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“Did you hear that, Brother Atila? They say Louis dug up the Black Plain.”

“The Black Plain…. So he would bear that curse. He is indeed a man worthy of becoming my ally.”

That place was precisely the one all the chieftains, Atila included, avoided. It had long been an execution ground. Two tales were entwined with that land, and if the Huns dug it up, a great disaster would befall them.

But if another people dug up that land, they said an ancient god would give the one in question a trial. Of course, if he passed the trial,...