The god's heritage

Long live the time when the strength of a man was measured by the number of battles he has won that the gods came to dwell among men

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Umiokpo a village in the Eastern shore of a town called ufioko was known around the neighbouring villages because of the numerous victories they have had in battles , the greatest among the men was obiadele . The gods betrothed. His strength was great that he doesn't last 15 minutes in the battle field in putting his opponent's back on the ground. He became famous and feared by all, such of his strength was known to have passed from his ancestors up on to him and from their linage, they have never been defeated

Obiadele , got so carried away by his strength and began to oppress people, depriving them of their possession and made it an obligation to always give him the first fruit from every harvest. Everyone who opposed him was put to death, he lie with every beautiful girl he crosses a path with and it kept on for years, though people began to hate him ,they dare not rebel against him.

Thirty years later, the gods granted favour on to one of the women he once lied with and she conceived a male child, and the gods dwell in him Though born as a bastard. He grew up a giant and became famous , he did everything possible to avoid conflict. The mother had to remind him of who he was and where he came from several time to prepare him for the future seeing who he grew up to be.

Obiadele kept up with his mischief until he came across uchenna his son , whom he dare for a fight just to bring glory unto himself. For the first time, obiadele lasted more than 2 hours and no one was able to defeat the other. And the battle was postponed for another set time.

This act got obiadele restless and vexed, for the first time in his lifetime,he was not able to defeat an opponent. For days he refused to eat and inquired about who the boy is and news got to him that the boy is the son of ifeoma one of the women he lay with.

He became restless seeing that his fame has been abused and he trained harder for the upcoming field fight.

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The day finally arrived, songs of war filled the arena, and the arena was set for the fight to begin. They fought for half an hour and no winner was found ,then like a dream uchenna lifted up obiadele and wuff on the ground. Nnefe clan sang songs of victory, and renown themselves free from the cruel treatment of obiadele. Obiadele seeing the shame brought on him, went and hanged himself And that day being Saturday , end of the month was set has a day of rejoicing in remembrance of their freedom from obiadele cruelty