Book 3, Chapter 70 (1/2)
The old chief had spent ten years of his life wandering the wastelands andCloudhawk pull sustenance fro the outsiders he’d never witnessed a power like that
Thinking on it, roup both noble and powerful crossed his mind They possesed powers far beyond the abilities of normal folk Demonhunters!
This revelation made the chief nervous He knehat it meant when a demonhunter arrived He kneell He knehat they represented!
He’dwanderer Hailing from the mysterious land of the Gods, they had powers that filled his heart with fear The chief also saw first hand how ruthless they could be Mutants were not friends, they were pests to be extered Coal to tell hi hihed
Deit, the mutants of the wastelands were many and his tribe had only three or four hundred members Nestled deep in the Blisterpeaks, it s they hated on their doorstep, and come all the way out here to trouble a distant tribe who had never had contact with the outside
Cloudhawk’s abilities were unquestioned Beating Coal into submission was no easy feat
Coal was their tribe’s one and only est didn’t have a tenth of Coal’s power The progress of his iant had never had a proper fight He didn’t really kno to defend himself
If Cloudhawk could beat Coal, then he could destroy every one of theainst Coal Howwas a mystery
The old chief’s er the demonhunter, but neither could they upset their God
The chief was certain in his own enerations was no deity Likely, it was a powerfulthe volcanoes He had planned for Coal to gain mesa and kill it But the sudden arrival of a deical powers to help in killing the beast? The young man seemed brave, and this appeared to be a way to both appease the deer to his people
But… if they went to battle against the God of volcanoes, could they win? It had been tried before, the stories of their people tell tale of it Each time it ended in disaster More than once their people were almost completely wiped out
Cloudhaatched as the chief hesitated, lost in thought He was growing i and broken accent he tried to relay the legend of Magmesa
A God of volcanoes? Bullshi+t – it was just a particular strong beast that has taken to living a to Coal he was fierce and shrewd Every now and again the Volcano Tribe was forced to bring up offerings of food or their God would find and devour one of their own Running served no purpose, their God would find them It was their tormentor, a lord they both feared and despised
It had been a long timesa had shown its face, since before Coal was born
It seeenerations and it was still derier Coal had always hated this invisible overlord, even going so far as to harbor a secret hope to one day kill it If the day ever cah to defeat their God of volcano, then he would be strong enough to e patriarch came to a decision
“Sir You look for city in volcano My people will do our part, if you kill evil false God”
Cloudhawk silently cursed his circumstances He’d hoped these tribesmen would be a bunch of dull-witted, si as anyone else fuck, half awas their God of volcano and noas a pretender
Didn’t oing “Then I appreciate it, chief I’ll remember your help, and I’ll make sure to pay it back one day”
The outsider’s words eased the chief’s concerns greatly There would be no point in a demonhunter to lie and play tricks with his lowly people If he illing to make such a pro the elysians back down on their heads
The next day, the chief gathered his people’s strongest and youngest fighters He called on Coal to lead theoal was the lair of the God of volcanoes
Cloudhawk’s entourage was no pushover and it took little effort to gather theether Still, this God of theirs was supposed to be quite the beast, and he wondered if he’d stu theirto just sit back and let him deal with their problem, were they? But it didn’t matter If itthen a little trouble orth it
He and his dozen or so guides caes It was a sheer cliff on the borders of a lae below they watched as thefire and snificent waterfall of liquid fire, and they could feel the heat blasting off of it even fro it harder to breathe
Only people like the Volcano Tribe were unaffected, who had had generations of ti like this
Hot as the Blisterpeaks were, the teh toat the curtain of lava, they briefly caught gliainst his map and was thrilled to find it very similar This was one of the entrances into the Dark Atom’s headquarters
“So where’s this God of yours?”
Coal pointed forward The tribesmen with him dropped into a defensive crouch and brandished their spears of volcanic ore His rocky throat bellowed a war cry, and they raced barefoot over the parched and lavstrewn field With spears held high, they throw theth, into the darkness of the cavern A low, earth-rurowl answered
It sounded like the bowels of thethan the rumble of an eruption
A very old and cruel presence abruptly filled the area, as they watched an enor insect skittered fro shade of orange A heat even the tribesmen couldn’t stand blasted their way, and they were forced tolava to splash on and around it like burning raindrops The stone sizzled against its hide but did not burn, for this monster did not fear any heat It lashed toward the members of the tribesaped
What the actual fuck?!
The tribesmen continued to rain their spears on it Even with considerable strength behind theainst the beast and left only minor wounds
God of the volcano indeed! The da A rarely seen true horror of the wastelands Rushi+ng at it like a cloud of angry bees was a stupid decision on the part of the tribesmen
“Coal! Lure hi Cloudhaas, he couldn’t get close enough to the lava to fight If he wasn’t careful and slipped into a pit and be burned to ash in an instant He didn’t have the constitution of theseto risk it