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troop that escorted them. The reality, very different, was that the Hierophants had considered
many years ago the possibility that the Sacred Forest could fall in power of the Enemy and they
had already taken, a decision for it: they would never permit it; the fall of the Sacred Forest
would imply, necessarily, its destruction. For this reason when the fire, which advanced
through the perimeter of the Forest, surrounded and embraced the centre of the Forest, the
twenty Golems and the guard couldn't do anything to avoid the horrible death: the carbonized
skeletons showed, later, that everybody had took refuge under the Apple-tree of Tharsis and
that finally they were burnt and consumed as it and the rest trees of the Forest. All had been
incinerated in such fire that was carefully planned for years and prepared through a studied
distribution of firewood in different parts of the area: when entering to the Sacred Forest in
conquest train the Golems would not win an area but they would fall in a mortal trap. Of
course, they would not have never supposed that the Tartessian Hierophants «would sacrifice»
their Sacred Forest before to see it occupied by the Enemy and this reaction would be taken as a
lesson for the Golems that, hereafter, would continue fighting against the descendants of the
Pact of Blood.
And the underestimation that the Hierophants committed when evaluating the real
power of the Golems was near to produce the definitive loss of the Wise Sword. If that not
occurred the merit can only be attributed to the incredible courage of the Vrayas; and to a
loyalty to the Pact of Blood which was beyond the death. The case was that some twenty
kilometres from Tartessos, over the hillside of the Hill Candelaria, was located the secret
entrance to a Cave that had been conditioned in remote times by the White Atlanteans: was
one of the works that had to be conserved according to the compromise of the Pact of Blood.
Naturally, after the cultural defeat of the Iberians such compromise was forgotten and the
Cave, occult and solitary, remained abandoned for thousands of years. However, the purifiers
effects of the family test that ended with the Reform of the Cold Fire, caused its re-discovery,
even if not all, neither in any moment, could enter through it: the motive was that the secret
entrance was signalized with the Vrunes of Navutan and only the Pure Blood, those who were
capable to hearken the Language of the Birds, achieved to find it; who not reunited those
requirements could not discover it even being in front of it. Well, that Cave, had been chosen
by the actual Vrayas to guard the Wise Sword. A corridor of Tartessian warriors formed to allow
the departure of the Vrayas from Tartessos and to save, in the last moment, the valuable
heritage of the White Atlanteans: many died to realize this heroic recue, many that today are
immortalized for their courage, awaiting in K'Taagar the moment to return to their battle
stations, when the Final Battle take place over the Earth. Due to their loyal service, the Vrayas,
who in such time were the Queen of Tartessos and two Princesses, could reach to the secret
entrance of the Cave. In reality they were followed such closer by Bera and Birsha that only one
Princess, carrying the Wise Sword, achieved to cross the threshold, while the other two
remained behind to stop them. And was in this moment when the terrible power of the
Immortal Golems was seen because, even when the Vrayas fought them with their formidable
stone axes, they did not need to employ any arm to dominate them, except for their demonic
arts. The Power of the Illusion, in which they were Masters, was enough to immobilize and take
possession of them. However, the Wise Sword was already safe in the Secret Cavern due to the
Golems, who only possessed Soul but lacked of Spirit, would result impossible to comprehend
the Vrunes of Navutan.
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