BECOME THE EMPEROR OF YOUR FACTION.

Post 4. Clarification. Every second felt like an eternity. Nowizard was consumed by impotent rage. The enemy was so close! Right here, behind his back, but he couldn't even twitch a finger. He was a statue. In the early years of his imprisonment, he dreamed of only one thing: his imminent release and revenge. "Yes, revenge... that is the meaning of my life... I will take revenge on them all! ALL!!!" Nowizard thought, watching the grass grow day and night. Sometimes, Elaine would walk near the place where Nowizard stood and pick flowers. She would often approach him, smile, and even kiss him. "I tried to kill her, and she's just 'dancing' around me! Is she mocking the defeated?" the sorcerer wondered. "Why are you so angry?" Elaine would sometimes ask the statue. "Because you weren't angry. You're just upset. What is it? Why are you like this?" "Why?! WHY?!!" Because you disgust me! ALL of you! I'm just waiting for the moment when my teacher comes here, and I'll settle the score with all of you! I will take revenge on you all!" "For what? What are you avenging? And on whom?" Elaine asked. Nowizard was stunned. He realized: who am I avenging? And, most importantly, for what? (apparently, the fact that the elven queen could read the thoughts of a STATUE didn't bother him at all). Years passed. The war continued with varying success. Desmond consolidated his power in the lands he had conquered and founded the dark kingdom of Tir-Darel. Some orcs, realizing the situation, sided with the elves and dwarves, and in return, Ash returned their human faces and even cleansed their blood of the taint. They became human again and founded their own kingdom, Traidiral. The Titans continued to help the two, and now three, allied kingdoms in the war of the three factions (the three factions are elves, dwarves, and humans, formerly orcs). All this time, Nowizard thought. About himself, about Desmond, about Elaine... "Who am I avenging? Whom? Desmond always said that the only right path is the one I am following now, that all others are cruel, deceitful, and treacherous, but he only used orcs as an example. Whenever I started a conversation about elves or dwarves, he would end the conversation. After a few such cases, I stopped thinking about it... But... Why am I avenging? For whom?" Nowizard spent fifty years in such thoughts. He couldn't remember who he was avenging. His oblivion lasted for so long. But finally, it dawned on him: "For my parents! Of course, I'm avenging my parents! But who killed them? Who? The orcs... Yes, the orcs! But what do the elves have to do with it? And the dwarves? Why should I take revenge on them? Has my teacher been lying to me all this time? Is my teacher lying? No! That can't be! He saved my life! Or maybe..." The next post will tell about how Nowizard was betrayed by his teacher, whom he revered like a father, about how the war of the three factions ended, and about Nowizard's duel with Desmond.