THEODORE RHINING AND THE KINGDOM OF ISOLATION

By PATRICK KY

Theo has begun his journey and started his quest to slay the dragons needed so that he can get the title that he desires. Does he get it or does he die along the way?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781387279395

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THEODORE RHINING AND THE KINGDOM OF ISOLATION

Theodore Rhining and the Kingdom of Isolation

By

Patrick Ky

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty- Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty – Five

Chapter Thirty -Six

Chapter Thirty -Seven

Chapter Thirty -Eight

Chapter Thirty -Nine

Chapter Fourty

Chapter Fourty-One

Chapter Fourty-Two

Chapter Fourty-Three

Chapter Fourty-Four

Chapter Fourty-Five

Chapter Fourty-Six

Chapter Fourty-Seven

Chapter Fourty-Eight

Chapter Fourty-Nine

Chapter Fifty

Chapter Fifty-One

Chapter Fifty-Two

Chapter-Fifty-Three

Chapter Fifty-Four

Chapter Fifty-Five

Chapter Fifty-Six

Chapter Fifty-Seven

Chapter Fifty-Eight

Chapter Fifty-Nine

Chapter Sixty

Chapter Sixty-One

Chapter Sixty-Two

Chapter Sixty-Three

Chapter One

T

heo was in bed. He was thinking harder than usual.

Why? Theo asked.

Theo didn’t understand why he cared about it so much and then he realized why. It was because before he didn’t have time to think about it and now he does. He prays to the God every day that no more people should get hurt, including his family. What was on Theo’s mind was that throughout his life in this world, how come he has never had a title. When he said title, it is not just a title that people give or a title giving by the Grandmaster of Aurora, but a title earn by himself. There were those who got titles by slaying dragons. Some call it a game. They like the challenge even though sometimes they get severely injured or even die.

Am I making the right choice? Theo asked.

Theo sighed.

Theo knew that he needed to get his mind off things but knew that he couldn’t. When his mind wanted something, he had to get it; otherwise, he would be thinking about it for days. He went to the slaying center. The slaying center was a place where people who wanted titles could get information on a target. If they slay that target, they would get the title. Depending on what they slay, depends on the title they get.

Theo walked into the slaying center, looked around and there was a good numbers of people. Not too many and not too less people. As he walked around and looked at the targets, there were targets of anything and everything. There were targets on animals, peopleand creatures of all kind. As Theo walked around, someone came up to him.

Is there something I can help you with? She asked.

What do I have to kill to get the title? Theo asked.

It all depends on what title you want.

What’s the highest level of title that you have here? Theo asked.

Grandmaster, she responded.

Okay… what’s the second highest level? Theo asked.

The Royal.

Theo thought about that title.

The Royal huh? Theo asked.

You heard correctly.

I like the sound of that title. I want it.

Everyone wants that title. Many have tried. Many have failed. Only few have succeeded, she said sadly.

Why do you sound sad? Theo asked.

I don’t like people dying. Many people that have come through this slaying center, well… some have never returned.

‘I see."

Do you still want the title? She asked.

Indeed I do. How do I accomplish that? Theo asked.

You have to hunt down not one but six dragons that the grandmaster assigns you.

SIX! Theo yelled.

The Royal title isn’t easy. I said only a few people have that title out of those who have tried.

Well, do you know who I am? Theo asked.

Of course, everyone knows who you are. I just hope that you don’t do this.

Why? Theo asked.

Because, we need someone like you to help keep balance. If you die, we might not be around anymore.

I’ll be fine.

"What makes you so sure about that? She asked.

For one, I got my Isolation and my Phoenix with me at all times.

Will that be enough to take down dragons? She asked.

Why are you so worried? Theo asked.

It’s just… well… I lost my father to a dragon trying to get The Royal title and I’m tired of seeing people die just for that title. The title doesn’t mean anything. It’s the person with the title that means something. Do you understand? She asked.

I understand but I give you my word that I will return.

My father said the same thing.

Cheer up. I’m Theodore Rhining. I can take on anything.

Okay, she sighed.

Just don’t be too confident, she said.

I’ll try.

Theo left and went back to his room. Just as he got to his room, there was a knock.

Who is it? Theo asked.

Theo waited for a response but no one said anything.

Hello? Theo asked.

Theo went to open the door and saw that there was a letter stuck to the door. He opened it. There was a message and it said go to the grandmaster immediately. Theo did what it asked because he respected the grandmaster too much to be late.

Once he was outside the grandmasters door, he knocked.

Hello? Grandmaster of Aurora asked.

Grandmaster, it’s me Theo.

Ah Theo, please come in. I was expecting you.

Is there a reason why you needed me so urgently? Theo asked.

Indeed there is.

What is it? Theo asked.

I heard you’re going after The Royal title.

I am.

Well then…  Soon will your first day going after the first dragon but you must be warned. Most men do not come back.

I know the risks and I’m willing to take them.

So be it.

Someday I will call you in and give you information on your first dragon.

Okay.

Theo walked away and right when he was about to close the door. It happened. There was one more thing that the grandmaster needed to say.

Theo.

Yes? Theo responded.

Just to let you know. On each of the missions, you probably will be involved with a lot of different people so don’t get attached to them.

Why? Theo asked.

Because… You’re going to have to leave them or they will leave you. I’m only telling you this for your own safety. I don’t want you to get emotionally hurt.

I understand. I know the risk and I’m willing to take them.

Good.

Theo closed the door and went back to his place.

Chapter Two

A

fter years of staying with the grandmaster Theo developed some special skills like climbing, jumping and fighting at ease all from the wizard (grandmaster).

The grandmaster bustled approximately in his room, searching among the cabinets weighted down with limitless bottle of concoctions and bundles of dry herbs. His wrinkled face scowled in inflammation. I should have sworn I actually have more… he muttered to himself.

After a few minutes of fruitless looking, the grandmaster set free a huff of frustration and move towards the stairs. He climbed them with his aching, antique knees, pushing the hair from his face with gnarled hand. Theo! He referred to as he reached the pinnacle of the staircase.

He stocked his head into Theo’s bedroom; however, there was no signal of Theo. The grandmaster frowned. Theo? He referred to him again.

An upside-down face appeared in the bed room window. Yes? Theo answered nonchalantly. The antique guy gave a small, involuntary bounce, gasping as he pressed a hand against his heart. Oh! Good gods, Theo you are going to offer me a coronary heart assault!

The vintage boy; nevertheless hanging from the edge of the roof through his waist, his long hair hanging around his face like a black curtain. Sorry, he said

His face disappeared briefly from view, speedy replaced by way of a bare toes. Theo swung himself through the open window, touchdown nimbly at the bed room floor. He straightened himself up and dismissed his trousers.

The vintage man chuckled and shook his head. If you keep hiking at the roof like that, you're going to interrupt your foolish little neck!

Theo gave a gentle smile. Did you want something Grandmaster?

The man nodded. Yes pricey. I want you to run to the market for me.

I thought you went this morning. I did, sighed grandmaster. But the vintage mind of mine is still all I wanted, still needs a fresh batch of the tea. He is still allowed to come and go as he wishes in the kingdom.

The following morning the grandmaster was talking to Theo, however, in parable, what Theo ought to deduce to become the steady degree of a Lind-malicious program dragon.

Chapter Three

N

ow it came clear to Theo what the old man was saying that he (Theo) has to slay a dragon, he went back to the grandmaster, explaining to the old man that he has answer to the riddle. Theo soon discovered that his task was to find and slay the Lind-worm dragon.

The grandmaster murmurs! Here and there, this town was tyrannizes by a monster mythical serpent, Lind-worm serpent, fly less monster. The mythical beast stood taller than the biggest house of God, and it was secured with thick dark scales. Its red eyes gleamed with detest, and from it awful jaws streamed a relentless stream of underhandedness noticing yellowish-green thin. It requested from mankind a blood-coagulating tribute to fulfill its colossal hunger, thousand men and ladies had been killed by this winged serpent, it had eat up various terrible souls. Sometimes, it would secure them up in the mountain where it lives, where they would shrink away for a considerable length of time or years before in the long run being devoured.

The wretchedness dispensed by the Lind-worm mythical beast was inestimable. There were moms, fathers, spouses, husbands, kids and companions that were abandoned to lament the lost of their friends and family.

A few people endeavored to battle the Lind-worm mythical beast; however, whether they were overcome or not, it was hard to say. Ministers and conjurers called down condemnations, without much of any result. Warriors, furnished with thundering mettle and the best weapons the smiths could deliver were assaulted and however, those weapons were burned by its shoot before sufficiently approaching to strike. Physicists created poisonous mixes and deceived the monster into gulping them, yet the main evident impact was to additionally empower its craving. The mythical beast's paws, jaws, and fire were so powerful, its textured reinforcement is so secure, and its entire nature so hearty, as to make it strong for any human strike.

Seeing that vanquishing the Lind-worm winged serpent was incomprehensible, people had no real option except to comply with its orders and pay the frightful tribute. The fatalities chose were dependably senior citizens. Albeit senior individuals were as enthusiastic and sound as  youthful, and here and there more shrewd, the reasoning was that they had at any rate as of now delighted in a couple of many years of life. The well off might pick up a short relief by paying off the press groups that came to get them; yet, by sacred law, no one, not even the ruler himself, could put off their turn inconclusively.

Profound men tried to comfort the individuals who feared being eaten by the mythical beast (which included practically everybody, albeit many denied it out in the open) by promising another eternal life, an existence that would be free from the monster scourge. Different speakers contended that the mythical beast has it put in the normal request and an ethical ideal to be bolstered. They said it was a piece of exceptionally significance of human being to wind up in the mythical serpent's stomach. Despite everything others kept up that the winged serpent was useful for the human species since it held the populace estimate down. The exact degree these contentions persuaded the stressed soul is not known. The vast majority endeavored to adapt by not considering the bleak end that anticipated them.

For a long time this frantic situation proceeded. No one could tally anymore out of the combine loss of life, nor of the quantity of tears shed by the deprived. Desires had bit by bit balanced and the Lind-worm winged serpent had turned into an unavoidable truth. In perspective of the obvious pointlessness of resistance, endeavors to murder the mythical serpent had stopped. Rather, endeavors now centered on assuaging it. While the mythical beast would at times strike the urban communities, it was discovered that the prompt conveyance to the heap of its standard of life decreased the recurrence of these attacks.

Realizing that their swing to wind up mythical beast grub was continually looming, individuals started having kids and more regularly. It was normal for a young lady to be pregnant by her sixteenth birthday celebration. Couples frequently produced twelve kids. The human populace was subsequently kept from contracting, and the winged serpent was kept from going hungry.

Through the span of these hundreds of years, the mythical beast, being very much nourished, gradually and consistently is becoming greater. It had progressed toward becoming practically as substantial as the mountain on which it lived. What's more, its craving had expanded proportionately. Ten thousand human bodies were not any sufficiently more to fill its midsection. It now requested eighty thousand, to be conveyed to the foot of the mountain each night at the beginning of dim.

What involved the ruler's mind more than the passing’s and the mythical serpent itself was the coordination’s of gathering and transporting such a variety of individuals to the mountain consistently. This was not a simple errand.

To encourage the procedure, the ruler had a railroad track built: two straight lines of shimmering steel paving the way to the mythical serpent's residence. At regular intervals, people were moved to the base of the mountain terminal, and would return purge. On moonlit evenings, the travelers going on this prepare, if there had been windows for them to stick their heads out of, they would have possessed the capacity to find before them the twofold outline of the mythical serpent and the mountain, and two shining red eyes, similar to the bars from a couple of monster beacons, indicating the way obliteration.

Hirelings were utilized by the lord in expansive numbers to oversee the tribute. There were enlistment centers that monitored whose turn it was to be sent. There were human gatherers who might be dispatched in uncommon trucks to get the assigned individuals. Regularly going dangerously fast, they would surge their payload either to a railroad station or straightforwardly to the mountain. There were agents who regulated the annuities paid to the demolished families who were never again ready to help themselves.

It came clear to Theo, why his folks chose to make a trip down to his amazing guardians, not just on the grounds that they expected to visit them, however, to also flee from the in-amicability of the Lind-worm mythical serpent.

Theo said to the grandmaster, sir, would I be able to go to battle and thrashing this mythical beast?

Grinned! The grandmaster, what have you Theo to battle this Lind-worm mythical dragon?

I need to kill this mythical dragon grandmaster, am resolved to free my kin from this winged dragon, before it swings to a demigod force of our kin.

Chapter Four

B

efore embarking on the journey in search of the Lind-worm dragon, Theo needs to get weapons like (Armor, Broadsword, Arrow, Bow and Shield, etc) from shop. To get all he needed, he knew that money is needed, but Theo has nothing. So, what comes to Theo’s mind next is on how to get the money as a determined and an ambitious man.

Theo knew that the grandmaster had started aging, Theo a child of great knowledge and skills, was now only a vogue shadow of his former self. But in spite of his suffering from such disabling malady, he was still the happiest and gentlest person in the kingdom.

A few days in the midst of the grandmaster’s old age, a very special child arrived in the kingdom on an important mission, although at the time of his arrival he did not understand what that mission was.

Eventually, he came around a blacksmith, who had a child called Elga, whom he lived with for couple of months to get the money he needed for the purchase of his weapons. He fixes the blacksmith’s house, fished for him to eat, washes his cloths, and fetches water for him to bath