Chapter 11: Revolution

Redrae was being held by 2 Soldiers, with 5 Border Control Unit members behind them.

“Iro! They made me bring them to where I thought you would be!” Redrae cried out.

“Shut up.” Said one of the Soldiers, twisting Redrae’s wrist.

“Redrae!” I yelled out to her.

Let’s really get this started.

I imagined the Soldier twisting Redrae’s wrist catching on fire.

“Dark magic, I call upon you to unleash, SEAL!”

All 5 of the Border Control Unit members were pulled into the hole. The remaining Soldier put a knife to Redrae’s throat, and said,

“D- Don't’ get any closer!”

“What do you think I’m going to do? Especially after your nice invitation?” I asked the Soldier. I walked up to him, and punched him in the stomach.

“Redrae.” I said, grabbing Redrae’s arm, “We need to run.”

I pulled a walkie talkie out of my pocket.

“Emi, Uoun, I need to meet up with you at the spot.” I said to the walkie talkie,

“Roger that.” I heard Uoun’s voice respond.

Before I left to train, I gave Emi and Uoun the walkie talkie I made a couple of months before.

While Redrae was surprised, she was suspecting something was up after I started using Akafwhan magic.

Redrae and I went to the meeting spot I made, which was in the exact middle of my training grounds and the inn.

When we met up, I led everyone to a small cabin I had discovered, which was near the dungeon. It was away from the public eye though, and probably wouldn’t be discovered.

I opened the door inside, and turned on the fireplace with magic.

“Come on in.” I said to the group.

I then went through the trouble of explaining 2 things. 1.) That I was being chased by the government for the unlawful release of slaves. 2.) Who Emi and Uoun are, and why I know them.

“I see. So you saw that Emi and Uoun were captured and being sold, and freed them because they are your friends.”

“Correct.”

“That seems like something the government would love to tear you apart over.”

“At least it’s not the Futae government after me.”

We all chuckled a bit.

“Emi, Uoun, do you want to go check if there are any Soldiers around? I want to talk to Redrae in private for a minute.” I said.

“Yeah. Sure.” Emi responded, getting off the comfortable couch, and going outside with Uoun. Once they had left, I started with the conversation I wanted to have with Redrae. I was finally going to do it.

“Redrae… I bought you this ring… And I well… I love you.”

“Iro? R- Really?”

“Of course.”

“Well… I- I like you too.”

I put the ring on Redrae’s hand, and said,

“And because I love you, I wanted to tell you something I’ve never told anyone before.”

“W- What is it?”

“This… This is my 3rd life.”

“Wh- What do you mean your 3rd life?”

“I’ve lived on 2 other planets before this. And I was the one to destroy them, in order to come here.”

“2 other planets? You’re joking right?”

“No. This walkie talkie here, it’s technology from the first planet I lived on.”

“Well…”

“And that magic I was performing earlier, it’s magic from the 2nd planet I lived on.”

“I… It’s hard for me to process this right now… But… No matter what… I believe you.”

“Thank you… Thank you so much… It feels so good to get that off my back.”

“No wonder… I couldn’t imagine keeping that secret for not just 1 life, but 3.”

With my secret being revealed, I was absolutely ready.

“Redrae. I want to overthrow the royal family.”

“O- Overthrow?”

“That’s right. I want to install a system that is truly beneficial for everyone. Something from Earth would work here. I can just feel it.”

“You understand how difficult that will be right? The royal family has hundreds of thousands of soldiers.”

“But I have magic nobody knows about. Let alone Earth technology.”

“Fair point but… They’re an army…”

“I’ll show you. Give me about an hour.”

“An hour?”

I looked around in the dungeon for excess metal and such. I found a lot of metal actually, which I used when I went back to the cabin to craft my second gun in another world.

This time though, I didn’t use a sponge. This was as real as a gun could get.

I showed it to Redrae.

“This was technology from another world!? It’s amazing… With this… You could take on 100 soldiers without the use of magic… So with magic…”

“That’s right. It’s a super-weapon capable of taking on the royal family with.”

“If you can make it better. If you can truly make people’s lives worth living again… Then let’s do it.”

“Then let’s make a plan.” I said.

“Yeah. We can’t just walk right in the front door.” Redrae agreed.”

“I can use my magic and blindsight them. So what if I go in the back entrance?”

“I feel like that would be even more obvious than the front door.”

“Fair point. Then… What if I go in from the bottom?”

“What?”

“The castle probably has a basement. If I go under the ground and dig into the basement, then I can completely surprise them.”

‘That sounds good, but how much dirt will you have to dig?”

“I can just use my earth powers to put the dirt in a hole or something.”

“What should I do?”

“Well… Could you guard behind me? If we’re digging a tunnel, and for some reason someone gets in the opposite side, then we’d have a problem.”

“Alright.”

“Let’s do this at night. Maybe 2:00 AM?”

“When is that?” I forgot, they don’t have clocks here.

“I’ll just tell you when it is.”

Eventually 1:45 AM rolled around, and we started preparing.

I put my sword on my back, my gun in my hoist, and my armor on my body.

Redrae put on her ring, her armor, put her sword on her back, and pulled out plenty of healing potions.

Emi and Uoun stayed behind to hold down the fort.

I moved the dirt, and in 5 minutes, we were at the walls of the basement.

“Are you ready?” I asked Redrae,

“More ready than ever before.” Redrae responded.

“Alright. On the count of 3.”

And unison, we counted.

“1,”

I wasn’t going to have a normal life here.

“2,”

I gave up on that.

Maybe that was a mistake…

No… It was for the best.

“3!” I blasted through the wall with magic, and performed Seal on everyone in the room. Redrae stayed behind me, ready with her sword in one hand, and healing potions in the other.

I used earth magic to seal the hole where we came from backup.

“Let’s go.” I said as we proceeded to the next room.

The next room was a hall that led to the basement. It was large, I could barely see the end of it. There weren’t any Soldiers as far as I could see.

“Stay close.” I instructed Redrae.

We walked forward, towards the door, but when we got inside the next room, soldiers attacked us from the back.

“Look out!” Redrae yelled, using earth magic to seal the soldiers in a room.

I had specifically told Redrae not to kill anyone. I’m not killing anyone either. While we were waiting in the cabin, I was actually manipulating Seal, making it so I can release anything I seal. When we are done here, I’m going to release everyone I sealed, however, I may release them into a prison cell depending on their act.

We moved onward. Redrae and I conquered room after room.

Once we get past this, I just need to scale up, and conquer entire planets.

What did God mean by conquer?

I mean, that’s pretty vague, that could mean accomplishing my long term goal, of making every organism on that planet happy, or it could simply mean me ruling over it, or it could mean anything else.

I really need to try to figure that out.

Redrae and I were just heading through a red hallway, which led to a large doorway.

We went through the doorway to find an empty throne. The king was asleep.

We went up the stairs to the right, down a hallway, down another hallway, and finally, we found the bedrooms of the royal family. The one in front was for the king and queen, the one to the left was for the princess, and the one to the right was for the prince.

I yelled for the king to come out.

And he did, he was very startled.

“H- h- how did you get past the-”

“Oh, the guards? Yeah, they’re all in my storage. Do you want me to take them out?”

“Storage?”

“Yeah, I sealed them using magic.”

“Magic? I’ve never heard of that spell… Then again, I am a Rudar…”

“Yeah, it’s a pretty uncommon spell.”

“Ah, I see.” The king paused for a moment, and cleared his throat, “That’s some amazing magic, but if I may ask, WHY DID YOU WAKE ME IN MY OWN CASTLE?”

“Oh yeah. I wanted to trade with you.”

“Yes?”

“I want you to give me all of your power as king, you don’t have to give up anything, there will just be 2 kings, and you will receive me not injuring or possibly killing anyone.”

“Th- that’s ridiculous!”

“Think about if you give it up though.”

“W- Would you really k- k- kill anyone?”

“Who knows? But I have a feeling you wouldn’t want to take any chances.”

The king’s breathing became faster and shorter, and he finally answered with…