Chapter 349 (1/2)

Book 3, Chapter 85 – The Battle Under the Mountain

Revenant stood in the center of the hallway He arms were extended, hands crossed, and the blades held therein pointed toward the ground

The wraithrobe draped over his body seeh there was no breeze to lift it The hood was raised and a black mask hid his features from view From head to toe, Revenant dripped with sinister promise, like an emotionless totem

Was it ten years, or eight?

Revenant couldn't re he'd worked for Adder

But he would never forget his host, ever at Adder's side He was a weapon, swung at hisonly to be of use Adder's as iht It didn'tdown that hallway, he would stop them

This was the scene that greeted Cloudhahen he arrived

The two hly twenty paces apart

Adder's right-hand , treacherous, and hard read The wraithrobescare of him would be difficult for Cloudhawk It would certainly take more than the few moments he had to spare Besides Revenant there were also another twenty men behind him, bows drawn and ready to fire In an area this small, a volley of arroas lethal

Cloudhawk knew that if he took another step they would fire on him A concentrated volley would be as deadly as a point-blank un

“Icommittee is passable” Cloudhawk pointedly looked to his left and right, and with a distinct note of dissatisfaction in his voice, he asked, “Adder's too important to come and say hello personally?”

As Cloudhawk stopped the Dark Atoh they didn't like to adh these invaders alone They had to rely on Cloudhawk's strength to punch through the men in black

Revenant reh he hadn't heard

“So I'et confused Are you lot elysians, or wastelanders?” With thehis features it was impossible to read Cloudhawk's face But his eyes were fixed on the invaders with a hard light “Who the fuck is Adder? What the hell are you guys planning to do?”

Revenant's robes continued to flutter of their own accord, like he was a spirit from the nether world bound to their reality In rown tired of Cloudhawk's inane questions His eyes slowly opened, fixed on his foe, and then in a voice that was both raspy and youthful he responded “How does this concern you?”

How does it concern me?

Maybe on the surface it didn't seem to be any of Cloudhawk's business, but that wasn't further from the truth!

Adder was Luciasha's ward Cloudhawk had to knohatever vile thing the , otherwise how could he trust in Asha's safety? But he wasn't stupid, and the Warden knew that pressing the bastard for ansasn't going to get hi 'e he needed to know

Alright, well such was the way of things Adder had revealed hih Cloudhawk had no idea what this primeval weapon was, Adder wanted it and wanted it bad He sure as shi+t wasn't going to use it to plant pretty flowers If he wanted to kill hi to turn this weapon on his ene Luciasha into it Cloudhawk couldn't allow that

Cloudhawk tightened his grip on the exorcist staves in each hand “Well it see it on First I'll sonna break that bastard Adder's legs and leave hi an honest barman, that he has to come all the way out here and start shi+t?”

Soht to himself If Adder really wanted hi his mouth

Adder had clearly given him an option, even spared his life, but the hateful child illing to take off the gloves and fight for real He even had the audacity to stand here and taunt therateful would never learn their place

Both sides stared at each other, weapons bared Suddenly everything changed

The floor, walls and ceiling all began to crack as a torrential gust of sand swept through All eyes were blinded by the yellow sand as it flooded the hallway Everything ed up

Cloudhawk felt the familiar resonance and his face fell “Who the fuck is sneaking around?! Show yourself!”

Sand roared around him like tempestuous waves Limbs appeared and disappeared all around him like some hideous creature lurked just out of view These were the others froht of what happened to them froze his blood Inwardly Cloudhawk cursed his foul circuet worse He reached out with his e the phase stone, only to have it snatched from his neck by a host of sandy tentacles

fucked! I'm totally fucked!

His phase abilities were robbed, and with no way to protect himself the tidal wave of sand carried hiht in a flash flood, he was carried out of Nucleus The others were summarily spat out of the wave as they continued while Cloudhawk struggled in vain He was eventually flung far away froround war

Adder and the others exited the warehouse and went back the way they caerly carried on the backs of two of his men When he came to the sand-blasted hallway he knew instantly what had caused it He looked around with a glance of doubt and suspicion, but there was no time for hesitation He nodded toward Revenant, so”

Revenant was no normal man He didn't knohat happened, but his place was not to ask questions Wordlessly he followed his master away from the warehouse

Cloudhawk found himself belched out of a nearby volcanic vent He hit the obsidian et his bearings Scra to his feet, there was still a dervish of sand surrounding him, which slowly for black figure eed from the sandstorm

“You!”

The battle continued to rage all around them Cloudhawk had never seen a conflict of this scale or intensity Yetwas the sudden appearance of this creature, a creature that should have been dead

“It's not dead…”

“I thought that the years ht have hter wormed its way into Cloudhawk's mind as Abaddon continued “Did you really think soed cat, could kill a demon? [1] If the divine were so weak, then o”