatim gave away a sneering glare at Captain Alika. "H—hehe, sorry…" After that, he refills his glass and adds another cube of ice and makes a clasp around it. "Yes, for sure, everyone who could change that cruelty shut their eyes… except for one… Prince Leocus didn't. Everyone defied him, his good ideal. Tagged him as an unworthy traitor, and yet he stood up to that corrupted system, to revolt against the whole Kingdom, to revolt against the King. Hence began The Battle of Masters, Prince against King, Son against Father…" A sudden pause occurred in his words, as his eyes freed from liquor glass once again and locked into Hatim sunflower eyes. "Though he may have fought for slavery, there was much going on that didn't meet the eyes, neither did it written down in history…" He blinked with a lengthy halt and swirls her gaze to liquor again. "Now let's just not go from the original talk, Prince Leocus was the true mastermind, he foresaw every single outcome and brought peace even in his death. Before his death, he established an unthinkable alliance with Hella, the rival country, and oh heavens, which was quite an uproar and yet it served as the main reason why they didn't ambush Artelia at its weakest time despite being the neighbour, moreover, after all that bloodshed history we have. While something happened with the neighbour of Hella, Land of Ryu, just a few months later after The Eclipse Night, their Emperor died mysteriously and his young son had to take the throne, though that selection was against the ideology of Emperor's brother and so brought a civil war within, it too was a gigantic uproar, enough to reach other countries' ears. And all that was left was the Land of Dev. Well, those filthy rich bastards weren't as interested in Holy-Land from the beginning as the other three, yet they still stick to some dirty tactics to make a grasp on Marina." He took a slight pause to take another sip of liquor. "However, the significant reason why Artelia still stands was the Truce Agreement, and yes as you've already guessed, it was Prince Leocus idea. 'No war shall happen until the next generation decides it…' At first, none agreed upon it, given, it was as if giving up on Holy-Land but then after the situation arose so complicated for Hella and Land Ryu, they brought the idea again and The Butterfly Realm signed it, though Land Dev didn't have any solid reason to follow that agreement, yet what a lone wolf could do when its hunger is not enough… It was purely incredible, Prince Leocus thought of every single outcome as if he knew exactly what was coming, it was as if he foresaw the actual time, it was the work of a pure mastermind…" It was then when a genuine halt occurred at the moment and the moment where finally there was no liquor left in his bottle, the moment was so silent that Zera breaths faintly echo in Hatim ears, or maybe her breaths were a little too loud, upon hearing the words a child should never know, and Hatim knows that the best, the words a child should never know. He lapped a hand over her head, patted her nicely and yet lost in the moment her, didn't even notice it. He smiled. "It's just funny how much Prince Leocus did for Artelia just as the prince, I wonder what he could have accomplished if he had become a King." A sudden wry smile. "Now, that would be a sight to see…" His smile dissolved suddenly. "If only Eclipse Night never existed in the pages of history. Along with him, the city of the nobility perished…" Just who knew a simple night can be an end of a legendary figure, it could be an end of a legacy. However, even after that enormous knowledge, one last question remains perplexed in Athena beliefs. "How many died?" It got Hatim and Zera off guard, simply not just Captain Alika. "W—what? wait, who?" 

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