75 The Seventeenth Ordainer (2/2)

The Saint witch sighed before smiling. The others were also woken from their trance. They turned to Mboya simultaneously before bowing their heads.

”Long live Mboya.”

They recited together, the woman above the altar included. Mboya wanted to say something but when he felt some energy sweep through his entire body, he knew things were not going to be the same and he kept quiet.

”Moraa, I am leaving him in your hands. Make sure you take him to the first floor and ensure that all the wizards and witches cast a spell of activation on him. After that is done, make sure you bring him here and take care of him until the current Ordainer arrives. You will know what to do when that time comes.” The witch gave her instructions before disappearing.

Moraa heaved a long sigh of relief when she saw the problem that was giving her an explicit headache being solved very easily. She turned to Mboya and smiled.

At this moment, Jade Eagle had arrived in the cave where the other three lions were almost finishing their meal.

”You can't be on a feast and fail to invite me, that is so unfair, especially when you are eating my favourite.”

As soon as the bird landed, Ratong' who had long transformed into the mysterious lion jumped into the cave and started bolting down the pieces of Mammoth Gazelles that its fellows had hunted. Jade Eagle also contracted to its normal size and joined Ratong'.

The two of them left the other three lions and Ochieng' looking at them with bitter smiles. These were the strongest beasts here and without Ochieng's intervention, no one would dear go against them.

'They roam the forbidden lands eating the sweetest of fruits, the healthiest of herbs and the purest of waters. The people of our land die seeking their flesh and blood. They resemble the little gazelles we see but were blessed with huge bodies and thick skins that no ordinary lion can tear apart. They are the Mammoth Gazelles. Their meat is the finest and most delicious. Their blood is an elixir that never clot nor expire...'

Upon seeing the skin of other two dead Mammoth Gazelles nearby, Ochieng' suddenly remembered the story about these beasts he was told by one of his clan elders when he was still a child. He jumped to those gazelles to keep them but remembered his backpack could not even carry a single one let alone all of them.

'How am I going to keep them... Ehe!?'

Just when he was wondering how to store them, he heard a 'weng' sound before the beasts vanished altogether. Even the ones that were being eaten by the bird and the lion disappeared leaving them looking at each other with great shock and fear.