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EXILE - Chapter Forty-five
Okwudili was amazed at all the things Ezeugo had told him. They stuck deeply in his mind as he tried to make sense of all he had just heard. Although Ezeugo was sound asleep, he could still feel the movements of his lips as he poured out his heart to him. The story that Ezeugo had told him was a tale that could easily pass as an illusion than a reality. No man in his right mind wouldn't call Ezeugo a fool after listening to all he had just said about his journey.
Deep down, Okwudili could remember that he had heard a lot of stories about the magical powers that the diviners of Umuoku possessed but none of them had even come close to the diviner that Ezeugo had just told him about. Even Osisisiakalaka would feel a threat to his supremacy if he ever heard of such a man who could do a wonderful miracle that was only reserved for the high god, Chukwu.
As Okwudili pondered about what he had just heard. The only reasonable concept he could come up
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