The Guardian: Heart Of Magic

The Rift Of Prodal Kingdom

The Prodal Kingdom was the second pillar of Stronas after the Culum Kingdom during the lifetime of King Arman. The Kingdom was proud of its booming economy under King Ashr. King Ashr is undoubtedly one of the greatest Kings that have ruled the Prodal Kingdom. He was not born into the royal family neither was his family among the families that provide the King of the Kingdom but he was privileged to rule after getting married to Princess Isabelle who was to rule the Kingdom. After King Arman defeated Lord Arcandor, the Prodal Kingdom needed all the help it could get so Princess Isabelle, the daughter of the King that was ruling at that time returned to the Kingdom from the Culum Kingdom where Lord Arcandor held her hostage. She was encouraged to rule by King Arman and she took over the throne unmarried but she already had a love story with King Arman's protector Ashr. When they both got married, Ashr was crown King of the Kingdom and he began to help the Kingdom heal from the damage Lord Arcandor inflicted. He was allowed to rule only because he was a human like them. Ever since they recovered from the damage Lord Arcandor inflicted on them, they were competing with the Culum Kingdom for who had the best economy.

The death of King Arman and King Ashr opened room for different atrocities to be committed. The people began to go against the way King Ashr planned for it all to go. It took just a King after King Ashr before the Prodal Kingdom began to tear apart, King Celsa was the one on the throne as at that time, he was a very tough King, the grandson of King Ashr. Some groups of families came together to challenge the authority and might of King Celsa. King Celsa then invited these families to his palace to hear exactly what they need and why they are causing havoc in the streets of the Kingdom. The families were three in numbers and it happened to be the families that were formerly providing the King of the Kingdom. Muzaka family, Antonio family, and Frankopan family were the names of the families, King Celsa invited a representative from each family to have a talk with at the palace.

"It is nice to meet you all today, the purpose of I summoning you here is for the peace and harmony of the Kingdom," King Celsa said.

"It is a pleasure meeting you, your highness," Singai said. The representative of the Antonio family. The other two representatives of the remaining family replied King Celsa one after the other.

"I heard a lot about the confusion your families have been causing in my streets, I want to know why your families are disturbing the peace of the land because I don't seem to understand the reason," King Celsa said. All the representatives wanted to talk but he calmed them down and asked the representative of the Muzaka family to talk.

"Thank you for allowing me to answer your question, well your majesty, what all our families here are after is our birthright which has been taken away from us, we want to return back as the providers of the King of the kingdom not only your linage would continue to rule," Hanazono said.

"If I heard you well, you said the throne is your birthright," King Celsa asked.

"Yes, your majesty, our families have always been the ones to provide the King of the Kingdom after proper consultation from the gods" Groba replied. The representative of the Frankopan family.

"In the time of crisis, your families were not where to be found, now you all rise to challenge your saviors for the throne, if not for my grandfather, none of you would have survived the captivity inflicted by Lord Arcandor," King Celsa said.

"It was the gods that sent us the chosen one to rescue us from Lord Arcandor, your grandfather was his protector and also a subject of this Kingdom, we have acknowledged King Ashr's efforts that were why we allowed him to rule alongside his son, now you also are ruling, we don't want only your family to keep ruling, we want things to go back to the way it formerly was," Singai said.

"Okay, I think I understand what is going on, your families want my family to step down from ruling the Kingdom and allowing you to rule like it formerly was," King Celsa asked.

"No, your majesty, forgive him, Singai did not place the plea well before you, all we actually want is for you to allow our families to be included in the royal family once again, we will gladly join your family in providing the next King for the Kingdom, the next four Kings would come from each and every one of our families, your majesty" Hanazono replied.

"You must be out of your mind Hanazono, the gods only appointed our families as the families to provide the King of the Kingdom, each time a King kicks the bucket," Groba said.

"You all are trying to overthrow from the throne, in fact, this is treason, I will not take this in my kingdom," King Celsa said.

"Guards! Guards!!" King Celsa called.

When the guards arrived he told them to lock up the representatives of Antonio's family, Frankopan's family, and Muzaka's family and return. When they returned he order them to go and arrest anyone from those families on the streets. The guards did as King Celsa commanded them, when it was evening, he had a full cell of the family who was demanding to return as the providers of the next Kings of the Kingdom.

The news of how King Celsa ordered the arrest of all the members of the Antonio family, the Muzaka family, and the Frankopan family had gone viral and the people of the Prodal kingdom were not happy about it. They decided to all gather in front of the palace the next morning to order for the release of the families. King Celsa was still not able to capture all the members of the families despite he did not give notice before ordering the arrest. The head visioneer of Prodal Kingdom at the time, Adurhan, heard of the arrest the King made, he immediately showed up at the palace to have a word with the King.

"Your Majesty, I came here as soon as I heard about the arrest you made," Adurhan said.

"I knew you would come here, what do the gods have to say about it," King Celsa asked.

"The gods are not happy about the way you are treating your brothers, they are of the royal blood like you are, their release will make the gods be pleased with you, your majesty," Adurhan said.

"Those people were planning treason, they wanted to overthrow me, I did not know anything else to do but to stop them before they get very dangerous that I won't be able to do anything," King Celsa said.

"They don't understand all that is happening that is why they acted the way they did, you should have invited me to partake in the meeting your majesty, what you have done will surely have a repercussion you won't like, I suggest you free them right away, I will explain everything to you," Adurhan said.

"I will do as you have said," King Celsa said. He then ordered his guards to release all the families he arrested this evening, when they were released, they all went to their various houses. Adurhan and King Celsa still talked till it was very late, when they were done Adurhan went back to his chambers.

When it was morning, some citizens of Prodal Kingdom came to the front of the palace alongside the family King Celsa arrested yesterday. They were singing a song of protest, King Celsa came out of the palace alongside Adurhan to address the issue.

"Great people of this land, I know you all are angry for what our King did but you all also have a hand in this misunderstanding, you should have sought guidance from the gods before doing anything at all" Adurhan said.

"We want to hear from the gods, that is the only way we would stop this protest," one of the persons in the crowd said.

"The gods have spoken, the said this Kingdom should be united in words and action, the linage of late King Ashr would start to provide a King for the Kingdom with the other three families that have been providing it, the gods spoke, the gods revealed to me that they would still pick a King from the bloodline of King Ashr after King Celsa," Adurhan said. After he finished talking, the people began to express displeasure at what he said. He then realized that he was supposed to have not said it now.

While Adurhan was addressing the people, more of them were arriving, they were booing the King. Adurhan was forced to ask what they want. The representatives of the Muzaka family then replied that if the next King would be chosen from the bloodline of late King Ashr then they want their own freedom, they want to go and live on their own and own their province with their own King. King Celsa granted their wish in order to make peace rain in the Kingdom. This was how the three other families also thought the same thing and decided to separate from the original Prodal Kingdom, now it has fully separated into four different provinces namely; Qrand Province, Gland Province, Kramford Province, and Krawood Province.

Qrand Province is controlled by the Antonio family, Gland Province is the biggest province of all the provinces and it is run by the bloodline of King Ashr, Kramford Province is controlled by Muzaka family and finally, the Frankopan family are controlling the Krawood Province. Love for power was key to the separation of the Prodal Kingdom. Since the separation, the gods have turned their eye of mercy away from the kingdom, they began to struggle with thing that they formerly do with ease. They are now under the torment of a very powerful soul sucking power obsessed manaic called Idahali. Anytime he storms any of the provinces, he normally leave a mark that he came there like killing people by sucking out their souls into himself.