Vol 1 Chapter 21 (1/2)

Chapter 1

At the edge of the forest, there was a gently sloping hill The sides of the hill were covered with thick grass A gray shadow, standing in the knee-deep grass, lifted both hands in the air A strange voice lifted and was carried away by the wind

Soon a shooting star split the dark night sky Cri larger and larger, the track it had left becaiant fireballs that pelted the hill On the hill, there stood a solitary castle

The light flared Moments later, a loud boom, the sound of an explosion, could be heard As the castle walls crurass around them burst into flames Illuminated by this inferno, the land around Kanon’s royal palace, shi+ning Hill, shi+e

The eht with all the sole a ceremony Mounted on a massive black warhorse, he wore a black cloak over his blood-red armor So attired, he commanded the respect an emperor was due

Beld was over sixty years old At that age,away the days in his throne room But he had the body of aon his own reflection, saw a deical power held in the longsword he wore across his back The longsword once held by a great demon still let forth an evil aura now that the one who had defeated the demon carried it The sword had taken countless lives and destroyed h in ecstasy fro so many new victims

Behind hihts who had co ruin of the castle let out an exultant victory yell But Beld’s expression did not change

Beld had been hiding in the woods at the foot of the hill, waiting for this moment But the battle was far fro castle, the enemy’s numbers were ten times that of Beld’s forces

Stepping out of the shadows and advancing slowly through the long grass, Beld turned back to look at the elite fighters waiting for his signal He slowly lifted his right hand, then brought it down in a flash

With a ruhts, all clad in identical black ared out of the forest and up the hill towards the castle The battle cries they screa of death Beld hi it straight in front of hiht around it The dark aura e froht The air grew heavy under the weight of its evil energy

“Are you heading out yourself, your majesty?”

Suddenly a voice rang out from his side Beld reined in his horse and turned to look at the speaker It was a lone woray robes She looked to be in her ing down her back On her forehead she wore a strange circlet A green geeht in the jewel changed as itit an eerie, unreal look

The woman was known as Karla Even Beld knew little more, only that she was a witch of dreadful power and that she had agreed to help hinard, had warned hinard was not jealously protecting his own status, nor did he know of a concrete threat that she ht pose No, he was merely wary of the power and motives of an unfamiliar witch