"Hmmm - I like your confidence." Gordnag said. "However I pray I do not get to experience your savagery ever again, that is if you are as dangerous as you claim to be." Said Gordnag. Lord Mordian clenched his jaw as a response to what Gordnag said. Gordnag noticed that Lord Mordian was annoyed by that statement but instead of apologizing he stared back at him with cold eyes.After staring coldly at each other for about ten heartbeats, he turned away from Gordnag and looked over to the dinning table. "Lagnin, Hoglor, both of you can come out now." He called out.Both dwarves crawled out of the dinning table shivering in fear, however their faces brightened when they saw that the atmosphere was clear, but Lagnin screamed when he saw Lord Bjorfuran's corpse with his forehead severed open."Quiet Lagnin, you scream like a girl." Hoglor hissed while he moved to hold his mouth, so he could halt the high pitched tone Lagnin let out due to fear."Lord Mordian - are we safe?" Hoglor asked."Y
"Do you have any plan set so we could pull down the gates, or better still draw the minotaurs out, so we do not cause much stir?" Lord Mordian asked."No, I do not have a plan." Koorban replied. "I thought you had a plan." He continued.Lord Mordian squeezed his face in anguish, he contorted his lips and clenched his jaws because apparently, he became lost due to the fact that he could not not come up with a plan or something tangible, that would see them get through the gates that surrounded the Badorna lotus plantation. "Damn it." He hissed in anger."You cannot blame the minotaurs Lord Mordian, from what I have read about minotaurs, they are not very intelligent." Romeo who was standing beside his horse whispered meekly."I heard that!" Said Gordnag, with a calm face, which meant he held no grudge against Romeo for saying that."So what are we going to do?" Galrut asked."I do not know." Lord Mordian replied disappointedly.Some time later, they heard the sound of a horse neighing
"Yes, the Badorna lotus, we have come to get the Badorna lotus." Lord Mordian replied Klara. "I am sure Romeo had told you everything about the Badorna lotus." He turned back to Romeo, staring disappointedly at him."It can be used to cure the Skaezer, apart from that, I know nothing of the Badorna lotus.""Well fortunately for you, that is all there is to know about the Badorna lotus." Lord Mordian smiled.Klara noticed the tall brick wall below the valley and the sentry minotaurs that patrolled around the ramparts. "Is that were the leader of Goreland lives?" She asked."No." Romeo replied, creasing his eyebrows to the center, putting up a fake smile expressing how arkward the question was. "No king would live in a place such as that.""Then why is it heavily guarded? - wait, are you all planning to attack a minotaur chieftain?" She asked. "If so, what are you doing with minotaurs Lord Mordian?""You ask too many questions Klara. But anyways I will answer all of them - Firstly, no,
Klara rode on her horse, along the straight track, that led to the walls of the Badorna lotus plantation, while Lord Mordian, Romeo, Galrut, and the six minotaurs hid along bushes and the barks of trees, that were situated close to were the plantation was."I never believed that I would have to kill a group of minotaurs, before I get to the Badorna lotus here in Merveilland." Lord Mordian hissed. "However, since it is the will of the gods, I gladly welcome the challenge, and by Heykzan's golden xiphos sword, victory will be ours." He continued."If the plan goes well, I am confident of success, not just in getting the Badorna lotus, but also in bringing Arron Thickroar down to his knees." Koorban Brighthorn said.Klara steered closer towards the wooden gate, passing through the the bushes and trees that were on the both sides of the road, and at last she became exposed, now in the full view of the minotaur sentries."Halt there you hooded creature." One of the sentries bellowed. Klara
One of the horned minotaurs, rushed to were a big, long horn was kept, presumably for the purpose of sending a signal so he could alarm their fellow warriors of the need for help in critical cases of infiltration, such as the one they found themselves in at the moment.The minotaur grasped the horn and readied himself to blow it, however before he could pump some air into the horn, an arrow flew out of the nothigness of the cold night, and plunged right deep into his skull.The horned minotaurs now fourteen in number, struggled to ready themselves with their weapons, grasping both labrys and spears of different varieties, but forged according to Gorelish style, with the sharp edges of the labrys arching up to the wooden shaft.They wore nervous expressions on their faces, as the infiltrators charged menacingly at them, however it did not take up to five heartbeats before he fighting started.Koorban rushed fearlessly towards one of the horned creatures, who out of desperation, aimed h
Prince Elrond paced to and fro, inside his bed chamber. He was restless due to excessive worry because his wife and his youngest son had contracted the Skaezer the day before yesterday.He prayed to his gods to grant Lord Mordian, and the squad he took to Goreland to be successful in their quest for the Badorna lotus. Although he prayed, but he struggled to ward off doubts of their success.At last he took a seat on one of his stools inside the chamber, but that did not calm him down and he did not maintain the sitting position for long.He jerked off his seat, and moved to his window were he began to peer at the busy environs just outside the walls of the palace, checking to see if he would recognize any of his spies, or messengers, that would come running down to the palace gates with news concerning the Badorna lotus.He stood there at his window peering for sometime, and when his legs began to ache, he rushed to get a stool and sat on it while he continued to look searchingly at t
It had been two days ever since the Badorna lotus was brought to Pinkiland, and with the help of Lagnin and Hoglor, the purple hued Lilies were liquefied and turned into fluid antidotes as they had expected. With that done, it was then administered to those that were infected with the Skaezer. The curative effect of the Badorna lotus was very rapid because those that were administered with the syrup that was made from the lotus plant, attested to the positive effect of the antidote because they felt stronger, healthier and their fleshly wounds began to heal, however that was after each and everyone of them puked out some ugly contents from their stomachs which some of the elves attributed the cause of the infection to.With the cure for the dreaded plague now in Pinkiland, there was celebration all over the city, however the infected trolls, goblins, and dwarves that were hovering outside the city were now let into Pinkiland, and they were also administered the antidote.Meanwhile at
Romeo laid down on a pallet bed, while he was busy reading one of the pieces of poetry that Lord Mordian had written. It was an interesting piece, and he found great pleasure reading it.Coupled with the reading of the poetical piece, he recited the wordings time and time again, smiling satisfactorily, each time he had reached the conclusion of the seemingly marvelous work of poetry, written by Lord Mordian.He soon stopped reciting the poetry piece and moved up to the wooden table very close to the bed and carried another literary piece which was contained inside a papyrus roll. The literary piece was about the tales of the Vannio brothers, a work of fiction written by Cedric Maino, one of the most incredible dramatists, that all of the Azarian world had ever seen. Cedric Maino was a Bauthinian playwright, whose skill for writing plays and poetry made him very famous, rich, and well travelled because his talent was in high demand. His plays entertained emperors, kings, high lords, pr