Chapter 225: What to do when you can’t sleep.
After dinner that night, Roland went off to have a drink with the king and his brothers, cousins and all male members of the royal family. It was a tradition that they kept whenever they were going off to a per-planned war. The night before setting off, they gathered in the royal castle and shared a few drinks.
This was done in case those who were going off to war did not make it back. They would leave parting words and final wishes. They would make memories that could be considered final memories.
The war against Nemoris could be considered a very big deal, eleven members of the royal family were going. Roland was of course going, Benjamin was staying back this time round.
He had claimed that his old leg injury was acting up again so he was afraid that he would be a burden to others. In reality, he was not going because Roland had frozen him out of his circle. He could understand the this meant he would not be looked out for in the war. It was even likely that he would be killed by his brother or his men.
Benjamin was now paranoid, he no longer wished to be Roland’s shadow. He also had other plans, Emmah had come into the knowledge of the whereabouts of the last shard of the Eclipsion sword. While Roland was gone, he planned to take some men and retrieve that shard.
The sword would be united and Emmah could be the first mage to wield it. They could take a small army and attack the empire of Medoris. If the stories and songs about the sword were true, one strike was all it would take to bring the emperor and his army to their knees.
In the absence of his brother, he could make a bigger contribution and become the next crown prince. Perhaps, he could even convince his father to surrender the throne. He and Emmah would be the first emperor and empress of the empire of Eldoria.
If the king was unwilling, he and Emmah could also rule Medoris independently, after all they would have been the ones to conquer it. If he could have his own empire, he had no need to beg for scraps from his father anymore.
Benjamin had a well laid out plan that brought a smile to his lips as he watched his brother Roland telling those that would be left behind to ensure that the dwarves of Duskridge wrote and sung heroic songs about him if he fell in battle...