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The enthusiasm of the people in the Kingdom of Raya had cooled down. Prince Zalari was not coming.

King’s spy Raga was also unable to give any good news.

"In the situation that Prince Zalari is missing, would it be better to attack?"

Queen Raya looked at the king with concern. After the hope in the heart, the clouds of despair were covering again.

"Not anymore. We have to stop now. Maybe this is a trick of Queen Renam. We must have been led astray. Prince may be harmed.” King said, shaking his head in the negative. The trouble had increased. Now it was beyond understanding.

Again there was no message from Raga.

"This time I will not tolerate even the slightest abuse of Prince Zalari." Queen Raya's face was flushed with anger.

"It is difficult to wait now, how is Prince Zalari doing? Let's just hope he's not in jail." Princess Rupa was walking with worry.

The royal family of Kingdom Raya was feeling more helpless than the anger that was burning their existence.

The fire of anger was burning the heart and mind and this fire had grown so much with time that it was going to burn the future queen of Renam to ashes.

They were still forced but not weak at all.

And this time they were not ready to give up, every day every moment they thought of punishments for their enemies and punishments worse than death.

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He was packed and ready to travel.

A small bag containing some food and a sharp sword wrapped in a cloth in one hand. He hid a sharp knife in his leg. In front of the sight were the distant city and the market in the city.

He took a deep breath and stepped forward.

Bragg had told him, he must have a purpose to come here in this world. Nothing happens without a reason.

"I have been in this place for such a long time that now it is difficult to estimate the period of time. I was never empty inside and then one day I became hollow inside like a cave. And that cave. The way was from the human world to Inland. The way that was not always there.”

He was lost in thought on Bragg's words. The road that was built later and Bragg thought it was built for him.

"I have heard that a young girl once jumped into this well and gave her life. Her body was never found. Is she here in Inland?”

He suddenly thought of this girl. He had seen this world with his own eyes, not believing in all these things. Such questions came to his mind now which he could never think of before in his world. Bragg looked at him in shock. What kind of question was that?

"No. You are the first person who came here. If that well is the way to our world. So you can imagine how deep it can be. The distance between the two worlds is more than you think and calculate. That well will be deep. And it will be so deep that it is impossible to hear the sound of something falling in it. And it will be so deep that the person who fell into it will not be able to see or escape. She died, she fell in the well. You were saved because you reached the cave in me whose ground is filled with soft clay. If we did not see you, we would have died of hunger and starvation. You never wake up without Princess Eva touching you. You wake up from her touch and you survived. If you have come here, there will be a purpose. You had to come here; this way was made for you.” He remembered Bragg's description.

He is not sure what the purpose of coming here could be.

The truth was that he was still going to die in the bloody cave of the sand dunes.

Just a small effort that he might be able to do something for Ivan, but he knew, she will be saved.

He was definitely getting worried by keeping her condition in mind but it was not a matter of worry.

He was walking with his head bowed, taking care of the goods. Go to the city and reach the market there. Now he knew these paths very well. He had reached the market.

The blackness of the night had not yet deepened, lights were burning everywhere. The splendor of the city was decreasing. People were closing their businesses.

He crossed the market and reached another village. Surely this was that tribe. He kept taking steps.

He stopped by an old man who was barely walking with a heavy bag.

"Wait, sir. I help." Alian smiled while taking the things from him. The old man stopped and looked at him, then shook his head in shock.

"Oh yes." That house is in front of me.

The old man walked quickly looking here and there. Alian felt his behavior strange but shook his head and walked with him.

A little far from the population, the old man stopped at a place isolated from the people. He turned around and saw Alian.

And he just kept looking at Alian for a long time.

Alian kept the things aside and looked at the old man with strange eyes who was probably not going to take his eyes off him today.

"It seems you have found your destination. Now I go on my journey.” Alian gave a serious look at the old man and said and took steps to return.

"When you were imprisoned in life, were made helpless and were taken away from him. Have you not forgotten those moments till now?"

The old man suddenly chained Alian's feet by saying this. He suddenly stopped and turned around.

That moment, when he became Joseph, when he changed his identity, when he was sad by his love. That moment when Anahita rejects him, it was painful. He remembered all that intensely. After a long time someone had mentioned this and it was a strange old man, the inhabitant of another world.

How did he know his past? Who was he?

He stood still.