Cross Swords Book I : Deferendum
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"Malice of the underworld shall rise;
After millennia of deep slumber,
This time until the entire realm dies
Down to its last element of freedom plunder'd.
He will not settle until his annihilation spreads,
Far and wide to the horizons of the realm,
Pending the extinction of all life forms;
Not a strand of grass shall survive this genocide.
....
....
....
Mine grandeur blunder of conception,
Was that fabrication and annihilation;
Were somehow athwarts. At the smallest
level of origins, we are all one.
Wield them both, and you are an immortal.
If not this time, then another. . ."
~ 5th Aaraliz: Malice
Such was the prophecy that the queen of Immortalia had penned down for the future generations; to warn them of what was coming. A young sword, Dyren Justenforth along with his twin sister Laticia Lionheart finds their way of understanding nature better to become master magic wielders and to ultimately prevent the impending disaster.
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