BATTLES: The Royal Invasion
Chapter 28

The guards let go Rad to go into the royal room to meet Kaydos alone, the room that was someday his shelter against the pressure of his duties as a king. Rad didn’t noticed any change in the room so he said sarcastically: it seems you like my taste, betrayer.

“You still as you are…you will never change…you’re in deep hole and you’re telling jokes” said Kaydos as he was sitting on a luxurious chair facing the huge window giving his back to Rad.

“You know my friend…” Rad interrupted him: you’re not my friend.

“Listen Rad, rudeness won’t help you…so shut up and listen to me”

“How rudeness of you, Kaydos…talking to me that way and you know that nothing between me and you but my mother…this cuffs are useless I can burn them with a glance and you know it”

“You know…it’s only a protocol”

“What do you want, Kaydos?”

“I want you to do your job”

“What do you mean?”

“It seems that the prison turned you in a stupid person…I want you to say to your people that everything is alright but you will pass the power to me because you were injured heavily and you can’t be the king anymore, got it?

“But I’m not injured”

“Don’t worry…you will acting it…nothing more”

“You had no courage to tell my people that you overthrow me because I’m a bad ruler like you said to my men so you lied to them and told them that I was injured and I will die anyway…how pathetic”

“Rad...what I did…it’s a treason…no doubt about it…and every ruler was overthrown, like yourself, must be dead except in some cases…so you’re dead anyway…my friend and add to that I did this because of vengeance nothing more and you know this very well”

“It’s good to hear from you how you’re looking at yourself”

“Enough talk…it’s time to do your last job…before throwing you in a black hole”

“Make him ready” Kaydos yelled and the preparations has begun to introduce Rad to his people as the wounded hero.

“You don’t know what is waiting for you, Kaydos”

“The kingdom” said Kaydos with a smile.

Meanwhile Manod was eager to keep up with every move Kaydos was making to be always have the intelligence advantage all the time in this war and over the man that Manod like to compare with the snake. Kaydos strategy was simple; make them trust you for a long time then do whatever you like and that’s how he could easily overthrow the former king so easily. He was know everything about the royal family, their strengths point, their weakness and even the personal secrets found its way to his data pocket.

“But what if…” suddenly a terrifying thought flashed in Manod’s mind. “What if Raman did the same with me?” Manod left his throne after he was relaxing on it after he had this thought but his ability of watching made him somewhat comfortable which he used on his minister immediately after the thought flashed in his mind.

Raman was interesting person for Manod who was impressed by his ability to make long term plans for his king, so Raman was like the brain for Manod who planning everything for him so the suspicion he had about Raman is up to something was logical to think about but he realized after short time of watching him that Raman wasn’t making any threat for now but Manod decided that he needs more time to make up his mind so he ordered one of his men to watch Raman all the time so he can devote his time to watch Kaydos.

“You get it?” said Kaydos to Rad as he was teaching him what he was going to say to his people on the sickbed suffering from his injuries.

And the transmission has started and the eye contact between him and the people in streets on the big screens and in their homes occurred. At that time, Rad had two opposite ideas; whether he tell them what is really going on? Or tell them what Kaydos told him to say? At the end Kaydos’s card was the winner and Rad began his acting just like Kaydos wanted but Kaydos never knew who also had a trump card.