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"The Doomed Knight, Part 5" by Lim Li Hao

SF&F Picture 8 out of 11 by Lim Li Hao

Surely, an episode has to end so another wave can come. I was expecting a bad comment about the entire flow of the story but hey who cares. I like the way it is.

The Doomed Knight, Part 5

The Heroes of the Hidden Realm

Lagrimore divided his army in equal proportions and sent 3 groups of them to assist the other assault team. He and his remaining troopers took cover in the woods. Haszarx did not know it was a trap until a battle cry sounded. They were caught by surprise by the trolls and human who dashed forward and attacked them.

The orcs splitted into different directions heading towards safety. However safety was no longer theirs. The assault team led by Tanisha and Jen Marzun had wiped out half of its forces and was forcing them to head towards the sea. The orcs were forced to fend for themselves against the raging waves, their fears and their enemies.

Haszarx was frightened but he managed to avoid letting his fears overrun him. Lagrimore suddenly leaped and hurled his axe onto Haszarx. Haszarx was badly wounded but he paced and cleaved his way towards Lagrimore who had only one axe left in his right hand. Akri-Tef hurled his axe too causing Haszarx to fall forwards. Sagritacore jumped out and sundered the head from the body of Haszarx.

The remaining orcs were even more easily and mercilessly slaughtered because of their invoking fears. Knowing pretty well that the others were still badly trapped in the war Tanisha told the troll leaders to advance their forces together towards the plain. However as they advanced towards the main force led by Karlimax Eldamo, they too were surrounded like Delt's force and Quin's force.

Cavennah Bowell stood and was getting impatient. He paced and walked round and round until a scout shouted, "Report! Enemy sighted. Golems, 27 of them!" Cavennah was shocked. He knew that he hardly knew any magic to deal with them and Kazan's magic could not hurt them. Physical attacks were even more useless against them as their rocky composure protected them from all physical attacks.

Cavennah returned to the castle to seek consultation from Kazan who shook his head when asked for any ways to deal with these large non-living perils. Kazan and Cavennah sighed with a little relief when he heard Aearn Vzark proposed to aid them. Kazan expressed his gratitude by meeting them in person to thank them for their aid.

Aearn laughed at the inexperienced mage. "What is the weapon that can be used against a large army and a standing castle? Or should I asked it as what are the three weapons. "

"Oh I see!" Kazan exclaimed, "the battering ram, the catapult and the ballista! Why did I not think of that? However we did not have these resources in our castle. They were all transferred to the battlefields."

"Let me ask you one question, you seemed more troubled to think clearly. Who are the usual ones that possessed these weapons? The attacking force or the defending force?" Aearn laughed and continued, "Of course it is the attacking force! Do you think I can attack your castle without their aid? Never. At first I thought you all are having difficulty because of lack of equipment but it is also lack of general knowledge!"

Aearn's horsemen pulled the catapults, ballistas and battering rams towards the golems. The catapults were fired and next ballistic missiles flew at the golems. 16 of them were crushed in the onslaught. Another wave of attack began as the quick moving human and the horses crushed the golems with the battering rams.

Quarry Acad did not fall but turned to retreat from the battle. A ballistic missile was fired at Quarry but Quarry turned his body and swinged his fist sending the ballistic missile to land somewhere else. Aearn halted his men as he knew that Quarry could not be defeated by the methods they practised on the other golems.

Karlimax Eldamo sensed something was amiss when the dark sky began to turn red. Indeed he suspected magic at work. He thrust his sword three times at Delt's face to force him to back away and he took the opportunity to scam. Delt Barei leaped at him but he swinged the sword slashing and sending him backwards. "Next time, Delt Barei, next time!" Karlimax laughed.

Lordeon's and Turgic Swalves magical attacks sent Razor and his group of baacs back. Though wounded, Razor and his group still had the advantage. The hundred odd magicians had ended in a small band of 23 magicians while the group of baacs had them circled up. Razor smiled as he tossed two baacs in front of him to protect himself from the magical attacks.

As he was about to swing his sword forward at Turgic Swalves, he was pulled back by a grappling hook. Quin kicked Razor off the hook as he swinged his right arm back. Razor noticed that his group of baacs were dispersed and unable to supply him enough time to kill on before facing the rest. Escape was his only option out as he was outnumbered. Clutching upon the 'Hell Stone' Stardoom gave him, he escaped via the magical device.

The entire 'Storm Ceremony' was finished and the last storm was meteor storm. Belmore Organ stared at the sky with horror. He put his hands together and cast 'Dimensional Exchange'. The damage inflicted by the falling meteor was greatly reduced to only ten percent of its original strength. Belmore grinned and climbed up only to face the non-ceremonial sword dance.

Willn tossed the sword piercing into Belmore's stomach and punched Belmore's face. He lifted his body up by holding the neck with his left hand and twisted the blade and sliced his internal organs with his right. Belmore fainted after the torment on his body. However it did not rest there as Willn took out his dagger and slowly broke the bones on his fingers; Belmore woke up screaming in agony.

Willn lifted Belmore's chin and banged his head on the floor. He retrieved the sword from Belmore's body and pierced his thigh numerous times. The ritual of pain did not stop there. Willn's hatred, revenge was shown on his torturing of Belmore's body. He cast 'Heal' and 'Revive' to wake him up to finish another round of pain. The surrounding baacs whom witnessed this ran away in fear though they experienced doing at least one of the above performed.

The army gasped and some even vomitted as Willn slowly pierced the dagger digging out the eyeball. No one was able to look as what Willn did. Willn healed him several times and poured hot water, hot acid on the body of Belmore. The screaming was heard even in the forest where the trolls was. He set the baac on fire and poured water to cease the flame.

Even so, he was not pleased with his torture. Belmore was dying and every moment when he was about to die, Willn healed his body and revived him. Willn pierced a sharp needle-like knife into his toe and started carving. Belmore had eventually lost his sense of feeling of his lower torso. Pouring honey on his body, Willn attracted bees and ants to his body and left him to be devoured and tortured by the insects to death.

Jen Marzun held her hands over her mouth and vomitted after seeing what he did to his enemy. She cried as the thought and the scream of agony filled her mind. She fainted on the arms of Kazan Oris who also witnessed the agony of Belmore. Kazan looked away in the middle of the ritual and prayed for it to end early.

It was midnight when the war eventually ended. Willn Cavori was walking back himself when he heard movement behind him. He turned his head and found the man who lost his arm, Jace'd Alvarado and in his arms was a lady he knew. Her name was Nasila Xilan.

"I saw what you did to Belmore's body and I have to admit your cruelty is more far-fetched than mine. Of course, being cruel is part of being evil but the man difference between good and evil is the reason to practise it. If you practised that on his body without any personnal hatred, I'll have to changed my title of Warlord of Evil," Jace d' Alvarado silently spoke.

Willn watched him and did not react. Willn placed his left hand on his scabbard but he did not unsheathed the sword. Neither did he react when Jace hurled the tied up Nasila Xilan and placed his sword over Nasila's neck. He stared coldly into the eyes of Jace as he turned to leave.

"Willn!" Nasila shouted, "Kill him!"

Willn turned back and faced Jace who smiled cunningly as he slashed the sword. The head rolled to Willn's left foot but Willn did not budge and slowly spoke up, "That's what you mean? I suppose it is not an act of evil since you hold personnal grudges. What an irony. I cannot believe you think that I'll try to save her do you?"

"You no longer seemed to uphold the knight's honour do you, Willn Cavori? What if the supposed subject now is your sister?" he said with a smile, "yes I suppose you'll make a move." He lifted his right arm and signalled. Quarry Acad who was huge and enormous suddenly appeared and threw Tanisha on the floor. "Well, don't play any tricks, Willn. I just want you to lose your left arm."

Tanisha's mouth was stuffed with cloth and she could not talk. Willn spoke up again, "You must be pulling my leg, telling me that I can get back my sister by losing only my left arm. I suppose you ain't that easy but neither am I?"

"My patience is wearing off thin. All I asked for is your left hand and you are doubting it. Every second from now my patience wears off, I might reconsider my options. To force you to give more or simply slit her throat. It is you that does not have an option. It is you that have no choice. You will either lose it now or later," Jace tapped his index finger on the sword.

Lordeon and Cavennah arrived discovering the situation. Without any delay, Cavennah swing his sword at Jace. Lordeon immediately took the initiative to stop the golem from attacking. Willn kicked aside Jace's sword and thrust the sword into Jace's skull, cracking it and killing him instantly. However Cavennah was kicked off first by Jace and Quarry Acad turned into a pile of dust and disappeared.

The end of the Doomed Knight. To be continued... The next Episode is "The dusk of the dragons". In next Episode, the story will be drawn to the Cardarn Empire and the Itatikarn Empire.

The Doomed Knight, Part 5
The Heroes of the Hidden Realm
Volkarian Era,
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Date	Name	Comment
19 Jul 1999	Lim Li Hao	Loading... Any comments? Anyone?
11 Sep 1999	Tricia	Loading... Cool story...i like it,,,,the tortue part is cool....I hope he goes nuts and kills some more }

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• Keywords: Nelstar, Xyrulgile, Willn, Cavori, Lim, Li, Hao, Doom, Knight, Heroes, Hidden, Realm
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