Is it still double posting if you put up a new chapter almost nine hours later?
Sorry ... but I'm getting impatient. I've noticed a lot of views but no comments, so I'm posting the next chapter.
Chapter 30
Pyll pointed south, and told me that Dis was most likely my next destination. Thinking back ...
The city of Dis was a practically impassible barrier. Few mudokons taking these trials passed through. It is a wide plain, surrounded by iron walls. Fire runs rampant, burning all that is sacred.
Yeah. Sounds right.
I thanked him again, assured him I would visit someday, and set off.
The sun in the sky proclaimed it to be roughly three-thirty. Busy afternoon, I thought, considering I left Orion in Rotag at about nine-thirty in the morning.
I had spotted something that could only be Dis. The place was very wide ... and it seemed to be raining giant chunks of flaming stone. It appeared just to be a very large valley between two hills, but these hills had been carefully reinforced by some kind of metal. The metal siding wasn’t expertly done; it looked crafted from many different pieces. But their purpose was clear: no one was going to climb up the sides of the valley.
And the raining boulders and constant fire was guaranteed to stop me if I tried to run straight through.
This seemed to me to be an easy solution. What creature could climb? Paramite. I just had to get a hold of Patch and go for it.
Patch was getting a little peeved by all the bothering I’d done since that morning, but he agreed willingly enough. Within minutes I was scaling the wall will relative ease.
I reached the top easily enough. I returned to my natural body and looked around.
The top here was lined with catapults. Two large creatures I had never seen before hustled around on all six limbs, four of them hooves and two large, hairy hands. They were hidouesly fast, even though the immense horns on their heads looked like they would slow them down. The creatures carried the boulders from an immense pile, that seemed inexhaustible, over to the catapults, and I saw little reptilian-looking dudes in shorts setting torches to the rocks. They took several tries to light, but eventually they stayed alight. The large creatures with the hooves would pull on levers and launch the flaming rocks into the valley.
In no time I had been spotted by the larger creatures, and was instantly attacked. I felt only the first few blows before I blacked out.
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