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"Face me, armorer!" he roared

Only the winds answered With a disheartened exhalation, Malko a bird for his dinner on his way Again he recognized that the supply of gah he possessed unnatural speed, he found it increasingly difficult to sustain himself here

Snap The bird's neck cracked in Malko winds, he detected the sound With an easy yank, he severed the head fro neck over his mouth to sate his vampire need for blood Back within his home, he'd cook the meat to feed the de His heightened senses perceived a brief portal opening, a disturbance in the plane below his mountain home Directly before the forest lay a circle of five boulders, ate, tensing to trace to the circle Nothing Even after all this tier teleport Not since the Scarb a ritual

No matter He was fast, could be down in the forest inof the portal meant one of two possibilities

More mortals had been dispatched to the wastelands to capture hih, he would've now Whenever they invaded his territory, he'd dismembered every soldier who'd dared set foot on his ruesome display at the closed threshold

When the soldiers beseeched hilish, the vah Malkoer co it enraged hi used to dispose of more Lore creatures, exiled cried once ht By me

Chapter 5

Carrow landed so hard atop a pile of old skeletons that her breath was knocked fros and the porous bones were pulverized beneath her

She lay for precious seconds, enduring that panicky feeling of suffocation Waiting

Once her lungs reset, she sucked in a breath, then iusted, the air was acrid

Hauling herself to her feet, she kicked a couple of femurs out of her way and peered around So this is hell

All around thecircle of boulders lay a wasteland such as she'd never i with dust and fumes Behind her, a rocky desert stretched to the horizon Glowing stones that seeht and left, deep chas plumes of sulfurous smoke Before her stood what resembled a forest, but the trees were petrified, their color round Nothing green grew here Everything was just a gradation of brown, dirty white, or ash

Miles and le immense mountain with three distinct peaks

His mountain Her destination