Keep the Promise

Suddenly the cracks spread even faster and in huge sizes, the whole block of ice exploded with a force that affected the bones of Amed himself, so he quickly raised his sword with the last of his strength, and cut off the iceman's hand.

The murderous cooling continued in his body as the hand continued to cling to his neck, but he caught the horrible hand and snatched it with hate, the warmth returned to his body, and he began to cough violently, and the Iceman retreated quickly as he pressed his severed and bloodied wrist.

Amed let him come out of the barley granary, prostrating himself on the ground for a moment, asking for warmth, as if he had just come out of a dead snowy grave, and he was coughing hard, and he got chills and strong pains, and he felt as if his bones had been gnawed by the cold disease. But he depended on Rokoshta, whose blade still glowing red, as if it had been heated in the fire for hours, and rushed to find his opponent.

The Iceman had entered the last granary, not feeling that Aynur was hiding in it at all, and tried to get out and surprise the dogs' lair, but Amed attacked and disrupted him.

He formed a slab of ice in front of him, and then pushed it hard toward Amed, but it was cut in half by Rokoshta, whose inner understanding of his opponent's nature grew, and his blade suddenly caught fire.

With his fiery sword, Amed attacked the Iceman, who had manoeuvred and evaded fatal blows, and made an ice shield around his body, but a blow from Rokoshta broke the shield, so he climbed over the hill of wheat, and Amed climbed up behind him, giving him crushing fire blows, trying to repel it with his sword, until His sword was shattered, so he grabbed the wheat grain and threw it towards Amed.

The grains of wheat shot forth like little icy shells, some of which tore the clothes and muscles of Amed's arm and thighs, but he waved his sword to repel the others, and both were bleeding profusely until Amed said to Rokoshta:

- "Release your fire."

He struck with the sword over the Iceman, who reached up his arm to repel the blow, and turned his arm into a huge block of ice, the block shattered, but he released from his arm the icy energy itself.

Amed saw a light of blue coldness shooting up in his face, and it pushed him back, but Rokoshta shoved it, and, in turn, firing a tongue of fire, it grew stronger and pressed on the icy energy, so that the pressure of the two opposing energies pressed on the stability of the two men themselves, and their feet slipped off the ground and turned away from each other, but both feel the tremendous pressure of the two mutually exclusive energies.

Eventually, the Iceman's bleeding doubled, he turned pale, and his crystal eyes turned grey.

was dying.

Amed, whose wounds from the icy wheat pellets were bleeding profusely, and all his bones were groaning from the cold disease which had come upon him at the touch of the Iceman's hand, and the lump of fire swelled, and the icy energy receded and faded until the tongue of fire became a gigantic lump, surrounded and engulfed the Iceman In it and burned wheat. He said while the fire swallowed him up inside its jaws:

- "I tried to keep the promise."

Amed heard the terrible hissing and commanded Rokoshta to stop so that the fire would plunge into it, and its blade would stop turning red at once.

Putting the greatsword in his back, he cautiously advanced from the position of the Iceman and found him transformed into a terrifying black mummy, with open grey eyes. Hand-severed mummy. he told him:

- "I certify that you tried."

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