p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Chapter 10: The Temple Part I/p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Looking behind me at the village... everything seems to be so old... the houses are made out of sandstone, which really makes it look even worse. The houses have no glass windows and sand is piling in the holes. I don't really see where the villager went... what a weirdo./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I'm now heading towards the temple which appears to be in the shape of a dome. It stands out because it is not made of sand or sandstone, but of rock, you can clearly see it being gray from here. Although it might probably have some othe-/p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"My idea is ended by the fact that I had to jump to the ground, as an explosion came from below my style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /"Explosives... really..." I say as I get off and hit the sand off my pants. This will be annoying... But I guess I could.../p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I have an idea, I take a bunch of sand and throw it in front of me. Since nothing explodes it's pretty much safe to walk. I do the same again, and this time it explodes again,, leaving a hole in the sand./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Guess it shall work... As I make my way like this through the desert, the temple does not seem to be getting any closer. I hope this won't take me too much... the more time spent, the further I'll be away from getting to the man in the North... and maybe closer to my revenge./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"It is now night again and I am better prepared this time. I dug holes around the camp site, my bag still has a lot of sand in it. now I'm just sitting here with a lot of hostile creatures too stupid to climb on top of each other. It will smell horrible by morning when they'll burn up... but at least I can rest... In the distance the dome is light up, shining, attracting me. Making me wonder where the light comes from, what is burning inside. And making me happy thinking that I will shut it down./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Maybe level it down to the ground... after all this sand and the monsters and... ugh I'll just head to sleep.../p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Mitsu scratches me till I am awake. That's not the best thing to wake up to but I guess it'll do. "Is it morning already little fellow? Did you guard me in my sleep?" I say, while looking around at the burning creatures. I pack my bag up after I try to get all the sand out of it, again, and jump over the hole, Mitsu follows me then climbs onto my shoulder./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"This trip took me two days, of boredom, not even fighting the creatures of the night made anything anymore interesting. Certainly there has to be a bigger threat here... else all the days I've spent walking and sleeping on piles of sand were worthless. I mean, I'll be doing a good deed, but I hope at least I'll be challenged./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I sure hope I won't regret thinking this. I'm getting closer to the temple and the thing is huge. I see an entrance, but it looks as Mitsu wouldn't fit through from this distance. The structure is beginning to look like a mountain. And sadly I'm not even near it, it's night again so I shall once more set camp. I hope I won't run out of coal and sticks. I've tried reusing the past torches but it's not really gone according to plan... Now to think more of it, I think I'll rather keep walking through the night. Something about the place just attracts me. I have to get there./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Morning has arrived. Or at least I so think, the sky is getting blue, but I can not see anything because of the shadow of this building. It is colossal, it has flat walls as high as the jungle trees, up to a point where it takes the shape of a dome. The dome seems to be made of glass, but it is covered in a thin layer of sand./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The walls are engraves with strange shapes, and the entrance has a lot of markings around it. On the sides of it there are some statues, similar to the iron golem that was guarding the village... but they are smaller, made out of stone by the looks of it and they seem to be built to be tougher./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I get near them and greet them in human language. They look at me and place their hands on the wall besides them, and pull of swords of stone. They then start advancing towards me, as I take out my axe and get in a defensive pose./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"One of the golums slices at me, in the air as I move aside. They don't really have reactions, I strike with my axe infront of me and cut it's sword in half... I was aiming for the entire hand but it backed of. I guess they aren't sleeping either./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The other guard hits me, and as I dodge the other one tries to attack me with what's left of it's sword, but I strike my axe and hit it's side, pieces of rock and sparks coming out of him as my axe hits stone./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"This battle shall be interesting... at least they fight back, and they're more durable than zombies./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The two golems strike at me at different times, somehow one of the golems managed to repair it's sword, and the cut I made./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"But this he won't manage to repair, as he strikes at me I dodge, but then get in close towards him, hit it's head with the back of my axe, as I then move it away from him turn it and strike, with the blade hitting deep between the golem's head./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The connections between their heads arms and legs are their weak spots, as they move they aren't as solid as the rest of their body./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The golem falls and doesn't get up. But the other golem strikes me and rips the skin off my back, almost hitting my back, if not for Mitsu hissing making me jump forward. As I turn around, and hit him with my axe, my axe enters deep into it's head./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;""That was easy was it not" I say, but all of the sudden a dark shadow appears behind me, (The sun is in the middle of the sky) and something hits me. I'm still conscious but I can not move. I'm dragged inside the building... and everything goes black./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Looking behind me at the village... everything seems to be so old... the houses are made out of sandstone, which really makes it look even worse. The houses have no glass windows and sand is piling in the holes. I don't really see where the villager went... what a weirdo./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I'm now heading towards the temple which appears to be in the shape of a dome. It stands out because it is not made of sand or sandstone, but of rock, you can clearly see it being gray from here. Although it might probably have some othe-/p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"My idea is ended by the fact that I had to jump to the ground, as an explosion came from below my style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /"Explosives... really..." I say as I get off and hit the sand off my pants. This will be annoying... But I guess I could.../p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I have an idea, I take a bunch of sand and throw it in front of me. Since nothing explodes it's pretty much safe to walk. I do the same again, and this time it explodes again,, leaving a hole in the sand./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Guess it shall work... As I make my way like this through the desert, the temple does not seem to be getting any closer. I hope this won't take me too much... the more time spent, the further I'll be away from getting to the man in the North... and maybe closer to my revenge./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"It is now night again and I am better prepared this time. I dug holes around the camp site, my bag still has a lot of sand in it. now I'm just sitting here with a lot of hostile creatures too stupid to climb on top of each other. It will smell horrible by morning when they'll burn up... but at least I can rest... In the distance the dome is light up, shining, attracting me. Making me wonder where the light comes from, what is burning inside. And making me happy thinking that I will shut it down./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Maybe level it down to the ground... after all this sand and the monsters and... ugh I'll just head to sleep.../p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Mitsu scratches me till I am awake. That's not the best thing to wake up to but I guess it'll do. "Is it morning already little fellow? Did you guard me in my sleep?" I say, while looking around at the burning creatures. I pack my bag up after I try to get all the sand out of it, again, and jump over the hole, Mitsu follows me then climbs onto my shoulder./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"This trip took me two days, of boredom, not even fighting the creatures of the night made anything anymore interesting. Certainly there has to be a bigger threat here... else all the days I've spent walking and sleeping on piles of sand were worthless. I mean, I'll be doing a good deed, but I hope at least I'll be challenged./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I sure hope I won't regret thinking this. I'm getting closer to the temple and the thing is huge. I see an entrance, but it looks as Mitsu wouldn't fit through from this distance. The structure is beginning to look like a mountain. And sadly I'm not even near it, it's night again so I shall once more set camp. I hope I won't run out of coal and sticks. I've tried reusing the past torches but it's not really gone according to plan... Now to think more of it, I think I'll rather keep walking through the night. Something about the place just attracts me. I have to get there./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"Morning has arrived. Or at least I so think, the sky is getting blue, but I can not see anything because of the shadow of this building. It is colossal, it has flat walls as high as the jungle trees, up to a point where it takes the shape of a dome. The dome seems to be made of glass, but it is covered in a thin layer of sand./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The walls are engraves with strange shapes, and the entrance has a lot of markings around it. On the sides of it there are some statues, similar to the iron golem that was guarding the village... but they are smaller, made out of stone by the looks of it and they seem to be built to be tougher./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"I get near them and greet them in human language. They look at me and place their hands on the wall besides them, and pull of swords of stone. They then start advancing towards me, as I take out my axe and get in a defensive pose./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"One of the golums slices at me, in the air as I move aside. They don't really have reactions, I strike with my axe infront of me and cut it's sword in half... I was aiming for the entire hand but it backed of. I guess they aren't sleeping either./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The other guard hits me, and as I dodge the other one tries to attack me with what's left of it's sword, but I strike my axe and hit it's side, pieces of rock and sparks coming out of him as my axe hits stone./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"This battle shall be interesting... at least they fight back, and they're more durable than zombies./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The two golems strike at me at different times, somehow one of the golems managed to repair it's sword, and the cut I made./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"But this he won't manage to repair, as he strikes at me I dodge, but then get in close towards him, hit it's head with the back of my axe, as I then move it away from him turn it and strike, with the blade hitting deep between the golem's head./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The connections between their heads arms and legs are their weak spots, as they move they aren't as solid as the rest of their body./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;"The golem falls and doesn't get up. But the other golem strikes me and rips the skin off my back, almost hitting my back, if not for Mitsu hissing making me jump forward. As I turn around, and hit him with my axe, my axe enters deep into it's head./p
p style="margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; line-height: 19.5px; font-size: 13px; font-family: arial; background-color: #eef8ff;""That was easy was it not" I say, but all of the sudden a dark shadow appears behind me, (The sun is in the middle of the sky) and something hits me. I'm still conscious but I can not move. I'm dragged inside the building... and everything goes black./p