74 The Resistance (1/2)

”Did you hear that the king has gone mad?”

”Hey give me a mug of ale?”

”One silver coin”

”WHAT THE!!!”

Joel could hear so many frustrations and angry conversations among the customers in the tavern.

Even though Joel was sitting in the tavern, he could see no one is drinking or having anything as King's tax made everything unaffordable to citizens.

”I heard there's a king rising in the outer lands is that true?”

”I've heard that too but not sure it's true or not”

During Gael's cruel regime Don gave Joel and some others to spread the rumors about a king rising in the outer lands as Joel and others spread the rumors across the kingdom and turned it into a hot topic to gossip.

As Gael's punishments to ministers and high tax rates made the lives of citizens hard, a group of people formed a resistance group in the shadows to take out the king. Joel was now going to meet them after a vigorous searching for their hideout.

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”Your Highness our spies reported the Korrinth princess is not at all happy that you fried her pigeon”

The fatty reported to Gael. The fatty's face was apple red and his belly was covered in bandages because of Gael's punishment to the fatty when the fatty came a minute later to the king's court.

The punishment was to cut out a big chunk of meat from fatty's belly so that he could run faster and not be late to the court. In this two months after Gael took the form of King Hedor, Gael had to ponder his mind about new cruel punishments to his ministers and new ways to make the people's lives miserable before leading them to a better life, the rule under his lord Don.

”Of course she would be mad but I don't care what else?” Gael asked as the fatty started to shiver in fear.

”Your Highness there...we heard there's a group of resistance forming in the kingdom against you”

”What!?” Gael acted like he was shocked and surprised but he already heard about the resistance from Joel and secretly providing them the support to the uprising against him.

”Your Highness our spies know the location of their next meeting if you give the orders we can annihilate them once and for all”

Now hearing the fatty Gael was truly surprised at the effectiveness of the spy group of Emir.

”Resistance huh? Send our men to capture those bastards I will kill them myself self oh no I'm going to torture them first hahaha” Gael's evil laugh echoed through the hall as the fatty almost wet his pants in fear.

”No what are you waiting for? all of you get lost” Gael waved his hand and dismissed the ministers while walking towards his chamber.

”Joel the resistance group's hideout have found out by the spies get them out of there it will be a good chance for you to infiltrate them”

”I'm almost there” Joel's voice reached Gael's ears through the Khal.

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”Is everyone here? Loren give out those bread to our brothers and sisters” Warren said looking towards a young woman.

Since two months ago Warren was a soldier in Emir's army however he chose to leave the army when he saw the miserable lives of his fellow citizens. He knew King Hedor was a cruel man and the tax rates he imposed on his citizens were higher than the other kingdoms as the citizens couldn't have any servings because of that.

However, two months ago the King announced the new tax rates and few rules that nearly destroyed many livelihoods of the citizens and now everyone in the kingdom barely has something to eat because of the laws and new tax rates.

Seeing the people's sad suffering faces Warren gathered a group of young men and women to form a resistance against the king. Surprisingly a small group he started now became a group of fifty people and someone started to fund his group from the shadows. Because of the benefactor, Warren could provide food to his group and people in the Emir.

”Thank our benefactor brothers and sisters without them we couldn't have made it this far”

”We thank our Benefactor” the group chorused.

”You all know why are we gathered here right? You know why we are eating a piece of bread like it's the most delicious thing while there are starving children out there? You know how many people are forced to close their business because of the new laws and taxes? '' Warren asked as the group slowly nodded their heads.