The Rising Sun: Episode 5 Read Online Free

intending to blow off ten
planets, one every hour, to fulfill their long dreamt of goal.”
     
    “With each planet,” said Mantra. “They’ll
mount the anarchy tenfold. And when they’re done,” He paused to
heave a short breath. “the force of Mezmeron in this world would
have climbed to its peak. Anarchy would have reached the level
desired to release the army of Mezmeron … the cursed demon
army.”
     
    “Well, looks like we’re in a better off
position than we’d dreaded.” said Ion, running his eyes across the
entire army, who numbered to a thousand as he knew. “What do we do
now?”
     
    Mantra turned to Ion with a steely glint in
his white eyes. “We do something we should have done a long time
ago…”
     
    Ion raised an eyebrow. “Which is…?”
     
    Mantra withdrew the crystal and held it
before him, examining it silently.
     
    “You’d remember asking me if the crystal
could be destroyed once and for all?” he said, raising his eyes to
Ion at last.
     
    “I do.”
     
    Mantra and Dantox exchanged a glance.
     
    “Well, it can.” said Dantox. “It can be
destroyed once and for all.”
     
    “What?” asked Ion.
     
    “There is a priest by the name of Nalzes,”
said Mantra. “Who lives in the farthest reach of the outer
spectrum. He is an old friend of mine … and he’s just as old as I
am. He is the only other member of our original brotherhood alive
today. He has powers of incantation which you’d remember me telling
you, are a specialised field in our world. They are needed to
perform a spell before a tablet.”
     
    “And…” pressed Ion, feeling the tug of
anticipation go stronger with every word.
     
    “He has ancient powers of incantation,”
repeated Mantra, bringing his eyes before the crystal again. “ones
that can destroy the crystal once and for all.” He nodded. “It was
made before a mystical tablet by a well versed incanter, Redgarn.
And it can also be destroyed just the same way. This man, Nalzes
has the mystical powers required to get rid of the crystal once and
for all.”
     
    “Well, then why didn’t we do it?” asked Ion,
spreading his hands. “All along, we could have ended this so
easily!”
     
    “There’s the catch, dear boy.” said Dantox,
smiling. “It is no easy venture.”
     
    “The planet Nalzes lives in is at the very
deepest of the outer spectrum.” said Mantra. “And a normal ship
would take five hours at least to get there.”
     
    Ion was struck speechless as he grappled with
the distance this was…
     
    “Five hours?” he breathed.
     
    Dantox nodded gravely. “Five hours in which
everything in the world could go wrong … from the Xeni to the
Naxim. And so, deciding not to undertake this huge risk at this
greatly tense time, we had dropped the idea.”
     
    “But now,” carried over Mantra. “I see that
the need is greater than we thought it was: seeing what the Xeni
are prepared to do to get the crystal,” His eyes roved over the
ground beyond them, littered with the remains of the Zelgron horde.
“and seeing the dangerous level of commitment they show, I was
mistaken to ever think that the crystal could be kept safe with us.
I know now that until it is destroyed once and for all, there is no
such thing as a peace for us: the Xeni are far more deadly than we
had imagined, and they just proved it to us. This is something we
should have done earlier on … and now, we will do it.”
     
    Nano stepped forward, and Mantra and him
exchanged a swift nod.
     
    “Also,” continued Mantra, looking at Ion.
“this is a venture we can now afford to undertake. Because we’re
now given tools that will make it easier.”
     
    “What do you mean?”
     
    “With the army of watchmen now released, we
have a certain tool available to us, which will be of aid should we
decide to undertake such a perilous journey. A great aid.” said
Mantra. “As a result, if we decide to now go forth on this journey
to the planet Nalzes lives in,