The war. Long, grueling, pointless. Ultimately, the Red Empire won through cunning and deception. Almost everyone in the castle was killed, not counting women and children. One minister survived only because he looked remarkably like a woman.

Several soldiers clad in majestic and blood-stained armor were leading the minister, who was currently in shackles. Although he held a magical staff, it was now useless.

The soldiers brought the minister into a practically empty room, sat him down in an iron chair, and tied him up. The soldiers arrived, and they were replaced by... Varkas.

He walked around the chair and stood in front of the prisoner, squinting slightly.

I didn't think that in the Blue Kingdom they took such weak women as ministers...