Temple of Cocidius: A Monster Girl Harem Adventure Serial: Book I by Maxx Whittaker

Author:Maxx Whittaker [Whittaker, Maxx]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saving Throw Ink
Published: 2018-10-05T23:00:00+00:00

-Bergstopp-

The furs fit better than my leathers despite their thickness and their lining - something finer than silk- is like a second skin. I don’t feel the change when I step from the longhouse into the bright winter wastes.

Freya is waiting, almost blinding against the landscape. She’s donned a mantle that sweeps the ground, soft and white. It’s not fur, I realize when I reach her. It’s feathers, fine and downy. The staff in her hand is white wood. Its headpiece is a gold half-moon suspending a floating blue jewel that matches the ones on her diadem. The gold band disappears in her thick hair, and a horn spirals from its center. She’s as breathtaking as before, but somber now. All business.

She gestures to the land beyond the longhouse. It raises in four long steppes, tiers that conclude at the mountain’s peak. “The Afl-Raun. Trial of strength.”

This doesn’t sound so bad. I have strength. It’s the other craziness here that keeps getting to me. “Let me guess; each tier gets harder.”

“Correct. I can heal you in between, but not during combat. Until you’ve defeated your foes...you’re on your own.”

So far, so good.

“The test is to go on when you have nothing left. To fight with the last of your will, trusting me to replenish you. Pain, terror, weakness; you must overcome each one.” She waves her staff toward the first tier. A portal appears. “As with all north chambers, you may leave at any time.”

“But I leave with nothing?”

“That’s right. You forfeit your artifacts.”

And their freedom. She doesn’t say it, but I see it on her face.

“You’ll be tempted, Tamlir. By the midpoint, men give up fighting and drag themselves screaming toward the portal. All I can ask is that you trust me.”

That’s less reassuring information. “Got it.” I can do this. I’ve trained with the blade my entire life, and though I’m not a master, there aren’t many who can take me. I even have some insurance. I throw my pack against the front steps and reach inside. Healing potion. Healing potion.

Nothing.

Ahh fuck. “Any tricks you can share? Anything I should know?”

“The Blár Drengr have no eyes. Their souls must be able to see, however. The sockets are empty. No one has ever found that a vulnerability but…” She shrugs. ‘It could be a weakness, but that isn’t the point of this trial. Cocidius never meant for this to be easily defeated.”

“Then I hope he likes surprises.”

Her smile is a bare flicker. “Ready to begin?”

“Ready.” I draw my blades.

Freya swirls her staff and raises it, sending a bolt crackling into the sky. The energy from its wake sets my hair on end.

The world stills. No winds, no blowing snow. Even the sun’s flicker holds for a second.

Sounds echo overhead like a thousand birds on the wing. Clouds part on furious swirls and the sun dims like an eclipse.

The hand appears, the same one I saw on my climb. It hovers in a fist, its knuckles carved like the deepest trenches of the world.

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