SKYHON : VENGEANCE OF A WARRIOR

CHAPTER TWO : THE NEW X-GARD.

‡ NATJAR ‡

{ TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER }

A horse dashed out from the woods with a young man riding on it, he kept looking back, like he was been chased by someone, and later on it revealed that he really was been chased by a group of horse riders all armed with bow and arrows tied to their back.

The young man riding the Brown horse was shirtless and had a shield fixed to his back, with brown pants, and a sword to his waist.

The armed men aimed at him releasing their angry arrows flying as a crow towards his direction, the young man used his experience to move in a zigzag manner with the horse as some of the arrows hit the shield on his back, while the rest pined aimlessly at the ground.

The men chased the unknown man climbing a cliff, until he got to the end of the cliff the man quickly stopped his horse as it made a screeching sound, and pushed some pebbles into the little River which stands as a demarcation of the cliff and the other end .

The young man was holding a scroll in his right hand. It looks like it was the main reason why they are chasing him.

"Get him, don't lose him!." one of the man ordered as they released more arrows,

Without thinking twice the young man had no other choice but to jump from his horse and dive into the river, with the scroll held tightly in his mouth.

Being a good swimmer the river isn't a problem as he swam like a fish, the men unable to follow him shot dozens of arrows into the river. As the arrows dived into the water like a penguin hunting a fish, one of the arrows aimed at his right leg piercing through his thigh.

"argh" he screamed in such a way that the scroll wouldn't fall out from his mouth, despite the pain.

He managed to cross the river and got to the other side as he lay flatly with the scroll now on his left hand. He then sat up, after which broke the base of the arrow then pulled it out from his leg with force, making him feel more pain.

"Surrender young man!" was the voice he heard from his back, he then turned to see a huge vigorous middle aged man with long hair and beard, wearing a white armor and a tomahawk axe glued to his grip.

The axed man then bashed his axe right on him, but he quickly rolled away as he unsheathed his sword, and gave a fighting stance.

"You're not gonna pass, young man, just hand over the scroll and surrender". the man warned .

"you'll be down in ten seconds." The unknown man said proudly.

"not today boy" he responded.

He then made a double foot match on the man's broaden chest, but didn't made much impact as the man caught his right leg and threw him over the ground, then again hit his axe on him, but this time almost crashed his manhood, but he quickly expanded his legs at the zero second making the axe to hit the ground.

"hey watched it, didn't your mama teach you not to play with sharp objects?!" he joked. then leaped to his stance then attacked all angles with his sword as it made a clanging sound due to the impact on the man's axe, but he was careful with the sword not to hurt the man, then tripped kicked in his gut and digested it with an uppercut .

As the huge man fell to the ground like an elephant, generating dust.

"Like I said ten seconds." he reminded, as he placed his right foot on the man's chest victoriously.

"Leo!" an old masculine voice called out to the young man.

The young man now known as Leo, fair skin, oval shaped face, 8ft tall, manly physique, normal eyes, his black tangled shoulder lengthened hair reminded me of the swamp, and some visible scars and bruises all over his body, mostly scars from sword cuts.

Leo turned to see Rarj the royal wizard, with his normal wizard outwear, he's now looking very old, but still physically built, and bald hair. He was holding a sand glass in his left hand showing a percentage of 30% at the lower glass and 70% at the upper glass. And he was also accompanied by Queen Beulah, looking as beautiful as she used to be, her pink dress wrapped her body fitting her perfectly, with her long brown hair that fell down her back.

"Hi mum, hi Grandfather" Leo greeted as he moved and handed over the scroll to Rarj. As the axed man got up from the ground.

"Your training was spectaculous today your improving over time" Rarj complemented

"Yeah you say that Everytime" Leo responded with his usual angry expression. suddenly *BAM!* as the axed man hit the base of the axe on Leo's back head. "ouch! What was that for Larry?!" Leo asked

"That's my revenge kid. I always get back at my rivalries" Larry said, as Beulah and Rarj broke into laughter.

Larry is one of the strongest warriors in Natjar and also the most muscular with a guessing age of forty plus. His beard alone shows his rough and brutal nature.

"So grandpa , what's my score?" Leo asked, still scratching his head due to the pain Larry inflicted on him.

*yeah well about that, I'mma rate you 70% " he rated.

"what you gave me 70 percent the last time" Leo complained.

"And you're getting the same score probably because you didn't make any improvement" Rarj explained.

"but the last time the sand glass was totally empty I was totally late, but today I was very early and the sand glass was almost an equal half bu...

"yesterday you didn't get an injury, but today an arrow was slited into your left thigh that's the reason" Rarj interrupted.

"Argh!" Leo yelled in frustration as he walked away from there.

"That wasn't his real score was it?"

Beulah asked

"no it wasn't" Rarj replied

"Even though his strength is increasing he kept me down within ten seconds technically with just a single blow, never felt that before." Larry added.

"we can't let him know that he's already at hundred percent perfect, he might now be twice stronger than his father, but still of no match to Jerod, He's already a pride one now, we can't risk that" Rarj said

The stronger he gets the better it is for all of us." Beulah said

"That's why we need to make him stronger than steel and rock, only then will he face his real destiny.

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HUMBLE LAND ( X-GARD)

{4:00pm}

Twenty-five years have passed and many things have changed, and one of those changes is the kingdom of humble land. After king Jerod overthrew the land he combined X-gard and humble land together since they were very close, but still called X-gard, making it to be the largest nation in the whole world, with a land area of 1'648'425 km². The X-gardians are now an advanced human race, with access to technology beyond human comprehension, they were probably the first to discover technology in the world. They now have deadly technological weapons that are deceptively primitive, technologies looking like magic. been isolated from the rest of the world, they are self-sufficient.

Flying cars, modernized buildings, holographic projections, remote controlling devices are few of the things one can see in the incredible imaginative city.

The entire country was protected by some sort of invisible energy field from external forces.

there is no going out or coming in.

The city may now be very advanced and beautiful but deep down it's very ugly, king Jerod's reign is what no man will ever wish for. After the conquer some of the humble landers excaped while some were forced to change sides and the sturbbon ones were kept captive and the others were turned to slaves.

Jerod selfish desires blinded him of being a good ruler, he thinks of nothing but to increase his army force. despite X-gard becoming so large Jerod still decides to rule it all by himself, not wanting to share his post, that's the main reason he never dreamt of having a child, so no one can share his authority and power. Every male child was forced to become a warrior once they turned eighteen, he doesn't care if it is their will or not. No one has the mind to oppose his decision.

He's impossible dreams of ruling the entire planet and, becoming the most powerful man there is, has made him worse than the devil.

There was a particular building that sat in the middle of the country, it was clearly the tallest and largest building one can observe.

It was King Jerod's dwelling, it was lited up with enough technologies and a group of guards standing round the building, some wore white armor while others, brownish gold armour.

‡ inside the building. ‡

King Jerod was sitting in his chamber, his immortality granted him everlasting youngness, still looking the way he was twenty-five years ago, he wore a traditional royal attire and held a glass of red wine in his right hand.

before a man walked in probably in his fifties. The man wore a whitish silver armor, and a white sword placed on his waist, he's Jonard once the right hand man of king Bethel and one of the flawless warriors in humble land, but after the downfall he has no option but to change sides. A white helmet was positioned on his head but his long hair could still be seen as it was extended to his shoulder, his grey hair and beard signifies his maturity, but didn't deprived him of his agility. After Jerod takes over he saw Jornad's skills and he made him the assistant general commander of the X-gardian defences and promised to increase his post if he does better and shows an impressive amount of loyalty.

"Greetings your highness" he greeted as he removed his helmet and bow his head slightly.

"Yes Jornad I called you here to ask how our force is increasing, how many men do we have at our disposal?." He asked with a less gentle but authoritative tone.

"your highness the kingdoms warriors has counted to 1.5million men at arm's, and are counting every year as the young ones grow up" Jornad replied with a respectful expression.

"Good to know because we'll be moving to the next step" he said

"What do you mean?" asked a puzzled Jornad.

"we'll move on to overthrow Bedazzle, we'll crush every soul in there and the glory will be ours, their armies shall be ours and their land also". Jerod said arrogantly as he shattered the glass he was holding.

Jornad just stood there motionlessly, his mind was full of thought at that moment. Meanwhile Jerod's eyes turned dark as he smirked devilishly.