God's Hidden Truth
Chapter 23: ACE
...flashback HERMES....
...A few days before the war between the city of CELESTIAL and the QOINET empire, ROGER and his subordinates gathered young men from the surrounding villages to serve as war soldiers, until finally he reached the village where HERMES lived, namely the village of wardora....
...ROGER told the entire community to gather, even HERMES who was gardening also gathered....
...ROGER told the whole village that he needed a strong young man to be a soldier and take part in the war, but ROGER also told a lie.....
..."OUR HERO HAS RETURNED, BUT... THE EMPIRE CAPTURED HIM AND HARNESSED HIS POWER TO DEFEAT THE GODS."...
...The residents thought that if they participated, then most likely DAIN would also participate, but for various reasons, ROGER managed to convince the residents, and he asked, but with a variety of reasons, who can participate in the war....
...The citizens looked at HERMES, without a second thought, and ROGER recruited him, but for a moment, HERMES told him the truth that he knew DAIN, and he also admitted that he had a DAIN-given sword....
...ROGER recalls DAIN saying that DAIN gave his sword to someone who helped him in a village next to the desert....
...But ROGER asked HERMES to show the evidence, HERMES went home and took the sword DAIN gave him, and when HERMES returned, ROGER believed it was XEROX, it was the sword that defeated the demon lord a few months ago....
...ROGER thought that HERMES was the best ace to defeat the QOINET empire if DAIN did not take part in the war, maybe no one knows, but... ROGER told the nobles and the ruling king of CELESTIAL, that he was his ace....
...When ROGER wanted to quickly bring HERMES to the town of CELESTIAL, some citizens disapproved of HERMES taking part in the war, but... HERMES reassured the citizens because only he could save DAIN....
...Citizens could only grieve and pray that HERMES would be protected and be able to return safely from the war....
...Until finally, HERMES also joined ROGER to participate in the war....
...Short, but difficult to explain, the residents were also ready, if at any time, the entrusted child, HERMES left and would not return if he had good reason to leave the village....
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...Other acquisitions, the empire was planning to invade the villages surrounding the CELESTIAL city area, the plan was made even before the CELESTIAL city had yet to secede from the empire or was still in imperial power, but the reason why the CELESTIAL city broke away, was still unknown....
...The plan to invade the villages within the CELESTIAL city area was as follows, the empire would allow the CELESTIAL city to recruit the soldiers from the villages post-preparation for war, and the empire will begin its plan when the war has begun, the reason is if one day the CELESTIAL city warriors return to recruit soldiers, the soldiers, they could not because the villages within the CELESTIAL city area had been destroyed created by the empire....
...So in the end, the war began until entering the second phase, which is the phase where ROGER prepares to release his ace and leave it blindly in the middle of the war....
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...Meanwhile, DAIN was cut out of the empire and went as far as possible along with GETSU to escape the obstacles of the knights or others....
...DAIN took GETSU away to go somewhere, very lucky, DAIN blinded managed to reach the wardora village....
...During the trip, he did not meet 1 soldier or ordinary people passing by....
...Arriving in the village of wardora, all residents seem not excited like losing their purpose in life, DAIN walked to one of the residents by holding GETSU who is still unconscious....
...DAIN asked one of the residents what was happening in the village, but they kept quiet and just stared at DAIN blankly, DAIN also let the residents and again walked to find residents who are still normal....
...Not long ago, the village head wardora approached him and asked the reason DAIN came wardora village, DAIN answered politely that he only needed a place to rest....
...DAIN asked why the small house had to be and where the owner of the house, the village chief replied with no enthusiasm, that the owner of the house was taken by ROGER to the battlefield to save the hero....
...DAIN was a little surprised to hear that HERMES was interested in becoming a soldier, but DAIN also wondered why ROGER knew that he (DAIN) was previously held captive by the empire....
...DAIN thanked the village chief and entered the HERMES house, he placed GETSU on the HERMES bed, the wounds that had previously been on the GETSU body, had been treated during the journey to the wardora village....
...DAIN sat in a chair by the bed and about how ROGER knew that he (DAIN) had been held captive in the empire....
...Evening arrived, DAIN fell asleep sitting....
...GETSU finally regained consciousness, he saw the sleeping DAIN and smiled.....
..."thank you, buddy"...
...he said with a smile....
...but immediately, DAIN also woke up from his sleep and was happy to see GETSU was conscious....
...They both smiled at each other and laughed at each other, remembering many bad things lately, DAIN said......
..."it looks like, the problem is coming to an end, hahaha"...
...Suddenly, GETSU instantly becomes moody, and tells DAIN that the real problem is not solved at all....
...DAIN stopped laughing, and asked about the meaning of the words of GETSU earlier, GETSU also answered with a serious face, that... The mastermind behind everything they both experienced was ROGER....
...he also told me what happened when he was tortured by monks in the empire........
...***flashback***...
...The monks tortured GETSU with a thorny mace which he struck into the backs, stomachs, legs and hands of GETSU....
...The monks also laughed and said......
..."hahahaha, stupid ROGER he thought the emperor would cooperate with him, even the hero he made a toy."...
...GETSU was shocked to hear this and asked in a loud tone about what the monk meant....
...The monks replied that ROGER had asked for an alliance with the empire to kill the hero, but despite the emperor's approval, the Emperor's son, Michiel Chirffvousn, devises a plan to harness the power of the hero to defeat the gods....
...GETSU who heard him was shocked and started to get angry, but he could not move because he was tied up using a chain coated with high-level magic....
...Because the monk saw GETSU trying to rebel, GETSU was again tortured by the monks....
...THE TOO BE CONTINUED....