Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

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Must Read: A Broken Destiny: The Sword Of Vengeance

ELLEN
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I wasn’t sure of how he plans to defeat three gordands at once and a king who is said to be very deadly in combat. I didn’t like the way he applauded Kieran’s exploits of killing four of his women, that was no small feat and I wondered myself how he learnt to use the sword the way he just did. The way he moved and his quick decisions to incapacitate the first two was what only experienced foot soldiers could do but Kieran was no soldier and hunters do not use swords in chasing games in the wild. If I had any doubts that he must have been a swords man at one point in his life, his next moves confirmed everything. The manner the next two gordands charged towards him scared even me but Kieran was calm and he performed a simple but very complicated trick that involves a lot of energy. I was scared of him losing steam just before the main battle as he has been using a lot from his gift which should be telling on his body by now, it seems his rage is what is still pushing him on.

Still, his accuracy and timing to move his sharp weapons across the throat of his enemies showed not just experience but perfection from not just the use of swords but also from killing humans and not games. Beasts do not stand at such heights like that of his assailants, something is certainly wrong somewhere.

Some of the things he did especially the one where he had to pick sand and blow to the wind were spells I have never heard or seen done before. It didn’t even look like a spell, it seemed like he was calling forth to those elements. Which also reminds me of the fact that all of his attacks since we met have always been elemental, he has never used normal spells and enchantments. The power behind his attacks were quite unusual, is Kieran an Elemental too? People of his powers are no more and not one who can control and manipulate even one of the elements the way he does has been born for generations now.


But if he was also an elemental, mother would have known about it, after all she watched him for years and she would have known if he was a swords man too.

Regardless of his unusual gifts, no unlearned person especially one who just had his gifts unlocked should be able to carry out such difficult and complicated moves that involves series of spells and spells. The way he carries them out was like one who has done this over and over again. It doesn’t make any sense but then, the gift inside him was unusual too, so that being inside him the controlling him? Still, something cannot control one to carry out things he hasn’t done before with so much precision, who exactly is Kieran?
I put Kieran aside and tried to think of a way to help in whatever he had in mind for the king and his wall. He held my right arm but I knew he wouldn’t be able to do much if he has me in mind. I pulled my arm away from him and tried to think of something, probably, I will use the invisibility trick on the gordands if they attack us but that didn’t happen. Kieran was waiting eagerly for them to attack but that didn’t happen as the king used his experience and instead focused on me rather than his rival. He sent one of the deadliest and dreaded things in the world of magic to me – the cursed flames. I didn’t know how I was supposed to evade such as Kieran will be preoccupied with trying to stop the charge of Vanessa but instead of facing his own fight, he came to my rescue which was lovely but equally stupid as that opened him to the attack of Vanessa.
I thought she would be a little lenient on him as they were once lovers and also, Kieran saved her life but I was wrong. She cut him so deep into his abdomen that I thought his intestines would fall out but they didn’t. Despite her clear intents to incapacitate or kill her former lover, Kieran was only able to hit her head with his sword as he must have been surprised at what Vanessa just did to him.

The king had found a weakness in Kieran and it was me, so he continued to focus his attacks on me and Kieran kept taking the bait and kept coming to my aid and kept opening himself up to attacks from ones more vicious than his former lover. They attacked him relentlessly until they forced him to his knees with him drenched in his own blood. I didn’t know what to do anymore because the only who could protect me from them was on the floor and it was no surprise that immediately Kieran was where they wanted him to be, the traitor came after me smiling from ear to ear.
I couldn’t use magic against her and my pony trick might not work since their king was getting closer to where Kieran was. When she was just a few metres from me, Kieran suddenly stood to his feet like nothing was wrong with him and held Vanessa from coming any closer by pulling her hair. She screamed and her fellow women came to her aid by cutting through Kieran like he was a game.
He returned to his previous position and I wondered why he even bothered to stand up in the first place as he only made Vanessa angry.

She hurried her steps and was about to drag me when she was stopped by an invincible wall, she tried again but the same thing happened. She was beyond shocked to discover that magic could actually work against her. I was surprised myself and wondered how Kieran could have carried out something like that as quickly as he did, what sort of shield did he put around me that even works against beings such as gordands? I have never heard of something like that before so how come Kieran knows about something like that.

The king himself was surprised but then he thought he had had it with Kieran and sought to finish him once and for all as he was already bleeding to his death. As I watched the king walk closer to Kieran, I realized that I had failed in my duty to stop Kieran from doing what he has just failed to do as well as protect him. I couldn’t even stop an attack, I have only turned out to be his weakness and if I wasn’t here, maybe he would have had his vengeance. I wept as the king got closer to put an end to the only man I had ever fallen in love with but suddenly, I felt the weak aura of Kieran change and then it seemed like his gift was leaving his body on its own without anything calling it out. I was wrong, it wasn’t leaving, it was changing to something else. Kieran’s gift was turning into some kind of attack, no a powerful beam of light. The one that is called the light of creation, a light that destroys and as well as creates. If Kieran was going to unleash his light, it means he was ready to die just to make sure the people behind the death of his family walk in the underworld and not the world of the living.
I tried to stop him but failed as the light surged out from every part of his skin and caused a thunderous sound that went deep into the foundations of the palace. The gordands with him were taken off their feet as well as the king. I turned to find Vanessa but I couldn’t see her. The walls of the inner court cracked and some broke to pieces but the shield around me held. If the shield still holds, then it means that Kieran still breathes despite the fact that his body was horrible to look at as he was the first casualty of what he called forth. The king was lying still on the floor with the other gordands too. I tried to move but discovered I couldn’t because of the shield, I looked around me there was nothing but death and destruction brought about by a single man.

I sat on the floor and hoped for Kieran to wake up but I doubted if that would ever happen.

After a while, I heard footsteps and it revealed to be the feet of the king of the North and his wizard, Melfisius. What were they doing here?
They looked around and saw that I was the only one awake, the wizard immediately tried to hurt me but it didn’t work because of the shield. He realized he couldn’t as well as I wasn’t a threat and so he walked towards Kieran. He shook his head after touching him and quickly they left him and went for the body of the king who was still lying still.
They dragged his body to a corner of the court and then the wizard drew a circle around Lucien’s body and then put candles around the circle. He lit the candles and just as they were about to begin their ritual, Lucien opened his eyes. I was shocked I thought he was dead but he wasn’t. He tried to get up but something held him back. Then I heard the king of the North say something about taking what belonged to him in the first place. Lucien was surprised and tried to get himself from the strange hold but that didn’t work. The wizard drew a circle too after the other king la!d on the floor beside Lucien. He didn’t put candles around him this time but instead brought out a book and started calling out some strange words.

After a while, Lucien who was screaming to be released started screaming of pain as his body started shaking furiously. The wizard continued and then slowly, a white light started leaving Lucien’s body in the form of a man and moved towards the king of the North. As the light moved, Lucien’s screams became even more agonizing but they soon stopped as soon as the light entered into the King’s body.

Another thunderous sound similar to that of Kieran’s happened, followed by lightening and then the king stood up. He was on all smiles but the they disappeared when Kieran suddenly opened his eyes. How is he still alive?

To Be Continued…