Library: Outrider of Halas

A long long time a go in the land of Halas lived a race of barbarians. The land of Halas was owned by the chief Jormeidan who ruled his world in great harmony, until something broke Jormeidans harmony. Chief Jormeidan received a letter from his ally Meleager the Mighty. Meleager was king of dwarves and lived in next to Halas in Oggok. Jormeidan begun read the letter. To Great Barbarian King Jormeidan We have received news from the city of KaelDrakkal from our spies, evil giants are gathering forces to crush all the minor races of the world. Im asking you to send your bravest warrior to KaelDrakkal to sneak in and murder their leader, Derakor Vindikator. That will buy us more time to send message to other races! We must hurry! King of Dwarves Meleager M. Jormeidan frowned to letter and mumbled something incoherant. How dare they threaten us!, Jormeidan yelled in his small barbarian tent. In puff of snow Jormeidans cousin, Trust, arrived to the tent. Trust was well know thief, and thats why he was called sarcasticly as Trust. Althought Trust was known rogue and Jormeidans cousin, Jormeidan asked Trust for a favor, to go to the woods near KaelDrakkal, replace Jormeidan in the meeting.. Trust agreed with eager because he knew citizens of KaelDrakkal, the giants, were mining high priced mithril in the dungeons of the city. And Trust might get some drops from grounds. This might be profitable journey!, Trust pondered greedily in his mind. Good luck!, Jormeidan wished to his cousin and smiled. Trust thanked and bowed before his king and mounted his wool rhino for the trip. Traveling didnt take long because wool rhinos are fast runners. Also, Trust trained his rhino to go on arse-mode, and so he could travel double speed compared to other rhinos. The trick on rhino-arse mode is that you have to keep your both hands in rhinos arse, so the animal assumes that something or someone is chasing it. As Trust arrived to woods next to city of KaelDrakkar, hometown of the leading race of the world, giants, he noticed two people sitting next to a fire. What a peculiar meeting!, stated Trust in his mind. The two other were big foreheaded and black skinned magician, Saladura and lizardman wearing some staff and a robe of a monk. Trust introduced himself to Saladura and lizardman, but lizardman ignored him completely. Saladura explained that lizardman didntt understand anything nor lizard didnt make any other voice than hisssd once per five minutes. Thats why named him or it as Ixarh., said Saladura. Ixarh shall he be then!, replied Trust. Trust asked where all dwarves were, because the invitation to meeting came from dwarves. Saladura was on a trip at Oggok and said he volunteered for the mission, because he wanted to revenge the death of his dad, Saladuras dad had been slain in the great battle of Karnors castle where the giants tried to pillage whole place. Now is time for payback!, explained Saladura, with mad stare in his eyes. Trust was confused, he was asked to go for a normal meeting. And now guy with big forehead and dark black skin is talking about giant killing. Trust only knew the legends of Jormeidans cyclops slaining trips to isle of Loneliness. Ixarh hissed. Saladura explained how he had made all the arrangements and the mission was ready to launch. Trust came more and more confused. Saladura presented his plan with cone cows, how to sneak in and murder Vindikator and then loot well known shining mithril armour, with dragons engraved in it, from Vindikators vault. Last part of the plan sounded great to Trust, with that armour on bazaars auction he could buy everything he ever wanted! Lets go!, Trust clapped his big barbarian together and couldnt hide his enthusiasm. We have to wait for the dark. And feed the lizard, it prevents the noices., explained Saladura. Ixarh stared at the sky with his red eyes. Trust didnt like red eyes, he usually had red eyes when he had a hangover, but having red eyes forever looked too bad. Night came and after the lizard was fed, the group was ready to sneak in the big city of KaelDrakkal. Saladura in the lead, Trust came as second and the last spot was for Ixarh. Walls of the city were made of ice and they rose toward the sky. Saladura as magician drilled small hole to ice wall with his flame spell and the rest of the group followed him through the hole. The hole led them to a huge opening, it looked like some kind of marketplace. The giants were sleeping, only two guards patrolled around the square. The group of three sneaked through the square arriving to a big arena. The arena was made for giant-to-giant battles,but now the place was silent as a death. Trust noticed some craters on the ground. Closer look reavealed they were full of fresh blood, Trust shivered in scare. There must have been battles earlier this day., Trust whispered to others. Saladura pointed to a huge palace to north part of the arena, which was Vindikators home. Trust didnt shiver anymore, he knew that the armour of his life and solution to his every problem was in the vault at that palace. Time to roll., Trust whispered to Saladura and Ixarh. Both nodded as they understood what was going to happen. Trust was going to wake Vindikator up, while Ixarh would beat Vindikator with his staff of Tranquility and Saladura would finish him with a mighty manaburning spell. After Vindikator was slain Trust could sneak in to the vault and loot the armour of his dreams. Everything was set, Trust wielded Ragebringer in his right hand and stormed up to Vindikators room. Vindikator was surprised and Trust managed to stab Vindikators left thigh. Vindikator dropped down on his knee and tried to smash Trust as his with huge hand. Trust managed to avoid the swing, and it gave Saladura opportunity to gather his power for manaburn! In the same second Trust realized that lizardman was not around. He took a glance around the room and noticed open door to the vault. Ixarh had ran in to the vault, full of royal guards of Vindikator! Horrible stomping noice started to get louder and louder as train of ten royal guards ran behind the lizardman, who was wearing Vindikators armour! Ixarh ran past Saladura and Trust leaving them to battle off ten royal giants and angry Derekor Vindikator. THIS IS END OF THIS!, yelled Vindikator and stomped Saladura to a painless death. Trust knew that only his double-arse-mode-whool-rhino would save his damned soul from this situation, but the Rhaimo-rhino was in the woods. It was time for an old rogue hide and sneak trick to avoid the inevitable death. Trust ran out of the door and towards the arena, which was full of giants. In the middle of the arena the lizardman kept running with giants chasing him. Hah! After I disappear, I can go and loot the armour from that stupid lizard!, Trust pondered in his mind. But he saw something going wrong on the arena, giants had ended the pursuit of Ixarh and the whole horde of giants were after Trust now! Trusts hide and sneak failed as he received long and bleeding cut from huge(TM) giant longsword. Last thing he remembered before he fell into unconsciousness was about lizardmen; They had a natural ability: feign death.

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Library: Outrider of Halas