Chapter : 1. Introduction..
“Hear ye, hear ye…
The good peoples of The South Orundal Kingdom. On behalf of King William Augustus Robertson, I, the town crier, hereby announce that every maiden from 16 to 19 years old of this kingdom, should have to be present at the royal court by tomorrow evening. Only one of their guardians is allowed to accompany them to the gathering. One among those maidens should get chosen as a slave of our Prince William Albert Robertson, and her family will be gifted with 100 gold coins as a reward. And if anyone tries to neglect the king's order, their entire family will be banished from the kingdom forever.”
A bellman proclaimed the message of the king on the market of The South Orundal Kingdom. All the citizens present in the market gathered around to hear the announcement. After the bellman stopped announcing, everyone started chattering the gossips among themselves about the Prince.
“Did you hear that? The Prince is returning to our Kingdom. It's been six years since he has gone to get trained by The Warrior Mortimer. I heard that he is the best trainer in all lands.”
“Yes. That is true. Our King wants to make his only son, become the strongest king among all of our neighborhood kingdoms. And now it's time to give him the throne as he already becomes 20 years old.”
“One day I heard from a messenger that our Prince is the most handsome boy he had ever seen. I'm really desperate to get one peak of his charms.”
“Me too. Maybe the king is choosing a girl to gift him as a mistress. That chosen girl will be the luckiest girl of our Kingdom if it's what I'm thinking.”
“I hope I get chosen to be the Prince's slave.”
“I hope too.”
As a group of young girls was discussing this gossips among themselves, a sweet and innocent girl was hearing them from standing aside. She's a really quiet girl, and she's always busy helping her parents, to make friends or chat with them to spend a little time. She has too much burden on herself since childhood to socialize with the world.
“Flora… Come here. Customers are coming.” Her mother called to her as she dragged her thoughts into business again.
“Coming mother.” Saying this, she ran back to her booth to sell vegetables.
Flora Monro is a 17 years old peasant girl. She's 5.6ft tall with snow-white skin and deep brown hair that reaches down her waist. But the most noticeable and unique part of her body is her gorgeous emerald green doe-like eyes. And she is a very sweet and kind-hearted girl, who loves her family very much. Overall, she's a way more beautiful girl to be identified as a peasant.
Flora lives in a small cottage near the end of the South Orundal Kingdom, with her mother, father, and five brothers and sisters. She's the eldest one among the six siblings. Her father is a farmer and works in the field the whole day. Her mother sells vegetables in the village market, which her father grows in those fields. They both can barely earn enough money to feed all eight stomachs. So, as the eldest child, Flora had to accompany her parents in their works to help them earn a bit more since she was a child. Now that she's old enough, she opened her own booth in the market, beside her mother. There she sells handcrafted materials that she crafts herself, while her mother sells vegetables right beside her. Even though now they don't sleep with hunger at night, it's still not enough to give the rest of her siblings a good life.
The announcement forms the king today, gave their family hope to have a better life. 100 gold coins are so much value to them that they can give a luxurious life to all of their children. That's why Flora's father got really excited when his wife told him about the king's order. He decided that he would accompany his daughter to that gathering, with the hope that she might get chosen.
On the other hand, Prince William Albert Robertson was very happy to finally be able to return to his kingdom. He is the only heir of King William Augustus Robertson and the future king of the South Orundal Kingdom. Albert is a 20years old, 6ft tall, handsome and charming Prince. He has shoulder-length light brown hair and amazing blue ocean-like eyes, in which any girl can drown. And his special identification is his charming smile that always stays on his lips, for which he was called a happy prince since childhood.
Albert lost his mother when he was born and king Augustus never remarried because, for him, marriage is a onetime affair. But that doesn't mean he doesn't have anyone to share his love with. King Augustus has 10 mistresses to fulfill his desires, but none of them managed to become a mother-like figure to Albert. His father wanted his son to become the most powerful king of all, so at the age of 14, he was sent to train under Warrior Mortimer. Mortimer once used to be a knight of a powerful kingdom. After retirement, he started teaching the future kings to become beat fighters. But very few of them succeeded to get fully trained because Mortimer has few rules that are very hard to follow. To get trained by him, a prince has to leave all his luxuriance and live in a forest. They won't be fed like a prince or treated like one. If one can survive the harsh training from him, only then the prince will become the best warrior.
Albert succeeded to follow his rules, and after six years, finally, his training was over. He has now mastered the techniques in fighting, and he can take down any king he wants when he wants. But Albert has no intentions to do that. Even after surviving the harsh training, he still has the same smile on his face and the same kindness in his heart. He is the purest prince anyone can ever be.
And for King William Augustus Robertson. He is a 44-year-old man with tall and intimidating looks. His hair started getting a little gray among the black once, giving him a more serious attire. Although he wants to get retired by the age of 45, he's still strong enough to take any other king down in a fight. King Augustus is cruel in nature from the beginning, but the loss of his wife during childbirth made him crueler. He is loved by his peoples but doesn't respect women much. He thinks that women are weak and only good to give pleasure to men. That's why he kept ten mistresses of his own to enjoy his life.
The only good thing in their kingdom for women is their punishment technique. The Queen of the South Orundal Kingdom or Albert's mother is the one who insisted on giving a chance of survival to the women who have gotten death sentence. So they have the rule that the female causers will be thrown from the waterfall and if she gets lucky enough, she would survive the fall. Unfortunately, there's no news of any women surviving it yet. But still, the queen of Orundal is respected among all females of their kingdom for such mercy.
