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“King Louis will be a challenge for you, Jasuten,” warned Luce. “He will not just hand over the throne, and he will undoubtedly transform into some form of monster in order to defeat you. That pest queen you killed earlier? That’s nothing compared to the fiends that King Louis has slain!”

“You may be right, and it’s better to be safe than sorry,” thought Jasuten. He then turned to Jotun. “Go to the cave, this Cave of Blood, which King Louis entered weak and left strong. Find out what caused this change and, if you can, bring it to me.”

“Fine,” grumbled Jotun. He got up to leave, but something occurred to him. “What will you two be doing while I’m busy?”

“We’ll be blazing the trail through this escape tunnel,” said Luce. “It hasn’t been used in ages and connects to several caverns that can also hold rifts in space and time, not unlike the mountains.”

“How do you know all of this stuff?” asked Jotun.

“I used to be a maid for the king,” Luce explained hurriedly. “I came across the secret entrance by accident and nearly got myself killed by the horrors inside. One day I braved the darkness and came out here.”

“Sure,” stated Jotun. “I’ll see you two in the castle.” He then walked off in the direction of the Cave of Blood.

“Shall we continue?” she asked Jasuten.

Jotun stepped carefully through the cave. His lantern seemed to give off no light in the cavern, but strange mushrooms stuck in the walls did, not unlike the mushrooms of the haunted mine in Morytania. He wielded a mushroom in his left hand, his sword in his right. Each step was a question of what lay ahead. Would he face spiky pits? Light beams going through the floor? Monsters capable of reducing him to gnawed bones in minutes?

So far, nothing awaited him besides some dicey jumps across a chasm that seemed bottomless. However, Jotun was unfazed by this. He had gone through much worse in the past.

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Finally, he made it to a small temple-like area, a dead-end cavern. It was pitch black in the cavern, and all he could see was a small font lit up by a glowing mushroom. He ran over to the font, somewhat aware of a giant, statue-like thing in the room with him, and examined what lay in the stone font.

Blood. Inside the font was dark-red blood, flowing around in a circle as if someone was constantly stirring it. It wasn’t coagulating from being outside, possibly because of the intense magic Jotun could feel coming off from it. He prepared to stick a finger in.

“Do not touch that which lies before you,” boomed out a voice. Jotun turned around to see two golden eyes staring back at him from far above the ground. “Tell me. Who are you, and why do you seek the sacred Blood of Jas, blessed nectar formed over eons by the magical rocks that comprise this cavern?”

“I’m King Jotun. I came here to discover what made King Louis Wolfheart so strong.”

“Ah, yes, Louis,” continued the voice. “I remember him. He gained the right to drink the Blood by being pure of heart. However, I sense more than enough darkness in you to keep you from drawing upon the sacred font.”

“How could this King Louis be pure of heart? Haven’t you seen what he has done to his kingdom?” exclaimed Jotun.

“Louis is like any other epic hero,” said the voice. “His heart supports the best ideals, but he has one major character flaw. In Louis’ case, it’s his paranoia. This leads him to fear all those who stand up against him and makes him take excessive action against them. When his paranoia grows, he will not listen to reason.”

“Huh,” pondered Jotun. “Well, what else can I do to get this blood?”

“You may do battle with me,” challenged the voice. “Prove your power to me and I shall let you drink from the font.” The golden eyes moved forward to reveal a massive stone statue, lighting up as energy flowed through it.

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King Jotun

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“But I don’t want to drink from the font!” explained Jotun. “I just want to get some for someone I know!”

“Oh,” pondered the statue. “In that case, you may take it, but be warned; when the Blood of Jas leaves this cave in any amount, it becomes a poison potent enough to slay a god with one drop. It may never be drunk, but its power will still aid those who need it when the time is right.”

“I’ll pretend I know how I’m supposed to use it,” responded Jotun. He pulled out a vial and dipped it into the font, his gloves protecting him from the intense heat and magic coming from the blood. He then turned around and left, keeping a close eye on the giant statue as it turned to continue facing him. Finally, he left the chamber.

Jasuten and Luce slowly walked through the caverns, staying safely within the light of Luce’s lantern. Tons of creatures crawled around just out of sight, strange, translucent creatures that avoided the brightness like the plague.

“It’s amazing what can survive in these caves,” pondered Jasuten. “I guess they prey upon otherworldly creatures and fools who travel into caves alone?”

“We’ll be fine, since we have you,” assured Luce.

“I don’t think so,” pondered Jasuten. “This cave is structurally unsound in many areas. My spells are so violent and powerful they would undoubtedly cause a collapse if I were to miss.”

“As opposed to mine,” taunted a voice just ahead. A brilliant, shining figure stepped forward; it was a mage in gilded, white robes, wearing a headband with an eye embedded in it. “My holy spells are much more refined than your chaotic blasts.”

“Lucas the Magician,” stated Luce. “Figures that you are the one Louis would send to meet us.”

“Meet you and defeat you!” proclaimed Lucas, generating a brilliant ball of light in his hands. “Taste the holy power of retribution!”

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King Jotun

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Jasuten deflected this blast, which blasted against a wall, but sunk through and left no marks. “’Taste the holy power of retribution’? What does that even mean?

“It means you two shall die for the greater good!” roared Lucas, tossing more balls of light at Jasuten. Jasuten continued to expertly deflect them, the balls harmlessly sinking into the sides of the cavern.

“Hold still, you!” growled Lucas. “Accept your fate!” He flew into a rage and started speeding up his attacks, bombarding Jasuten with a never-ending stream of light. Jasuten’s deflections soon prepared to fail and he braced himself to actually feel pain, protecting his face with his staff.

But no further blasts came. He lowered his arms to see Lucas slowly backing away.

“Why couldn’t you have just died?” he roared at Jasuten. “Now I’m out of runes!” He took off in the opposite direction as fast as he could.

“Idiot,” grumbled Luce, “challenging a being not limited by rune quantity.”

Jasuten fired off a small, minute blast of darkness, knocking the headband off Lucas’ head. It bounced out of sight, enveloping Lucas in darkness. His frets turned into screams of pain before finally going quiet. The two approached and saw nothing but a skeleton and torn, gilded robes.

“If you drop that lantern, I’ll kill you before those hidden horrors can,” threatened Jasuten.

The two of them continued on, their light keeping all the horrors away.

Well, most of them. Jasuten and Luce walked along the road when one jumped from the shadows, ramming itself into Luce and knocking the lantern out of her hands. Luce screamed in fright as the lantern illuminated the transparent face of the horror, a strange, ape-like face. Its colorless skin showed all its organs in horrifying detail.

Jasuten blasted the horror to bits and quickly grabbed the lantern before another horror could leap into the fray. He raised the light up, burning the approaching horrors and keeping them at bay.

11-Feb-2012 01:49:19 - Last edited on 04-Mar-2012 02:56:10 by King Jotun

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King Jotun

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"Thanks," said a grateful Luce.

"Remind me to gas these creatures," urged Jasuten. "Do your archaic spells have something for the job? I hope they're like your rather useful prayers."

*That won’t be a problem,” assured Luce. “We’re here.”

They arrived at a rock face, as unremarkable as the rest of the cavern. Luce felt along the face, until coming across an outcropping that looked like a rib. She pushed the rib-rock up and a clicking sound was emitted from an area on the left of the wall. Luce walked over, shoved her fingers into a gap and pulled the wall out on hinges. On the other side was a tunnel.

The two walked through the tunnel and came across another door. Luce pushed it open as well and the duo entered a large, dusty bedroom. The opulent bed was nothing more than support for cobwebs. The various wardrobes and dressers were coated with dust.

“He hasn’t even cleaned it?” pondered Luce. She stepped toward the bed and picked up a stuffed, skull-faced Mahjarrat doll. “It’s the same as it was when I left all those years ago.”

“I knew you were royalty!” proclaimed Jasuten. “Yet you live out on the edge of your city instead of here. Do explain.”

“It started all those years ago,” she began. “The otherworldly terror had arrived, and Louis Wolfheart rose up to the challenge and defeated the terrible creature. After killing it, he opened up its stomach and retrieved the people who now make up his Light Warriors. He also destroyed the eggs it had inside as well, to wipe out all chances of it creating more of itself.

“So, daddy handed over the throne and offered his daughter to the hero, even if she had just become a teenager and he was a grown man. It’s a human thing, Jasuten. Of course, I fled from the castle, taking this very path and using the little magic I knew to stay alive. I laid low while my king ordered a search for me. After some time, he gave up and held a funeral ceremony.

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“As the kingdom continued under its new ruler’s guiding hand, it decayed all around me. The paranoid king forbid everything that he thought would encourage rebellious natures and locked up anyone who dared to stand up to him. The former king also approached him, but he locked him up as well. My dad died cold and alone in a dark dungeon.

“I reemerged sometime after this, recognized by only a few, such as the gatekeeper,” she finished. “Now, for my father, my friends, and the general good of the world, I aspire to rid King Louis of power.”

“Keep that rage in mind,” urged Jasuten. “It will help you when we fight him.”

“Unless someone stops you,” said a third voice. The two turned from each other and saw a man in white, gilded hides standing before them. He held two crossbows mounted on his arms, rather than held in his hands. A mechanism on the crossbows kept additional bolts in place and possibly fed them into the crossbow.

“Another fool approaches,” pondered Jasuten. “You know how many blows it took me to kill your friends? And yet you still challenge me? You should have at least thought this through.” He fired a dark blast at the ranger and scored a direct hit, but the ranger did not even look fazed.

“Fool,” mocked the ranger. “I, Hamill the Ranger, was gifted with hides that absorb the magic of my attacker! Your magical blows will do nothing against me!” He raised his crossbows and began firing them, shooting at an impressive speed. Jasuten did not even have time to deflect many as they embedded themselves into his robes. He fell to his knees as more bolts sunk into him. The ranger approached him slowly while reloading his crossbows.

“Gods, my fellow light warriors were weak,” stated Hamill. “Defeated by a fool like you, who uses one type of attack. Pitiful.”

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King Jotun

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“Like your guard,” growled Jasuten. He stabbed upward with his staff, piercing through Hamill’s armor and coming out the other side. Jasuten stood back up and pulled his staff from Hamill’s chest. “You should’ve just killed me instead of monologuing.” Hamill fell to the ground, and Jasuten blasted him through the hole in his chest. His body turned to ash, leaving only the gilded hides.

Jasuten fell back to his knees and began pulling the bolts out of himself. “Hold on, Jasuten,” urged Luce, aiding Jasuten in removing the bolts. ”Once Jotun gets here, we can use the special thing in the caves to restore you.”

Jotun rushed through the cavern, dodging the hidden horrors and dead bodies. His lantern shined brightly enough to keep the live ones at bay, but the cavern had its own share of troubles. An area that appeared to have been the setting for a battle was collapsing, and it was all he could do to get on the other side before it blocked him off.

After several minutes of the hellish run, he finally arrived at a wall and immediately noticed a rib-shaped outcropping. However, before he could pull it, a booming voice echoed throughout the cave.

“So, you’re the other man wrecking all my plans,” it said.

“Who is this?” Jotun asked nervously.

“I am King Louis Wolfheart, rightful ruler and guardian of Earth’s Edge,” it roared. “You have been assisting a villain in the death of this country!”

“He definitely is a villain, but he can’t be any worse a ruler than you!” Jotun retorted. “You should’ve stepped down a while back when you realized you had no idea what you were doing!”

“No,* the King’s voice declared. “Then they would jump on me and ridicule me! I know they want to! They wait for any chance they can get to mock me!”

“You saved them all from certain death!” Jotun responded. “I think they’d be thankful enough to let you be if you had stepped down from the throne shortly after receiving it and gave it back to the rightful ruler, who you had killed!”

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King Jotun

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“They all want me gone,” the King continued. “And, with your death, they shall never get their wish. Come to me, my faithful servants!”

Rocks and rubble broke from the ceiling, trapping Jotun in the area by the trick wall. As he watched, bones and ashes moved into the room, along with pieces of metal, fabric and hide, the same gilded white as the light warriors’ armor.

“After slaying the otherworldly fiend that had eaten these fine warriors, I taught myself necromancy in order to bring them back,” explained the King. “Even though not nearly as much of them remains as when they were slain by the fiend, I can still imbue the world around them with their spirit and bring them back that way!”

The remaining bones crushed themselves into dust and the three individual clouds of remains shot into the earth. They mixed with the earth, which then formed itself into three beings with gemstones for eyes. The sapphire-face donned the warped metal, the emerald-face took on the tattered robes, and the ruby-face wore the shredded hides.

The earth warriors animated themselves, formed new weapons from the metals in the earth and stared at their new bodies, expressions of surprise and shock forming on their rocky faces. “Slay him, my friends!” ordered the King. Jotun braced himself.

Earthen Harrison charged first, his stone body much slower than his organic form. Jotun deftly dodged his potent attacks and summoned surges of water that seeped through the cracks in his armor, weakening him. However, the earthen versions of Hamill and Lucas attacked as well, Lucas blasting parts of his own body and Hamill firing stone bolts from his twin crossbows. Jotun deflected the magic attacks back at Lucas and did his best against the conventional blows.

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King Jotun

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His water magic did the trick; Harrison’s body finally gave out and collapsed onto the floor, the body seeping out as useless mud. Lucas ran out of body to throw, and Jotun blasted each piece with water before it could return to the rest of him. However, Hamill’s robes blocked all water-based attacks and kept him airtight. Jotun tore into the rocky foe with his sword, but Hamill took the blows in stride.

Fortunately, a lucky slice cut through Hamill’s hides and Jotun was able to shoot him up with water, melting the once formidable foe into a worthless pile of mud, just like his allies. Jotun thanked his carrying the runes he needed and turned back to the wall.

“Those guys were far weaker as rocks than when they were human,” thought Jotun. He fiddled with the rib-rock, discovered the hidden door and walked through the passage.

Luce’s face lit up as Jotun pulled himself out of the secret passageway.

“Hurry!” urged Luce. “Jasuten’s been seriously wounded by one of the light warriors! What did Louis use to gain his power?”

“He used this,” said Jotun, showing the vial of blood, “but this will kill Jasuten if he takes it. It’s poisonous enough to kill a god. It cannot possibly be drunk.”

“Oh, no,* moaned Luce. “That can’t be!”

“Calm down; this will heal him, too,” stated Jotun, shoving a rock-tail down Jasuten’s throat. Jasuten swallowed the fish and soon got back up, groaning a little.

“My thanks for healing me,” thanked Jasuten. “You have been a good ally throughout this ordeal, and undoubtedly obedient, even if your task had no payoff.”

“The guardian of this stuff simply said not to drink it,” said Jotun. “Perhaps it’s some kind of lotion or shampoo. You have no hair on your skull, but anything’s possible.”

“Keep it on you as a last resort,” stated Jasuten. “Perhaps I will not even need it to defeat this king. But, if I do, you need to apply it to me in some way.”

11-Feb-2012 01:51:11 - Last edited on 04-Mar-2012 03:02:07 by King Jotun

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Jotun agreed and the trio left the room and turned towards the throne room.

King Louis watched in amazement as the villainous Mahjarrat, the daughter of the previous king and a random adventurer walked up to him. He waited until they were about fifteen feet away to rise from his throne.

“Congrats for making it this far,” he complimented. “Those three knights were the toughest in the land, trained to their greatest extent, powered up by the torture they endured in the depths of the otherworldly fiend. Even when imbued into rocks, their combined efforts could easily overpower most normal people.”

“Thanks, but it’s time for you to die,” growled Jasuten. “Your inadequacy as king must be punished, and I can’t keep you alive so you have a chance to regain power. Your ranger pushed me over to this side.”

“I try to be nice, but you just cut right to the chase,” said Louis. He then whistled. “Carrie, these are the ones. Kill the skull-faced fool first.”

Suddenly, a figure appeared in front of them from seemingly nowhere. She was dressed in an odd combination of metal and hides, white and gilded, same as the other light warriors. However, she held both a longsword and a crossbow. She eyeballed Jasuten and turned back to Louis.

“I refuse,” she stated.

“What!” roared Louis. “H-h-how can you refuse? I gave you back your life after that fiend swallowed you! You owe me a debt you can never hope to repay!”

“I am not interested in dying again,” Carrie replied. “Jasuten has managed to kill my partners, and even this adventurer has taken them on in a different incarnation to the same result. I refuse to take part in this battle for fear of my own life.”

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