Lair Of The Monster- Chapter : Rise of The Slave

 "Yetaal! Yetaal! Yetaal!" the Lasati soldiers cheered.

When the Lasati troops were forced to retreat from the Bassban shore, they were disheartened. It seemed that they had lost. So, when Lord Yetaal announced that they had taken more than a hundred prisoners, and lost none of their own, their despair had turned into celebration and admiration for their leader.

Yetaal hated all this attention. For him the win was nothing more than an expression of his gratitude towards Nahuja Duja, the man who had freed him from slavery.

Yetaal was born weak, was abandoned as a baby, and was raised by a cruel slaver. Lasatis believed that the life of a person depends on the mood the creator was in while creating the person, and it was clear that the creator was in a wicked mood while creating Yetaal. The creator gave Yetaal a childhood full of misery, but the creator also gave Yetaal sharp intellect that he could use to find his way out of the misery. Yetaal had used his intellect well.

When the island of Lasati started facing incessant earthquakes and floods, Chief Father Nahuja Duja decided to take his people to new, more prosperous lands.

"We, the Lasatis, are born rulers of this world," the Chief Father had proclaimed. "We are the creators, we are our destroyers of this world. We were the first to arrive in this world, and will be the last to leave. No earthquakes, no flood can threaten our existence. Instead of dying here, let us find the place where we can go and create Lasati again. Lasati is wherever we are!"

To search for such a land, Nahuja Duja needed people, but nobody wanted to explore the unknown. Yetaal told his slaver master that he was willing. The master readily gave him to the Chief Father, getting favours in return.

Over time, with his competence, Yetaal gained Nahuja Duja's confidence and was soon freed from slavery. He served in various expeditions in search of new and prosperous lands. In one such expedition, he discovered the island of Jarodha for the Lasatis. There, he learned about the prosperous land of Jivavarta and, deftly exploiting the resentment of the Jarodha natives, had allied with them against Jivavarta.

Now, at just twenty three, Yetaal was not only a free man but also one of the most respected generals of the Lasati army. With the latest win against Jivavarta, that stature had grown even more.

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