Their territory
had expanded to the extent of conquering and ruling almost all the
world: including the North, where the country of the Ice Queen lay,
who was able to freeze everything that came her way into ice with
a single breath; the South, where the Prince of Fire who burned everything
to ashes used to rule the country; the East, in which the country
had the role of pulling the sun out from the sea to haul it up into
the sky; and the West, which the country played the role of pulling
down the curtains to veil the night.
And then
it had happened, at the time the warriors had just begun to make
their attack to conquer their last enemy, the Country of the Night
Veil Curtain. The outcome of the battle itself was reached easily
this time, too, but at the moment the warriors were about to hail
their banner in the air and sing songs of triumph in order to make
their homecoming march of conquest, an old aged man appeared from
the inner walls of the castle. He had a long white beard and was
dressed in a wrap of purely white garment. The old man said to the
warriors, 'You all are making a big mistake to even think that you
have conquered all the world. Don't you even know that there beyond
the sea lies the most strongest and powerful country in the whole
world?'he said, as he laughed aloud at the warriors.
The warriors
became angry and mad. They really extremely hated the idea of other
people pointing out their own mistakes. An angry warrior in fury
quickly stepped out to cut at the old man with his sword. Slash!
Red blood was supposed to gush out and splatter all around the place.
However, there only lay a still white cloth tattered and bladed apart
in the old man's place. The warrior took his sword and hooked the
cloth with his swordtip to turn it over. To the warriors' surprise,
the dead body of the old man was not there.
The only
thing that remained in the old man's place was a tiny dandelion wearing
a fluffy white cotton hat blooming in the ground. Having witnessed
an unbelievable scene happening right before their very eyes, the
warriors became aware of their own hearts being rocked and agitated.
Therefore, they drank very heavily than usual and had a wild noisy
feast that night in order to kill their own feelings of agitation
and being shaken. The alcohol bracingly mustered up their feelings
for battle again. Next morning, the Captain leader of the warriors
charted the sea route of their ships onto the direction of the last
country.
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