Alma3 Demon Queen
Akarmani 11: Tracing the Secret Aisle

*Fire in Jintamani Kingdom (Akarmani)*

The coalition force of the duchy, called the Jintamani Liberation Army, is now besieging the eastern fortress of the Royal Capital of Jintamani. Since the beginning of the siege, there has been no war. The Capital Security Forces were on standby above and within the fort.

Most of the Jintamani Free Force is on standby at the front, while two-thirds are in rest mode. In addition to lowering tension, also to gather energy.

The capital of the Kingdom of Jintamani has two gates, namely east and west. However, the Jintamani Free Army did not besiege the western side of the fort. Queen Colour Mekararum reasoned simply.

“We are not besieging the western fortress because we lack troops. The royal army will be too far away if they want to get out of the west gate and support our troops at the east gate,” Queen Colour Mekararum said while arranging a strategy with the dukes before leaving for the battlefield. “In the west of Jintamani there is a military barracks and they could have sent troops to the Capital City, but it would not be a threat if Alma came sooner following to the Capital.”

That was a brief moment of the meeting contents of the Jintamani Liberation Army.

Meanwhile, the Queen of Colour Mekararum led an army from the Red Blade College to infiltrate the Palace through a secret passage. As the oldest person in the Palace, the Colour Mekararum called the Old Queen knows very well about the ins and outs and various secrets that exist in the Palace.

The Red Knives College team of a hundred was led by a major student named Sudigatra.

Sudigatra was a medium-bodied but muscular man, visible from his arm muscles due to his short-sleeved shirt. He was wearing red-red clothes. His face also had a strong structure.

Bringing an army of one hundred men through the sometimes narrow secret passage was ineffective, but the old queen needed strength large enough to face the obstacles ahead, which would definitely be unfriendly.

To get into a cave that became the entrance to the secret road, they had to pass through a shallow swamp that was wide enough.

“Open your footwear and pants!” the Queen of Colours Mekararum orders to Sudigatra.

Surprised Sudigatra and the Red Knives College students who heard the order.

“Wet clothes can leave a trace,” clear Old Queen.

“Good, Gusti,” says Sudigatra. Then his orders to his troops, “Open your footwear and pants!”

Inevitably, embarrassed not to be embarrassed, they all immediately took off their strap shoes and pants. Same with Sudigatra.

The queen did not do the same.

“Bopong me to the other side!” the Queen of Colours Mekararum orders to Sudigatra.

“Good, Gusti,” said Sudigatra obediently.

After tidying up his pants and shoes around his neck, Sudigatra crouched his back in front of the Old Queen. The queen without a doubt climbed up to sit at the nape of the Sudigatra. After that, Sudigatra stood holding the grandmother on his shoulder.

The Sudigatra descend first into a watery, muddy swamp. It is initially only as deep as the calf, but then becomes as deep as the thigh after walking more to the middle.

One hundred disciples who were not dressed, but still in their vines, also went down into the swamp. They tied his pants and shoes around his neck, some even tied them to his head.

“Ah, dear female students no one is coming,” regret a student while smiling widely.

The Red Knife School did bring down a number of female disciples in the war, but they were not included in the Queen's entourage, they participated in the army led by the main disciple Adipaksa besieged the eastern fortress of the Capital.

On arrival across the swamp, they all cleared their feet of mud. After that, the pants and shoes are worn again.

Queen Colour Mekararum then led the troops into a cave whose mouth was covered by wild plants. Only those who knew the place knew that there was a cave.

They had to light some torches as a lighting device. They then walked down the cave passage which turned out to be a long winding road, but not as twisted as their respective love stories. They enter the condition of feet that are dry and clean of mud, and also have pants again.

Judging from the wall model, it can be suspected that the cave is not a natural cave, but an artificial cave.

The queen ordered Sudigatra to make a mark on the wall because they were most likely going through that passage again. Because, in the course of a long hallway, several times the Queen of Color Mekararum opened a secret stone door that connects with other roads.

On the way in the secret passage that he said would penetrate into the Jintamani Palace, the troops were strictly forbidden to talk or joke so as to cause laughter.

After traveling for about two hours because their movement was slow with a lot of personnel, finally Queen Colour Mekararum ordered a stop at one point.

All the disciples were ordered to stand docked on one of the walls of the hall, as they were near the intersection of five. Up ahead was the meeting point of the five passageways, which meant that there could have been someone else emerging from one of the other passageways.

The Queen of Colour Mekararum gave Sudigatra a finger to draw closer to her. Sudigatra was soon closer to the grandmother.

The Queen of Colour Mekararum then brought her lips closer to Sudigatra's ears to whisper.

“Bring some people, go down that aisle all the way to the dead end wall!” the Queen of Colour Mekararum ordered while pointing at one of the passageways they could see straight away. “In that dead-end wall there was a very small light gap that was connected to one of the rooms inside the Palace. Go, report what you can get there!”

Sudigatra just nodded. He then got up and appointed four main students of the college whose level was still below. He signals them to follow him.

Before crossing into the hallway in question, Sudigatra first looked towards the other hallway and listened to whether there was another sound or not. After making sure she was safe, she immediately crossed the meeting point of the five passageways and entered the passageway that the queen was referring to.

The five of them only relied on one small torch. While the Queen of Colour Mekararum and the college troops armed with flying knives were waiting.

Sudigatra and his four companions continued down the hallway. It didn't take long to get to the dead end of the hallway. They found no other way but the stone walls.

Sudigatra ordered torch-bearer disciples to stay away from the dead-end wall.

True said the queen, from the dark passageway, they could see a single bright spot that was a small hole into the outside world.

The Sudigatra soon approached a gap of only a line of nails. He tried to peek through the gap.

Through the small gap, it turned out that Sudigatra saw part of a large, magnificent room, but the room had a guard of a number of soldiers standing still.

Although there were quite a number of soldiers in the large room, but the atmosphere was quiet as no one spoke. It seemed like the gap was on a wall from the magnificent and large room.

After getting a little visual through the peek, Sudigatra then gave the code to his four colleagues to return. (BH)