Over the span of just a few months, every city along the eastern and western coasts of the Red Sea that once belonged to the Ottoman Empire had been overrun, disembowelled, and brought under the control of the army formed by the union of the Bharatiya Empire, the Kingdom of Qasimid, and the Sultanate of Mahara.
Idris Al Mahwakh, the prospective imam, awoke from his sleep laughing, unable to contain his joy. The lifelong dream of his mentor and senior, Al Mutawakkil Ismail, had at last been realised through him. Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places of their faith and devotion, were finally back in their own soil. And it would be Idris who would take the credit for it.
He no longer had to worry about his rivals bewitching the old senior into favouring them over him in his absence.
