Morigu: The Dead by Mark C Perry

Author:Mark C Perry [Perry, Mark C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9780445206441
Google: Ng_aPAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0445206446
Publisher: Questar
Published: 1990-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

C H A P T E R

Eleven

The goblin's short pike darted out toward Mearead's chest; the dwarven king deflected the blow with his small shield and in the same motion brought his ax down on the wooden shaft of the pike. The ax sheared the weapon in two. Mearead leapt at the goblin, slicing open the creature's chest with the sharp spike topping his dwarven ax. The goblin fell, trying to scream through its blood-filled snout.

Behind Mearead three companies of Ruegal's finest, led by Shiel mac Mannon, charged. The dwarf waded through the goblin horde, his ax blade killing at every stroke. The men who followed him struggled to keep up with the king, but he was ever in the forefront of the battle.

After fifteen minutes of fierce resistance, the goblins broke and fled the large chamber. In two days of hard fighting the army of southern Tolath had finally cleared the mid-halls of the dwarven caves of the Tivulic mountains.

It had been some of the hardest fighting since the war had begun, and both sides had taken atrocious casualties. There had been no place for large battles to settle the issue, just a continuous series of sharp clashes in the dusty halls and long-unused chambers of the dwarven caves. The Tivulic mountains were being washed in the blood of warriors.

The goblins were better suited for this kind of fighting than the humans or elves, being on the average about half a foot shorter than the men and better able to fight in tight corners and small hallways. But with Mearead's leadership, the army of southern Tolath had been able to outmaneuver the goblins time and again.

Mearead leaned against the cavern wall as Shiel's men helped their wounded and beheaded the goblins left behind, dead or alive. Shiel came up to the dwarven king and bowed low. He had learned in the weeks of battle that the dwarf was a fierce and ruthless warrior, and here in the dwarven caves none could match Mearead in skill.

"And now, my lord?" he asked. Mearead did not answer for a moment. The dwarfs white beard, plated with iron, was stained a brown red and his scale armor stank from the gore that covered it. He looked up, and Shiel was glad that the dwarf wore his dragon helmet, for in moments after a battle no man wished to look into the berserker eyes of Mearead, lord of the Crystal Falls.

"Now, my overlarge friend, we find a path to the lower halls." Mearead's whole head and face was covered with the dragon helmet and due to some property of its metal the dwarfs voice sounded thick and alien.

"The lower halls?" Shiel sheathed his sword in one fluid motion. "My lord, I thought we would move to the other side of the caves, maybe even to the upper halls."

"No, that's what they expect of us." Mearead pushed himself off the wall, shrugging his weariness away. "Somewhere near here will be a path to the lower levels.

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