Land of War by Kirill Klevanski

Author:Kirill Klevanski [Klevanski, Kirill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Adventure, Epic Fantasy Series
Published: 2021-05-21T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 887

H adjar angled the neck of Karein’s broken wine bottle around the corner. The aristocrat was still lamenting his commander’s ‘barbarism’. It was unclear whether this was just a joke, actual alcoholism, an act, or something else entirely.

The tomb was brimming with even more power on the inside. The aura that it sent out into the surrounding area was just a tenth of what was actually inside. Fortunately, it acted on the principle of ‘to each according to their ability’. Otherwise, Rekka, who was the weakest among them because of her parasitic blades, would’ve simply been turned to dust.

They sensed that their effective power, due to their Cores’ struggle to keep them alive, had been reduced by more than half. It took too much effort just to make their hearts beat properly… Which meant that the cultivators couldn’t look through the World River. Fortunately, Hadjar had fought a lot as a mortal, so he knew a few tricks.

“How many are there?” Galkhad asked.

“Enough for everyone,” Hadjar replied, and, covering the bottleneck with his hand to prevent any glare, he moved the makeshift mirror back.

They’d been wandering through the labyrinth that was the tomb’s interior for three hours now. During this time, Rekka and Karein had had to stop the squad and defuse traps three times.

One of them had been a hole disguised to look like a part of the floor. The illusionary floor had been so dense that it could withstand the weight of a couple dozen pounds. Annette shuddered, realizing that if she’d been just a little heavier, she would’ve died as a child. At the bottom of the hole were blue flames. Each of them looked like a wriggling snake with long fangs.

The second and third traps had been much more sophisticated — poison gas chambers. Each one would be activated by a cultivator’s aura, and if the aura was strong enough to fill the ‘tank’ of the mechanism with its echo, the cultivator would kill themselves. It had taken Karein and Rekka about two hours to disable these traps.

The crumbling maze covered in lush vegetation seemed like an endless, winding corridor. Surprisingly, even after so long, it was still lit by smoldering torches. Rekka couldn’t understand what kind of magic was keeping them going. Hadjar’s neural network, which had been distracted from its main task for a few minutes, couldn’t figure it out either. None of them managed to remove the torches from their sconces.

They were currently standing in front of a wide, half-flooded hall. The water was only knee-deep, but apparently, that was still enough for more than a hundred chimeras to live comfortably in. They moved around in a strange manner. Instead of swimming, they used their lower halves to glide through the water like snakes, and held their human halves above the water.

“Are you sure that’s where we’re supposed to go?” Hadjar asked Annette.

On the other side of the hall were two corridors.

“I’m sure. There’s a crevice past this area. Everyone can pass through it, except the giant.

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