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Chapter 3 - Beyond life and death

After the final blow that killed him, Guinere finally opened both eyes and found that he was in a room accompanied only by a bonfire in front of him

"Where am I? I'm alive? No, I'm dead... Sir Gilles, why did you save me? I'm sorry, sir..."Guinere asked all these questions with a sad face even though he was covered by his helmet, while looking at the campfire.

"Where am I, is this the realm of death?" Said Guinere as he woke up and walked around the room.

Guinere walked around the dark room illuminated only by the bonfire alone, he walked and looked around until he finally found a very dark passage.

Guinere looked very unsure of walking any further, as he was currently unarmed and had no lighting devices.

He went back to the previous campfire and looked at the fire, which made him realize that there was a wavy sword stuck in the fire.

Without thinking, Guinere immediately tried to pick up the sword stuck in the middle of the campfire.

While trying to pick up the sword, Guinere felt an excruciating burning heat in his right arm and immediately pulled his arm.

Guinere who had time to doubt, finally he tried to dispel his doubts by remembering the sacrifice of Sir Gilles.

He tried to take back the sword, although his arm felt an excruciating burning heat, but he had already set his heart.

He held the hilt of the sword and immediately there was fire surrounding the hand of his right arm.

He didn't think about what fire it was, because all he thought about now was to take this sword and get out of this place.

He held the handle of the sword very tightly, he tried to pull the sword with all the strength of his arm, until the end...

"ZRAK"

The sword Guinere managed to pull out, and instantly the campfire became extinguished which made the room completely dark.

"AARGGG."Suddenly Guinere groaned in pain, his head filled with excruciating burning heat.

He fell down and dropped the sword he had previously pulled out onto the floor, because all he felt right now was the heat in his head, followed all over his body.

After a few moments of feeling the heat, Guinere finally tried to get up and take back his sword while saying "I have to get out of here."

Guinere felt something

yang changed in his body, instantly unsheathed the sword and slashed the air around him.

Sure enough, the sword gave off a very bright flame.

Guinere looked at the sword and went straight ahead without thinking about anything.

It's a straight path to a dark alley with the help of the light of fire emanating from the sword with its wavy Blade.

Guinere kept walking until he finally saw 4 Knights who had turned into undead.

Guinere who saw the 4 Knights immediately realized that it was the Knights of Skoland and Axalon, who were fighting.

"Even after death you still fight" said Guinere and immediately split the stomach of the four undead knights. "may you Rest In Peace."

After killing the previous four knights, Guinere continued his journey looking for a way out of this place in the middle of nowhere.

Guinere observed the place as he continued walking."it's a kind of royal ruin," Guinere said.

Guinere found a person on his right who was wearing a headscarf and was being tied to his hands and feet by rusty chains.

"Who are you? Why are you tied up?" ask Guinere to the person in a curious voice.

But that person was just silent.

Seeing no response, Guinere immediately took off the person's headscarf, thinking that perhaps his mouth was being gagged with something so that could not speak.

How surprised Guinere saw the person, who turned out to be a black-haired woman who almost became undead because her mouth and left face had rotted and filled with blood

The woman looked at Guinere with her right eye which was bursting into tears, as if to say "Please Kill me, release my suffering."

Guinere was silent and agreed to the woman's request, he quickly drew his sword and immediately cut off the woman's head. Leaving blood stains on the floor, walls, and guinere's wavy sword.

"What a unfortunate woman," Guinere said after killing the woman, and without further ado he continued on his way.

Although his journey was always interrupted by undead knights, he managed to kill all of them with just one slash.

As he began to feel that the passage he was now passing through seemed to have no end, he immediately saw a light coming from the left room.

He entered the room and found that the light came from a bonfire identical to the first bonfire with a knight sitting next to him.

"You, you don't seem to be undead yet, thank God, don't let you become undead hahaha" said the Knight.

"Who are you?"Said guinere to the Knight.

"I was Sir Catarina and I was a knight of the Wallace Kingdom, before, but now I'm dead and I have no purpose anymore hahaha" said the Knight replied.

"Greetings, I am Sir Guinere, I am an elite Knight of the Kingdom of Axalon" said guinere greetings

"Axalon? Which kingdom is it?" Said Sir Catarina in a tone of voice full of questions.

Guinere was shocked in disbelief, and asked "I'm sorry in advance, Sir died in what year?"

"I died in 850 when Wallace's Kingdom was at war with the Kingdom of Sanglo in the south of the Britta Islands."

"I was killed because I made the mistake of sending my troops into a trap, I failed as a leader hahaha" continued Sir Catarina with a slight cry.

"The Kingdom of Sanglo is now part of Axalon after King Oswald I of Saxi called for the union of the entire kingdom of the southern part of the Britta Islands and became King Oswald I The King of Axalon of the southern island of Britta in 863" said Guinere to Sir Catarina

"So... you are a knight of the New Kingdom, well if you want to continue to get out of this place, please take this!" Sir Catarina took Guinere's hand and placed a bottle bearing the Royal language of Wallace in Guinere's hand.

"Please take this out and throw this into the sea of wallace Kingdom, these are the ashes of my dead friends, please take them free. I will stay here until the end hahaha " said Sir Catarina in a very quiet tone of voice.

Guinere accepted the request by nodding his head and walking out of the warm and bright room.

Then, hearing the faint sound of a sword in contact with iron and the sound of a man crying in the room, Guinere continued on his way without looking back because he had already set his heart.

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Passage after passage, and room after room, Guinere passed by until he came out of that seemingly endless passageway.

It turned out that all this time the passage was the ruins of a fort and a destroyed underground bunker, but it still did not make sense because it was like circling the place.

A warm light greeted Guinere, but Guinere realized that this was still in another realm. The sun and clouds look unnatural.

He took a short walk around a place full of ruins, then he went up the hill and saw a building of some kind of church.

But it was a long way from where Guinere was walking.

Suddenly a wild horse appeared from behind Guinere which made Guinere surprised, although surprised he tried to approach the Wild Horse.

Surprisingly, the wild horse did not run away and instead seemed to greet Guinere. Guinere did not think long and immediately mounted the horse.

The horse ran so fast towards the church, and when Guinere had reached the church, the horse ran straight towards the hill leaving Guinere alone. Guinere saw that and immediately looked towards the door of the Great church.

Guinere ventured up the stairs to alert his guard, and he came to the Great door of the church which was closed shut. Guinere tried to open the big door.

The big door was very heavy and overwhelmed Guinere, but his efforts did not end in vain. The huge door finally opened and a cold aura instantly struck Guinere's body, piercing through his heavy armor.

Guinere boldly entered the church, the candles on the pillars of the church instantly lit up and a person in a black robe and Hood came out of the small room in front of the church. The person's eyes were invisible to Guinere.

"Who are you, nameless Knight?" Ask the person in the hood.

"My name is Guinere, Guinere of Axalon. Who are you, the one with the veil?" Said guinere.

"Xixixi, Guinere yes, you don't need to know who I am. Because soon you will also be gone from this realm" replied someone in a hood.

Feeling annoyed that his question was not answered, Guinere just lowered his head and immediately looked at the person with a deep feeling of disappointment.

"No need to be angry with me, you just don't need to know my name, but you can call me Zillea," the person continued.

"Alright, Zillea, how do you know that I'm going to get out of this realm?" Guinere Asked.

"The sword you hold is the key, you just have to stick your living heart in to light a fire in the back door as your way out of here, xixixi" said the person with a giggling laugh.

"Myself? What if I was replaced with you?" Said Guinere in a threatening tone.

"Xixixi I thought you would say that, unfortunately you can't, because the Me You see right now is not my real body, I am a doll" said the person.

"Hahahaha, did you say doll? You have a lot to say about a doll, don't you?" Said Guinere with a resentful tone.

"Thank you," the person said with a clear laugh.

"Well, I'm going to stick my own heart in, I want to forget all my past," Guinere said Seriously.

The person smiled and said "xixixi well you will also forget me anyway, but you will not forget the sword and the person's request to you" said the person continued.

"What Do You Mean, Sir Catarina?" Ask guinere.

The person did not answer Guinere's question, and then said, " Give your heart to the sword."

Guinere took his burning sword and directly thrust the surging sword into his heart.

Once stuck. Guinere felt his heart burn, and his whole body instantly burned so brightly, Guinere screamed in heat and pain.

The blood that came out of Guinere's chest, burned like liquid fire.

The person in the Black Hood just watched the process.

Guinere retracted his sword and directly thrust it into the church ground.

The sword that stuck out instantly unleashed a wave of fire throughout the church, burning the chairs and the large back door of the church. In the middle of the door of the church appeared inscription.

"Fato destinatus natus est. Hoc est qui insulam redimet. Flamma caelestis eum inest"

Guinere read the writing and went straight to the door. The blood of the fire that came out, burned the floor he was on.

Who knows where Guinere will appear, for sure, who is destined to have been born to redeem the island with his divine fire.

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