Dear reader,

This is Lief the current king of Deltora. I have made a grave mistake and it has cost me the world. The belt of Deltora is broken again except that this time it can't be put back together The enemy was too strong, even with the power of the belt and the power of the pipe it was not powerful enough to defeat him. They are both lost now shattered to peaces even the gems of power them selves. I have lost everything Jasmine, and Barda have already perished in battle. Mother was brutally stabbed by the very guards that protect her every night, Josef poisoned by his trusted assistant Ranesh. There is absolutely no hope, my line has ended, He overran Tora even with all its power killed every living within. Toran magic is lost to us. My children even now burning in the courtyard, I will soon follow them into death. Goodbye and good luck I have failed Deltora I can do no more to help them, I only hope someday, somehow someone can.

Lief