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sily all their tricks and arrived at the south gate of the village. It destroyed mercilessly the checkpoint and

s-, progress in the direction of the north gate of the imperial city and pledged to distinguish and elevate to the highes

les but they were not as challenging as the war against the Monster of the Forbidden Mountain. His army was already down by two hundred brave fighter

hen seventeen-year-old boy Babida who was already endowed with an out-of-norm physique. He was a woods cutter apprentice an

e teenager Babida held in his right hand a Herculean steel ax weighing twice the

ore silk trousers, a steel bracelet on each hand,

Ekule's soil. They were telling how merciless they would be when the time to lay the sharp blade of their weapons on its neck would come. They were singing so many things when suddenly

" A warrior in the battalion shouted, his fi

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Babida unbelievably stood still in his position and did not move even for an inch.

near," He said, challenging the Beast whic

ning his wings, which it then used to

they landed painfully on the surface of the ground. Some of them di

a hundred meters away from him. He felt like his days

rpowers so I can defeat the Monster and in return, I promise to let them ha

at he only could hear, enjoined him loudly: "Babida, Babida! Ri

olled around the courageous young combatant, an

The Monster was still yelling but he wasn't intimidated. He sprinted to grab his ax and th

al went wild, swirling like a tornado in the direction of the inner

ter of the Forbidden Mountain had fallen. It was Bibi, Suzie's uncle. He raced as fast as he

human voices in crisis emanated

the cave," Anna cried out while thr

level, stood over it, and with an air of supe

m the Beast's leg and exten

ty the blade of his weapon on the animal's lon

cumbed to the sharp blade of our valiant defender," Uncle Bibi intoned despite the pain

ess. However, he urged them to first assist him in pulling away the Beast, for there

d Babida and the rest of her rescuers, then walked to the position of her wounded brother

ilver platter the head of the dead Monster and he was

Ekule for an unknown destination to fulfil

O THE

ling her a fifteen-year-old story that starred the today old, the yesterday young, Babida the lumberjack.

ncle Bibi?" She

ho?" The un

ck!" The youn

ound but the woodsman had va

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