Karakum,
Aric sees the palace has been taken down by the Red Army, the flag belonging to the Karak has fallen, and the USSR flag rises and flutters in the wind. Angry mob crushes the last line form by his loyal defenders. Some of the nobles lead the Soviet tanks to find him, the nobles that he once thought they are loyalist. There were sounds of helicopters and fighter planes in the sky.
The Soviets are fighting the Patron Saint of the Karak, and obviously, it is not the opponent of the Soviets. It falls from the sky, smashed on the ground heavily, crushed by Soviet tank tracks.
Sounds of URA appear around his ears, he puts back his attention to where he is now, he is surrounded by the Soviet soldiers. He instinctively used his magic to resist and realize the magic, did not exist anymore. The next moment, the soldiers smash his face with the stock of their rifles. He fainted.
When he woke up, he saw a man in front of him, and another thousand mob under him. The man is declaring all the crimes that he, the King of the country has committed, and given the penalty of death. Before Aric react, he only feels that his neck is surrounded by a rope, pulls back, and he only feels that he is lifting upward. Finally, it stops lifting and using his last energy, his eyes turn and see, found out that he is already hanging on the street light.
He lost consciousness. When he wakes up, he sees himself in front of a mirror, another girl is sitting in front of him. He recognizes this mirror, it is the one that is inside his room, and he uses it every day. But looking himself in the mirror, it was a strange man wearing a Soviet Uniform, not him Aric. The man bowed his body, hand on the girl's shoulder and told the girl,
"Take good care of Karak, listen to the instruction of the central committee and politburo, and do this for your people and country, they will appreciate you."
The girl nodded with concern. The image stops at this moment.
"NO!!!"
Aric wakes up. It was a dream, a nightmare.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"
He gets off his bed and breaks the mirror with his bare hand. Guards outside listened the sound came in.
"Ask Ellowen and Marshal to come to see me, now !"
It's night now, Aric walks to the window, looking at the night view of Karakum, starts to get more and more panicked. Even more panicked than two months before when the Red Army launched their assault on the orcs. The streets now, are full of street light that he sees in the dream. On the east side of the city, the Karakum International Airport is going to the last stage of construction.
With only one and half years, the Soviets have already transformed this medieval city into a half-modern city. The Soviet's aid covered almost every sector, they built hospitals, they built roads, and they even built power plants.
Half an hour later, both Ellowen and Thomas have come to Aric.
"Ellowen checked the mirror, I suspect the Soviets, no, maybe there are some traitors who have inserted some kind of magic in it," Aric ordered Ellowen the moment he saw her.
Ellowen checked the mirror as per Aric order, she lowered her head for some time with a serious face. Some times later, she only raised her head and shook.
"I don't find anything strange in the mirror. May I know what has happened my lord ?"
"No there must be something in the mirror, the USSR is in the mirror, check it properly."
Ellowen was stunned for a second and looked at Thomas.
"Calm down my lord, tell us what has happened, so that I can trace back with the correct way."
Aric then tells them about the dreams.
"My lord, perhaps we should do something about those nobles first, regardless if they inserted the espionage magic into your mirror or not, I believe it is necessary to have some purge on them. Do you remember what happened at the meeting two months ago? When the Soviets just launched their assault on the orcs."
Aric just calmed down and remembered what happened at the meeting. They were discussing what to react and do to the Soviet assault on the orcs. When he asked about suggestions, for so many nobles, they use their time to talk nonsense or give shit suggestions. Some of them even say give military access to the Soviets, so that the Soviets would appreciate it and provide more aid to them.
After sometimes of bullshitting with these nobles, in the end, they only decided to increase the number of troops on the border with the orcs, of course doing nothing, just a show for the USSR showing that they have fulfilled obligations as an ally.
"You mean some of the nobles have already deflected to the USSR? I should have thought of this earlier, that's why they are not serious about my problem."
"It's never too late my lord, I heard that the USSR also launched a purge after the undead invaded them. Perhaps we should appreciate the pressure that the USSR brought to us so that those traitors will show themselves. My lord, just give the order, and I will clean all those who have lost their loyalty together with Thomas." With fierce eyes Ellowen said.
"Let's begin the purge, my lord, there are too many surrenderists in the noble now, letting them continue to grow will only make Karak doom in one week when the Soviets invade us." Thomas aside also said.
Aric listened to their word, thinking of their suggestion, after all, purging these nobles would involve too many interests. He does not have full control of the whole Karak army now, as the system of Karak allows nobles to have their army, additionally Soviet ideology infiltration.
After a while of consideration, he nodded his head.
"Purge the few major nobles that have been suspected of deflecting to the USSR first, do it properly, leave the other, we only want to warn them by this stage. We will continue when we hold more power. Ask for help from Valeria too, their system is far ahead of us, maybe they have some experience."
Ellowen and Thomas nodded their head and left Aric room. The river in the Karakum will be red for some days.