Chapter 2 : The Legend

Children do love stories with morals values and happy endings. But the story of Marlborough has become a terrifying legend in the hearts of all people.

And, the truth will never be hidden in the web of lies. It'll soon reveal itself before time.

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This true legend is the historic part of how people used to live back in 700 years ago. However...

..."History might repeat itself soon"...

Once upon a time, there existed the Kingdom of Marlborough — A Prosperous World.

It was the time of King Ethra of Marlborough when technology wasn't developed much but people dwells within a 'Sacred' power. It ruled upon the hearts of the people — THE MAGIC.

But the magic wield by Imperial Family, is quite cruel and different. It's an ancestral magic which they can only conquer it until — The true heir of the throne is a pure child choosen by God himself.

Thus, due to its divinity, the life of the heir is always endangered.

It's not a problem when there's always a war of throne between the heirs of the Royal Family, but the truth is — In the history of the Royal Family, only one was able to wield such rare magic, it's Emperor's Grandfather himself.

Though he's still alive in his deathbed, due to his ancestral magic, he is paralyzed, and the throne is still under Emperor's command.

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The normal magic that people of Marlborough Kingdom wield it is divided into four levels of energy according to how well-versed he or she is in casting spells. It's a great feat for a person if he could perform a magic concerning fourth level. But letting that aside, though people were proud of themselves for how good they're in it, they never criticized the one who could not wield magic or lower than them, as it's the time of prosperity which lasted for, 500 years.

But it all came to an end when — A Curse landed upon the Kingdom.

The church claimed that it's a word of God, for his people of Marlborough that — "The downfall of Marlborough, will bring divinity."

But this Oracle was considered a secret cause of its meaning as... the people of 'church' could not figure out it's true meaning and misunderstood it.

They presented it before the Imperial Family after interpreting it as the 'Word' of God for the Royals of Marlborough's downfall. They said that it's itself a secret to their rule upon Marlborough in future, which concerned the Emperor.

And due to the reluctance of accepting the 'word', it resulted in Emperor's Grandfather's death who was in his deathbed.

A prodigy passed away after a long time. Since then, the Emperor started to prepare for the worst, either a war or his death... he started to prepare for war himself, his family and for his kingdom before hand, blindly.

But who would've thought that the 'war' for which he was preparing due to the word from God, which he feared —

...will never going to happen in first place....

The Emperor waited many years for the worst to come, but nothing happened as he planned out and his every preparation gone in vain.

He thought, what the God is planning for his kingdom? Was is just a simple warning? A threat? Or... a real prediction for something unfortunate.

But whatever he may think, nothing came out to be true and he lost his sixth sense voice. However, a word always linger on his head, "Does this word of God really a truth? But how can I suspect it if the church has confirmed it?"

The doubt was growing up that even it has started to bother Emperor. So, to confirm it again, he met with the Pope of the Church to show him the true Oracle and interpret it's true meaning before him.

As the honorable before the honorable, The church can't deny it.

But before he could even get the hold of the information he received — there was an assassination attempt in the Palace which brought up the 'true downfall' in the Imperial Family.

This assassination was led by some unknown people who intruded into the Palace which even the Royal guards couldn't able to handle — And, there was the bloodshed of everyone — Not a single soul was left alive.

Emperor was on his way back from church but he was ambushed to get killed too — in a brutal way.

...And, a voice said, "You need a deep rest, Emperor. Running away from death is not a manly manner."...

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Those unknown people weren't Human creatures.... but they left the civilians survived because they wanted to conquer them. And so, they conquered the entire Marlborough Kingdom.

Remember the word said the 'downfall of Marlborough', which refers to the slaughter of Imperial Family. This was the truth for which the Emperor was kept ignorant of.

Since that day, those unknown creatures who conquered the Land, claimed themselves as VAMPIRES and started to rule over Marlborough as people's king and treated humans as their pets. They don't worship God, but rather follows the satan in their own lives.

...But only.... a half of the 'word' is interpreted....

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These cold blooded blood sucking monstrous demons called Vampires, are immune to magic.

They conquered the Marlborough because of their lord's words that — 'the augury child of Marlborough will change the fate of the Vampires' .Either a human or a filthy half-Vampire, their salvation and immortality will only be decided by the child.

But to their surprise... it was not Marlborough which was blessed but a small island within the territory of Marlborough named Patrick Island. And those Vampires stretched out their Vampiric Clan onto Patrick Island. After waiting for years and years, Only Vampires with less humans remained in the Patrick Island.

When the time of Blood Moon came, they, the Royal Vampires, slaughtered the Vampires and humans of the Patrick Island in order to search for the augury child, but they got nothing in hand... instead, a war broke out between the neighbouring countries which affected Marlborough a lot that even the divinity of Church couldn't grasp the concept of God's rage which led the downfall of Marlborough and after 35 years of suffering, Marlborough today stands out as a successful developed City in the entire Continent. At present, they don't lack in resources.

...Might be, the second part of the Word of God speaks — about this prosperity of Marlborough's success....

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