LUCEM
Chapter XXIV

In Grimoland, a few years before today. Rong is a genius among geniuses who mature too quickly.

It was a time of growing demonology that occultists were at the peak of glory. Some of them held important positions as spiritual advisors to the king and the royal family. Encourage the powerful Grimo King to wage war, race extermination, hunting for suspected heretics, while on the other hand they enslave or even enter into some kind of contract with the Devil. And some use their power to cure disease, neutralize poison, or invite certain angels by using the ceremony of rejecting reinforcements and the like.

Unlike most of his peers who used their intellectual powers to study the natural sciences and demonology, Rong immersed himself in foreign languages and political science. He speaks English, Japanese and Russian and is skilled in Greek.

However, specifically Rong's grandfather taught Rong the intelligence in the field of magic that their family had in the line of heredity. Because it has the nature of society at that time that is conservative, serious, innocent, honest and on a large scale easily dribbled, it can almost be said on Rong's back attached to the sign of a dazzling 'I'm a witch. It caught the attention of one of the royal family's advisers.

Bababawanna's demonology teacher rubbed his hands together and rubbed his gray beard enthusiastically whenever he saw the brown-haired young man sitting in the corner of the window while his pale face was still smart to book.

Until one day, and perhaps it was time, Rong was approached by Bababawanna in a dull grey robe and high hat, reading out her order of recruitment as the official royal adviser, and that's inevitable.

Rong became the youngest royal advisor in history. Some seniors in the long run still talk about genius children who have big egos and amazingly great analytical skills.

Of course Rong wanted to know what Bababawanna wanted from him. The answer he received made his life seem to be flowed by electric current.

The answer would then be a chain of disjointed memories in the story of the Ghoyanta family.

Rong's position as a royal advisor that many people admired seemed to split from within. Duties and rebellion. Not two things that Rong wanted to live with.

The King Grimo assigns a young general he trusts most, Panpan, to prepare a super-secret military force in the Muz Desert, in a remote desert region on the southern side of Grimoland. The area closest to the Ghomul Plain, the birthplace of the witches, is where the children of Ghoyanta came from.

Bababawanna's advisor and several of his fellow advisers claimed to have seen in his dream something very unsettling and conveyed it to the king for negotiation. Then the king sent some men to examine the truth of the counselors' dream clues. Some of the envoys had opened the pandora's box slightly, then closed it back after knowing what they were about to face. The coward who closed his eyes to save himself and let the bow bridle measure his endurance and in the end launched a poisonous arrow that would tear the skin off their bodies without any excuse and thanks.

Panpan, as a general tasked with guarding Grimoland's borders with the outer lands, was pulled back to the kingdom for the task. Bababawanna and a few advisers attached to the general like glue. And Rong did not miss that information in the least. After the argument he threw in the negotiations was not a consideration again when Bababawanna said that her dream was a revelation from the protector of the universe that must be followed up. Rong chose to gather in large groups to agree to have a place.

The Muz Desert was set up as the headquarters of the army formed by general Panpan is the driest landlocked area in Grimoland. The black project under the leadership of General Panpan and indirectly under the direction of Bababawanna through the hands of the King Grimo took advantage of the people's avidness at that time to trust in invisible entities and bigotry. He wrote a small drama on the outskirts of the desert and spread rumors that the Ghomul Plain may have links to outbreaks and diseases that often hit residents when the peak of the wind season arrives. The gullible public was still confused to the point of not realizing that a bridle had been pulled.

Rong, he with a lot of effort can be one of the few advisors who is quite aware of what kind of hidden activities are going on there. Yes, Rong sacrificed the other side of himself in order to get involved and have access to the troops. His head is very reliable, worthy enough to be considered a success so Rong got the people who would keep her safety in particular when she had to go in and out of the black project area and join in the many opportunities to be suave in the kingdom. The fact that his goal was present on the black project in the Muz Desert is a form of rebellion that has not been seen yet will continue to be invigorated in his memory.

General Panpan utilized Rong's listening and attentive power in re-exposing his ideas to the army and to the kingdom.

As a new recruit, Rong is taken by someone under the general's instructions to an underground chamber where weapons, food, books, maps and important notes are located. There, Rong's gaze immediately fell on an old man with gray hair in heavy brown clothes. He coughed at the smoke from the cigar that grazed his throat.

“Pour Rong, please!” said the man who drove him down and then said goodbye leaving Rong and the old man.

As Rong came forward to give the old man a greeting, he signaled his hand to keep Rong still in place. Rong rewinded her steps and waited until the old man called her or started a conversation.

They shared silence for a long time, Rong circulated her gaze on the pile of books that looked very much, more like a library. The number of books that are far dominating compared to other objects. Rong estimated that there were at least five thousand to seven thousand books there. Combing every corner of the room with his eyes, Rong realized that the room was very spacious and that there was no one else but them there.

When Ron returned to the old man, he found the man looking at him sharply with a wrinkled forehead.

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