Phantom of the Gods II: Tales of the Mermaid King

By Paris Tolbert

After the battle of Elvenworth, Khaladi escapes with the undead queen Aymar. Finally, together, the three companions are fighting the demon orc sisters while they pledge with Khaladi. Together, they will fight the corruption and reunite the mermaids to fight next to their prince who will be their new king. Tyren II will go through the halls of the once great king, Tyrion Tyren I. The Atlanteans don’t think he is ready, but the trials of the kings will make him ready to become the mermaid king and reunite his people, but the darkness has risen quickly, and the gods have many plans for the one true king.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9781662456657

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Phantom of the Gods II

Tales of the Mermaid King

Paris Tolbert

Copyright © 2021 Paris Tolbert

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First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2021

ISBN 978-1-6624-5664-0 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-5665-7 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Battle of Ytoln Flame Fields

Tabomaretoa

Failure of a Bastard

Dark Revenge of Aymar

The Ayleidic War 2

Conqueror’s Visage

Tyrion and Thassa

Mermaid King

God of War

Whytewrath

The King’s Heir

Dathan’s Last Wish

Mermaid King

Chapter 1

Battle of Ytoln Flame Fields

Aymar looked at Tyren II as the battle of the Zrar, and the Shadow Brotherhood took place once more in the Firelands as Tyren II and Ulam Black got themselves together to fight off Torg and Shyru. Aymar and her undead army would take down Khaladi and the Shadow Brotherhood and bring down everything he had built and more. Tyren II asked Aymar, What can we do to fight them off and get to Khaladi without having the Zrar come behind us? as Aymar looked at him with revenge in her eyes. Aymar replied, I’ll kill the sister with Ulam. You should go back inside and find evidence on Khaladi’s new plans for Atlantis, as Tyren II ran back inside to find something on his new plan.

Aymar summoned her undead horse for her and Ulam as the charger at the Zrar commanded her Feaqayi into battle. Ulam and Torg began to fight as Aymar created a soul tornado and killed half of the demon orcs. Shyru wasn’t pleased with the soul tornado that killed her troops. As the tornado had just stopped, Aymar was now in front of her. Aymar looked at Shyru as if she could see his death in the battle of Ytoln Flame Fields. Shyru began to swing her sword while Aymar swung her twin blades at her as well. The two women fought as Tyren II ran to the top of the tower that had now a giant orb glowing with darkness and looked like a portal of some sort. Tyren II took his trident and used it to destroy the orb, but it only knocked him back. Khaladi jumped out of the orb and fought Tyren II while his friends fought the sisters.

The sky over Ytoln Flame Fields was dark red as if the sky was bleeding out lava that made the place hot and very hard to not boil sweat on your body. Ulam Black fought Torg on top of Devil’s Jaw as she thought she had the upper hand until Ulam showed her that it took more than skill to kill an Agturk orc as she was beheaded. Torg’s body had fallen from the mountain and into the massive body of hot lava while her head followed behind it. Ulam screamed in his native tongue and made his way to fight her guards while Shyru had a bigger problem in front of her.

Aymar and Shyru fought for a while as Ulam had killed the majority of Torg’s orcs and captains, but Shyru was standing on her last. Aymar took Shyru’s eyes and had cast a spell where flesh-eating bugs were put into her mouth as Shyru was being eaten alive from the inside and was kicked into the lava. Aymar had taken Shyru’s soul as she was being burned and eaten as well. Ulam and Aymar finished the last of the Zrar as they were left without queens nor leaders. Tyren II and Khaladi had fought now on the ledge of the tower as Aymar created her bone dragon and had Ulam jump off as she speared Khaladi back onto the tower’s ground.

Tyren II looked at Aymar and mumbled, Thank you, as he was being choked by Khaladi. Ulam was now fighting the Dark Elf Khaladi as Tyren II was gathering him back to life from being choked. Khaladi forcefully pushed Ulam into the walls as he began to fall to his death until Aymar created a giant bone hand that caught him as he got off the hand and on the steps. Aymar jumped off the dragon as well and walked toward him with an evil grin as he knew she wasn’t letting him escape this time. Khaladi used a magic spell to freeze her, but it didn’t work as she used a spell that ripped the orb and cut his face. Aymar was, in fact, getting stronger each moment of the battle. As she put her hand into the air, the sky turned green, and a green lightning bolt struck him twice.

Khaladi had disappeared as Aymar threw a powerful shock blast at the portal that sucked him into it. As a shadow began to walk toward the companions, with Khaladi being dragged back through, Tyren II noticed it was a mermaid that had been banished by King Tyrion Tyren I. Aymar and Ulam gathered themselves to fight this merman. Tyren II got up and looked at the merman as he ran toward him. Tyren II screamed, Thames! as they began to fight in front of the portal while Aymar created a spell to help Tyren II not to be taken much damage from the merman who was, in fact, larger and stronger.

Thames took Tyren II and threw him off the tower as Ulam took Aymar’s bone dragon and went to rescue his friend. Ulam finally caught Tyren II and fled away from the tower as Aymar blasted multiple fireballs at Thames and Khaladi as they disappeared into the portal. As she destroyed the portal, she teleported back to the Fireland Keep. Ulam and Tyren II met up with Aymar. She spoke with her bone mirror as she sought answers from within. Tyren II thanked Aymar for the help with Khaladi and Thames. Aymar turned around and informed him that she would be helping him with this quest to get Thames. Ulam was indeed going to him and both of his friends as he told Aymar about the secret room inside of the Fireland Keep.

Aymar opened a portal as Lady Rila walked through to see Tyren II and began to explain that Thames wanted to reclaim everything from his people and his father’s grave. Tyren II couldn’t believe that Thames had come back from banishment to take the twelve pieces to create the crown of Vermora and become the high king of the seas. The only king that had the crown was, in fact, Tyrion’s father who was killed months before his best friend Evmjir’s parents were killed. Ulam looked at Aymar and began to start talking about finding Thames and Khaladi to help Tyrion defeat his father’s longtime nemesis.

It was only a matter of time that Aymar and Tyren II would be neck to neck on killing two of many of their enemies that both, in fact, aren’t the head of a darker enemy. Lady Rila told Aymar to complete her way in becoming stronger than before as Aymar knew she had spoken of the Isle of Booverrie where the most powerful spirit and the soul of the cent mistress were. Aymar had seen the maps on the city of Booverrie and heard that its caves have the powers of the immortal one, which was the mistress. Tyren II told Ulam that most of the mermaids here weren’t on his side to claim his homeland Atlantis nor the rest of Vermora. Ulam knew Vermora was the only continent that mermaids/mermen lived in twenty-five thousand years since showing the realms and the existences of their people and race.

Lady Rila and Aymar would go to Booverrie to claim the power that she always wanted. Lady Rila opened the portal to the outside of the ruins of the city. Tyren II and his Agturk friend Ulam were on their way to Atlantis to gather themselves on the quest to reclaim his people and become the king his father always wanted him to be. As the companions split up to complete the task ahead, Savern told the queen that her son had returned to the sea and was making his way home as she swam around her seaweed and looked at her mirror.

Queen Nahla was the survivor of the massacre that happened within her home; she still had nightmares about seeing her husband dead in their bed. The queen knew that Tyrion was coming home to fight beside his mother and complete his quest in becoming their people’s king, but she also knew that Thames had broken the spell of banishment and had now returned to kill her. But Queen Nahla had more problems to deal with, along with Thames and Khaladi and the Shadowmore Empire. Tyrion Tyren II was thinking about his mother as they had taken the main road to the seventh city of Vermora, which was, in fact, Atlantis as it was one of the cities conquered during the rise of the Dagaryens as the mermaid fought beside the high elves’ high queen Nithenoel. Nithenoel had promised that the mermaids would have a home to grow and live once the war was over.

High Queen Nithenoel saved the mermaids from slavery from the Shadowmores and their brotherhood as she crowned Tyrion Tyren I as the king to do his leadership and warrior skills. The great shark king was feared by most of the Shadowmore general except Thames. King Tyren I took Thames’s eye and placed him in banishment and was an outlaw from the kingdom of Atlantis. Nahla was a warrior mermaid that spent years of training since the high queen found her not breathing on the shores of Aurora City where she healed Nahla and sent her back into the sea. Nahla later served under the high queen to save her people and break free from slavery.

Queen Nahla knew her people were separated within the seven kingdoms of the mermaids, but Nahla had problems with Queen Armusha and her army, which was the largest kingdom in Vermora. Queen Armusha was the lower kingdom’s gift to herself when killing Nahla for still being a queen with no army to fight for her to rule. But Savern knew that His Majesty was, in fact, lost in her thoughts. As Queen Nahla picked up a water-flower, she began to think about her husband and what they had achieved within their kingdom.

As Ulam looked around at the large doors of the main gate to Atlantis, he realized that the rumor was true about the massive trident banner that was on the side of the doors as it began to open freely, but the voice of its ruler was Queen Nahla. Tyren II swam into the city where he heard his mother singing in the courtyard of the mercury flowers as she waited for him. Tyren II swam beside his mother and began to hold her in his arm just like it was yesterday as she hugged him tightly. Tyren II looked at his mother with joy and happiness as he said, Mother, I miss you so much. How are you? as she turned from him and looked out to the statue. Queen Nahla replied, No, son, we don’t have guards nor safety to relax within the kingdom. He began to get upset with the news he had received.

Savern looked at his lord and showed him that Atlanteans were no longer loyal to the queen as they now were giving their loyalty to Prime Minister Merrick who was succeeding at overthrowing the queen and moving her from the throne. But Tyrion