After the King had sent forth the main soldiers to join those who were already at the gate, he came to behold the men that had joined the force just now, and as he looked at them, he cried and was discouraged. Their number did not reach his expectations and above all he did not see a warrior in them. All the same, seeing the weapons Reece and Zach had made them to select, he was happy because with the arrows, if fifty percent of their shot kills orc, then they had taken down over a thousand, but the probability of this was fluctuating at a very high rate.Before the orcs would reach Raychester at dawn of a new day, the army in Raychester had all been ready to fight, not up to two thousand men in total. The fence of Raychester had already been surrounded both by archers and swordsmen.They were shocked at first when they saw that the fence was still standing, so it was thought that the news they heard was false. But then it was noticed by the commanders that had led these army of orcs
The orc commander saw the few riders and laughed because he was far off and did not know that it was the Putrids. He was laughing at how those few riders would think they were going to be able to stop or withstand the one thousand orcs it had sent forward.Putting their formation and special strategy in use, they were doing wonders in the rate at which they killed the orcs.It was at the moment they began to put their training to use that the orc commander knew that those were not just riders, but the Putrid squad. Well, his sight made him baffled because he never expected that the Putrids squad would be in Raychester when they attacked. Yet that did not make him think that they would not come, he knew that the squad must surely show up in that battle, maybe when the battle had been fought for a long time and even they might have begun to claim the territory.All the same, whether they showed up early or not, they had come prepared. It was now time for them to send out the orc riders
With what Prince Ethan's eyes had seen Eric do, he now understood what Aaron had told him not to get engaged. But he was glad he did. Speaking about what Eric had told him about knowing what to do, he knew that it was to use the beast now against its kind, but doing that would require him to have a weapon in his hand.Eric knew that Ethan would need a weapon, so the manner in which he used to snatch an orcish sword from one of them riding on a beast too was so fast. After taking the sword, he put the beast to sleep, making the orc fall from it, landing on the ground, as the beast fell on him, leading to its death too."Here! You will need this," Eric tossed the sword to Prince Ethan. "Thanks," Ethan said as he caught the sword, and with it he then joined Eric to fight against the orcs, both those on foot and those riding on the beast.The number of soldiers was now very few, even the Putrids had died so much as they retreated back to the city. The orcs were still joining the fight as
Now Eric had to put an end to the beast which he was riding on. He and Prince Ethan had successfully brought down the majority of the beasts. Since Ethan had been following what Eric did, he also stabbed the beast from its head. With their closeness to one another in the field, Prince Ethan had come to see now for himself that those things which were spoken of Eric doing wonders in the field with his staff were true. He had seen how he used his weapon as both a staff and a blade.The fight had at this point lasted for a whole day because they had fought throughout the night till it was dawn again.It was at this point that the orcs which had entered Raychester from behind had the opportunity to set fire on some houses as they had planned. It was also as a result of the smoke which was seen inside the city that had caused Eric to put an end to the beast he was riding. Then they fell back from the forefront of battle, going back into the city because the battle was now tougher there.
As the slaughtering of the orcs continued, few of the orcs managed to make it through the part of the fence that was broken because they thought that their commander who was supposed to break the gate after it was sealed had disappointed them. Within the next four to five hours as it was getting to midday when the sun was at the center of the sky, they successfully had a break from the fight as all orcs inside the city were killed, and over five hundred escaped through the route whence they had entered from.Out of the two thousand men that had begun the five, only about three hundred were still breathing, twenty were Putrids. They had lost a great number of soldiers in that fight. Even the one thousand five hundred rides that just arrived that morning, had lost over two hundred men because all the focus of the orcs did shift to them when they rode in.The King and those that survived happened to be the happiest people because they never thought they would still be alive till that ti
Back on the main surface, the orcs that were turning around the fence of Raychester came to the place that had been broken and they saw the few orcs that had escaped from the slaughter as they prepared to leave Raychester and journey back to the outer lands where they believed the others had retreated to give report to their leader, Zagthak.In orcish language the orc commander called their attention to come back and they did turn around to see that the orc commander who they had thought left them did not leave them as thought. They were glad to turn again and join with them as they were asked what had happened there to have made them retreat."Human race is difficult to wipe off the face of this earth. They got help, and a battalion of riders rallied against us from behind." One of them still answered in their orcish language because that was the language they knew how to communicate in.Being very determined to defeat all life in Raychester, the commander said based on his discretio
Eric looked for a place to sit down after coming out of the tunnel. He sat down in deep thoughts. He was lost in his thoughts, everything was too hard for him to comprehend. His countenance was broken. Harris was the one who looked around and saw him where he was sitting with facial expressions telling his frustration and anger. Since Zachary was moving around with Aaron to see that the city was in a stable state so that they would not fear, Harris then left his side and came to sit close to Eric."What is the matter Sir?" Harris asked as if he did not know that the fall of Raychester was able to make anyone so devastated and look very weary."Oh, Harris. I'm glad you made it." Eric said. He had not taken time to look out for those who survived. "Where is your father?""He is over there with General Aaron. I sighted you sitting in thought and confusion so I came to know what the problem was.""It's the fall of Raychester as we both know." He answered even when that was not the main r
Now this was serious because Ethan could not believe that a prophecy like that was made yet he did not know about it. Well, he stuck to the reason why he had sat with Eric. He went back to encouraging him. "Whether a second prophecy or not, since the world does not know of it, we will keep holding on to the first that says you are going to deliver us from the terrors of these monsters. So hold firm to that and you will see it happen before your eyes. Trust me in this and see.""You are very positive and convincing," Eric confessed to him as those words were really helping him to think positive and not negative."We all have to be positive as our thoughts have a great impact on what comes to us. I really like now that you are not looking too worried. Take away some thoughts from your mind even though I know it is very difficult to stop thinking about a family, especially when it is your child."Though his face had been lightened by those words, he knew that Ethan did not still get the
On Eric's side, he didn't expect that question to be asked, but since it was asked, he could not answer it, so he simply said. "Don't worry baby, everything will be fine. The police are there to protect you and your aunt Lauren." "From who?" She asked again. "From some very bad people." He answered, in order for her to ask another question, he added. "Can you give your aunt the phone?" "Eric, what's going on?" Lauren asked as soon as he received the phone from Jodie. "I promise I'll explain everything to you when I am bad. Just be rest assured that I am not the one they are protecting you from. It's very complicated but I promise you will understand after I've explained everything to you." "Okay bro." "Please be safe and keep Jodie safe." Eric pleaded as they said goodbye. **** Towards evening the next day, Eric Claus and Chase Stevens were called to the police station by the detective and on their arrival, the detective took them to meet a new prisoner under their custody. "M
It took almost over five hours before the detective in charge of interrogating the suspect came out to meet Eric Claus and Chase Stevens in the police station. "I thought you were asked to leave?" he asked, to my surprise. His question called their attention, so they looked up in shock but without fear since they had committed no offense by staying. "Well," Chase began as he searched for the right words to say that would make the detective understand their reason for not going home as they were asked to. "We just couldn't leave." he said, still unable to find the best words. Eric had to help him out at this point even though he was not totally in support of them staying there for that long. "Were you people able to force the truth out of him? I just can't go home knowing that someone wants me dead and probably why?" That was a good reason to defend and justify their refusal to leave the station and the detective understood quite well so he did have to press further. "Well, you two
“Just before you woke up,” Chase began, “He told Lauren and I that he would be removing you from life support because his test showed that you would never wake up again. But upon coming to see you in the ward, we found you awake, that is to say he has found out that you would be waking up any time soon so he wanted to prevent it from happening. When I asked him how it was possible that someone who he presumed to never wake up again was awake and sound, he said he didn’t know and would do some research that would explain it scientifically. He still has not given any response with the claim that he was still doing his research with some of his colleagues.” Now Eric was getting a clear understanding of something that he never put into consideration before now. It was now clear to him why he had to leave the world of Palind, letting them complete the fight which was supposed to be concluded before his departure. So he had no reason to doubt the words and suspicions of Chase. “In that cas
The doctor ran another test on Eric Claus early the next morning to confirm whether he was fully fit to leave the hospital and still his results were positive that he did not see any other reason to keep Eric there in the hospital. So he had to break the good news about his discharge so he could prepare to go home. Towards the evening hours of the day, Chase was there with Lauren and Jodie to pick Eric from the hospital and take home. While Lauren and Jodie were with Eric in the room putting together his stuff for departure, Chase went to see the doctor. After a knock on the office door, he was asked to come in and the doctor was instantly eclipsed with shock. Immediately he saw that it was Chase who had come to his office. He knew they were done with all formalities already and he shouldn’t be there again. “Oh, Mr. Chase, is it you again? Hope all is well?” the doctor said while trying to hide his freight. “Yes,” Chase walked up to the desk and with an eye gesture he asked if he c
When he came into the room Eric was still gusting and laughing with his sister and daughter, Chase did not intend to disrupt that moment knowing how much such a moment felt for the family. “I am happy to see such smiles on your faces,” Chase said, “Permission to share at this moment?” “Sure you are free.” Eric answered with gladness. The fun moment lasted for a couple of hours, until it was getting late, so Lauren had to take Jodie home since they came right from school. “Jodie, I guess we should get going now.” “No, I want to spend more time with my dad.” Jodie refused because she didn’t want that moment to end. She was also scared that her father would go into a coma again. “Come on… you will have the time you want with him, he is not going anywhere. Besides, you haven’t gotten home since you closed from school today and you still have homework and school tomorrow.” Lauren gave her some reasons why they have to go home. Eric was quite happy to hear that Jodie has been going to
Due to the looks on both Lauren and Chase’s face, the doctor could tell what they were thinking but he could not concur with it. “That is not possible.” He opened the door and to his greatest surprise, it was exactly as he had read from the faces of Chase and Lauren, so he froze at the entrance. Seeing the manner in which the doctor became static, Chase and Lauren looked into the room, lo and behold, it was Eric Claus awake and talking to his daughter Jodie Eric. They too could not move for a moment and were short of words to say until Jodie saw them standing static at the door post and said. “Aunt Lauren, look, dad is awake.” “Of course he is…” Lauren replied as he slowly took some steps closer to the bed Eric was lying on. Eric then turned to the door and saw both his boss and the doctor. He was surprised to see Chase Stevens there instead of being in the company. He knew quite well what happened to him and did not need much explanation from them, he only asked one question perta
The monitor attached to Eric Claus began to beep loudly, alerting the nurses and medical personnel nearby to hurriedly come check on him and find out what was the cause of the sudden beeping of the monitor. The first nurse that ran in noticed his temperature was burning beyond normal and it was something beyond her skills so she rushed out to call the doctor in charge of his treatment while another nurse that followed after her tried to stabilize the situation pending the doctor’s arrival. In a few minutes the doctor came in to check on him and saw that it was more than a normal burning for someone in his condition, and something he hasn’t seen before throughout his entire career, but that was not going to prevent from running some quick test on him. The tests were all reporting strange feedback as they stabilized him with an injection to stop the burning. Soon he began to sweat which was still strange to the professionals. “He is dying,” The doctor gave the only explanation he co
After the conversation and argument had come to an end by those words of Eric, the four of them came out of the room to meet General Aaron Gordon, General Morgan Elliot and Prince Reece Cole who were waiting for them outside. “Let’s move out.” King Luca gave the command which they have all been waiting for all these while. Afterwards they got their horses and led the soldiers out of the city of Griffins. Harris had not taken his mind off from what Eric told him, so he was still waiting to hear the outcome of Eric’s discussion with his father. So as they headed for the city of Ironbrook, he rushed forward, coming close to his father and asked in a low tune since he also thought it to be a secret. “Father, how did it go?” Zach’s mind was no longer on that, he did not perceive Harris to keep thinking of that, so he asked back as he looked into his son’s eyes curiously. “How did what go?” Still wanting to keep it a secret, Harris did not answer that question with words but with an ey
After Harris was out of sight, Zachary Hawkins changed the pretentious discussion. “The King will now see you Eric.” “Okay.” Eric said as they both head to meet with King Luca Cole. In a couple of minutes they were in the king’s presence and Eric said. “Your majesty, you asked to speak with me.” “Yes,” Luca turned towards him. “We are ready to move out, so we want to know if you are set.” “Ermmm….” Eric stammered because he had not told the King about his soon departure and as Zach had advised, it was wise for him to tell the king that he would soon be leaving the country Palind back to his world. he struggled to get the right words to break the news he had for Luca but his facial expression already foretold that what he was trying to say was not something pleasant to be heard. “It’s okay, Eric, you can spit it out and stop bordering on how I will take it.” Luca encouraged him to speak and stopped holding his words. With the readiness and willingness of King Luca Cole to hear wh