Rise of a new Shadow - Chapter 9 by Ramul, literature
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Rise of a new Shadow - Chapter 9
Lost
„Watch where you're going!“
Grime barely avoided hitting the forthcoming Brown as he ran down the tunnel. He knew that the Brown was not to blame, but due to the current situation, Gnarl's assistant was very agitated.
Since yesterday's noon, he was wasting his time with helping Grubby to repair and modify the Gates.
'Going to teach you everything it takes to guide an Overlord'. He could only roll his eyes at those words spoken by Gnarl many years ago. Rather than teaching him, it was nearly always 'Grime, fetch me this', 'Grime, inform this person of that' and 'Grime, get me some maggots from the Barracks'. 'Grime this, Gr
Rise of a new Shadow - Chapter 8 by Ramul, literature
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Rise of a new Shadow - Chapter 8
Behind the Green Wall
Entering the Infected Forest was like entering another world. Despite it being a bright morning, it was nearly as dark as a full-moon night beyond the sheet of leaves. It was still lit well enough to show the forest's bizarre interior.
While the appearance of the forest from the outside had already implied that the trees were no normal trees, they were now showing their true nature. Seemingly disregarding gravity and convention, the trunks snaked through the landscape, growing up, down, sideways and changing direction. Some low branches bore roots and some uncovered roots bore leaves. A few of the trunks were even movin
Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 11 (1) by Ramul, literature
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Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 11 (1)
Hunters becoming hunted
„I stand by my point. This is not going to happen.“ Morning Wood crossed his arms and lifted his nose in the air.
„But please consider it,“ Martina Benetty said. „These 'evil creatures' are people, too!“
To emphasize her argument, Martina clapped to bring in the cupbearer who carried a tablet with three bottles of assorted wines. Said cupbearer was Martina's pet project. Rather than hiring a human, elf or even a gnome, the latter being a distasteful, but sadly very popular habit among the nobility, her servant was a short, blue and fish-like creature that was almost unrecognizable i
Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 11 (2) by Ramul, literature
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Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 11 (2)
The firetree, as Talon had referred to the giant trees with pulsing rows of orange light, came soon into their sight, after descending right through the spread-out dark blue leaves of another tree and another close encounter with a group of Sarul-Ras children later. Similar to the first trunk they moved past close, this one was scaffolded with several storeys of platforms as well, which connected the bulging bark-grown dwellings with the platform- and vine-network that formed the settlement's streets.
And just like on the first trunk, the dwellings were empty. Looking ahead, Orell couldn't make out any whooper pets ahead, but a fat creature t
Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 12 by Ramul, literature
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Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 12
A turbulent road home
In contrary to any lingering fears still present, the Sarul-Sas didn't return.
Orell wanted to stay in the cave's entrance until his pounding headaches had subsided completely. While he rested, leant against the rough limestone wall and half of the armour scattered around him in the layer of bluish moss, the Greens tentatively started to go out to explore the surroundings. Some went deeper into the cave to return with a grotesque glowing mushroom or a large, pale worm later, a few of the bolder Greens ventured outside of the cave, with no one having to report the presence of any elves nearby. Others stayed inside, close
Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 13 (1) by Ramul, literature
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Rise of a New Shadow - Chapter 13 (1)
Finding the unsought
The paddle went into the waves and emerged a good deal further along the boat, dripping with sea water, only to be pushed into the waves again. Plunk, pulling his arms and body back, lowering them to lift the paddles, bend forwards, plunk. Haeren Bloodsheep didn't know how often he had done this today, how often he had done this the last couple of days.
This blasted Demon Lord...
He had only stopped rowing when storms came up, where he had to pull the boat onto the always close-by beach, when he had to sleep or when he threw out and drew in the fishing line. He was so sick of fish and would kill for a good piece of mutto