The thirty+ year-old Babida the lumberjack falls in love with the beautiful eighteen-year-old maiden Suzie on their first unexpected meeting in the forest of Ekule, the major city of the Batang empire in Africa. There starts an epic adventure between the two lovebirds.  

At first, the young maiden Suzie is scared by the tall and very muscular woodsman. She thinks she is all alone in the bushes and therefore is surprised when the stranger that Babida the lumberjack was to her at the time calls her. She isn't comfortable with the presence of an unknown man who could turn out to be a stalker, so she cuts short the conversation the logger is trying to have with her and she walks away. 

However later, she will be revealed by her maternal uncle the heroic past of Babida the lumberjack and from that moment she will begin to nurture an admiration for him. She learns that the man she is repelling is in fact a war-time hero, a brute force of nature who slayed the Monster of the Forbidden Mountain over a decade ago. 

The villain was a ferocious bird ten meters tall for twenty thousand kilograms that attacked the Batang empire and was on the verge of destroying everything, including the imperial palace. 

At the time of the Monster's aggression, the young maiden Suzie was still a three-year-old toddler. A fresh man of boundless courage decided to step in the beast's way to save the land and it was no one else but Babida the lumberjack...

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The lumberjack and the beautiful Suzie (Remastered version)

The imperial soldiers failed to stop the foe in Okunde. The Monster of the Forbidden Mountain overcame quite easily all their tricks and arrived at the south gate of the village. It destroyed mercilessly the checkpoint and the imperial guards assigned to its defense before taking the road to the north gate of the capital city Ekule. 


Alerted of the looming danger, the Emperor, The Great Batang IV commanded that all men of the land -soldiers and civilians-, progress in the direction of the north gate of the imperial city and pledged to distinguish and elevate to the highest either military or non-military position whoever would slay the monster's head and bring it to him on a silver platter. 


The emperor was an ailing sixty-year-old man. He had been ruling over the empire for twenty good years since his father's abdication. He had won battles but they were not as challenging as the war against the Monster of the Forbidden Mountain. His army was already down by two hundred brave fighters. Only three hundred were remaining to protect the fifty thousand inhabitants of the overall land. Half of the population was concentrated in Ekule. 


Men of courage heard the order of their Majesty and moved toward the north gate of the imperial city. One of them was the then seventeen-year-old boy Babida who was already endowed with an out-of-norm physique. He was a woods cutter apprentice and learned the skills of the profession from his uncle Doda who had passed away a year ago suffering from lingering diabetes. 


Contrary to most of the men in the troop who were equipped with a sword, the brave teenager Babida held in his right hand a Herculean steel ax weighing twice the average weight, about five kilograms. Its length went up to a hundred centimeters. 


However, as was customary for most warriors, he wore silk trousers, a steel bracelet on each hand, and a tusk necklace that hung on his naked chest. 


He walked proudly amid the men of courage. They chanted in unison war songs to motivate themselves. They defied the Monster of the Forbidden Mountain to set his long and skinny leg on Ekule's soil. They were telling how merciless they would be when the time to lay the sharp blade of their weapons on its neck would come. They were singing so many things when suddenly...they were rocked by an earthquake. Their enthusiasm was shattered and the north fence crumbled. In the background, the shadow of something yet unidentified became bigger and bigger. 


"It's the Monster of the Forbidden Mountain!" A warrior in the battalion shouted, his finger pointing in the direction of the Beast.


Prologue (11)