Chapter 62: "The Recurrence"

Two days later after entering the Land Of Magic, "this place is amazing, I want to go back to the hot spring, all my injuries are healed," said Evan, "I could get use to a place like this, the air is crisp, I feel more powerful here," said Zeph.

The atmosphere is full of clean, positive energy, that hot spring was truly incredible Evan, it reminds me of the one in the East Kingdom and since I have been here I have seen fairies, elves, dwarfs, goblins, and unicorns, I didn't know these creatures still existed, I have only heard of them in stories and seen drawings," said Rose.

"I'm glad you guys like it here, there are still a few more things you haven't seen as yet," said Luna.

"King Ignatius bowed before William and said, "Prince William, I'm sorry for what I have done, I don't know if you can forgive me for what I have done, it makes me very sad," William then stretched his hand out to him.

"Rise, what you did was not of your own will, it was the work of our enemy, we have to stop him from causing any more harm to others," said William.

"You have grown up to be a strong young man, your mother and father would be so proud to see how you have turned out, and that's right, we have to stop him," said King Ignatius.

"Thank you," said William, "we need to call a meeting," said Ignatius, "yes after I am done here we can meet at the Central Kingdom, You, myself, and King Naseem," said William, "ok Prince William," said Ignatius.

"Sorry to interrupt but it's time William, the Queen is ready for you," said Sol, "oh ok," said William, "I'll be taking you and your son back to the West Kingdom," said Sol, "ok thank you, it was nice being here, I heard stories of this place when I was a boy but to spend two whole days here, it's like a dream come through," said King Ignatius.

"This is the father I remembered," thought Aidan with a smile, "William when you are done here I want us to spar a bit and take Evan along with you," said Aidan," okay, I'll do that," said William with a smile he then said to Evan.

"Aidan has taken a liking to you, he seems different now since he has gotten his father back."

"Yea he isn't a royal pain anymore," said Evan, they then laughed.

Sol opened a portal and they all stepped through it," Queen Luna," said William with his head bowed, "Prince William, it's nice to meet you officially, you resemble Nesbeth, your energy," said Luna, "is that so? What was he like?" asked William," he was a lot like you, the same spirit and will," said Luna.

"I only see four of you here and only three bare the magical items, where are the others?" asked Luna, "well it's a long story, the other three were taken by King Darius but I promised Yam and his friends that I would get them back," said William.

Luna started to have mixed feelings about what she was hearing," Yam? so you have spoken to the god that resides in your weapon already, that's good," said Luna, "yes we all have been it was just once, we haven't heard from them since, the guy that we defeated was after our weapons and another magical item, "said William.

"That man was after the crown of immortality, he made mention of it in our battle, all he could talk about was becoming the greatest mage to ever walk the earth, he was obsessed with it, it's one of the many magical items left here by gods over the millenniums,

the people back then were visited by gods and the gods normally leave something for the people to worship and remind them of their visits, these items were very sacred to the people but as time went by,

generations came and went, the traditions faded away with them, and these items were hunted and sold, used by oppressors to oppress the weak and innocent, there were other places like this all around the world but they were destroyed by the greed of these evil men and women,

looking for these items, only three places still stand to this day, here and two others.

About these magical items that were left in my care by the Goddess Hestia, I made a promise to her to keep them safe but after meeting Nesbeth and his friends, seeing how their fates intertwined with them,

it was destined for Nesbeth and his friends to wield these weapons to protect their present time, before Nesbeth left us he shared a revelation with me concerning the future, he spoke of great evil, a recurrence,

the weapons would be needed again to put an end to it, so I trusted him and I let him and his friends keep the magical items, I don't know if losing them was a part of this revelation but I believe you will do the right thing and retrieve them," said Luna,"

"We have to stop King Darius, just imagine the amount of suffering and pain he will cause if he is left to have his way," said William, "look at what he has caused already," said Zeph with a clenched fist.

"King Darius? is this the current King of the land of Bellquin?" asked Luna, "yes," said William," his ancestor was the one who tried to plunge the world into darkness hundreds of years ago, and now he is back to pick up where his ancestor left off, I guess that's the recurrence," said Luna.

"He is also possessed by something very evil and so are some of his people that we have fought so far, they have an entity living in their bodies, it comes out fully whenever we identify it there or when the host is close to dying or being beaten,

so far we have fought tier four, three, two and one entity, they are quite strong but the power of the gods can vanquish them, "yea that's true, even though I don't have the power of a god, I used Zeph's power and combined it with mine and vanquished the entity that was inside King Ignatius." said Evan, "What! Evan! you did that? that's smart thinking," said William, Evan smiled.

"You have been taking note of everything that's happening around you Rose and that's very good but how did they get here?" asked Luna, "He made a mage open a gate to another dimension, letting something evil into our world," said Rose.

"Dimensional magic isn't something to be played with, do you know exactly what the mage used?" asked Luna, "not exactly, a stone with half a spell written on it, he had to search for the other part of the stone that contained the rest of the spell," said Rose.

Luna was astonished, "could it be? this is very bad, that's a forbidden spell said to be lost for thousands of years, it is said that a mage who practiced dark magic and was intuned with the cosmos received a spell in a vision and carved it into a special stone that couldn't be broken so easily, that spell was the key for opening another dimension,

He was warned by a fellow mage not to open something he might not be able to close, he didn't listen he went on to cast the spell, opening another dimension and a fight broke out between them,

the mage who cast the spell was defeated, the other one tried everything to close the dimension but he couldn't, it took him some time but he figured out a way to close it and that was to destroy the stone which wasn't an easy task because of the material that it was made from,

he had to sacrifice his life force to break the stone in two, that undid the spell, the stones were then separated from each other, until now." said Luna.

"So along with stopping King Darius we have to find that stone and destroy it but at our current level we are not strong enough, guys we have to get stronger if we want to achieve this," said William.

"That's true, fighting Gavel showed me how weak I am, I have to get stronger," said Zeph, "I'm willing to train, even more, I want to become stronger as well," said Evan, "you guys are not leaving me behind and I have my teacher already," said Rose with a smile.

"It's settled then, become stronger," said William, they all nodded in agreement, "I have a teacher here for all of you, to hone your skills and unlock new abilities, this reminds me so much of them, Nesbeth and the others when they first came here," said Luna.

"Before we start I have two requests, I have some things to take care of at home, and I would like to get them out of the way before we start, "oh ok that's one, what's the next one?" asked Luna.

"Can we please go back to the hot springs?" asked William, they all started to laugh.

"Yes you can," said Luna, meanwhile in the Central Kingdom." Princess Arada will be mad at us, we should have arrived yesterday," said the carriage driver, "it's not our fault we took a wrong turn, it been a while since I have been here," said the guard.

"There's a tree up ahead blocking the road, there isn't any other way to go we have to stop and move it," said, "it could be a trap so be careful," said the carriage driver.