(eng) Timothy L. Cerepaka - The War-Torn Kingdom 01 by Kingdom of Magicians

Author:Kingdom of Magicians [Magicians, Kingdom of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Half an hour later, after walking through the magnificent ruins of Castarious, Keo, Dlaine, and Jola arrived in front of a massive statue that stood in an open square all by itself. The statue was made of marble and looked like it had stood twenty or thirty feet tall in its day, but now half of it lay on the street, with bits and pieces of marble around it. The upper half of the statue that lay on the street was of a man with a stern but kind face, who carried a large sword that had also been broken in half, likely upon impact. There was a crown carved into the statue's head, a crown with a dragon's head carved into the crest, which made the man look like a king. The lower half of the statue, which still stood, towered over both of them.

“Where are we?” said Keo, looking around the area before focusing on the broken statue lying on the street in front of them. “And who is this a statue of?”

“This is part of the old business district,” said Dlaine, gesturing at the empty storefronts that circled the area. “Used to be one of the busiest parts of the city before King Riuno's death. And speaking of King Riuno, this is a statue of him and had been built in his honor.”

Keo looked at the statue more closely. He had been born just after the King's death, so Keo had never seen Lamaira's Last King, as Riuno was sometimes called, before. So he was eager to get an idea about what the Last King might have looked like.

Yet there was something familiar about the statue's face, like Keo had seen it somewhere before. He realized that the nose looked just like his nose, except slightly shorter, but he thought little of it, because Keo's nose was not exactly unique, because he had seen other people in New Ora with it.

But the statue's eyes, which stared lifelessly at Keo, now those seemed too familiar, even in their stone form. They were as round as Keo's, which he found interesting because few people had eyes like his. Even his hair looked similar, albeit longer than Keo's short trim.

Dlaine was looking between Keo and King Riuno's face, a puzzled look on his face. “Weird.”

“Weird?” said Keo, looking at Dlaine. “What's weird?”

“Your face,” said Dlaine.

Keo sighed. “Dlaine, if this is another one of your jokes—”

“It's not,” said Dlaine, shaking his head. “What I mean is that your face looks like King Riuno's, except younger.”

Keo, surprised, looked at the huge statue lying before him. “Are you sure?”

“Yeah,” said Dlaine. “Seriously, you look just like him. It's freaky. You even have a sword.”

Keo looked at the large sword that the statue carried and then looked at Gildshine, which was sheathed at his side. The two swords looked virtually nothing alike, aside from their general shape, but Keo wondered how much he would resemble King Riuno if he were to draw Gildshine right now and hold it similarly to how the statue held its sword.

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