Chapter 14:“Ivore’s Victory”

Mateo, Ofurd, Kamil, and Luar take out the cards and walk toward the wall. The examiner says, “You can hold your cards to the wall. If you do it correctly, a weird-looking object will come out. If you insert the card, you will get something with space in it. You put the cards in and then turn the cards to the left side.”

Every player does that, and then four bad-looking things come out. The examiner continues, “You have to put a locket and a ring on at all times.”

Everyone speaks to each other, asking, “What are these bads for? What is even going on here?”

The examiner says, “That thing you call a 'bad'—its real name is Animus. It can take you from one place to another, but your body will still be here.”

He explains further, “Let me explain. You sit inside this thing. When you wear the ring and the chain around your neck, you will not be disqualified from this exam. There are about 100,000 questions. It will be like a quest. All of you will have to do a certain type of thing, then you will get the question and everything. Let me give an example: if you are inside this thing, your soul will go to another body. It can feel pain, but your body will be weak. You will grow up fast, like a flashback. Every one of you will be the age of 25—not a day younger or older.”

“Now, see that button on the side? If you click it, you will immediately sleep, get a flashback, and then your adventure starts.”

Every player starts wearing the ring and the chain.

The examiner says one more thing: “If you lose one of these, nothing will happen. But if you lose the second item, you die and come back here. In this place, you will have the ability to find stuff to use as life. It will be called magic items. Even though magic is not real, this is like a game.”

Every player lies down in the Animus. The examiner tells them to close their eyes. Every player does as instructed.

Suddenly, all the players see a flashback: villages being burned down, soldiers screaming and crying in the name of this land. You see what they did to your people. Somewhere else in the world, Tacrc is thrown against a wall. Enam, Oen’r, and Haare shout, “What did we even do to you? Why are you doing this to us?”

A man standing there laughs. “Ha ha, you damned fools. All of you have potential. Join me.”

Enam says, “We will never follow the likes of you. I am going to kill you to hell with that!”

Tacrc says, “Enam, stop!” Then he tells the man, “We will follow you.”

Haare thinks, We will never surrender to anyone. Damn you to hell with that. No matter what it takes, we will end all of this.

The man fighting the enemy is named Ivore. He is said to be one of the strongest men that ever lived. Ivore says, “There were over 200 of us strong, but you have killed a lot of us, yet there are only four of you. It was 1v50, but if I let the boss live, if he tries to kill us, then his men will follow him.”

Ivore takes a pocket knife and cuts off the head of the former boss of the Tacrc Gol Party. In this battle among the Tacrc Gol Party versus the Finger Lease Gang, we win.

When Tacrc’s head is cut off, three of the flowers look in shock and go down on their knees. Enam has tears in his eyes, his mouth open crying. He looks in rage at Ivore. Ivore smiles and says to Enam, “I was bored. That is why I killed him.”

Somewhere else in the world, people are sitting on horses. The commander says, “Our peace treaty is officially over today.”

Civilians look at the commander in fear. Behind him stands an army of 10,000 fully armed men. A soldier tells him, “Mr. Arthen Vail, one of the 17th Royal Guard of the Thalven Dominion, the hundredth country in the world, commands these 10,000 men. Commander Arthen Vail is one of the most ruthless men to ever walk this world’s soil.”