Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

LUCIEN
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If only I didn’t need this old man, he would have been walking in the underworld a long time ago. Sometimes, he seems to forget I am the king and he is only an adviser and therefore I can decide to do what I want with his so called words of wisdom. This time, I didn’t even ask for any of such words of wisdom or whatever, I only called him to carry out a task for me but he suddenly remembered his duty.

The other time, he was busy looking into what was not his concern and when he knew he was going nowhere, he suddenly remembered he had a duty to his king. Since he was quite interested in the outcome of the battle and somehow been able to see the hundreds of people die, I ordered him to lead the first charge towards the city wall and I would follow closely behind later. He bowed and left my presence to begin the first strike against the might of the North.

I actually decided against going towards the North because for some reason, the gift I stole from the hunter’s daughter suddenly started working after all this time. I had this uneasy feeling about leading the assault against the North and since my father got himself killed doing the same thing I was about to do, I stayed in the palace with six of my gordands.

Something was going to happen sooner or later to me, so it’s wiser and safer for to be in my palace where I have the advantage of both magic and steel.

I waited patiently for whatever was coming throughout the whole day but nothing happened but the feeling remained.
I managed to sleep with my gordands watching me. I woke up with a start; I knew what was chasing me. The hunter was back from the forgotten lands and he was coming for me. The Aura from him was quite powerful and filled with rage. He must have found out the way his family was killed as that could be the only reason why he was filled with so much rage. He must be quite determined and even a battalion will be unable to stop him. I got up immediately from my bed and washed myself before putting on my royal robes for battle.
My gordands were surprised at my dressing but I just ignored them and ordered them to get the experienced ones who were quite gifted and foot soldiers to guard the entrance to the palace. Deep down, I knew they wouldn’t be enough to stop this man coming as his rage knew no bounds and as someone who wields the same gift as he was, I knew that to be true.

I waited patiently in my court for the man to arrive and the morning came and went yet he wasn’t here. Afternoon came too and passed but the man was yet to arrive yet I could still feel his rage from where I was. I told the men at the gates of the palace to stand their ground but I didn’t need to because as soon as it was nightfall, we are heard lightening ripped through some men outside. Immediately, the wall of steel and flesh moved closer to me.

I could feel his aura more closely now and I could tell that he was the one who just summoned the lightening. We awaited his next move to take out the men in the outer yard and it came in a marvelous way. I felt the ground shake with so much force; it made cracks along the walls of my court. The gordands looked at me with fear in their eyes as they have never experienced magic like this before but they had more reason to fear as the next attack made them hold hands together and prayed to the good spirits. I never actually knew they still prayed. The next attack after the earth moving one was a wind so powerful it caused some of the parts of my beautiful palace to collapse. If the wind could destroy stones and rocks, it was no surprise what it did to the humans at the outer yard. Their screams were everything one could only imagine and soon everything died down. There was silence and quiet and when I didn’t hear anything for quite some time, I sent the foot soldiers with me to see what was happening. They didn’t come back as I heard lightening and then agonizing screams.

The gordands stetched to cover me as we awaited the hunter and he came with a very beautiful woman. I wonder why he brought the woman but I was even more surprised when I saw Nyasa behind him. How was she still alive?
If he was truly out for vengeance, why would he spare the woman that hung his wife?
He was with a sword as he knew he couldn’t fight the gordands with Magic. He moved back and then I felt his aura change, he was about to perform a spell and somehow I was able to know that he wanted to shake the ground.
I stopped the spell by doing the same thing he was about to do, the ground didn’t shake and same thing happened to the spell of the wind.

He was frustrated and so decided to use his sword, two of the gordands went after him but he took care of them easily. Another set charged towards and he slit their throats like they were sheep on the slaughter table.
I was enraged by what he just did but also astonished at his clinical moves.
This was a hunter not a swordsman and even if he was the latter, most cannot match one of the gordands but he put down four without doing much.

The remaining two were wise to remain with me and Nyasa who was nearly blinded by the man joined me. I applauded his effort but I had enough of the killings, it was time to put an end to all of this. I decided against using magic against him but instead watch him waste valuable energy. He was fighting through his rage and despite all of what he has displayed; he was still yet to be one with his gift. The only way to defeat him was to focus our attacks on the woman with him, which will distract him and allow the gordands put their rage on him.
I began by sending both the cursed flames and ordinary fire towards the woman. Immediately, I did, Nyasa charged towards him. He stood in front of the woman and soon as the flames touched him, they were extinguished. He left her to fight off Nyasa but before he could counter her attack, I sent lightening towards her. This was a lightening, simple witches such the woman with him couldn’t stop and he knew and once again went in front of her.
That distraction was enough for Nyasa, the best fighter among the gordands to strike him across his lower abdomen. He countered back by striking her forehead with the hilt of his sword but the damage had been done as he was already bleeding.

The cut was deep as he staggered back to his feet after hitting Nyasa. I call forth Lightening from the underworld and hurled it towards the woman, and this time the rest of the gordands followed. He stopped the lightening from killing the woman and opened himself to another strike from Nyasa, who was already on her feet. She struck her knife across the arm that held his sword and that enabled the other two to attack him without any hindrance. Celine struck at his J0yst!ck to bring him down while Cara gave me a kick to his bleeding stomach which brought him to his knees in grunts and pains. He should never have brought a child to the arena where men battled. Nyasa smiled and went after the powerless woman but the hunter reacted quickest and rose to his feet to pull Nyasa back by dragging her hair.
She screamed in pain but the other two came to her rescue by drawing their knives across his back and thighs. He quickly released the woman but somehow when Nyasa went towards the woman, she couldn’t seem to touch the woman. Magic doesn’t work on them so why would a shield made of magic prevent Nyasa from doing what she wanted with the woman?
I left the woman and focused on the weak hunter who was now at my mercy. His rage wasn’t enough to give him his vengeance.
I moved closer to him as Celine held a knife across his throat and Cara kept playing with the deep cut on his arm with her knife.

“You failed to save your family and once again you failed to get them vengeance, what a failure of a man. A man as yourself shouldn’t be alive.” I said as I gazed into his eyes but instead of frowning, he smiled. He spat out blood and then suddenly I realized why he sent a shield so powerful it surpassed the spell on the gordands, he was about to release his light.

I wasn’t fast enough to erect a shield before he release his gift in the form of a light so powerful, no lightening could be compared to it. The foundations of my palace were shaken and then I felt something move through me which made me fall to the ground.
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I woke up later to pains all over my body, I tried to get up but I couldn’t as some powerful force held me down. I saw candles lit around me which made realize I was in some sort of circle. I heard footsteps approach and then a familiar face was staring right into my eyes.