The Adventure of the Seven Sixes: the Curse of King Midas

The Seven Sixes! Seven six-sided coins that could grant their owner that most sought after power - the power to turn any object into gold. For King Midas, the first to possess the Seven Sixes, the golden touch meant saving his kingdom and wealth untold. But, the power of the golden touch came with a curse - a curse that brought heartache and sorrow to the great king. To make sure that no one else suffered as he suffered, King Midas sent seven of his finest soldiers, each carrying one...
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The Seven Sixes! Seven six-sided coins that could grant their owner that most sought after power - the power to turn any object into gold. For King Midas, the first to possess the Seven Sixes, the golden touch meant saving his kingdom and wealth untold. But, the power of the golden touch came with a curse - a curse that brought heartache and sorrow to the great king. To make sure that no one else suffered as he suffered, King Midas sent seven of his finest soldiers, each carrying one of the coins, in seven different directions with orders to "ride until there is no land and sail until there is no sea" and upon reaching the ends of the Earth, each must cast his individual coin into the abyss. But in this they failed, because the Earth has no end. There is no abyss. And the coins survived to draw another whose greed and lust for power matched that of King Midas. Only a boy of fourteen with a talent for picking pockets stood in his way.