CHAPTER 40: THE EMPTY THRONE

RYU, followed by SHURUI, sneak through the caverns in search of his family.

SHURUI stays close to RYU, others are helping those they find alive.

Guilt invades RYU, who sheds tears of repentance, once again happens that his family and kingdom are at risk as he pursues dreams in the air.

Fear invades him, his brothers, his father and the little TYPHOON.

It goes through the caverns, the corridors, with lifeless bodies, one of the caverns is still on fire.

It is the cavern in which YONGHÉNG unleashed its power, can see the bodies of the protectors all over the cave, equally, the bodies of the enemies, everything has been charred, from this cavern is, from where the smoke coming from the mountain.

Every part of the walls of that cavern is full of tizne.

The rock's still a little hot.

Apparently there's nothing more to see, it's too macabre a scenario.

He's afraid to move on.

SHURUI approaches him, he will help him find his father, but, they must try to find the king's body, he may have come to perform the magic of the resurrection, although, in his mind, SHURUI knows, that, as he performed this spell two years ago, he may not have been able to perform it after a short period of time.

They both go down to the burnt ground of the cavern.

They are limited to checking between the bodies of the center of the fire, trying to find a small bird.

After a while, they hear a slight lament, rush to find the origin of the groan.

It is a phoenix body, with its body burned, with its dark plumage by the tizne.

SHURUI recognizes it, it's YONGHÉNG.

They're approaching in a hurry.

YONG-NG, upon reaching to see RYU, tells him that his turn has come, he does not have the strength to be reborn again.

His father's kingdom belongs to him.

RYU, plays its king, SHURUI too, YONGHÉNG smiles, entrusts SHURUI to take care of the new king.

YONGHÉNG's body is on fire again, which causes the two young dragons to walk away, gradually abandoning YONGHÉNG, thus her chance to be reborn once again.

RYU, feel a sorrow, the great king who came to take care of him as a child, which RYU himself admired for his imposing presence that contrasted with his friendly personality, is dead.

After a while of silence, RYU, remembers his father, thanks YONGHÉNG for the peace he brought to the kingdom, it is time for him to rest.

That said, RYU takes flight to another of the caverns, SHURUI follows him closely, sees more young people and lifeless enemies, each of the scenes is cruel.

Leaders and young people have lost their lives, so far, only in the caverns on the outskirts have found survivors, some of them mutilated.

Upon entering one of the caves, RYU's heart falls apart, the first body he recognizes, is that of his brother FAE, he could not identify him by his face, other than by the shape of the scales on the intact parts, and the shape of his horns, he had to go down to him to recognize him, by looking at the body near him.

You can identify NARVAL.

RYU's legs fail, falling to his knees.

ShURUI is located in front of the body of GUDDOFURENDO.

He sees the closed body of the councillor, to which he had deep respect.

Tears betray SHURUI, if someone like a councillor died in such an aberrant way, it means they never had a chance, they only helped delay his death.

Gradually it fills with fury.

Look at RYU, who mourns the death of his brothers without daring to touch any part of them.

SHURUI, he seriously orders you to behave like the king you are now, you must look for DRAKO.

That's the most important thing for now.

RYU, you know SHURUI is right, they need an order and a person to lead them now that everything is chaos again.

They roam the caverns, more of the rescuers are already in some of them, checking the survivors.

One of them notifies SHURUI that they have found DRAKO.

This catches the attention of the two young men.

They approach and the rescued qilin tells them that two caverns here lie the ancient king.

This is a lunge for RYU's heart.

Beyond crying, his rictus takes a grim form.

The impossible for him is real.

Life has abandoned their father's body, the two young men fly quickly into the designated cavern.

Throughout the kingdom there is a new movement of the earth, it seems to be an everyday one, so they prepare to endure until it passes.

Only, the tremor seems to be a little more lasting.

As if the land itself resented the death of the protectors.

And in a way, yes.

With their deaths, just like it did two years ago.

The magic that came from the stone, having died its bearers, had returned to earth.

Only, now the being that had absorbed a great deal of stone magic has died... former King DRAKO.

The magic contained in his body has been liberated, coupled with a few of the former troop chiefs who took power from the stone, in addition to the enemies.

The large area reacts to the liberated power and has produced the tremor.

All over the area, new chimneys open up among the land throughout the kingdom, even in the places where the caverns were dug for the protection of civilians.

From the chimneys is expelled boiling and toxic smoke full of power from the large area.

In several villages this happened, even in the cavern where ESTHER is.

The people inside the cavern scream unscathed by the pain caused by that toxic, hot smoke.

A lot of people have fallen to the ground unconscious.

The screams alert the guards returning to the cave to try to save the villagers.

END OF CHAPTER 40