Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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THE QUESTION
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LUCIEN
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I had to wait on Nyasa reports to see know my next move and when she did, I couldn’t help but smile. She has truly lived to my expectation of her, truly, I sent the right woman. As I read through her message, I couldn’t help but notice some subtle form of magic running through each ink. Someone must have been with the book and she isn’t aware of that, else she would have stayed from writing me. I expected the head of the guardians to be more subtle in her moves, because she is what is called the green snake in the green grass. No, this can’t be her, it must be someone else. The spell used was just too simple for an experienced sorceress like Anna. Nyasa is being watched by one of the guardians and their leader has no idea about it. I left the unknown watcher and faced the message, and what she wrote surprised me. Melfisius , the great wizard and one of those who was rumored to have killed my father is also after Kieran and even has the backing of the royal army of the north to help his mission.


Why would that lame king give his men to help Melfisius amass more power for himself? Why would he risk exposure by sending some of his best soldiers? If the gift isn’t for Melfisius, who else could it be for? What does the north want with such power? Do they wish to have powers similar to mine so that they can truly come out of hiding and rival my kingdom or is it for something else entirely?


Sending his soldiers out like that shows desperation on the part of the king and Melfisius trying to take a gift so powerful without having proper balance also shows desperation. He could have killed himself by trying to harness such abilities as he doesn’t have the vessel to accommodate such powers. What most gifted people who desire gifts like mine and that of the hunter don’t know is that, our bodies have been created to take in such gifts and only the ungifted ones fit in such character, any other person who tries it will die before the ritual is completed. I am sure a powerful and experienced wizard like Melfisius know of such things, which is what makes his decision to go head on and harness the hunter’s gift more baffling or has he found a way to do something like that? If he has, then I must find out how. I have left the north this whole time because I felt they weren’t threat but maybe I should have subdued them a long time ago.


While I overlooked them, they have been watching and building up. I must see them as the threat they are and treat them as such. The time for diplomacy is over; they want powers like mine so they can subdue me, that won’t happen while I still breathe. I will need to send men to that kingdom who will watch and report to me. But then, the thing bringing us together is this hunter of a man, I still don’t know what I want with him. Probably, if I had brought him to my palace, he wouldn’t have been the target of those animals up north but I wouldn’t have known that they had such plans. The north’s reasons for wanting the hunter is very clear but why the guardians want the man is a still a mystery to me and that is why the man’s neck is still far away from my hand.


Nyasa is being watched and that will prevent me from knowing anything significant for now until she can finds a way to write me without someone reading through my replies to her. I have been searching through the books related to my birth but nothing has pointed to how I was made and why there is another like me. I will wait for a few more weeks to ascertain my next decision. For now, I will keep searching.


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UNKNOWN
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It’s been more than a day and Melfisius is not back yet. He is not known to delay with a mission, something must have happened. The mission was a very simple now, get to the man before he arrives at his destination and bring him here. What was so difficult in that? I folded my hands and continued to look out my window, hoping to see him riding his horse through the gate.


I stood in the same position till nightfall and when I couldn’t continue to ignore my legs want for a change of position, I walked over to my bed. I was already asleep when I was rudely woken up by one of my trusted guide. He said the old wizard was back and he needed healing. He needed healing, what could that honestly mean? I summoned the healers and walked to the room where he was taken. What I saw was surely not Melfisius. He was in pains and started screaming immediately the healing started. The injury to him looked fatal and if it had gotten an itch closer to his heart, he would have been in the underworld long ago. I didn’t need anyone to tell me the mission failed yet again. Once again, the man has escaped and even injured someone as experienced as Melfisius. I was angry and walked away from the room as the old man had failed me when it mattered most, I will have to return to my first plan which will take a bit more time to accomplish. This time however, I will use my strength and tact; it’s time I put aside magic for the moment. It hasn’t been very successful.