It was only then that Purple Smoke realized her mistake. "Curse you, rotten old man! Kill them!" Purple Smoke screamed furiously. All of her men charged at them desperately. Bo was about to toss the weapon to Keir but before he could do it, it already vanished from his grasp. He saw Purple Smoke smirk in the corner of his eyes. He was expecting the weapon to be fake. Keir wasn't waiting for it either. He fought fiercely on his own along with the prince. Bo had no choice but to fight with them, three against half a hundred men. While the three of them looked tiny ants in the swarm of locusts, Purple Smoke was also doing her own business. She was confident that none of them could escape alive from her elite men, mainly composed of skilled, rouge barbarians, bandits, murderers, and those who committed filthy deeds. "Do you think your trick will work on me, bitch?" Purple Smoke said as her right hand found its wa
Bo was just as more shocked as Keir and Prince Zaeius. "Yes, you heard it right. And no, I'm not joking nor making things up," Ferlah concluded to erase their doubts. "Grandpa, I don't know what to say," Keir said in the midst of confusion as he turned to his grandfather to seek for an advice. He don't know what he should feel because half of him was relieved as it would mean that he would no longer bear such heavy responsibility on his shoulders. While the other one was slightly disappointed. "How do you know that the guardian you said possessed the guardian's quality?" Bo asked with doubtful eyes. "I have my proofs," Ferlah said, sharply eyeing at Keir. And then she turned to Bo. "How about you? Do you also found a guardian?" Bo and Prince Zaeius automatically looked at Keir. With this, Ferlah had made it clear. The guardian that Bo was referring to was his own grandson. "Wait. So
When they came home at the royal guest house, they saw Bo and Prince Zaeius talking in the balcony. They were now completely soaked. However, Bo went back inside as soon as he saw them approaching leaving the prince alone. In front of him was a table fit for six people where two swords laid–the ones that Keir had left. They gave the prince a shivering look once they entered the balcony. "All of you have to comeback here after you get changed." He then gestured them to get inside. The three of them rushed inside without saying a word for the prince. They were too cold to utter a word as though their tongues were frozen. Bo came back with a tray of things for tea and some desserts. While they waited for the others Prince Zaeius felt uneasiness developing within him. In fact, he had been like this ever since he knew that one of the estranged siblings was going to be the guardian. The reason why they are gathered here today i
King Astius was even more confused and at the same time furious at the nonsense words that she was talking about. This caused him to quickly knock her hands off him. He then aimed his sword at her. But when he did this, Purple Smoke disappeared again. They could only hear her laughter reverberating on the walls of the royal hall. And then they began hearing her whispering or laughing in their ears one at time that made them swung their swords in any direction, wishing to hit her. While in the midst of hunting her, they suddenly heard Kalen yowled in pain. When they looked at him, he was already wounded on the lower left side of his stomach. There was blood profusely gushing out of it that he was quickly weakened, leading his knees on the cold, marble floor with one hand holding the area. They only realized that they should have killed Purple Smoke when they had the chance. But they stood weakly against her overwhelming power that her presence alone could ma
Méah and the soldiers had buried Vlad and Diego by burning their bodies with alcohol. Their ashes was then scattered in front of their swords erected as memorials on the sand. After that, they make haste for Noartias. Diego's friend, whose name was Roger, was finally convinced that he was wrong about Méah. He was very apologetic about what happened and swore to work under her. He claimed that he had no choice but to follow Roy's orders, after all he's also second to the general and their friend. The sun grew hotter as it mounted up behind the mighty mountains in the east. After crossing the vastness of the desert, the sand underneath their feet was slowly replaced by a brown soil of which tiny young grasses sprouted happily on its surface. They advanced further for several miles into the greener land before a thick forest lies from afar as though a mysterious, dark green wall sprayed with faint mist. Taking the path that wounded across t
Keir slowly brought himself up. His race twisting from the pain on his back. King Astius came in front of him with two of Méah's men on each side. King Astius had ordered them to prevent Keir from going after Méah. Keir looked at the three of them with confusion all over his face as the two men pulled out their swords and aimed it both under his chin. "Your majesty, what is going on? Why...why is she here? Why did you let her go? I don't understand," Keir asked question after question, breathing heavily with widened eyes. "Just calm down first, Keir. And I will tell you everything." King Astius walked back to the table and sat down. He gestured them to follow him. The two men lowered their swords and put it back on their sheaths. Keir did as the king ordered, giving malicious looks on the two strangers beside him. He first recognized their uniforms and was convinced that they were from Eastias. What he didn't understand was
The awaited dawn finally came. It was summer but the breeze, though it blew calm and gentle, felt like a touch of a blizzard's chill. Passing through the steep trails of well-tilled earth, forests, rivers and marshes, a couple of hundred thousand men set off from Noartias to the battlefield under the command of King Astius. This was the last number that he could bring with him. And not all of them were soldiers. Some were mere folks, men and women but brave and courageous, who voluntarily swore to protect their kingdom, their homes and their families. Every abled person in no particular age requirement were allowed to go to battle with them as long as they can walk at such distance and can ride on horses and fight with willingness. However, as he couldn't leave the kingdom and the people alone unguarded, he left this task to the war veterans of less than thirty thousand. Half of them guarded the kingdom with Kalen among them and Bek was told to stay with o
"Méah!" With eyes closed, Prince Zaeius screamed in terror and sat up from his sleep without even knowing. He just had a horrible nightmare about Méah dying, covered in blood and vanishing into thin air. However, even though it was just a nightmare, he began to pray to himself that it would only remain as a nightmare. As his breathing slowly calmed down, the throbbing pain came raging from all over his body, starting to penetrate deeper into his senses. He let out a painful hiss with a twisted expression as he went weak and limp, slumping himself back into the soft mattress of his bed. An agonizing groan followed that made him shut his eyes in a tight manner. With this, it all came back to him. But despite after being rescued and seeing the woman he loved in that situation, the flashes of tortures that he had gone through in the hands of Purple smoke held a consistent spot in his memory. That no matter how hard he tried to set