“Did you defeat the guard on your own?”
Lathea was clearly shocked, which was evident from the disbelief in her voice.
“It was like you said,” Hadjar pulled his sword out of the stone and returned it to its scabbard. “I used a trick.”
He looked at the place where the golem had lain. He didn’t understand most of what the ancient construct had showed him. But what he knew for sure was that Helmer knew a lot more. And the most unpleasant thing about all of this was that he had known all of it from the very beginning. Even before Hadjar had been born in this world, their paths had been intertwined, and they would be intertwined until the very end. It was like he had his very own fairy godmother in the form of the ancient, bloodthirsty, and insidious Lord of Nightmares. And this witch tha
