Chimera King Box Set Books 1-3 by Atlas Kane

Author:Atlas Kane [Kane, Atlas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mad Hag Books
Published: 2021-02-07T22:00:00+00:00

17

A Titanic Tantrum

The vast tunnel didn’t do them any favors. It swelled and contracted, the variations in its size and shape becoming more extreme as they get closer to the center. This not only made traversing the ground difficult, but it played tricks with the queer song that continued to mess with Cade’s mind.

At times, it sounded like a giant baby babbling to itself just before sleep, and at others like a choir of voices led in divine inspiration. The effect was unsettling.

He wasn’t the only one who felt this way. Gamlum held his spear up over his shoulder, as if ready to hurl the weapon into the eye of a titan. Gemma’s bow was in her hands, its energy string buzzing softly as they went. Ketzal held her whip curled in her hand. When she wasn’t using it, it seemed like an odd mesh rope, the silver metal of the soul weapon distinct. Yet he knew that should she flick it out, it would ignite with a blaring yellow light. It was truly an awesome weapon. A little like a whip’s version of a laser sword.

The tunnel collapsed on itself once more, tapering to only thirty feet high, and the glowing material on the walls burned vibrantly. Then as they passed through, a truly enormous cavern was exposed. The strangest part was the lighting. Not only the glow of the cave slime, but daylight as well, though faint and faded.

It was big enough to host a professional football game with room for the stands as well. All around were thousands of mud lumps, almost like earthen eyes staring blindly.

Cade gawked at the sheer scale of the cavern, and all along the walls peered the empty sockets of countless tunnels. This was the heart of the nest, its epicenter. This was where all the spiders came to pay homage to their great queen. She was absent, of course, but curled up on her throne of rubble and bone, a vast creature was resting.

Far above, a long and angular crack scored through the mountaintop, the chink in the top of the skull, Cade imagined as he recalled the leering face they’d walked through to get here. It allowed a beam of burnished bronze light fall on the creature, late afternoon by the looks of it. They’d been tunneling for four or more hours, and at last, here was the monster who they sought.

The group halted, peering in wonder at the beast who’d single-handedly defeated the spiders. It was twenty feet tall at least, and its furry body curled around itself, fifty feet or longer. Yet its features remained indistinct. Only a mass of silver and amber fur, striped like a viper, shone in the fading light like polished metal.

Cade looked to Ketzal, all too aware that their village had relied upon her skill too often of late. But if anyone could break through and communicate with this creature, it was her. In a soft voice, just above a whisper, Cade asked her, “Speak with it, Ketzal.

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