"Hans, Franz, new orders! Go all the way to Persia, find Prince
Sinan's tomb, solve his riddle and return to me with the legendary
Desert Storm blade!"
Hans and Franz smirked, nodded and took a ship to Persia. Siegfried
said:
"If they succeed, we all win. They get a taste of logic through
that puzzle and I get a new sword. My old one's ruined."
"That would require even more cleverness as actually solving it.
Nobody has outsmarted Prince Sinan that much before. Solved one of
his puzzles and received one of his many riches, that has happened,
sure. But to actually find a way past it, that would require Sinan
himself!"
"On one hand, we managed to solve the puzzle- it looked like a
gauntlet of blades, the perfect work-out course, but the solution
was simple. Just wait until one of the blades hits the OFF button
on the wall, instead of rushing the gauntlet. On the other hand...
There was no blade in that chamber. Only a note from someone named
Phantom."
Hans handed Siegfried the note. Siegfried read it:
"If you're reading this, that means I found the Desert Storm
before you. By the time anyone finds this, the blade will be in the
possession of the Black Baron of England.
Phantom"
Siegfried facepalmed:
"And now we can't have that blade anymore, because the Black Baron
is one of the most influential figures here in England. His true
name is Baron George Ashburn."
"Yes, that's true, we can't put the blame on them for it. By the
time we've met Phantom, he wasn't acquainted with Ashburn anymore,
so that means that Ashburn got that blade from him long, long
before we sent Hans and Franz after it."
"I'm angry that he has it too, but especially that it's him! In his
youth there was at least SOME honor and dignity to Ashburn, being a
slim young man that would betray and murder other men, but wouldn't
lay a finger on women or children. Now he's an old, fat piece of
scum that collects legendary blades just to rub them in other
collectors' faces, strikes women at every occasion and insults
children for looking at him!"
Destral and Eternis went into the Rim of the world. They passed all
of the discarded legendary items like Aladdin's lamp. There, a dark
hole was growing from a sword and lance.