HEIR TO DEBUACHERY

You, who will bring demise to end. You, who will uproar the sky. You, who shall have an inevitable faithful remembering impact on this very land. So called born king is supposed to have all the qualities that are mentioned, there is always someone considered for becoming the great king and the pioneer of new Era, but that must certainly not be the king people think of, rather then that the heir to the king’s throne is much more of a heir to his debauchery, the day is blooming with great sky spreading its so called capital of Xarekhta, it’s called heaven’s heave. The capital is always a center for all the trades and all the spotlights that Xarekhta has to offer, with food grains, clothes to weapons and unseen fabrics are all part of the market, grand market, it’s the place where people look up to opportunities where the sun shines the brightest, the same market kicks the story of the day with Albert ready on his horse entering a work house just out side the market with James he sees a man in shadows who is eager for the proposal he is about to make, “take a look at this Albert it’s the new invention of our alchemist that were working in the castle, this thing just requires a spark and BOOM!!! Lands, ships and castles vanished in an instant”, he said with a point of making a long lasting impression, “how much do you think you can make of them?”, said Albert as he picked the powder rubbing in his hand, the softness is overwhelming but the potential of the powder is much more to show joyful fineness, the man gave a wicked smile, “As much you desire Albert!”. Albert looks at those barrels and is a little curious about testing it as much promising the new invention is, the hands always scratches up the money in pocket, “Fine you’ll have your money, make sure to satisfy me as much as you can with 100000 gold coin”. The man gives a lust full smile with droll off his face revealing his body language of some kind of old yet short in height and lack of muscles on his body he wears a plane green cloth with some kind of language written on it, “oh yes don’t worry it is more then enough for the whole capital”. As Albert walks away from the shop with an intention of the deals positive outcome the old man is just standing behind as he sees Albert and James leave, “oh boy, isn’t world has became such an interesting place, the ecstasy of this world is just simply overwhelming!”. As they leave James gets a bit curious, “Sir, may I ask you why full ton of barrels of that stuff?”. Albert and James get on their horses, “It’s only reliable when you have a good stock of it James, besides you never know who comes barging in, with army and dragons, demanding the right for the throne, it’s only the matter of fact that king Efren fades away”. James looks at Albert with a questionable face, “but sir, what about the king’s heir, he is still there right? Prince Howard”, albert is much certain with this fact than anyone else yet he opposes it, “the prince is a whore, vine and gold lover not much more than that James its only our duty as the royal guards to protect him, though I don’t seek any future whatsoever in him”. James gets the circumstances of the prince and is bound to agree what Albert implied and that even he was able to defeat the prince with his sword skills.

As they kept moving, they finally reached the castle, the prince is in his garden with some women around him, 3 to be appropriate, he sees Albert and James approaching him and sends off the women. “Ah Albert and James welcome, I was expecting you”, he said as they got off their horses and made their way to him, “How are you prince?!”, said Albert as they both bend in front of him. "Oh I'm just as fine, tell me what would you have, wine or the exported lokree". "no my prince thanks but we are on duty so it's not allowed to us", Albert explained. "Ha-ha, just impressive Albert, just impressive", the prince has a royal clothing on, gold chains, gold rings and a silver sword with a glass of wine in his hand just as Albert defined. They are then interrupted by a maid, "pardon my prince but the king is expecting you!". Howard looks towards Albert and James, "looks like we will talk later then Albert, see you around my friend". Albert knows that the king's situation is only worsen as the days are past thus, leaving no strong heir the kingdoms will go on a war, if such unexpected calamity happens they must protect the prince at any cost. Howard arrives back as they waited in the court yard just besides the garden, "Prince is he OK?", Albert looks really worried, "He does, for now not for long Albert the disease is such that he is not been able to move his left leg at all now". Albert gets tensed and then sits just on the ground, "now what, the kingdoms will go on a war now, good lord save us!". "A war for what!?", Howard is a little confused, "for the Throne they all will come at us for the power, we are fucked!!". Howard gives a bright smile, “ah you look so cute when you are tensed Albert!", as the prince laughed at him, "this is not a joke my prince considering you are so weak its only a mat-"..... "weak...... Do I look weak to you Albert", prince mad a intense look of his face, now that Albert realizes that he just said what, should not been said, "I was just implying my prince you are in danger-". Prince gave a wicked smile, "danger eh?", he then starts to laugh, "you thought I'm weak and now you thing I'm in danger, stop messing around Albert". Albert is a little confused, "my prince but you must lay low after the king passes away", he said with a worried look, "the kingdom would go turmoil after that my prince!!". The prince now gives a pat on Albert's shoulder and is very bright with a smile, "Oh we will see about that Albert". They both are left behind as the prince walked away from the garden, "Oh and yeah prepare for a crowning soon, papa wants to see it happening". Albert is now shocked by the king's decision of making Howard the next king, "but my lord you must at least have slayed 3 dragons for being worthy", as he remembers how weak the prince is, “rules are just words Albert and numbers Are the same". Albert is still confused by the punctuated line of prince, as he and James now are left alone in the park, they see the same three women passing by with Albert signals James to stop them, he takes no time standing in front of them, "I'm sorry for stopping you here my ladies, but you are always with the prince, I mean I know he is a prince, any other reason you are always sticking around him". The ladies then smiled at him as one of them replies, "oh Albert, once you've been in his chamber you will realize why he always has women seeking around him, trust me it's not that what comes in mind first". Albert then realizes that he was never allowed to enter prince's room after when he was employed with the job of his protection just waiting outside was his way of making money, "you go to the stables James, I'll be right back", as he rushes towards prince's room, the agility gained by years of experience takes him no time reaching his chamber its door is really huge and then he realized that it's the same anyway, he then rushed the door without permission risking his only Job in the royal capital after being retired from the job of lord commander, what he sees is what leaves him in traumatized, there were skulls of 5 dragon hanging from the roof as the chamber is wide enough to hold them, he then sits on the floor with his hand on his sweaty forehead, "Oh my lord!!", and now that he can relate many facts that came in his head, his skin was turning red as the baffled mind went through the fact that Howard never had the jeopardy against fighting him or James , it's all damned clear, and that the prince was just clobbering away the fact of his supremacy, his scandalized body language was making his body shiver as he gazed with wide open eyes to those damn skulls of the dragons. Howard then enters his chamber, "Albert........ What are you doing here....?".

The sun is getting on the top as Claire and Lyssa are left in shock as to what Leonardo even did to that man, "What did you do, how did you killed him?", said Claire with a worried look, "he was an undead, I can't kill him nobody can, so I locked him away, as shina made me practice", he said walking towards them, "Then too Leonardo, his weapon was too much enchanted!", Lyssa explained. "It's OK now he is gone there is no need to worry about him", he exclaimed, "then what about those creepy things we got rid of?", Claire asked, "those were just mere distraction, I could sense those with the density of forest", he explained, "You could sense the density of forest?!", Lyssa is impressed yet is surprised, "Considering the arboreal person he is, there would be no doubt", Claire was surely knowing the fact. They then started walking towards their horses, with there being no other threat to them they can finally leave the forest and enter the southern field lines, the place where the agriculture of cold crops takes place, the place where lies the outcast Bay right in the south, "we will be there by a village just outside this forest, may be they will know about some weird activity in the south", Leonardo explained as they got on their horses and started to hit the path, what lies is more interesting then something after the lake, village of Qualura, it is a village with most prosperity in unmixed beauty, Qualura is a very famous village as it is one of the oldest village in the history of land of Xarekhta, "isn't that the oldest village out in South!?", Lyssa asked as they kept riding, "whoa! You knew that!", Claire is surprised, "Well considering a globe trotter like me, I've been to many places, but I've only heard of this village in the books!". "don't worry people in this village are magnanimous, they'll let us in and will also help us around", Leonardo said as he couldn't stay silent on Lyssa's curiosity, "well that's something good, a place I've not been before, sounds so interesting", she said as she holds on to Claire's back. The path seemed so close yet far for them.

As the three do share a common direction but not a common destination. They reach at a peak of a mountain it is about to be noon, they see a village with no people in it, the area was vast and the place was so remote, "Is this Qualura, where are the people?", said Claire with a surprising tone that made them wonder, "the last time I was here it was blooming with humanity", said Leonardo as they stepped in the village with not even winds blowing, "Now this is a little scary", said Lyssa as they got off their horses and started walking, the place was full of cement houses but was so suspiciously empty, "There is nothing here for travelers", a old man came in front, he was wearing old, teared clothes and was having a stick as his only support of standing, "This village is over kids go ahead", "but what exactly happened!?", said Claire as they came forward towards the man, "What happened you say, it was a disease that took everyone's life, that disease was so powerful not even the star born of this village was able to withstand it", he said as he sat down on one of the chairs outside the houses in the front of the village Lyssa was oddly doubtful, "Disease? In this forest? Looking at the environment that’s practically impossible". "The last time I came here it was full of people", said Leonardo as the old man looked at him with a hand full of thoughts in his mind, "So you say everyone was killed, do you saw any physical changes in them?", asked Leonardo. The old man goes on a rewinding ride as he thinks of only one thing that made him the oddest amount all, "Ah, I know it was the skin color, they were pale compared to the thickness of mine", that made them 3 more confused as of the real ambiguity wasn't enough, "Pale huh? I've seen such thing to happen somewhere, I just don't remember", said Lyssa as she goes into her mindful adventure of being able to relate anything with the scenario portrayed by the old man, "OH I remember it!! It was one of the discovered diseases that were mentioned in the books of high tower, ah I don't remember the name of it though but it was surely mentioned in the books as the water disease!". "water disease?", said Leonardo as Claire and him barely even know about that, "ah it happens when the body takes some impure amount of water with some infective substance that cause the skin paling and sometime blood vomit", her study of alchemy is nearly world class as Lyssa claims to be the mage that was able to transfer herself to high tower academy and being able to gain knowledge and wisdom she blossoms when it comes to the field of magic and pharmacy, "So then it's water that caused it all, but how come that infective impure water came all the way to South of the forest, it's another impossible milestone for humans", said Claire as everyone was in deep thought but Leonardo already figured the water source but was unsure of some stuff, "Say old man, the river nearby is the only source of water right?", the old man nods at him, "then how come that they went sick?", Claire also had something running through her mind, "May be its something we are missing", said Claire as they backed off from the village with their heads down and they got on their horses as thru prepared to go ahead, the old man was still sitting down there, "I am cursed I assume, that everyone died but me as he looked at them going away," so any guesses as to why it didn't worked on the old man?", asked Claire as they started riding on their horses," No you see there are always contradicting diseases that violates the effect of other diseases, it must be that the old man is suffering from something stronger than that, it would be senseless though to think he is cursed or something". Even with the talks Leonardo was up to his own thoughts as to his mind was running as the fastest thing on land as they finally see the river possibly the source of their water, "it looks so pure!", said Claire as they gazed at the south river that was really wide, making it way All to the ocean, it started from that place thus, having two shores on either sides and is the same river that claimed to be the possible suspect of the village tragedy, suddenly Lyssa looks a little panicked, "hey guys....am I day dreaming or those are fish bodies on the shores of the other side of the river.....".

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The sun is increasing its intensity as Zarah and Daniel are ready to show their skills, Zarah is pumped up as she tightens her gloves and takes her marks, sooner without her being known the bear was standing right behind her, she gets misbalanced as the bear hits her, she knows that the speed of the bear is her greatest disadvantage as she hopes to come up with a good idea of defeating the speed first, she uses her left hand to dodge the attack as she gets her right hand to the bear's chest, sooner to realize that there is no clothes to get a hold of, that makes her to think of her mistake as to ignore that the bear doesn't has clothes, even in the beginning when they met on the heaps, she gets a little sweaty as the recoil firm the dodge drags her to some distance the bear yet stands still, she them sprints towards the bear with a roar making the bear to get confused as to why is she running into him, the bear then jumps on her the weight is really heavy, heavy enough to misbalance Zarah again she fells on the ground with the bear making everyone wonder if the large talks are over in two attacks, but she gets up, "AAAH, WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU EAT!!!", she has the bear on her shoulder, "Gotcha bear, what's with the weight and the contradicting speed!!", she said as she tossed the bear away which hardly scratches the bear, she does so to judge weight of the bear but the bear has quiet the idea of her strategy as then the bear changes into a tiger, “Can you judge the weight now!!", she gets a little panicked as the tiger dashes on her and lands a paw on her right hand making a huge cut, she retreats back and she knows that judging the weight is out of point now. "honestly I never thought of that outcome, to be able to change forms from one animal to other, But its good because I thought I was the only one with surprises", the tiger wastes no time to dash towards her again but this time it turns into a wolf, Zarah does gets surprised but not misbalanced as she holds the wolf with her hands and ducks the paw for landing a kick but the wolf now transforms into a gorilla which counters her kick with his huge hands, "Just how many animal can that man be!", said Xavier as they were the part of the audience along master ulfreg, "More then you've seen, although it is not that powerful as you think, besides he is just a gate keeper anyway", said Master ulfreg as they made their concentration back on the fight, "you want to see something big, I'll give you your good opponent", as the gorilla becomes a mammoth which roars making the ground to shake and as the grievousness increases the mammoth dashes, but this time it is been stopped by Zarah with her hands holding the mammoth's teeth, "You don't think you can win with that can you?", she smiles as she misbalances the mammoth on its knee and jumps on its back, "Oh I've fought bigger things than you, much bigger ones!", she gets right on top of its back and lands a punch with both her hands making the mammoth to fall even more, "it only needs one", she said as the mammoth transforms back into Daniel, "ah, I lose, you win my lady!!", she then gets off Daniel's back, "please forgive me if I overdid I was flowing in motion", as Daniel gets up curious yet in pain, the fight is over as everyone gets down in the arena, "p-please tell me how you got me lady Zarah I honestly thought of it as a good chance!", Zarah is smiling in her joy of an overwhelming victory, "It was your speed, I'm sure you would know about that your attack speed were not decreasing or increasing with every transformation", she scratches her head, "I feel so naive", Daniel gets really happy as he got to fight Zarah, "Then how much did it took you", Zarah replies looking at the sun, "I wasn't sure but it actually didn’t took me my sword so I guess you can calculate". Ulfreg also looks happy, "Now then, we may leave, although what we only found was a book, yet it can be a marvelous key to untouched locks". They are ready to move Daniel stands in front of them, "Please let me arrange a cart for you, that's the least I can do!", everyone cant do anything but to agree with him, thus Daniel gets going from the arena, "What were you thinking in the fight, you could've won that in fractions?", said Xavier as he looked towards Zarah when Ulfreg walked away, "Ah he looked so pumped up about it, so I thought of playing along and I thought it would be disappointing if I won in fractions", she said as they started walking away with Xavier giving a smile, "now that was expected to hear".

As Xavier continued to walk along ulfreg it was sooner that he realized that Zarah is nowhere to be found, he turns around panicking, "Oh for God's sake what now!!", he looks at ulfreg and thinks of all the places that Zarah can be at thus, making him sure of only one place, he rushes towards the basement, it is still as they left it, broken traps, hanging huge axes and the ominous vibe, it was not late that he sees Zarah getting ready for something, "hey!!what is it now we have been here, what else do you want?!", he said with a worried tone, "Ah I was hoping you'll come a little early, well it would be rather disappointing if we left this place like this on a second thought who knows when will I be able to come here again, so it better be this way, MY way", she said as she sprints towards the hanging axes and starts to get a use of the surrounding that she will be using as tools for her way of exploration she then climbs up the axe that was in the middle with her ropes, she sees a symbol of key meanwhile Xavier plans on joining her in an easier way that was taking him sometime to analyze, "I fuckin' knew it!!! A jackpot!", she said as she sees a key hole under that symbol, "Oi, Xavier why are you taking so long, come quickly", her punctuated words are echoed all around the room as Xavier figures out a way of his by using his soul magic,"VALERIS!!", he said as he sets on flying with purple Fog out of his hand and leg without any support, "Hold up ill be right there", he said as he joins Zarah and gazes the same key hole and the symbol, the symbol was of an dragon, "Looks like everyone loves fuckin’ dragons", said Zarah as they came closer to the symbol, "An artifact up here in the wall, this room is definitely crazy", said Xavier as Zarah punches the locks, but the punches are having no effects on the lock, "Get aside dumbass", said Xavier pulling the axe away on which she was, "I'll get it", he takes a deep breath, "CONROE", those magical words are now changing the purple fog on his right hand in red as he points it towards the lock, "Done!", "the wall starts to move on itself as they were shocked looking at it there was a gem in the middle it was glowing red in color at was looking like it was embedded here for a reason, “don’t touch it, it can be dangerous", said Xavier but it was too late as the excited self in Zarah was unable to hold her self back and takes it in her hand, "Ah don't worry I've seen gems like this, not this one though it looks really unique", she said as she dropped her way off the huge ace and was followed by Xavier, "Speech is a never understanding field for you I guess", he said as she gazed at the stone and realizes that they said Daniel to prepare for their get going, "Let's go, we don't want master Daniel to wait for us!", she said as she sprinted away, "nobody understands you, I wish I was wiser", said Xavier as he chased her back to the entrance of the coliseum.

Meanwhile Irene and Dracno are standing on the roof top of the castle, "You are damn sure it was her's letter?", she said as they were looking at the natural beauty of the castle rather than each other, "You think I'll lie about something like that just to get you out of here, nope, I'll drag you away, the letter was written with some serious intentions", she then smiles, "Ah, sorry, sorry that I judged you Dracno, but I if the letter says me to come then we will go, to see my sister!", the letter was just a piece of a paper that had the competence to excite Irene and to make her leave, Lathus reign, the letter was still in her hand, those bold letters,

"Irene, I hope you are doing well don’t worry I’m doing good too you see child I don’t often write letters but I have to write this one only acknowledge you about some thing very serious, you see your sister, Zarah D'ARC is still alive and as per the group of Valkyries that we talked with on the bank of East Xarekhta she has now entered our land, though they said she is safe for now, I can only think of how eager you are after reading this, we don't know her exact location but child, find your sister as she may be the long last Reason of you not giving up on your family, she might just be the Kick start of your new journey of yourself ........"

With love, MILEVA DUTCH.

As Irene enters her room she finds Faith sitting on her chair by the window, "Ah you are here, I was waiting for you Irene!", she is a little surprised, "Waiting, for me?", Faith then gets up, "Yup, you see Cade told me that we will be going with you, isn't that sounds great and on the top, Dracno agreed to it!", she gets shock as to not by their company but by Dracno's agreement as he hardly agrees for companions, "That does sounds great but will you be fine coming with us Faith?", she gives a smile, "Don't worry about me Irene besides the marks haven't gone yet", as she stands in the front of the mirror in Irene's room when she undresses herself by getting off the white jacket that she was wearing making her half naked she stands backward, the marks on her back are clearly visible, Irene comes close and picks a red paste with her hands she started applying it on the marks, "you are right, I should not worry, besides it's about someone I've never met in my life, yet she is the most important person to me or potentially my only reason of existence, Zarah I just wish these 5 days go by quickly", Faith then turns around and hugs her, "Be strong Irene just like you've been all these years, it's just a little more and you'll know how worth it the sufferings were". She stood by the window seeing Dracno and Cade talking about something as faith changes her clothes this time a red woolen jacket, "So you are not going to for the greed anymore", Faith asked as she gets her hair arranged sitting on a chair, "I’ve decided not to, at least for now its getting old", Faith gives her a smile, "I see, well like Mileva said on that day, you are inevitably going to rule someday Irene", she looks a little off looking outside, "I hope that one day is clearly visible to my family", Faith gets up, "Oh come on now, don't be so off mood, you should be happy, you are finally going for the search of your family with some real strong belief, even so I am really getting eager to see your sister!", she said as she sees through the same window that shots the view of the greenery of the forest and how the sky is meeting the forest no the horizon where the castle stands on one of the mountain in the range of wall of Eden.

Their reunion shall happen before its late as the discoveries shall not be done on its own and specifically not alone, with the world finally going to witness its new king from the disease that can lead directly to death the world is vast, more vast then the land of Xarekhta, that shall be a lesson for anyone who sees it as his or her's world even the miracle child will realize that the land dreamed is just a sand dust of the world and that the secrets are often opened too quickly

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