ACT9: THE DEATH VALLEY

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Crypto Sword & Magic

3 min readDec 24, 2019

The land of annihilation

In the wild north, there stood a dungeon tower that tests the warriors’ valor. House of mankind has long had a tradition of trial by ordeal and sending their soldiers to go to the northern dungeon tower and fight the monsters contained in the tower.

Beyond the tower, there said to be an archaic wooden door to the cryptic new world, so vacant and arid that no living being has ever returned after crossing the door.

No human knows what exists beyond that gate but there is one member of the house who acquaints with a person who possesses an oracle that shows everything. Her name is Adria, mother bereft of Rathma who was killed by Chandra the massive spirit of waters.

She told an unbelievable tale of what happens around the gate beyond the dungeon based on her observation of the oracle.

Every day a large number of heroes enter the dungeon tower and many are killed by the monsters residing in the dungeon. There is a gigantic grim reaper called Spartoi, who came out from the door, take the dead heroes from the dungeon and went back into the door. She suspected that the grim reapers are bringing the corpses to pay tribute to their lord, Death knight. The death knight is a massive creature who is known to perform dark magic by planting those dead bodies into land with a sliver of cracked world stone, a forbidden ritual that refutes death and infuses life into dead creatures.

Adria also mentioned that there supposed to be an army in construction. The land beyond the door is a vast valley dissipated and barren, only home to the deads. The region is normally so silent and inactive that often called “Death Valley”. But she said, in recent times, there is a soaring level of activities detected. Many creatures with their life annihilated by dark magic started to flock together at a central plain as if they were forming an army.

“There is no other explanation for current development than that they are preparing to invade the continent”
She concluded.

Heeding to the story, the house leader became anxious that the dead army might breach the dungeon tower, the final outpost to protect mankind from the outer universe. If breached, the aftermath will be dismal.

As a coincidence, heroes were back from their conquest to the forbidden island. House leader has declared an assault mission against the death valley to preempt the dead armies' escalation.

Heroes, this is time to gear up and march toward the north!!