Hate darkens hearts
Resentment darkens souls
Anger destroys minds
Rage clouds all reason
Altruism, kindness, virtue and humanity will be abandoned
For the benefit of the ultimate force
To get rewarded
To get revenge
They will surrender to anger
They will give themselves up to lust
At that moment, the Nemesis will appear
It will stifle all hope
It will devour this new world
And all love will evaporate
The Herald will corrupt the child
The Herald will corrupt the virgin
Making the coming of the true demon inevitable
Parasiting all good nature
This is the end of the world...
The Hero's eyes were glowing scarlet, there was bitterness and sourness, smoke was coming out of his mouth with every breath he took, his left eye was getting redder and redder.
The queen looked up and glared at the hero, she leaned on the wall to get up and wiped her nose.
- What do you claim, vile human creature? That I am a danger to my own people?
- Just look outside," said the Hero in an even deeper voice than usual.
She glanced through one of the exploded stained glass windows and witnessed that by her simple anger, she had caused an incredible storm throughout the kingdom.
For many, it was the first time they had ever seen a storm, and one that was incredibly devastating.
- It's not important," the queen replied, "I'll sort it out later.
The Hero opened his eyes wide, was outraged at such carelessness and glared at him.
- Do you hate me so much that you kill innocent people?
- You can't imagine.
Queen Audisélia took the broken blade of her royal weapon, bled her hand with it and put her blood on the sword, incanting a spell of reparation of the people of Lerdon and speaking in the Valraz language to give back to the sword of her predecessors all its beauty, its brilliance and its solidity. He engraved an orange rune to strengthen it and increase its resistance before returning to battle.
- It is useless, said the Hero, you really think that your vulgar sword will exceed the weapon of the Nemes...
Suddenly, the queen disappeared before the Hero's eyes. He heard a whistle and saw the queen's shin coming dangerously close to his face, but he could not dodge it in time because of the speed of the blow. It sent him waltzing to the throne, making him roll to his feet, and he braked his inertia by planting the sword in the ground, slowing the projection.
- Don't be arrogant, vulgar human," the queen retorted.
Suddenly, the sound resounded once again from above him, he looked up and met Audiselia's eyes, which he saw light up with an electric blue, then he noticed her fist filled with electricity that was going to fall on the skull of the Hero, exploding everything in its path.
Sawyer was the only one who was not surprised by his friend Audiselia's behavior, he knew she was far too stubborn when she was in this state, capable of losing all reason under the influence of anger.
Even if the kingdom was in danger, he could do nothing to prevent its destruction... He had failed in his mission...
Without warning, Globox slapped Sawyer in the face, accidentally scratching his face with his ogre nails.
- Why?" exclaimed Sawyer.
- Because you need to pull yourself together, instead of shaking like a pussy, the ogre Globox yelled at him.
- You don't have to be so vulgar...
- Oh yes you do, big guy. I can't let you be so cowardly when you are the son of the hero Torn, you are the one who can stop the madness of our queen and this monstrous pseudo-hero who faces her, reminded his ogre counterpart, you are the chief of the queen's saints so act like one.
Then he blew out his nose and stopped his trembling. His colleague was right, he was Torn's son who had been entrusted by Torn to look after Audiselia's health and well-being. He placed his hands away from her body and cast an imprisonment spell:
- By the chains of Sheol and Nothingness, where neither matter nor living can enter or leave, I create you, O you eternal prison!
A huge sphere of magical energy was created around the floor, extending beyond the castle walls, sealing everyone inside the throne room. Although it looked like a spherical opaque glass, they perceived that the storm outside had subsided.
- One thing done," says guard Sawyer.
- You have locked us up with these two power monsters.
- Did you have a better solution?" said Sawyer.
- No. I just wanted to remind you. I just wanted to remind you. What are you going to do now that we're under your spell?
- Stop their fight before the human gets killed with us, announced the leader of the Saints.
- Is the nameless, faceless man your concern before the fate of your queen?
- If you knew how to observe a fight properly, you would see the feelings of the fighters face to face or those of your own opponents. That would allow you to understand the reasons for their struggles. And if you could observe a fairy, you would see the marks on the queen's face glow and change. You'd see that even though he's getting stronger and stronger, the human has no desire to kill the queen despite her strong responses. Every time his attacks hit, they are only physical.
- What do you mean by that?
- That this Man could have taken the easy way out by "killing" the Queen which would have stopped the storm, yet he goes out of his way to bring her to her senses. So no matter what he looks like, I will stop him from submitting to his own anger and getting killed by Audiselia.
Sawyer cracked his index and middle fingers, bit his thumb to get his blood out and wrote signs on his armor and bare arms, as soon as he was done, he said:
- Runic Magic: NAUDHIZ: Armor of a Thousand Storms!
His body lit up with a green light and a soothing energy surged through him.
- Are you really going to use it? Runic magic takes too long to charge.
- Do you see any other way to confront the hero of the legend and the Incarnation of the goddesses of war and destruction?
The guard tells all non-combatants to take refuge towards the throne, he generates a protective dome.
He ordered the Queen's Saints to prepare for battle and the other guards to support them at the right time for their attacks.
Meanwhile, the transformed Hero managed to block the queen's in-extremis blow by parrying it with his Ymir sword. Seeing herself blocked by her opponent, she threw a huge electric discharge on the Hero, the electricity went through the sword and the armor which were necessarily conductive, and electrified the boy. He ended up pushing the queen away before grabbing her arm and bringing her back to him, getting up and kneeing her in the chest causing her to cough up her lungs, but she wasted no time in taking another blow and moved away from her opponent as fast as her extraordinary abilities would allow.
Then came back to the charge by trying to put a punch in his face, the Hero answered by hitting his fist against hers, the shock was brutal for the bones of the Hero but he held on. However, the electricity that was flowing through Audiselia's body became excited, reacting to the impact of the fists and tearing the skin of the human who screamed in pain.
But that didn't stop him.
And he tried to put another blow on her, the queen stopped him with her other fist, then the same reaction happened, and the process started again a good hundred times, creating a barrage of punches between the two.
Under too much pain, the Hero moved away from the fairy-queen, trying to reach her at the same time with the long reach of his sword, but she managed to get out of the weapon's range.
Suddenly, an unlikely event occurred that made no sense. As she stepped away from the Hero, in the shadow of her sword flowed magical energy, and before she knew it, the Queen's legs were caught in the ice.
- Glacial Era of the Primeval Times!" said the Hero, performing a spell.
Impossible!" cried Queen Audiselia and the Fairy, "he should be unable to perform any spell.
The queen jerked around to get out of the grip of the ice created by the Hero. But although it came from him, the queen felt no life in the magic he had just performed. The spell he had just done was not from him but from the cursed sword. It was logical that she would do so, indeed, given the name of the weapon. It must have come from the same birthplace as Sawyer's ancestors.
Facing this boy was proving to be much more challenging for the queen than she might have thought. He had more than one ability in reserve.
The skin on the Hero's arms was splintered, dripping with blood with skin hanging off of them.
The ruler of Sylvania was a much tougher opponent than he thought, many kings and queens had wanted to face the Hero because of his reputation, in single combat or against a whole army.
Contrary to what people said without checking their sources, he often lost, he was a kid after all, but everyone took him for a seasoned adult, whereas he was only a lonely and confused child who, contrary to appearances, to his actions, gestures and thoughts, hated all kinds of violence, fighting and combat. And yet, the evil that gnawed at him made him have reasonings contrary to his own will, the excitement that he felt at each fight became stronger and stronger after each confrontation. If he allowed himself to indulge in this absurd excitement, it would gradually consume him and he would... become what he was chasing.
However, he knew a truth that he couldn't bear to hear, but which he believed to be true: in this world as in the previous one, only strength is the real truth - although the saying goes that you always find someone stronger than you. A truth that he had come to accept despite the fact that it disgusted him, everything led to this awful conclusion and nothing in this world went against him.
This truth went against his beliefs, against the precepts his mother had taught him, and yet in a place that seemed as peaceful as this - despite the slavery and discrimination within the kingdom - he still found himself confronted with violence, still found reasons to attack him.
He had enough... What if he let himself go to that fateful violence?
And why not? said the amused Nemesis.
The Fairy had seen many violent fights in the arena, either from home or with her own eyes, but none of them had gone this far.
This fight was more of a legend and historical account than a simple quarrel.
This boy who was at the same time so good, he had consoled her when she had told him her dream, he had taken sides when Beneltig was in trouble, he had even come to his match, even though he had no interest in doing so, and now he had become her champion... had become a bloodthirsty beast bordering on the demonic!
She couldn't forget that way of fighting that was so violent, whether it was with the lizard man, the other prisoners in Limbo, the Mexicula spiders or now. Every time he fought, he always had that cold look that made her blood run cold, as if her emotions disappeared for a moment revealing her true nature as a killing machine...
Was there any way to make him the friendly boy she loved to be around again?
Even though she was afraid of him because of his gloomy appearance, especially at that time he had transformed, she had great hopes to be able to be closer to him to understand him, with the few words he had said, she understood that this human boy was suffering a lot and had engulfed himself in this extreme brutality because it was the only solution he had found to soothe his mutilated soul. She would never have thought that the hero of the legend was such a damaged being.
In a way, their similarities were getting closer and closer.
As the Hero climbed the glacier he had created thanks to Ymir, the queen managed to break the ice that had seized her feet and flew away, she decided to attack from a distance with her lightning. This one had unloaded from the top of its armor not to attract any more the lightning of the queen and could dodge more simply the attacks of Audisélia. He had kept only one arm of armor.
Although the lightning bolts hit the legs of his armor, he was protected by the tights he had on underneath which were insulating and isothermal.
The queen notified that the boy's body had become thinner since the beginning of the fight, already he did not have much flesh, there he would soon reach anorexia.
- But tell me, for a hero, you are quite skinny, laughs Audisélia at the top of her voice, it is not with such a body that you are going to defeat me.
- However, it is with this one that I hold you up, Queen of Sylvania," sneered the nameless human with irony.
The queen couldn't stand the repartee of this obnoxious child who was standing there in defiance of Elena's life. Every time he opened his mouth to contradict her, she wanted to pulverize him! But yes, it is that which she intended to make, to pulverize him!
She looked up with her arms to the sky and exclaimed:
- By Eclina, you, true fairy goddess of the lightning, make your almighty power fall on my enemies: Divine Lightning Punishment!
- There's no way she could do that," exclaimed Sawyer, "I locked us out of the storm.
But some of the cumulonimbus clouds had been locked up with them - which is logical, they were not going to come out very nicely of their own accord.
Lightning bolts began to flash inside the throne room, shooting through the ceiling of the castle, approaching the Hero with great strides. Despite his dodging, they finally reached him, his flesh burning under the enormous electrical tension and intensity that emanated from the super-powerful lightning.
- Have you finished preparing your over-armor?" asked Globox nervously, "because the little one is going wild right now!
- The human is holding her up for now, I still have time to max her out. As long as her lightning doesn't turn red, we still have a chance.
- Yeah, but the human abomination can't seem to hold out much longer.
- Don't worry. He's a hero of legend, after all?
- If you say so...
In the meantime, the Hero did not let himself be thrown off by this attack and managed to stand on his legs although his muscles could not function properly because of the lightning that had fallen on him. He had been close to electrocution and his blood was boiling both inside and outside his body because of the queen's attack.
However, something happened that only Her Majesty perceived, she had felt that part of the lightning she had thrown at the boy had disappeared, this was confirmed by the yellow lightning she saw on the horn on the human's head. She did not see the utility of this horn beyond being a lousy lightning rod.
- You're really a pretty tough kid," Audiselia admitted, "but I'll never admit that you're Elena's son or the hero of the legend.
The bright glow gradually disappeared from the Hero's right eye and his left eye became more scarlet.
- Whether you admit it or not, said the Hero with a tired breath, does not change the fact that I am facing you...
- That's the problem and you...
- I'm tired of hearing you spit on me for being born when my parents were already complaining about it and for the hero title when I absolutely did not choose to have her Will. I understand how much you miss my mother, Cristalmeth, but if you could just grieve, it would make me more than happy, instead of fighting or beating yourself up unnecessarily.
- How do you know this nickname?
- According to you?" said the Hero wryly, "my mother often told me about you: a fairy with crystal hair, light blue eyes, full lips, a fine, straight nose, a small scar on her forehead, the height of a giant, pink marks on her cheeks and on the bridge of her nose like all the other fairies, and an erratic behavior ranging from the most beautiful thorny rose to a cannibal carnivorous plant. A fitting description for you, Cristalmeth.
- I don't give you the right to use that name for me!
The queen sent out lightning bolts with hand signals, but with his last bit of strength, the Hero took the Titan Ymir's Arm and created an ice barrier to counter the queen's attack. Not strong enough to withstand the queen's onslaught, but strong enough to allow her to escape despite her tattered body.
He would have to use more strength than before. It would force him to go beyond the fifty percent of heroic power and use the demonic power of the true form of the Ymir sword. No, it was not enough, he still had to increase his resistance and strength. To think that against Albedo Wata, he had not had to push himself beyond his limits when she was a Nemesis, a weak Nemesis, but a Nemesis nonetheless. He could no longer pretend to attack her, so he pushed his body to really fight.
- Titan Ymir, heal me.
The black and red fluid flowed over his entire body and most of his wounds healed at a phenomenal rate at the cost of an increasingly monstrous appearance. However, he only needed one arm and two legs in good enough condition to defeat her.
His next attack would be his last!
Heroic power works like this: by obtaining the Hero's Will, one is granted superhuman strength to add to the one one already possesses, but in addition, like a database, one obtains the knowledge, even the abilities of the other predecessors, which allows in the manner of a rogue-like - a kind of video game - to know the dangers that lurk around the world and the traps that the Evil One's herald could set in front of us in order to prepare for them, given his mean and tormenting mind. However, due to an anomaly in the Hero's body, he did not have access to all this "data base" and lacked knowledge - which is why Audiselia finds him mediocre with a sword. What he could do, however, was to use the powers he had access to, such as superhuman strength, resistance and regeneration.
However, the fact that he had the ability to use one of the Nemesis' weapons was an enigma in itself.
Hiding behind the ice, he propelled himself with all his strength in the direction of his opponent, but his trajectory was far too predictable and his speed too slow for the queen to dodge. But the Hero knew that, that's why he was going to use his trump card.
She expected him to miss and use the wall behind her to ricochet and give more force to his blow, by then she would have intercepted him and she would finally succeed in killing him.
But, against all odds, she saw her trajectory make a curve.
He was getting dangerously close to her, she didn't have time to move away that she took a double jumping kick in the stomach, expelling her against the ground.
Without her noticing, the Hero had pulled a grappling hook out of his armor and used it to grab onto the chandelier. He spun around the chandelier again to gain much more speed and momentum, and charged at the queen, putting his injured arm back to prepare his punch.
Audisélia got out of the rubble caused by her fall and she saw the Hero coming towards her. She was never going to finish with him, it was time to finish no matter what the cost. She closed her fists, straightened her index fingers and thumbs, and crossed them, she slid an eye into the diamond shape her hands created to aim at the nameless human.
- Here is my ultimate attack ! It is with this that I will reduce you to ashes, bastard ! Take all my strength, make burst all my fury, all my anger, all my hatred and punish the madmen who dared to stand in front of me: Fulgurante Vengeance of Eclina.
A fabulous energy flowed from her arms to her fingertips, a magic circle appeared on her surface in front of her and a huge blue ball of electric energy shot out from the circle and stood up to the Hero.
The Faceless Hero had put all his strength into the blow he was going to deliver, no matter what the spell, nothing could get in the way of his attack.
- Now!" shouted Sawyer as he charged between the Hero and Audiselia.
The closer the Hero got, the more inevitable it seemed that the two fighters would collide.
- But when are you going to stop behaving like a madwoman, shouted the Hero, pull yourself together, hysterical queen!
- I don't have to take orders from a vulgar larva like you," said the queen.
The shock was about to be imminent, but suddenly a solid green magic circle appeared where the Hero crashed, stopping him in his tracks and he almost twisted his arm. He was spread out on it like a pancake, he didn't understand where the solid magic that had materialized in front of him was coming from.
A blinding light surprised all this happy little world.
- Stop!" shouted a voice behind Sawyer.
The guards and Sawyer turned towards the voice, the Hero looked up from the magic circle and saw magic energy of the same color as the figure on which it was placed in the hands of the Fairy, it was obvious that it was she who had built this circle that seemed indestructible.
- How did she get out of the protective dome?" exclaimed one of the guards, "It's supposed to be impenetrable, unshakeable, and impassable without Sawyer's approval.
- That's... right," admitted the principal in a fit of incomprehension.
And they discovered with amazement that this one had been destroyed... by the Fairy who had made a huge hole in it, all saw the wingless fairy in this sparkling glow, it seemed that this glow was...
They knew of the Fairy's extraordinary magical abilities even though she lacked a pair of wings, but this was beyond reasonable.
The Fairy deactivated Sawyer's spell with a snap of her finger.
But the intervention of the Fairy was not enough to stop Queen Audiselia in her murderous obsession, the ruler of Sylvania unleashed her attack which burst the ball of electricity and sent a beam of electric energy against the Hero, the Fairy withdrew her tangible magic circle, which made the Hero crash against the ground and barely dodged the attack of the Queen which hit and pierced the ceiling before going to the sky outside the kingdom.
- NO!" cried everyone in the room and those outside the castle who saw the queen's attack, except for the Hero, the Fairy and the Queen.
Sawyer turned to the Fairy and asked if she was able to stop the queen's attack with the spell she had cast to stop the faceless boy. The Fairy nodded and with a "Shield of a Thousand Heavens" she conjured the green circle and it stopped the queen's attack with barely a scratch.
- It's incredible," exclaimed the Minister of Magic Education's advisor in awe, "this is the first time anyone has been able to stop one of the Queen's most powerful spells.
The sparkling light disappeared and the Fairy found herself out of breath.
- Saints! Surround the human," Sawyer ordered.
They did so and all pointed their weapons at the Hero. At the same time, the child began to regain his normal appearance and Ymir returned to his original form. The nameless human got up, took his sword with which he helped himself to get up and stood guard against his new opponents. He had exhausted all his energy in the fight against this crazy monarch and was hardly standing on his legs. He did not know concretely if he would really be able to confront ten elite soldiers, in addition to the other guards.
- Sawyer! Why are you picking on him?" interjected Helmir, "It was the queen who picked on him in the first place.
- Never mind," said Sawyer, "anyone who attacks our queen must be stopped.
- Are you going to put him in Limbo again or change your mind about his death sentence?" replied the night elf, "when he is the new champion of the wingless fairy and has just been discovered to be the new hero of the legend?
Sawyer wasn't serious about arresting him, he just wanted to calm him down to stop all this over-the-top violence.
- "We just found out he's the hero of the legend?" asked Tadzi, you're supposed to know since you know him.
- I had doubts that I could never verify...
- And you are rather vehement, you who usually have a dead look, Tadzi pointed out to her.
- Because I will not let him suffer another injustice.
- Because you are his "auntie"?
- For I know the heart of this boy.
Suddenly the queen stood up and threw herself in the direction of the child, the guard Sawyer stopped her by putting himself in her way.
- Stop, Selia, it's over.
- NEVER! I WILL RIP OUT HIS ENTRAILS AND WASH AWAY MY VIOLATED HONOR!
- But what are you saying, Audisélia? What does he have to do with you and his mother?
- DON'T GIVE HIM THAT TITLE ANYMORE!" she screamed, throwing a lightning bolt at him that he easily dodged with a simple side step.
She threw lightning bolts at him thanks to the glyphs she had engraved on her sword. The leader of the Holy Royal Knights - or Royal Saints for short - dodged the queen's attacks again. Again and again, until he deflected them with his arms with the help of his runic magic.
- "The Armor of a Thousand Storms"? Do you seriously think that's enough to take on me? Especially since I know its weak point.
She punched him in the stomach so hard that he spat out his guts. The queen had superhuman strength beyond the average person. How could Sawyer stand up to such a great fairy?
- As Artesium is only effective against magic, you should have added to NAUDHIZ, ISA, to protect yourself.
But the bodyguard did not let himself be diverted and grabbed his arm and shoulder.
- Since he is the hero of the legend, I too know your weakness, Selia.
He pressed his left shoulder and pressed on the right part above his chest, she twisted in pain under the pressure of Sawyer's hand, then quickly brought her body towards him and he put a blow of head which sounded her and she fainted under the effect of the blow which had struck her his friend. He caught her before she fell to the ground.
- It's over," Sawyer said, addressing the Hero, "you can relax.
- What are you talking about?" said the Hero with a voice different from his own, "It's just the beginning.
- Huh?" said the bodyguard, turning to the boy.
He saw that the human's eyes were getting redder and redder. The bright gleam in his right eye disappeared, replaced by the red sclera of his left eye and an ugly yellow iris like the color of the sclera in his other eye.
The aura he gave off was very different from the one he had during his fight with the queen. He had never perceived such an imposing and evil aura in anyone.
It is as if they were facing a real demon.
- Didn't you understand? asked the Hero with another voice, I am thirsty for blood, I want to fight! Say your prayers!
The soldiers tightened their focus on the boy and stood ready to confront him at the slightest impromptu action on his part. Their weapons and armor clattered at the slightest movement on their part.
The danger that he embodied could not let them act recklessly against him, he was far too dangerous to be put out of action even with elite units like the royal guard, the Saints of the Queen.
- You put time to pass to the offensive... You fear me? he provoked them with a more singular voice that seemed to come from beyond the grave, then it is me who will come to you!
They all stood guard, ready to attack, when he was about to charge against them when suddenly they could see him stick a violent right in the jaw to break a tooth. So violent was his blow that he almost flew away and had difficulty landing as once on the ground, he began to jump in order to stop his inertia.
- Get the fuck out of my body, you bastard!" the Hero yelled in his real voice, "stop doing that!
What an ingrate you are, my young boy, laughed the voice that was incarnated in the body of the human, you could be much nicer to me? I have the right to enjoy it a little.
This voice spoke in his mind like the other voice that had been nagging him since he became the hero of the legend.
- I don't see why I should be!" replied the Hero.
The other people around him wondered who he could be talking to.
Whose power did you just use against that miserable insect, remind me? Whose sword is Ymir, tell me?" asked the voice, whose malice and irony could be felt.
- You gave it to me, that damn demon sword, and I'm going to find you with it and put it in your body, Nemesis!
The bomb was dropped.
This kid was in full communication with the natural enemy of the Fairylanders.
Sawyer ordered the soldiers to go outside the castle and warn the other guards to be careful, they had to help the population in the grip of anxiety and disarray after the queen-fairy's fit of nerves and go out to see if there were any suspicious characters lurking in the kingdom's grounds or outside it.
If the boy could communicate with him telepathically it was because he was not far away, Audiselia's bodyguard did not know if it was necessary to take so many precautions against an enemy whose nature is more than supernatural, even for the Faerie.
These mortals agitate vainly! said to him the Nemesis in thought, if I were there, you would have felt it, right? If not, you would have come to get me instead of fighting this overexcited fool. You wouldn't have missed me, would you? mocked the Nemesis, your kindness will harm you...
- But you will shut up! I don't need a lecture from you! Wait until I find you, I'll show you the strength I got to crush you all this time! spat the Hero between his teeth.
I can't wait!" the Nemesis rejoiced, "I hope you'll offer me a much greater distraction as a puppet than that poor woman who protected you.
- SHUT THE FUCK UP INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT MY MOTHER!
Oops! A sensitive subject, it seems," laughed the Nemesis, "you could have gotten over it by now. The day I honored your village was undoubtedly the most important day of your entire miserable life, but for me, it was a simple nustia, a day like any other to torment the beings of this unfortunate world.
- Five years I've been stalking you and you really think I'm going to forget all the atrocities you committed and the loved ones you stole from me that day? The more time passes, the more my resentment towards you grows! You will pay for the people of Niselios, for Zelda, for my mother...
Yes, that's good! Feed on this anger towards me, on this insatiable hatred that devours you. Feed on it, and come face to face with me, I who have waited for you for so many years, champion of Men, of Faerie and of Destiny. Repay me of the blackness of your heart, satiate me of this sadness which tugs at your heart and which twists your guts so much and become the one who will make fall this world in the black abysses of the evil by the advent of my master thanks to you! monologued the Nemesis with ecstasy, that it satiates itself of this world and of the whole universe
- Never! Do you hear me? Never!" cried the Hero, "because I am... I am... I AM THE FUCKING HERO! I'M FUCKING HUMAN! NOT AN ATROCITY LIKE YOU!
You complain to me as if it were my fault that you are in this situation. I am like you, subject to the rules of this world, a world that has only persecuted you since your "tender" childhood. If I am not the one to persecute you, there will always be this merciless world to do it. So what are you going to do to stop it, huh?
- I WILL DESTROY IT! I WILL DESTROY THE WORLD WITH YOU AND THE HERO OF THE LEGEND, EVEN IF IT MEANS LOSING MY LIFE!
I thought so...
The explosion of anger of the nameless human created an incredible energy that made the whole building tremble, the eyes of the Hero revulsed, all his muscles contracted, blood flowed from his head, his mental state was really unstable, he lacerated his arms that were already in a bad state because of his fight with the queen. It was the laughter of the Nemesis in the back of his mind that made him completely crazy, he could not control himself anymore, screaming in pain and distress.
No one could get close to him because of the energy field emanating from the boy without getting hurt or worse, losing a limb.
But suddenly, while he was on the verge of a mental breakdown, he felt a soothing warmth running through his body, this warmth calmed him down, his neurosis stopped and his eyelids became heavier until they became infinitely heavy.
This pleasant sensation came from the Fairy who had managed to pass the energy barrier that isolated the Hero, she had put her delicate hand on his chest and made circulate inside his body, this mysterious magic that he had felt when she had made him take his bath.
Is it an angel? said the Hero, not seeing her clearly.
She grabbed him, hugged him to her and whispered in a honeyed, caring voice:
- Valiant hero, go to sleep.
And the Hero's eyes blink.
Everyone watching this scene could not believe that it was real.
This light really gave the Fairy the impression that she possessed...
- It's impossible at his age," said one of the counselors, "it would be like a miracle.
Once the boy was asleep and had recovered his normal breathing, this fabulous glow disappeared.
What had just happened was beyond comprehension, they would never have believed that they would be witnessing such events because of a simple summons to ask some questions and an announcement of disqualification.
Sawyer looked at the queen of his heart and felt only pity and sadness for her at that moment, he didn't know what would happen when she woke up. Perhaps he should inject her with the serum to calm her down...
- We can't let that crazy woman sit on the throne any longer," Mathgen said.
- What?" said Sawyer, "repeat a little to see?
- Who do you think you are, I am your superior even if you are the Queen's bodyguard and confidant.
- You insult the queen, and you think I'm going to pass the pecking order by letting your objectionable comments pass?
- No matter what I say, you owe me respect, Sawyer! And you, after what has just happened, you're not going to tell me that we're going to remain blind in front of the danger she represents and the mess she made because of a pitiful love affair with a human? he says, addressing all the people gathered in the room.
- I don't allow you to judge her when you all know that the queen is different from us...
- I don't mind that you are his childhood friend, but we don't have to put up with his fits of madness! You'll tell me that this is not the worst case we've had to face, but I'm sorry, we don't have to make the citizens live through this... We're going to spend more public money on repairs...
Globox shut him up by putting his hammer under his chin and staring menacingly at him.
- The day you pay your taxes and stop hitting the coffers, you will be able to pretend to care about public money, the ogre reminded him, no matter what his follies, you owe respect and loyalty to our sovereign. What would you have done if you had been under the orders of the King-Combatants who sowed zizanie and discord wherever they went? You would have looked down on the residue that was Triface.
- I... I...," Mathgen stammered.
- That's what I thought," said the queen's second bodyguard, sheathing his hammer.
- I forbid you to act as if I don't care about her...," Mathgen spat.
Globox ignored him and turned to his friend.
- Go put the queen to bed, Sawyer, and the rest of us will take care of any damage she may have done to the kingdom.
- And what about the kid, what are you going to do?" asked Helmir.
They watched as his body lay in the lap of the Fairy, who was treating him as best she could - more like painkillers than real care.
- Take him to the hospital, Sawyer ordered, we can't leave the champion of a princess of this kingdom in such critical condition. But take the Nemesis weapon from him and seal it in every way possible. This corrupted weapon is a real danger to anyone who gets hold of it.
The Fairy was pleased with this decision. This boy who had helped her so many times was not going to be left behind. She did not know how to thank him for his kindness...
In his sleep, the voice of the Nemesis still echoed in his head. His last words were as much a mocking warning as a real threat:
When you observe the darkness, know that it also observes you... Do not forget it, never...
A few hours later.
In the basement of the kingdom, in Limbo, on the lowest floor of the underground prison was Jordan Lastick, the lizard-man assassin.
He had been securely anchored to the wall of his cell with Tetralonite, one of the strongest metals in the world but easily broken with magic, except that Jordan had been far too exhausted by his fight with the human.
How could he have been beaten by a mere human when they had just boosted his metabolism? he thought.
Ever since his fight with him, he felt something unhealthy coursing through his veins. His hands burned horribly and he was still dizzy from all the elven tricks that this faceless demon had done.
Now he would find himself having his head cut in two in the public square without having accomplished his mission. But before that, he would have to confront the terrifying Queen Audiselia, that monster of power. Why did she have to get in his way? He was the best assassin in the world - oh, are your ankles okay? - so even if this nameless girl had the reputation of being untouchable, he intended to accomplish his task...
But suddenly the door to his cell opened and men in red came inside, all hooded. One of them wore a yellow eye in front of his face on his peaked hood, had green skin, and was much more paunchy than his slender companions, whose backs of their coats made them look hunchbacked.
- Hey! What took you so long to come and free me? I wasn't even expecting you anymore.
- We were meditating on your fate," replied the leader of the group of men and women in red.
- What do you mean? You don't have a better agent than me! It's not my fault if I found myself in front of this guy.
- It's true," admitted the big-bellied man, "we have learned of his true identity and we concede that he was able to stand up to Queen Audiselia Vanguard while she was on a killing spree. That is why we will not punish you and give you the reward you deserve.
Finally, a little recognition, rejoiced the lizard-man, it's about time.
- This will kill two birds with one stone," added the paunchy man, "since we have to get something that doesn't belong to you.
- What is this? You didn't give me anything to do my operation.
- You did not receive it from us. You received it from the future herald of the Evil One, herald of the man of our beloved sovereign. During your fight in the arena.
One of the hooded men knelt down and pulled a box out of his long purple cloak, the one-eyed leader opened the box and pulled out a dagger with a curved blade and golden handle.
- Oh my, what are you doing?" worried Jordan.
- We're going to fulfill our promise Jordan Lastick, to make a main part of our queen, that's what you wished for, right?
- Yes, being part of your organization not dead.
- You are going to be part of something bigger... Don't worry, it's going to be okay, don't worry.
The leader of the men in red stuck the dagger in his chest, which went in like butter.
The lizard man cried out in pain, his body withered, his muscles disappeared, his huge jaw shrank, his teeth narrowed and his skin turned pale.
By the end of the process, he was skin and bones, scales falling off, eyes bulging, and mouths gaping. And so it was that Jordan Lastick, a simple Faerie who dreamed of greatness, died.
- Apparently he was not worthy," said one of the men.
- He was never, clarified their leader, he was only serving as a sacrifice for our queen and stopping our usurper. But now that she was in the custody of the hero of the legend, it will be difficult to get rid of her, especially since I have witnessed her latent power awakened, we don't have much time left before she remembers who she is. Now, let's pay tribute to our future queen resurrected! Ingloriosa Malekista Beliritona Marrynélia!
And they repeated this incantation indefinitely, under the attentive ears of the only prisoner on this floor, who was happy that her plan was taking place, after so many years.