[ A tall man with long black hair and black beard on his horse riding on a path alone. He comes up to a palace gate, upon entering he notices the entire palace in rubles. Dead bodies are scattered all around and under the ruble. He sees a guard, gasping for breath as he lays on the ground. He gets off his horse and walks up to the guard.]

Akida: " What happened to you? Who did this to the palace?"

In a faint voice, the guard replies.

Guard: " They threw barrels of whale oil from catapults then shot them with flaming arrows, they blew up the entire palace. I saw them, there were 3 of them."

After the guard tells him that the guard dies. Akida gets back on his horse and travels North.

2 day later he arrives at the centre palace. His horse enters the gate and a guard greets him.

Guard: " My king, you've returned."

Akida: " The entire south palace was destroyed. No one survived, we've been attacked. Carry troops there to clear the rubble and remove the bodies and give them a proper funeral and burial. I'll send Builders in a few days to design the new palace. The palace is important, if we don't have it functioning, it would affect the peace of the entire south of the kingdom."

Guard: " Yes sir."

Akida continues to ride his horse into the palace and calls a servant to take the horse from him. He comes off the horse and hands the reins to the servant. He walks and enters the palace. He goes, takes a bath and changes his clothes. He then goes to his office and does work.

It's the next day and someone arrives at the palace. Akida is in his office.

The queen of the kingdom of Levaiatin arrives in front of the gate on a horse with 4 guards on horses, 2 leading in front of her and the other 2 behind her. She comes off her horse and meets a guard named Daiwan and asks to meet Akida. Daiwan escorts the queen and her entourage inside to sit and wait as he goes to Akida to inform him.

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