"In a kingdom shrouded in deception and marked by the scars of the Vuhranil war, a decade of political turmoil threatens to crumble the monarchy. Alicia Iko, a newly appointed State Guard, is entrusted with the kingdom's last hope: to locate and harness the powers of the dark bender, the world's most formidable mage capable of manipulating the enigmatic forces of the Null realm. As she embarks on her perilous quest, she faces a relentless sect of malevolent magicians, power-hungry celestial beings, and the sinister Vurhans, embodiments of pure evil. Alicia must navigate this treacherous landscape to restore order and prevent the dark covenant from obliterating the keepers of the covenant. Will she prevail against these formidable foes, or succumb to the seductive grasp of the dark covenant?"

THE DARK COVENANT

“You have to keep your cool, Jrue, or Tyndale will suspect you!” Jrue was alerted by Lora. He struggled to keep his sobs down. All was coming back to him, and the volume of information was almost too much for him to handle. The vivid memory of the assassinations he'd carried out. The heinous deeds he'd committed. He was unable to forgive himself for such heinous deeds.


Lora felt bad for him. She had seen the tragedy that had befallen her brother. The mindless machine that slaughtered innocent people for the thrill of watching one struggle for his last breath as they died. As he cut off people's limbs, he grinned satirically. She knew he would never do anything like that, and she desperately wanted to help him forget about it, but there was no chance she could do that.


ARC III; THE VURHANIL WAR PART 1: LORA AND JRUE