The Emperor-in-Waiting was staring at him in disbelief.
„How did you...?"
Aidan only sighed in response. It was just his damn luck – the spell was probably defective or it malfunctioned right at the moment when Aidan was passing through. Or there was no spell at all, and somebody had lied to the boy.
Either way they needed to hurry. Maybe Aidan still had a slim chance to be killed off.
He was of course being too optimistic. On their way to the exit they encountered only a couple of savages, and Adnan Minn's superior skills were more than enough to easily deal with them. Other than that, they didn't see anybody, not even the generals that came here together with Aidan. This seemed a bit odd but since he didn't see any familiar corpses lying around he assumed everyone was fine.
By RPG standards the mission could be deemed a success – the key prisoner was rescued and seemingly no lives were lost in the process.
„General Minn," he saw somebody waive at him. He squinted and recognized the tall general in the distance. Now that he wasn't dead, he really needed to inconspicuously find out the guy's name.
He made his way towards his fellow „best fighter" and motioned for the blonde monarch to follow him.
„Oh thank Heavens, you found the Emperor-in-Waiting!" the general exclaimed as soon as he saw the boy. „I was starting to worry that our intel was wrong – I swear, we looked up and down the whole fort and couldn't find him."
„Where is everybody?" Aidan asked.
The handsome general frowned.
„Most of the guys are now busy collecting the loot – the fort has been captured. I think, we'd rather depart immediately without waiting for them. It's not safe here for the young Emperor. The savages might send reinforcements."
„Did we have any casualties?" Aidan asked.
„No, everyone's alive."
„We took the fort with just ten people? That's impressive," Aidan remarked.
„That surprised me too. But, as you know, savages are not particularly good fighters and they usually rely on their magic. Something happened today that suddenly drained all spiritual sources around the fort. So they were basically defenseless," the general explained.
Maybe it wasn't Aidan who was OP but rather these savages were nerfed? Interesting.
The way back went much faster as they were now riding the looted horses and not waddling through the woods on foot.
Soon Aidan was back in his room enjoying a warm bath, attentively prepared for him by an unknown benefactor. He would have preferred a shower but in this medieval setting he was glad he even got a possibility to wash himself.
While he was putting on Adnan's heavy combat attire and trying to figure out why would someone need three layers of clothing when one was perfectly fine, somebody knocked on the door.
„Enter," Aidan said, putting on his belt and hoping he didn't mess up too much.
His gloomy soldier came in.
„Are you done with your bath, General? Can I take the water away?" he asked.
„You prepared this for me? Thank you! It must have been quite an ordeal," Aidan almost teared up from gratitude. He wasn't used to people doing nice things for him out of nowhere. And here it was especially unexpected.
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In Pieces
RomanceA majorly depressed slacker transmigrates into a medieval RPG where he is supposed to be a ruthless General. Now he has to deal with his issues, as well as with a young royal who becomes dangerously obsessed with him.
