The Entire court was silent on hearing gauge's request.
"who would enter such a place willingly?"
"that kid is crazy"
"Are we about to lose a good soldier?"
murmurings spread across the court.The king reminisces of a time in his young age, he was talking to a dark mysterious figure
"I want you to take care of my child, and no one should ever know he was my son, do whatever it takes to conceal the truth and do not in any dire situations reveal about his origins to him, I don't want my son to carry the responsibility of the universe in his shoulder let him choose his path."
said the man,
"But a boy with no lineage will be treated like a scum"
pleads Karyos,the man replies,
"I'd rather that than my boy think himself as a curse. Form a kar'azal pact with me to never reveal his lineage Karyos"
as he presents a magical incantiation of a semi circle, this circle needs to be completed by a complementary incantation from Karyos for the pact to be formed.
"I...promise to never let the world know of his true origins my friend"
Kar'azal pact - a pact that can only be formed between two true friends and once formed unless the pact is revoked by the caster it cannot be undone till time ends...
Cut to the present,
"If only HE did not form that pact with me, I would have been able to protect this child....no if his real lineage was known, no one would even dare to harm him"
the king thought to himself.The queen walks into the courtroom,as gauge continues speaking
"if a punishment is what general kael wishes, sending me to the enderworld should do well my lord."
as he turns to kael,
"won't it my prince?".
The queen responds,
"As you wish soldier, kael and the soldiers of this kingdoms shall escort you to the borders of Azoria and see to that you are sent into the enderworld"
as she looks at kael with a everything is going well look, kael nods and orders,
"Bravest soldiers who wish to see a traitor die shall follow me to the borders"
and he looks at gauge with a disgusted face. As they leave the courtroom and step outside the palace, every soldier whoever followed gauge in war bid him farewell, this is natural considering they are alive due to gauge's nature to save as many lives as he can even the enemies'...they walk towards the enderworld.Cut to a few hours later they arrive to the Endervillage the last piece of land before the borders that belongs to the human world 🌎.The climate is eerie,everywhere they see they find ruins of buildings, trees dead as if they lost the will to live.Kael looks at gauge,
"You could have just begged me to let you live, but instead you chose pride, now that very pride is going to kill you my friend...just because you are good with a sword doesn't mean you can conquer the Enderworld"
as kael is speaking a soldier climbs upon a broken archway and looks for the borders,
"There I see it"
he exclaimed. The Enderworld border - a large Hemicircular cluster of dark clouds rotating on its own axis at a slow dramatic rate.Inside the clusters you could visualize lightnings but not your average ones these lightning ascend up from the base of the hemisphere to above, pulsating the entire sky.
"alright we are here now, let's escort him and watch him d..."
Kael suddenly falls to his knees as he was about to finish his sentence, grabbing his throat...puking blood. Soon all the other soldiers fell one by one bleeding profusely, at the brink of death kael looks at gauge, the only one standing against the very aura of the Enderworld,
"you really are a monster, to withstand something of this magnitude"
as he faints, gauge escorts all the soldiers to safe distance but two were too weak to survive,
"This is why the rule of the army must change, I cannot save my people if they are led to their deaths by an idiot and neither can I replace him without knowing who or 'what' I am"
gauge speaks to himself as he leaves the dead soldiers in the ground after paying them respect.
Gauge walks towards the enormous cloud, they closer he gets the larger it seems, about a size of a huge mountain and area of an Island to compare. But gauge doesn't falter, he musters courage and enters into through the mist.
What dangers await him in the Enderworld, Is it really that dangerous. Any Soldier sent to inspect the Enderworld has never returned,the question is can Gauge ?