CHOSEN STAR

CHAPTER 27: BESIEGED (NEW EDITION)

With them sitting between the branches and the man in his little room with his "door" open.

TOIRE AND INKU interrogate him, they want to know who is he and what he does there?

The old man looks at them carefully, among them can recognize the clothes of INKU, it must certainly be one of the sister temples of CHOSEN, it is easy to identify the healers, they visited the village very often.

Go to OKE, she carries the seal of the castle.

Look at TOIRE, he seems to be an ordinary man.

Finally, she sees KEKI, something in her is different, she's definitely a CHOSEN, however, maybe she's the person she's been waiting for.

After a while of OKE silence, he despairs and screams threatening the old man to stop playing with them and speak or he will forsoever take his words out.

The man is carded... accepts it, no doubt, the girl is scary.

Have another drink from your bottle.

With a slight smile on his lips, he proudly tells them that he is UISUKII, the guardian of KIRO's fiefdom, of the Royal family and to top it off princesses' children, although (with some nostalgia) he misses those beating girls... gives a deep respite... for now he plays with bombs and drowns in whiskey.

WAPURO scolds him and calls him an old fool, as he's going to be a royal guard if he's out of the castle.

He gets serious, growls a little, tells him that he's been waiting years for them to arrive, this surprises them all, how is that possible?

UISUKII explains that, King KIRO knew it would happen, not when it would happen, the kingdom was besieged years ago, at that time by order of the king, he was entrusted with that task, UISUKII cannot return without them, points to KEKI and OKE, must show them the way.

Now they understand the situation of the old man, the loneliness that the years brought and that only whiskey could calm down.

He's a faithful soldier.

On a crumpled paper UISUKII draws a map of the castle, they must make a plan to reach the inner fortress of the castle without being discovered.

The place is still located only from within the citadel. It also tells them of a passage to reach and from there awaits them to try to reach the door of the folding bridge, it is the only entrance.

After agreeing, prepare to leave, each of them prepares their weapons, either polishing them or cutting edge, TOIRE has made new arrows and of course, UISUKII enlists a bottle of whiskey and some bombs.

In total silence, they adhere to one of the walls of the castle, they walk until they reach a secluded wall of the castle, it is covered by fallen branches and stones, they remove some to pass inside the wall, among the fallen stones which, in fact is an intentional facade, there is an inscription engraved on the wall.

There is a drawing made of pictures, UISUKII presses certain paintings in a certain order and opens a passageway (the wall is traveled), they enter and the wall closes again behind them.

They advance in the dark, they are like in a long cellar, it is part of the thick wall that reaches the citadel, everything goes well, but, even inside the cellar, to their surprise they have to make their way by killing those on the road with the greatest stealth, without being discovered.

They make their way to a very large courtyard that divides the internal fortress of the fiefdom (which has already been taken).

They are running towards a wall and you are hearing a very loud noise, as if giant trees are being knocked down, it is a heavy and leisurely noise, they rush, when they arrive, they stop dry, there is a huge troll armed with a huge deck that is hitting one of the walls of the barrier of the internal fortress which already has cracked.

The only way in is to approach and defeat the troll, as they disperse and approach, the group of warriors is seen by the troll who has turned, he turns to them, it is huge and that makes him slow, but no less strong, in fact, it is so strong that it will give them a difficult battle.

The troll with his mallet hits and smashes walls of the place where they hide to try to reach them with their blows.

They flee to wider ground (approaching the area where the troll is on the right side) away from the buildings so that they do not fall debris, once again their career is curbed with the deck of the troll who ting them.

He scatters and is randomly attacked by INKU, with the help of his deadly brush, TOIRE with his sword and UISUKII with his bombs, have caused him injuries, but he has become enraged and is more dangerous.

Attack KEKI, WAPURO and ESU cast a barrier spell, but with the deck sinks a little the sphere of light they formed.

Women disperse.

In the fortress they have realized the presence of the group and have the king called.

OKE making use of her agility, climbs on the ogre's back helped by a semi-fallen column and tries to bury a dagger, it breaks, INKU yells at her to get out of there, in that, the troll notices her hitting the wall to kill her, she jumps, the troll's deck catches up hitting her (not full) , OKE falls from the top, dazed and wounded, TOIRE runs to poop it, however, the troll, with the deck will hit him too, KEKI casts a spell of fire and seriously wounds the side, arm and face of the troll who, drops the deck and covers his face making himself back.

INKU is concerned about OKE.

He falls, heavily seated.

INKU, furious, attacks him and WAPURO asks him to stop.

She casts a spell on him and asks INKU to throw dirt at the troll, INKU obeys and the troll turns to stone.

ESU is surprised she never thought that could be done.

WAPURO explains that well-managed healing not only heals, but gives life, transforms, or kills... that's the power that the women in your village possessed.

In that, UISUKII yells at them to run, they were surrounded, but when the troll was around, even they did not become present.

Everyone gets defensive, protecting TOIRE who brings OKE in his arms.

Now that the troll's not here, they're coming to attack.

There's a wooden noise on the bridge.

As they turn up, they see a huge door, like a bridge that goes down about halfway and gives way to them.

From within they hear the voice of a woman telling them to come in fast.

UISUKII is happy.

END OF CHAPTER 27