This news was shocking to Eric as he could not imagine that a father will not care about his sons who are in the field. He then whispered to Zach, "How old are these princes?"Luca heard the question and answer by himself, "My first born, Reece is thirty years old while Ethan is twenty eight years old. Why do you think I felt reluctant at Raychester and the people never bother? That is because my bloods are out here in the field."Zach continued, "The days when King Luca won his own battles are long gone in the days of his youth. Now it's the time of his sons."Eric fixed his eyes as he kept looking at King Luca, "That is to say the king is in his fifties?" He asked because all along he had been seeing Luca to be in his early forties."I am over fifties. Sixty one if you must know."This was shocking, as he compared the King with Zach, who was fifty eight but Zach looked older than the King. So he could not bear this confusion again as he left the three long time experienced warriors
The early hours of that night were calm and peaceful, but as they enjoyed tranquility for over three hours, they began to hear sounds of whispering coming from a distance.It was a valley full of soldiers, men of valor so there was no way all of them would fall asleep at a time. Those that had stayed awake were about three times of the armies that had closed their eyes to sleep. Even the ones who seemed to be sleeping were not sleeping with their two eyes closed because they knew that they were exposed and could be engaged in battle at any time of the night.As the sounds began to draw near to them, every man began to put his sword in place, taking formation. Some of the young soldiers who were leaving Raychester castle for the first time were the ones shivering with fear as they had not been in combat before adding to the fact that what was coming was larger than they were. Of all the creatures which attacked Palind, the orcs were the ones which soldiers would love to fight against a
As he was about to move, Zach, who was partially focused on him, grabbed his hands so that he would not go any further."Let me go since you are all afraid of them." He turned at Zach with angry eyes.Zach wanted to tell him why he must not take a step except the King had made his first step, but King said first to Zach. "Leave him."Zach was shocked that the King was saying that, and he looked at King Luca to be sure he was serious about what he had said and the King nodded his head, meaning he was serious about his words and would not take it back.So he slowly let go of Eric's hand to see if he would still continue with the move he wanted to make. To his greatest surprise, even with the signal he had secretly given to Eric as he let go of his hand, Eric still continued with his move.This made the whole behind marvel as it had never been heard that a soldier in formation marched out before his commanding officer.Still the King did not move, fixing his eyes now on Eric instead of
While he fed himself with these discouraging words, he saw a young soldier climbing the back of one of the trolls as his used arrows which were still on its back as steps till he got to its shoulder.Right on top of its shoulder, the troll wanted to drag him down but the soldier was smart enough to cut off its finger, causing the troll to cry in pain as blood was drawn from its body. Still without wasting time, he pierced the sword into its throat, and the troll danced around screaming till it got to the ground. At the moment it landed on the ground, the battle ground shaked and it was noticed that one of the trolls had reached the ground.Eric happened to be the only one who kept a close look at what the soldier had done although he would have not been successful if not for the soldiers who were distracting the troll while on the ground. At least he had known a place which blood could easily be drawn from and since he can't do what the soldier had done because there was no other tro
Even with all their attempts, the trolls knew how to vanish when they wanted to. As the sun was coming up, they moved into their cave and the soldiers could not follow them inside since they would not find them.But King Luca was determined to follow them into the cave and see how they came about."Your majesty, they are gone. Let them be." Zach said to him as he wanted to move in with a lamp in his hand."They are in there," he still insisted on going in."No, you won't find them. Trust me." Then Luca threw the lamp into the cave to see how the inside was, but as the lamp got into the cave, it went off instantly preventing the King from seeing anything.Then he turned, and asked with a high tone. "Where is Eric Claus?" He wanted to talk with Eric so as to know how he managed to cut the head of a troll with his staff.One of the soldiers who was standing close to the place where his staff had fallen then picked it up and said. "My lord, I can find his staff, but I can't find him."Th
As they came to the Raychester castle after about a four hours ride with great speed, they rushed down to the army camp and searched for the supervisor. "Sir, we bring words from General Aaron Gordon."Based on the usual instruction that will come from the General or other commanders in the field, the supervisor asked. "Did he say how many men he will be needing because most of the soldiers are still going through training and it would not be advisable that they go into combat now.""Sir, we are not here l for more men. Rather we were charged to bring a soldier from the medical department."Then the supervisor concluded that they had so many wounded soldiers in their midst that they could not bring all of them back to the castle so he said. "That will not be a problem, I will assign the best few to go with you immediately.""We only need one person, he goes by the name Harris and it was said that you know this soldier very well."The supervisor was surprised, because he knew that Har
Aaron just stood still and watched them, but as Harris was walking away, he followed him to know what was the meaning of those words, why he said them and most of all why his father wanted him to say them."Wait Harris..." he called as Harris walked away in haste. Harris stopped under the command of a General, and as Aaron came close to him, he asked. "What is the meaning of that? Why is your father so certain that Eric is not gone even after seeing that there is no sign of life in him?""It is a long story," Harris did not want to tell it to him else he might start seeing him as a magician just as his father sees him."Make it brief," he said but suspected that Harris would tell him that it can not be briefed so he added, "Or you can not brief the whole story, then tell me about it in full. I have all the time to listen."Since Aaron had developed so much interest in knowing what was going on, he had to speak and not hide it again. "It was after the dragon's first attack, that Eric C
Now after King Luca Cole had spent so long inside the tank trying to figure out the special thing about the staff that had made it able to cut off the head of a troll yet was not able to discern any special thing which he could hold on to, he had to come out of the tent as he could also tell that the day was soon passing by and they can not stay there till dusk because the trolls can come out again and this time will wipe all the remaining army. When he came outside, the soldiers were quite ready to move, all they were doing was to wait for an order which they believed would soon come.Then he saw Zach carrying the corpse of Eric which he had thought they had buried as instructed, so went to meet him as he called, causing him to stop and turn around. "Zachary!""Your majesty," He replied as the King came closer."What are you still doing with this body?""My lord, I'm sorry but I can not watch him being buried.""Nobody said you must watch while he is buried. Just hand it over to the