The Rising Sun: Episode 6 Read Free

late. When I arrived here, Valicros
was gone. Zardin took it.” And now, the very worst has come to
pass.
     
    Vestra and Qyro exchanged a startled
look.
     
    “Valicros?” gasped Qyro, turning to centre of
the large room, where they had found the tablet. “That tablet
was…”
     
    “Yes it was.” said Mantra flatly. “There was
much that I had to hide, and much of history that I needed to twist
for the greater good … and the continued existence of the most
powerful tablet was the foremost among them.”
     
    “What do you mean?” asked Vestra, the shock
unfaded from her voice.
     
    Mantra took in a deep breath, before
explaining:
     
    “Valicros had to be kept off the Xeni’s
reach. After their evil empire fell eight millennia back, they were
not completely gone: they had just gone into hiding, and they would
return one day and that I knew. And when they did, they would look
for the most powerful tablet to release the demon army with. I had
to protect that from happening. And so,” He gazed at the centre of
the room, where the most powerful tablet had been kept hidden for
millennia. “I hid the tablet here, in complete secrecy, far from
the reaches and the ears of the Xeni. But I knew it wasn’t enough:
the Xeni would search for the tablet. And so, over the millennia, I
spread the message that Valicros had been destroyed after Redgarn’s
fall, among all mystics whom I fell to converse with. The deception
would have worked, if Redgarn himself had not unexpectedly
returned.”
     
    “They’ll be releasing the most terrible force
in existence.” said Vestra. “With the most powerful tablet in
existence. Anytime now.”
     
    “And that’s why we need to act.” said Mantra.
“Now more than ever.”
     
    “What are can we do now?” asked Qyro.

    “The only thing left.” Mantra replied. “The
release of the demon army is inevitable now. And we are now left
with the impending, crucial task of protecting the world from it,
when it is about to be released.”
     
    “Indeed.” Dantox nodded, his hands folded
before him. “We form a resistance. To fend off the army of Mezmeron
when it is released.”
     
    “We already have one army with us,” Mantra
looked at Nano as he said it. “The watchmen. But it will not nearly
suffice. We’ll need a force that is far, far greater to stand the
slightest chance of opposing the demons.”
     
    “Why?” asked Qyro.
     
    “Because they are about to perform the spell
on Valicros. The spell will be a thousandfold its original power.
And so will the army unleashed through the spell.”
     
    “And the watchmen alone will never be able to
fend them off this time.” said Nano, shaking his head. “We are
going to need a far greater resistance to ally ourselves with.”
     
    “What about the armies of the inner
spectrum?” inquired Vestra. “All the armed forces of all the states
and republics in the spectrum, if coupled together, can definitely
hold them off … right?”

    “Vestra, do you honestly think we can march
into the inner spectrum, and tell them to ally themselves with us?”
Mantra asked wryly.
     
    “What then?” asked Qyro.
     
    Mantra had his eyes fixed on him for a silent
second, before speaking with a deep breath.
     
    “The inner spectrum and the realm of man
beings has been well sealed off our sights at this desperate hour:
we’re their greatest dreaded threat. And no matter what we try or
attempt to convince them with, they won’t change their stubborn
stand they’ve taken against us. And the past few horrific hours
have only greatly raised their hatred for us.” He shook his head.
“No, the realm of the man beings is beyond what we can hope for, to
find aid in now. We need to look past them. And there is only one
thing that comes beyond man beings…”
     
    Qyro’s posture had stiffened where he was
sitting. “You don’t mean … non man beings ?”
     
    “I do.” answered Mantra
     
    “They’re the only allies we can scrape