Ep5B | Pyrite Kingdom - Nero’s Return

does not exist. Nero is an impostor, a poward, an abstract manifestation come to life. If he could, he would betray himself at once. Nero is the antithesis of a king. He is a puppet of his own device. So how do we use this to defeat him? All of this he already knows to be true, but he's buried deep down. Capturing and confronting him with the truth is the key to his defeat. For as core as Nero's belief is that he is a great king, a conceit essential to

his very being, his ego cannot fathom defeat. His body would break down his mind rejected the mirror. Either the mirror is the answer to deciphering the puzzle. By holding a mirror up to his true nature, you'll expose him for who he truly is. In the mirror, all will be reviewed the mirror. Either sand and barrel and the tea kettle, victory sword, no blade, black pages in the books armor not army armor armor crash and look the opals black dunbells. H. I should be going now to

the central bell tower. I must keep look out for dero. H. I'll leave it once YouTube calm down. But either everything fade nothing here is real. Whatever you're trying to say, stop, it doesn't matter. King Oran already told me everything I need to know to open the black stone door to the Oasis ground. We'll get the water we came for and leave before a Nero even shows up. Thanks to me, we won't be fighting Waterland's war. Come on to the oasis door. No, what did Oran tell you is the

key to the door's hieroglyphics cipher. I didn't ask, huh. But back in the throne room, Orn gave me his Royal Waterland badge to wear in battle. You know his prized emblem bearing his name with the symbol of the water buffalo and the word flow. So you think the symbol of the water buffalo is the cipher's key. Not quite? See the mirror on the door, What about it? Oran told me that the mirror is the key to deciphering

the puzzle, and the mirror all will be revealed. Look the writing on the badge reversed in the mirror, flow become wolf exactly. The key to opening the Oysters store isn't the water buffalo. It's the symbol of the wolf. Brilliant. Either don't thank me, thank the guardian, or blow the waterland oasis, the one, the oasis waiting for us. Um just a little farther, I can see it. He don't stop now. We're almost there, by the mountain border at the end. A few more steps until he reach water.

The water it's sand the oasis mirage. Oh what's that ringing noise? Her time? We have to leave now, Hu, don't just stand there, keep up, Oh, Neil put the arrival of the King of the shadow man sage of the ball. I turn up the night, but one true king kay Sirrah outa flight, start aways the store still up and get behind that dick car boring through fireball firecrackers. He also will get to be carrying a round point

shovel over his shoulder. Welcome, Wow, comes on the Schapo land all of your grain, King hero by royal subjects. How nice have you to join me? You're just in time for the coronation ceremony. Orn's gone completely mad. Maybe we played pretend he let go good idea serious nero, are one true king. Congratulations of the highest order on your crowning. Poor timing, however, as you were just about the league logo your king fyebrows. They burned him off.

It's a celebration. Deel the boy king long making rain and life longer? Maybe rain? What do we do? Huh serious? Charge him? No, it's too dangerous to defeat him. We have to confront him with the truth. Ah Ord, that's enough, stop this silly charade. We're leaving now. You must be mistaken. I'm hero k up the shadowland or in I killed him now, boy trying the celebration. The pigs, little pigs. Fine the flat stone door wide open and let the big bad come in. What's he doing out in the

grounds and digging? Some kind of hole. Given his pension for fine grade pyrotechnics, and using the basis of inductive reasoning, logic dictates that he's digging our graves when he kills us then buries our bodies out in the fake away. It's a san right to the drawbridge. Sin right now the torch lights in the ground. Holler out, which way do we go? Serious? Track one? Printed dark? All right? Follow? I had draw bridge? All right? Wait, don't take another step.

There's a trip wire on the drawbridge. It's rig full of explosives. Who now run the fire ship and off and it all that? Look the bridge? Are we out? Nero? What do you want from us? Never? Is it water you're after? We can take you where or in hit his barrels of oasis water. Just put down the fireworks and you can well, devils. I know there's no oasis water, and never was. I came from the royal chalice, buried under date the sand of the Imperial House, and now

it's all mine. That water cup from Castle Banner. You got what you came for. Let us go to leave this kingdom. There's only one way out. You must pledge royalty to your king and seal your fate through the divine drinking ceremony. Divine drinking ceremony from the royal chalice, we shall consume me the vial of sacred redwater containing the blood of m Then I shall reign eternal in the intra, with you serving as my subject for ever

in this realm and the next sacred red water. Ether that sounds like roaming unnaturally occurring toxin found in seawater. It's poisoned. I figured as much, Nero. There's no realm in this world where we serve under you as king of the water. I'm royal. Get it off me, Get off extra now quick. Let's head to the throne room. And it is it orangs escape tunnel, which leads to the outside right rod rod behind the throne. The entrance to the escape tunnel was hidden in the wall ron

heavy her the door. The door to the tunnel's locked. Move serious smash. No, this door, like the one in the grounds, is made of impenetrable black stone. The only way to open it is by solving another hieroglyphic cipher. Try the symbol of the wolf. That's not it. It's somebody crying. Wolf sounds like my audience to bang it out. Bravo. Lucky for you three, there's still more to go. I'd saved the best for laugh a spock tractical to handle the show. If you out serve me in this life, yeah,

serve me the next one. Oh, it's dynamite the bladder, the room. I didn't make you a ten seconds to build that naked into the water. Well you go, well, well you good lie at the bottom of a talking win cat her light narrow you win. We'll pledge loyalty to you and perform the drinking ceremony. Just lower the rope and let us out of here. Ah, so you wish to save as my royal subjects? After all, I've lowered the rope. Now prove it kiss the kings? So what prove your loyalty? Before I let you out? I

want you to climb. I'm up here, one by one and kids the King's dude. Oh okay, okay, we'll do it. I can't bear it down here. I'll go first. M pick one's nuts. Come here and kiss the King's doe. H. That's sure to leave him. Bump on the old noggin buffoll of you. What do you doing here? Daddy? Would keep you safe my leash. Thank goodness you're awake. You had quite a stumble, Yes, yes I did. Wait a minute, the BG one. He knocked me out after you kissed

my toe. No, no, no, no, you're mistaken. After we pledged our allegiance to you, your highness, you became so overwhelmed with rapture it seemed as if you were about to ascend to Umbrah's realm of the Intra without even conducting the drinking ceremony. That's when you passed out. Ah ah hmm, yes, yes, now that I think about it, of course that's what happened. He How could the light

of you and then opposed a threat to the great king? Nero? Now, subjects, we must resume where we last left off the drinking ceremony. The chalice demands we drink from it harmdus milk, the blood of Umbra. We shall transcend this motor realm, and I will rule eternal patil. Where are the three of you? Where's the one with the ambulance? Ether he's out securing in the castle perimeter. He'll be right back. That breaking noise? What is that? Nero, my lord? We're under siege? What

we're being attacked by who? Or but that's impossible, or instead, I assure you he's very much alive, my lord. He'll soon have crossed the exterior mote and breach the castle walls. We don't have much time, Oran. There's nothing I'd like more than to slay you again. Battle, stay sentence, prepare for war. My subjects serious thought to the barracks, report to the war room at once my lead, and you. Either you'll stay with me here in the throne room and help me get inside the mind of a fallen key,

orin is no match for King Nero. What could Ran be after? There's nothing left for him here. All his people abandoned him long ago, Nero, my and true King. I served under Orange in the Waterland Kingdoms. I know how he thinks. What he's after. He's come back for the oasis the ohsus. Then we must protect the imperial grounds at all costs. An explosion in the barracks probably nothing, but I'll go check out and stay here in the throne room. Or an attack flame and time AfOR trate

it out. Put it out? Is the sen from the bar room. Er Just stand in by Evan car her everything white Wiking. Yes, yes, of course, any news to report. Have we kept Oran outside the kingdom's walls. I'm afraid not Orn and his soldiers have entered the castle. Yea, how could this be? Shell? They head down to the imperial grounds and secure the oasis door at once, either

at once. We must do everything in our power to insure Oran never gets his hands on the Oasis water the war room, White Lord, ye war go down to the imperial grounds, secure the Blackstone door and make certain the mirror is in place to keep Oran out. I'll check out the war room. What happy here? Cannon fire, sir? They have the castle surrounded with heavy artillery. We've sustained critical damage on the western front from the blast. A cannon ball not too close. It might still be active.

It smells like a big ball of beetle poof. That's what cannon fire smells like. Good start, get that out of my face. That's not fit. The gris a king. That's not all. They sent a message, Nero, I am the physical reflection of your greatest nightmare. I've taken the Oasis. I'm coming for the throne, signed Orn, King of the water Land. I must return to the throne room at once eat where are you? There's no human defending the castle. They must perform the drinking ceremony before or in and

his soldiers or silver Nights. One of them wears either ambulance. The three myself killed them. Now come for me, stab me, I thank you when you take the part, get the royal tars that he really that's all this about them? Ta me one, you come back to finish me, suspend it or a fright the moor on silver in the arms of your nights, and you've brought your own pouch of firework this time just like wine. M M. Put all ends here steps from the royal water well? Shall

we read us on to these bag of tricks? Good? You agree? I want to face you man to man. Oh, I can't goes down. We did it, Nero shattered the grounds dooor mirror we were holding and fell into the water well. He should be unconscious now right where we want him. Serious Logo, we have to get down there and tie him up before he waits. Nero's mind can't fathom defeat. There's not a moment to waste. H help

help trapped water water or is that you either serious? Logo, what are you free doing down here in the well? We came to rescue you. I must have passed out again. Who did this to me? It was Nero, wasn't it? Yeah? Nero? Oh? I knew he'd return. Is he still here? He's been defeated for now? Then the oasis water is safe. There's no oasis water. Orange, I see you found out the truth? The truth or the truth is that you're Nero. Impossible, It's beyond possible, it's certain. How how can that be?

Nero was nothing more than a manifestation of umbre. I don't believe it, believe this royal jealous But but I buried that long ago, deep in the oasis sands, somewhere no one could ever find it. No, then it must be true, a Nero. We'll help you out of the well. But then we want the truth. What really happened here? Okay? Or I think I see it on the throne. Now tell me the story of the Waterland Kingdom this time, tell me the truth. Either the story I told you

earlier was true but incomplete. I was the prodigal prince the Great Kingdom, and when I came of age, I did leave home on an expedition accompanied by a team of our best soldiers, blessed with the Royal Chalice. I was determined to prove myself that as not only a worthy heir to the throne, but as a formidable adversary with the kingdom of his own. After weeks of empty searching, I finally happened upon this oasis, This oasis which was nothing more than a mirage, This oasis which would be

my downfall. I should have turned back at once, but I was too weak. I couldn't let down those who had given up everything to follow me. I couldn't admit my failures that I was no king. I couldn't bear to face the truth. So I became the mirage. I lied to my people, forbid them from entering the oasis,

and spent my vast inheritance maintaining the illusion. The emerging trade routes served only one purpose, secretly, bring water into the castle by the Barrelful out of these lies, the water land Kingdom rose to power, and so began my reign as king. The Royal Chalice, as you can imagine, once I begin of hope and promise, was now nothing more than a painful reminder of the truth, so I buried it away deep in the oasis sands. I'll being to forget my past, and in doing so, I buried

a piece of myself down with it. From that day on, my delusion grew. I began to believe lies were true. Eventually the resources were exhausted and the water ran dry. Could no longer keep up the facade. But I was so lost in my mind that I began to accuse my own subject of conspiring against me. Hunted by the memory of the chalice, I waged war on my own kingdom till one evening on a full moon sky, the shadow land King first arrived, a phantom from the black

void of night. Nero took everything from me. Vi sanity from my mind, the spirit from my soul, the life from my body. One by one, my people left to wander in the desert or hideout in the caves, hopelessly awaiting the day I defeated the shadow King within that he could finally return home. And now I know the truth. I was Nero and Umbras to blame. Thank you for showing me this and breaking the illusion. There is only one thing left to do. Please follow me one last

time to the oasis sands. Okay, we'll go with you, Oran, Oran, What else you have to find out here? Something I left buried in the sands long ago. But I've never forgotten the knowledge that this chalice holds no real power over me. I am the only king, the one true king of my soul. Either my badge, place it in the hold beside my chalice. Okay, serious, logo, Hand me the fireworks. This should be sufficient time to get rid of these, for the king is dead. Long live the king.

Go to the cipher on the escape tunnel door leading to the outside is the symbol of the Chapas. Of course, it never did me any good. I was always too afraid to leave this place. Before you leave, it would mean so much to an old king if you three would accept my last remaining bottle of waterland water for your journey. Are you sure you won't come with us? How will you survive? And if Neuror comes back, what will happen to you? Where will you go? The king's

kingdom is with his people. Don't worry, My people will return from me. I'm finally going home. Onwards through the desert to the Molary to recover the satellite dish or ends. Water will keep us hydrated during our journey. What's this in my back? A canteen? It turns out we had water after all. Well, you never can have too much of an offential resource A either you'll think nero gone forever. I don't know, serious, I don't know. All we can

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