The Shattered Ring
There was a time where all the citizens of the city, Onuawala lived in peace and harmony like normal citizens of a city would. Now crime festers in the city all day and night. Ever since word of the sacred ring being broken and shattered got around no one has trusted the king or the governing of the city. So the Citizens did the normal thing to do… Rebel, but rebellion leads to riots, riots lead to violence, violence leads to never-ending violence and of course once this comes you need a miracle to stop it. Especially once everyone in the city realized that they had been ruled by frauds for centuries. It turns out that the sacred ring made of Diamond glass infused with gold running in the ring like veins. The gold would glow like a fire in the night whenever the city was
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Ba’al approaches the kings hand, his human face has melted off and all that’s left is his ugly demonic face with glowing red ancient tribal markings he has Astrais dagger in his hands, he approaches even closer to Astrai and stabs the dagger into Astrai’s heart. As he does this he says, “I never told you when I wanted your heart you foolish man.” Astrai falls to the ground, the thick smoke fills his lungs before he bleeds out making his death even more painful than it has to be. No one would even know he died here. Back at the kingdom King Tual feels much better all ready but something posses him to go the edge of his balcony and drop the Sacred Ring over the edge. It falls to the ground shattering, Not only did it shatter itself it shattered the hearts of al the citizens of the kingdom. All but one of his children became deathly ill. Ekon is the only child who is not affected . The other children all all in their beds being treated for their incurable curse. No one realizes that the treatments they are giving them is just wasting materials. The kids were already destined to die. Which they did, The king comes in to check on them and their symptoms
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