The Black Knights

PROLOGUE

MY NAME IS ROARK A. COLMBE. I AM A MASTER ASSASSIN. BUT, I’M NOT YOUR USUAL MASTER. I HAVE LIVED MANY LIVES RANGING FROM THE TIME OF BLACK KNIGHTS TO THE 21ST CENTURY. I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REMEMBER EVERY LIFE I’VE LIVED, BUT I REMEMBER THE ONES THAT SEEM IMPORTANT TO ME. I HAVE MASTERED MANY WEAPONS AND FIGHTING STYLES IN MY LIVES. I AM WRITING THIS AS A TESTAMENT TO MANKIND FOR ONCE IT IS SAVED. I WILL EXPLAIN WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME IN MY LIVES FOR YOU. I WILL EXPLAIN EVERYTHING THAT WILL NOT HINDER MY MISSION.

THE BEGINNING OF A LONG FRIENDSHIP

AROUND 700 B.C.

​I DON’T REMEMBER A LOT OF MY CHILDHOOD FROM ANY LIFETIME, BUT THERE ARE IMPORTANT THINGS I DO REMEMBER.

​MANY PEOPLE SAY THAT THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE ASSASSINS’ CREED GAMES ARE FAKE, BUT THERE REALLY WAS AN ASSASSIN GUILD THAT CONSTANTLY FOUGHT WITH TEMPLARS.

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, I DIDN’T HAVE A FAMILY. BUT I HAD A BROTHERHOOD AND A CREED TO LIVE BY. I FOUGHT MY WAY THROUGHT LIFE STARTING AT THE AGE OF FOUR. I NEVER SEEMED TO HAVE AN ISSUE FIGHTING SOMEONE WHO WAS EXPECTED TO SHOW ME UP. YES, I DID LOSE MANY FIGHTS AND HAD MANY INJURIES, BUT BY THE TIME I WAS EIGHTEEN, I HADN’T LOST A FIGHT IN THREE YEARS. WHEN I GOT TO THE AGE OF THIRTEEN I WAS IN CHARGE OF MY OWN TEAM THAT WOULD MEET WITH A THIEVES GUILD AND WORK WITH THEM.

I MET A BOY NICKNAMED “LOBO” ON MY FIRST MISSION WITH THE THIEVES. HE WAS A YEAR YOUNGER THAN I AND HE WAS IN CHARGE OF A WHOLE BRANCH OF HIS GUILD. BECAUSE OF THIS I DECIDED I WOULD BECOME BETTER KNOWN THAN HIM AND BECOME THE LEADER OF MY BROTHERHOOD BEFORE HE BECOMES THE TOP OF HIS LITTLE GUILD.

“WHY DO YOU THINK YOU’RE SO GREAT? YOUR GUILD MUST BE LACKING ANY TRUE SKILL TO HAVE PUT YOU IN CHARGE,” I JOKED.

“JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO PATHETIC TO GET ANYWHERE WITH YOUR LIFE DOESN’T MEAN I’M NOT SKILLED ENOUGH TO BEAT YOU,” LOBO SNAPPED.

WE WOULD ALWAYS ARGUE LIKE THIS AND IT NEVER SEEMED TO BE MEAN SPIRITED IN OUR EYES. OTHERS THOUGH,...