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Hedge Wizard Hadrien of the Platonic Shadow (#6464)

Owner: 0xd011…d46C

Note from author: This is a fun little story that I am writing in parts, I cannot complete it all at once as I do not have much time. I hope you all enjoy, I have never done anything like this and have had a lot of fun creating this.

PROLOGUE

As the sun sets, our hero rests on the ground. In immense pain, he looks up to the sky and asks himself.

Is this it… the end of my time?

A question that he has asked himself many times, but this time he fears might be true. How did our hero end up in such a state? Well, for that answer, we have to start from the beginning.

Our story starts many moons ago, during a time of conflict and uncertainty. War plagued the lands, leaving most of it to ashes and rubble. What was this war about? No one really knows, all they know is it nearly destroyed the world.

CHAPTER 1: A MOTHER AND HER CHILD

In a small village of farmers, a mother and her child are caught in the midst of battle. Not knowing what to do, they run into nearby woods to try and escape. They run for five hundred steps, then come to a sudden stop. In front of them lies a regiment of soldiers.

Startled, the mother tells the child one word:

Run!

The boy takes off, not looking back in fear of who might be behind him. After many steps, in exhaustion, he stops and hides to see if anyone is following him. To his surprise, there was no one, not even his mother. Worried she might have been captured, he goes back to the soldiers, quietly to not make himself known. As he approaches, he notices dead soldiers on the ground. Then he sees his mother, her gown drenched with blood, she was tied up in the arms of soldiers. He can hear them speaking faintly, but does not try to get closer in fear of being captured himself.

Confused, the boy keeps watching, not knowing what to do. He notices that his mother is talking to a single person. The armor on this man is different from the rest, it has fur and a gold crest. With this information, the boy comes to the conclusion that he is the commander of the regiment.

Suddenly, the trees start to shake as he hears his mother start singing a song. Then he hears the commander yells out:

CUT HER HEAD!

Then the trees stop shaking..

He sees his mothers head on the ground, and starts crying. The soldiers start to hear a strange noise. The commander says:

She had a child, that is probably him, find him and bring him to me!

Then the boy takes off running, never looking back, from this day on he was all alone. A boy turned man in a mere instant...

Entered by: 0x9d97…31E5 and preserved on chain (see transaction)