The Frog Collector

Chapter Three Part 4/5

The test was a success and greatly reduced the violence in the kingdom. But some wanted to continue using the flowers without passing the test and were sought after by the army. Some of them had stolen the roots and plants for themselves and hid themselves very well, even more with the help of magic. I am sure that Isra helped them in this. But one day they all repented at once and decided to come together to the big invisible dome which made us apprehensive. Isra came as their leader to try a reconciliation with us saying that he was wrong and that he saw that the test worked. Those people handed over many roots that they had stolen and then the queen made everyone enter the invisible dome, however Isra did not enter. We found out that most of those who entered were with bad intentions and were trapped in the dome. Every day we went back to the place to see if anyone had changed their intentions. Some changed, but most stayed.

We had to have very strict control over who got the flowers. So it was difficult even for Isra to get them and he didn't use the magic flowers anymore. He didn't ask us for the flowers because he knew he would have to go through the test too, and he never agreed to participate even though he recognized that it worked.

He was trying to gain our trust again and trying to find out how the queen had created the dome and how she could get in and out of it. He was very wary and was always afraid that we would put him inside the invisible dome without him noticing. One day, however, he suddenly stopped looking for the magic of the invisible dome and became interested in how to get flowers without passing the test.

Time went on and it came to our attention that he tried to get some people who had passed the test to give him flowers. He also wanted to find out where the queen kept the flowers she used. We confronted him when we found this out and then he attacked her. That's when we learned his true intentions. He wanted to take the kingdom for himself and all those people who came at once saying they were sorry were also part of the plan. Isra realized that the only place where there were no soldiers from the kingdom was inside the invisible dome and he made people go there to grow plants inside. Meanwhile he would find a way to destroy the invisible dome so that they could take over the kingdom with the plants they were growing inside the dome. But he got tired of waiting and attacked us.

It was a tremendous battle that he and your mother had. My soldiers and I could not fight with that level of power, but the queen faced him with powerful magic and defeated him. He died, but she was wounded in the battle and died in my arms".

To be continued...