hero. He knelt down in terror before the young hero, asking for mercy. He groaned
repeatedly:
“I have felt your bravey.
I have felt your leniency
We have fought for three days.
I am tortured by unbearable hunger.
As a gluttonous person,
I don’t want to go to hell while I am still hungry!
Please leave me alone right now.
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Please give me a chance to eat my fill.
Please give me a seven-day truce.
After glutting myself with food,
I will go back for a decisive battle.
I will be happy even I am killed by you at that moment!”
The young hero agreed to the cruel ruffian’s request out of his inherent leniency finally. He turned round his horse and left the battlefield. Though the cruel ruffian sustained the serious injury, he gorged himself with a lot of human flesh after running back to his barracks.
On the morning of the seventh day, Karadole went back to the battlefield in low spirits after eating voraciously. On the contrary, Seyit returned in high spirits. The snow-white helmet, golden armor and silver cloak added to his original majesty. Numerous people also crowded the battlefiled in order to watch the young hero’s elegant demeanour.
They employed all their skills to fight in the battlefield. The young hero upstaged the cruel ruffian thanks to his superb martial arts. It was difficult for the cruel ruffian to hold his own.
In order to win the decisive battle, Karadole tried to resort to his despicable trick. He launched a sneak attack by hurling his heavy hammer on the head of Seyit suddenly. The hammer was as large as a yurt. In his opinion, his trick would pay off.
The heavy hammer struck the helmet of the young hero with a bang. In an instant, a ball of flame came out just as a volcano erupted furiously. The dust and metal fragments aroused by the bump fell down onto the ground like the meteorite shower, killing and injuring a number of innocent bystanders who had no enough time to escape. Almost all the spectators thought that Seyit had died from the sneak attack. Karadole’s wife and five sons were even wild with joy at sight of that, hailing the cruel ruffian for the so-called success.
As a matter of fact, the young hero did not pass away. At the critical moment, Seyit kept calling the name of his mother in a gentle voice. All of a sudden the world before his eyes brightened up. His serene mother came to him and a stream of holy and white milk from her breasts flowed into his mouth. The young hero seemed to regain the unrivaled strength once again.
Karadole came over to the young hero with an air of complacency to check out what was going on. Suddenly, the young hero gave a violent pull
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on the rein of his horse. And the horse answered by jumping high out of the quagmire. The cruel ruffian was so frightened that he retreated backward swiftly. Seyit chanted the slogan of “Manas” in a loud voice, raising his axe and hacking at Karadole. The cruel ruffian was hit on the neck with the blood spattering down over a large piece of land underneath.
The wife and five sons of Karadole came at the young hero in order to take revenge on him. They dealt an overall blow to the young hero. Some of them fired gunshots and shot arrows while the others struck him with the spear, broadsword, brone hammer and iron axe simultaneously. However, the armor and cloak were proof against spear thrusts and sword cuts. In the face of the vicious attacks and the spells performed by the old witch, Seyit did not show the air of cowardice at all. The young hero pointed his spear into the sky, eliminating the poinous haze conjured up by the witch. The young hero killed the cruel ruffian’s four sons and captured alive the witch and her youngest son.
After the decisive battle was over, the young hero broke into the prison and saved all the jailed beauties from incarceration. They reunited with their family members once again.
Seyit and Princess Kirlgikei fell in love at first sight. But the princess’ father Sooraimart was narrow-minded and posed a series of obstacles to their marriage.
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