2 — Mighty Knight

Beyond lay the Ossuary Grove—a forest of petrified bones shaped like trees. And at its center, not a monster, but a mirror.

The reflection laughed, and the bone-trees shivered. “The first Mighty Knight didn’t seal me. He agreed with me. Peace through stillness. Order through silence. He became my Warden, not my jailer. And now the flame is dying. Join us. Become the second Warden. No pain. No loss.” mighty knight 2

Elara rushed to him. “You killed the flame! You’re not a knight anymore!” Beyond lay the Ossuary Grove—a forest of petrified

The Wailing Gate screamed open.

“I am not my father,” Alric said, and he plunged Sunreaver not into the mirror, but into his own cracked breastplate. “The first Mighty Knight didn’t seal me

Alric adjusted his helm. Inside, a tiny blue flame flickered—the last ember of the Mighty Flame, the source of his power. “The first Mighty Knight sealed the Lich-Queen here a hundred years ago. The seal is failing. If I don’t…” He hefted his lance, Sunreaver , which glowed with the heat of a dying star. “Then the story ends.”

It ended with a man deciding that being mighty wasn’t about the power you carry—but the peace you leave behind.