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him with all her heart only, contrary to his father, she was
very good at pampering and playing with him. He always
loved her and came to her. She was overprotective of him,
and raised him to be strong because she knew that one day
he would become the king. She knew his birth had angered
many people who would have become the rulers of the
kingdom and also knew that the fact that he was the son of
a slave angered a lot of people.
Since his mother used to be a slave, the viceroy
honored maids and slaves and treated them as peers and
free people. That fact would impact his life significantly
later on.
Yet, there was one thing troubling the prince, whose
father had provided him with everything but one thing,
friendship. He was lonely, suffering in silence. Even his
servants and slaves who were of his age avoided him and
refused to play with him.
One day, a prominent man in the state came to meet King
Kendrick in one of the rooms of his palace. Prince Matthew
was outside the room, running and playing alone while the
king talked to his important visitor. When their
conversation ended, the man left the room, and when he
saw the prince, he stood in a respectful military posture
staring at him. The prince continued running and playing
until he noticed the man’s posture, then he stopped running
and assumed a respectful posture exchanging with the man
he saw for the first time, gazes filled with appreciation. The
man was very big, tall, and muscular. His gaze was as sharp
as that of an eagle and was strong and scary like lethal
arrows. He had short, grayish black hair and no facial hair.
Young Matthew had never seen a man with such scary
muscles. It was the first time for him to see all these