In Wiki Town.
The Prime Minister is in his office in the small Wiki City Palace, which is filled with old bookshelves and a small chandelier to light up the place, sitting in a fancy wooden chair and in front of a fancy wooden desk.
"At any moment my monstrous stockpile of military supplies could be being taken to every corner of the Seven Lakes Fiefdom, well, at least to everyone loyal to the Feudal Capital, whoever it is, I hope it all works out and that it's all just in our heads."
- Mr. Prime Minister! Urgent message!
He asks the messenger.
- And what would this message be to be classified as urgent?
The messenger takes out a letter from his leather bag, saying desperately.
- It's from Mr. Magno!
Then he orders in a serious tone.
- Give me the letter.
The messenger hands him the letter, and as he reads it, he begins to look very worried and when he has finished reading it, he tells the messenger.
- Stay here, I have to give you something. - He says as he sees him leaving.
He pulls out a drawer from his desk and takes out a letter, handing it to him with an order.
- Go as quickly as possible to base two now and deliver it to General Stephanius.
For a brief moment, the messenger thinks.
"But isn't that the base where the secret military resources are kept?"
Fearful, the messenger leaves, saying.
- Yes, sir.
Consequently, he ran out of the small palace with the letter in his leather bag, but the guards noticed him suddenly running out of the small palace, stopping him at the exit gate.
- What's the matter, Messenger? Are you running out of nowhere like that?
Desperate, the messenger replies.
- It's just that the Prime Minister has asked me to take this letter urgently to Base Two!
One of them asks loudly.
- Base Two?
Then one of them says to the other.
- You mean ... - The same one despairs - That happened?!
- What? - asks the other.
In despair, he says.
- What the boss said happened! Otherwise a messenger wouldn't have been able to get out of there! He didn't see that Robson let him pass without saying anything.
So the other man despairs.
- Oh my God! A thousand pardons, messenger! You can go through!
The two of them open the gate for the Messenger, who rushes through to get on his horse and hears them shouting.
- Sorry to bother you!
Getting on his horse, which had all the necessary equipment to be safe, he set off for Base 2.
Arriving there, he comes across a large military base, with thick walls at its entrance, and soldiers standing guard, one of whom approaches him.
- Whose letter is it this time, messenger? Is it from a relative of someone back in the Feudal Capital?
Desperate, he takes the letter from his bag and says, panting, that a non-military man can't arrive at the entrance on horseback, donkey or mule, for security reasons, so due to the urgency he had to run to the entrance.
- Not this time, but it's urgent.
Seeing the messenger take the letter out of his bag, he asks.
- A letter? From whom?
- From the Prime Minister! He asked me to get this letter to General Stephanius as soon as possible.
They are startled by the answer.
- Go on and get going! - says one of them after the two are startled by the reply.
Entering this military installation, he notices the presence of military aircraft similar to those from the end of the First World War, being stored or serviced in their respective hangars, of which there were 20.
After passing the hangars, he entered the base's four-storey administrative building, with architecture from the late 19th century.
At the top was the general's office.
- General! - Shouts the letter carrier as he enters his office.
It was modest, with no apparent luxuries, just a few bookshelves, an office table and chairs from the early 20th century, and paintings on the walls as decoration.
Then he saw that the general was not a human, but a young semi-human who had just finished putting on his formal military uniform, missing only his deep green hat with a golden star emblem accompanied by golden laurel branches.
- What do you want for coming into my office so suddenly? - He asks as he puts the hat on his head.
Breathless from running so fast, the messenger replied.
- It's from the Prime Minister!
Suspicious, he goes up to him and asks.
- And what would be the content of this letter?
He replies again, catching his breath.
- I don't know sir, I've been told it's urgent.
- If it's from the Prime Minister and it's urgent, something very bad has happened, give me that letter straight away. - He orders suspiciously.
The messenger hands him the letter - Here it is. - Opening the envelope and reading its contents, the general turns serious and immediately leaves his office, saying.
- Thank you very much, have a nice day.
Without understanding anything of what he had just seen, he briefly reflects.
"I wonder what was in that letter?"
But in the corridors the general is walking seriously.
"So they had the nerve to do that?! Well, they'll just have to see!"
The pilots of the planes run to prepare their planes.
Large crates with military supplies are placed in them.
The engines start and one by one they take off.
Trucks, similar to those from the 1920s, begin to leave the base, along with freight wagons, containing military supplies as well, their destination, the Feudal Capital.
Seeing them leaving for the capital, General Stephanius in his office picks up a map of the fiefdom and puts it on the table, showing that Wiki City is 144.5 km away from the Feudal Capital.
Which is in the center of the fief.
At this point he looks at the Capital on the map.
"The cards have been dealt, so let's see who stands in the end."
Meanwhile.
The commoners are fleeing in desperation from the fierce fighting in the Capital, it's been an hour since the coup attempt began.
Many dragons fall in considerable numbers from the skies due to the gunfire.
Few of the soldiers from Wiki Town had been killed or wounded, but on the side of the coup plotters, many were killed or wounded by the gunfire and explosions.
But then the coup plotters gave the smoke signal to the dragon riders, who were suffering heavy casualties.
So they try to attack the Feudal Castle ferociously, its walls are destroyed after a saturation attack, but the target was not the walls, but the castle itself.
So the focus and the walls are no problem, and the castle begins to fall to the ground.
The soldiers inside the castle hear the explosions against the castle.
And in the basement, Charles goes down the stairs saying.
- This place was made to withstand great impacts and that's why...
They arrive in a room where there is a lot of medieval armor and weapons, including several catapults and a large stock of iron spheres.
He continues.
- Take what you need.
However, the sounds of explosions begin to echo in the corridors, coming from above, and Magno wonders as he puts on his steel breastplate.
"I wonder what's going on up there?"
And on the surface it was chaos, the windows had been opened so that he could shoot at the dragons in the sky.
- What the hell is that? - Shouts a soldier, who was defending the castle.
They were thick iron spheres bathed in burning oil.
The collision is inevitable and as soon as it hits the castle, the destruction is enormous.
Several soldiers die as a result of the rubble falling on them, and with a saturation attack by catapults and trabuckets being carried out, the castle inevitably collapses and crumbles on top of them.
Everyone outside is incredulous at what they have just witnessed with their own eyes, but they still have to fight the coup plotters.
The sergeants soon told the fighters that they were safe and well, even though they themselves didn't really believe it.
Down in the basement, everyone hears the rubble falling and the soldiers' screams of agony.
- It can't be. - Charles' wife said, very worried.
- We can't worry about that now, let's go! - Charles shouts.
So after a few minutes they all got ready.
Magno and Cobalsk just put on a breastplate.
Charles put on full armor, and so did his wife.
Ricardo didn't need any armor, he just took a new spear.
The soldiers who were there chose not to take anything, as they believed they were adequately protected.
With everyone ready, they followed Charles.
- Follow me! I know a secret exit!
They went to the end of the room and there seemed to be nothing there, because there were only walls.
However, Charles pulls a torch like a lever on a wall.
Charles comments as he reveals the secret passage, which was a door disguised as a wall.
- Let's go! We don't know how much...
A tremor begins in the place, and small stones start to fall.
Cobalsk soon shouts as he rushes into the passage.
- Everyone, now!
Faced with the imminent collapse, Magnus asks his brother as he runs down the passage.
- But didn't you say it was very sturdy?
Soon the sound of larger stones collapsing over the room was heard and the corridor was also beginning to crumble.
Charles, who had been left behind, sees this catastrophe happening.
- Faster, the corridor is collapsing! - He shouts.
But he thought.
"This structure was supposed to be able to withstand huge impacts, what happened to make it collapse so quickly?"
Outside the Feudal Castle.
General Rubion reflects as he leaves the Feudal Capital, observing the complete collapse of the castle, along with his coup soldiers, who are suffering heavy casualties, but he has yet to see the reason for this number of casualties.
"The saboteurs did a great job implanting scrolls with explosive incantations in the pillars at the base of the castle without anyone noticing, and even silenced by a spell, what a privilege to see this symbol of power destroyed, if it continues like this, soon, soon I will be able to proclaim the new Feudal Lord of the Seven Lakes!"
Then a coup-plotting soldier arrives, saying.
- Sir, our forces are not advancing, in fact we are being driven out of the central region of the Capital.
Rubion is surprised.
- But what?
He asks him.
-Sir, what should we do?
Seeing that things weren't going according to plan, Rubion thinks briefly.
"I have no choice then."
He answers the question by ordering him.
- Call the Kiber Guard.
The soldier is worried about this.
- Sir, are you sure about this?
Rubin immediately replies seriously, almost shouting.
- Yes, and it's for now, get going!
After that, he looks at the Capital, which is about to leave its walls.
"I thought I wouldn't need to use them, but if that's how it's going to be, then so be it, but if I can't take over the Feudal Capital, I'll have to call in reinforcements."
During all this, Magno and the others, after running down the corridor, were climbing a ladder, but something happened.
A bang was heard from above, which shook the place, causing it to accelerate and collapse.
- Accelerate! Things are collapsing! - Magno shouts.
However, not everyone managed to get out, many soldiers were crushed to death and Ricardo, incredulously watching his colleagues being killed like this, said, holding back his sadness and anger.
- There's nothing we can do now, let's get going. - Magno comments.
Then they realized they were in the living room of an abandoned house in an area close to the castle, near its now destroyed walls.
Seeing this place, Cobalsk mutters briefly.
- This place brings back a lot of bad memories.
But when Magno hears this, it makes him imagine in a flash what this place was like in the past, which was a common house, only it was used for his family to disguise themselves as commoners, so they could blend into the population without worry, but he thinks as he holds Antonia's hand.
"Yeah, but that's not going to happen."
They soon leave the place and see the state of the castle.
- It can't be! - Charles exclaims in surprise.
- Oh my God! - Cobalsk said when he saw what was happening.
The castle was close to collapsing completely and what was left of it was on fire.
Magno comments sadly on seeing all this.
- Those men did what they could, but now all of our family's artifacts may be destroyed... Now... We can only hope that the damage isn't too great.
Meanwhile, he thought.
"Our memories, our precious memories of our parents, are being destroyed, and I couldn't do anything about it! What the fuck! Fucking hell!
Then the castle collapses completely, the focus is covered in debris, causing the water to pour out.
Charles screams at the sight.
- No!
Magno was incredulous to see the place where his family had lived for generations collapse so quickly, because even though this was the most likely thing to happen, he still believed it would stand.
"I hope there's something left, it's all slipping out of my hands, but... I have to keep going... Even if there's nothing left, we're still alive, so.... We can still rebuild what's left of there."
However, a riding dragon spots them and spits an explosive fireball at the house near them, at which point Charles' wife notices it and screams desperately.
- Run! Enemy attack!
The explosion happens and some of the debris falls on Charles, but his wife reacts faster than him, and seeing death looming, she pushes him forward with all her might.
- But what? - Charles asks in surprise.
The wreckage crushes her and, unable to believe what has happened, he calls out to her.
- Darling?
The dragon is soon killed by allied fire.
But it doesn't matter, the wreckage where Charles's wife was lying below was oozing blood.
Magno and the others remained quiet.
Charles began to cry and tried to pull the wreckage away, shouting.
- Luiza! Luiza!
Magno went over to him, who was trying to pull her out, after letting go of his sister's hand.
- Come on, brother! We have to go!
He resists, shouting seriously.
- Get out of here! I want to save her!
In this way, Magno manages to pull Charles away by saying.
- I know you want to save her! But she's dead! Don't let her death be in vain!
Charles pulls himself together and speaks angrily when he sees that he can't do anything because she's dead.
- They'll all be condemned to death when this is over.
Magno takes him away and comments to him in a consoling tone.
- Of course, after everything so far, none of them deserve mercy.
So they all set off to coordinate the resistance in the Feudal Capital.