“We couldn't find them, we have to go back now,” Artam said, looking troubled as darkness began to fall on the mountain. “They must be dead already” “Does it scare you?” 'Tam asked. He had a vaguely mocking expression on his face. Artam gave him a murderous look. “He is weak, he is weak.” said. “We don't have anything to do with Gluttons or Wretches.” Artam looked quite nervous. "Did they really come?" she asked in a whisper. Artam must have felt what Tamir. felt.Tamir looked up at the sky as if the fog that had settled on the dark mountain was of no interest to him. Artam had already judged that the fog descending on the mountain was the cause of arrivals.It is as if Tamir had read Artam mind, "There's always fog on the mountain at this time of day." He could taste the tension in Artam's eyes, hidden under the hood of his black cloak. In fact, Tamir also shared Artam's uneasiness. He was in Kars for years. When he first came to Kars, all the stories he had heard about Tonka and the Ice people suddenly came to his mind. He remembered being afraid. Then he laughed at all this. After a series of visits to the mountain with Guva, this untouched desolate mountain no longer frightened him.
Tonight, however, was different. Darkness was falling on them with goosebumps sharpness. They had been on the mountain for nine days. First they headed towards where Ayana had said, and they continued north without stopping. Every day their journey was getting harder, but today was the worst. They could both feel it. When Tamir looked behind him, he saw that they were getting further and further away from the ring. When a freezing cold blew from the north, the trees moved left and right like ghosts. Tamir felt the eyes of something cold on him. Artam felt it too. Artam, with his gigantic body, bare from the waist up in the middle of his forest, was trying to see what was frightening them in the dark. Unlike Artam, Tamir's slender body was covered with black armor. Artam said, “We have a difficult road ahead of us, we must continue. I don't like this weather at all. It will snow soon.” “Ice storm,” Tamir muttered. Artam didn't seem to hear him. He looked around, a little bored, a little distracted. “What do you see, Artam” Artam had long lived in the mountains and turned into a skilled hunter before Guva found him. No one could see, smell and move silently in the dark as well as him. “There are two gluttons about two miles from here, and you must have smelled them too.” Repair was silent. “Do you smell blood?” Artam shrugged. It was quite difficult to smell on the mountain. Artam and Tamir continued on their way through the darkness.After a while, both of them could smell the strong smell. Artam and Tamir began to watch the streams from behind the slope, motionless. There they were, the gluttons that Artam had just smelled, lying motionless on the ground. After Artam and Tamir were sure that no one was around, they approached the corpses. “What do you think might have killed these two Gluttonies.” Artam reached over and checked their necks. Then he turned to Tamir with worried eyes. “We need to get inside the ring right away. ” Tamir was staring at him with meaningless eyes. "Fine, they're here." When Tamir heard this, he lifted his head even higher and gripped the sword around his waist tighter.
Repair was in the forefront. They were carefully stepping over the snow that had accumulated on the ground. The underbelly contained dangers for the careless and careless. Beneath the layer of snow were stones, roots to stumble upon, hidden pits, and more. Artam grumbled impatiently behind Tamir, who was advancing slowly. The twilight got darker. Artam said: “We can go faster.” The moon was starting to shine. A wolf howled deep in the forest. Tamir stood under an old crooked tree. " Why did you stop? ' Artam asked. “I am considering whether to continue beyond this.” Tamir looked away with a thoughtful expression on his face. A cold wind blew whispering through the trees. "There's something wrong here, the Gluttonies didn't starve, there's only one thing left that can kill them." Artem felt it too. He had come to the Uncanny Forest many times, but he couldn't remember ever being this scared. “The trees are getting quite dense here, Artam. Whatever killed the gluttons might still be around." Tinker warned. Artam's hood was covering his face, but he could see the sharp anger in his gaze. It wouldn't be the first time they've encountered a Obur hunter. When Artam controlled his anger and looked at the ground, he saw the footprints. “There are repair marks,” he said. "Show me the way," Tamir said, turning to Artam. The two of them began to advance among the trees. Both of them were walking without a sound. Thickened by trees, the road was damp and full of potholes in this place, but Artam and Tamir could walk in the dark without stumbling. For a long time they walked through the trees.
The great tree appeared at the top of the ridge at the end of the woods, as Artam remembered. Artam and Tamir reached the top of the slope and began to watch the wooded area below. They could clearly see the wooded area illuminated by the moon. After a while, a blue beam of light appeared above the trees. Repair: “Get down!” he said hastily. “There is something wrong in the sky.” Artam did not move. His eyes scanned the wooded area below. He saw something moving below. A white shadow floating among the trees. The branches of the trees were moving gently with the wind. The white shadow disappeared. Maybe Artam was wrong. What he saw could only be a bird. A reflection of the snow or a deception of moonlight. Tamir: “Did you see something?” he asked. One of his remaining hands was on his sword at his waist. The hilt of his sword had a blue wolf head embossed on it. This sword was gifted to him by Guva. It was quite suitable for killing gluttons and other dangerous creatures. Tamir had seen the blue light swimming too. Could it be what they've been looking for for days? The weather was getting colder. Even Tamir could feel it. Why was the weather so cold? Tamir leaned against the giant shadow of the tree next to him. The shadow that had just been seen and disappeared among the trees reappeared. Tamir and Artam decided to follow the shadow. They entered the woods again and began to move forward. They followed the shadow to the front of a cave.
A shadow emerged from the darkness of the cave and stopped right in front of Tamir. It was long. The shadow stood as white as freshly fallen snow in the darkness. Then it was as black as shadows, sometimes as green as a tree. Blues dripped from his skin as he moved. Artam drew his spear and said, "Don't come any closer!" He warned the shadow. Artam held his spear tightly in both hands. Shadow took a step towards Tamir, ignoring the warning. Under the shadow's moonlight, her skin was translucent. A faint blue light streamed from its edges. Artam stepped forward and boldly challenged the shadow again. “Come on,” he said. The shadow did not pause. Artam could see the shadow's gray-white eyes. Those eyes were fixed on Artam's spear. Moonlight streamed from her transparent skin. It just stood there as if frozen. A sword split the air as Shadow took a step towards Tamir. The sword was met by something harder than steel. Shadow countered Artam's first blow, then the second and third Shadow took a step back. Tamir stood expressionless as Artam prepared to strike another shot. Before Artam could make another move, he was thrown away by a blow to his chest. An icy blue light had already swallowed Tamir and Shadow when Artam was hurled a few meters away from Tamir and the shadow.
Tamir disappeared in a swim of blue light. When he opened his eyes, the forest around him and the cold that was burning him had disappeared. He was lying on the wooden floor of a house. A woman with her long braid on her right shoulder hurried to the door of the wooden house. As the woman walked, a sound came from the wooden floor. Tamir moved to stay off the ground, but failed to do so. As she made her way to the door, she looked back and said hesitantly to someone standing in the shadows, "One of the neighbors." “She might want to borrow some groceries…” A young girl with straw-blond hair reaching her waist gently placed the bowls on the table and slowly walked away. The residents of the house seemed unaware of Tamir's presence. “I don't think so—” another man in the room said to the woman heading for the door, and his hand touched the hilt of his sword. The figures of two white snakes entwined on the hilt glowed faintly. The woman approached the door when it exploded open, parts of
When the light disappeared, David and Ewin rushed over to Yelis, who was lying on the ground. David squatted down beside Yelis, who was lying on the ground, hastily searching her body for something bad, but all she could find was a slight cut on her forehead. While small, that single cut could have been serious enough. Yelis' body was warm. They took Yelis in their arms and left with Ewin.Aunt Abigial tried to be polite as she dressed Yelis, but soft groans interrupted Yelis's low mutter nonetheless. Yelis had been lying unconscious for days after that incident. He had a constant fever, the reason for which he did not understand on the third. Aunt Abigial looked at Yelis' fever again. Such a fire could easily kill a person, but Yelis was still struggling. After wetting a cloth again, he placed it on Yelis's forehead. A doorbell was heard. It was David and Ewin. David: “How is she doing?” ' asked Aunt Abigial. Abigial was unhappy. “Same,” he said.Ewin's spell would keep those men awa
Ewin gripped the hilt of the stick in his hand. Everyone concentrated on the direction the light was coming from. Shadows waving eastward were trying to break through the firewall. The shadows gradually transformed him into a horse and rider with tall bulky shapes behind him. Ewin knew what these shapes were. The moonlight had revealed the rider's hooded cloak. Between the Shadows and Ewin and the others was just a magical firewall. All the shapes were black in the night. The sound of a horse's hooves…. Ewin recognized that voice.Behind the black cavalry, the horned figures appeared in double rows, as if obeying the black cavalry. The sounds of boots hitting the ground sounded like a nightmare. Ewin counted nearly twenty horned shadows running left and right through the firewall. The black cavalry stood motionless, and suddenly raised his staff and attacked the firewall. Ewin could feel the pressure exerted on the wall. He lowered his cavalry staff to the ground, vanishing westward i
The road to the Black Lake was quite long. It felt like weeks had passed since dinner with David and Abigial, as if it had been days for Ewin since he had seen the black horseman. He could no longer feel anything but numbness on his shoulders carrying Yelis's stretcher. David had been quiet for a while. Ewin wasn't sure how long it had been since the murmurs had ceased. Reaching the black lake was their only hope. They tiredly tried to increase their speed, but their legs were moving slowly.Ewin finally fell to his knees. He checked Yelis' covers, tiredly. Yelis's breathing was regular. "What if they come back?" he said coldly."The wheel of fate turns as it pleases," said Aunt Abigial uneasily. “If they come back…We'll gather our strength and stop them,” he said, and sighed, his face loosening as he bent his back. Ewin realized for the first time that Abigial was as frightened as he was, if not more. Uras nodded and looked at the firewall. "We'll get over it," Ewin said, encouragingl
“It's a beautiful weapon you're wearing,” David asked Uras. Uras looked at David for a moment."I didn't think I'd find a brute-marked sword in a place like this," said David.“It belonged to my father.” Uras looked at his sword, the hilt visible at the end of his cloak; He turned his eyes to Bilge's house. “They took it a long time ago,” he said. "It's strange that they've been taking the Ice people for thousands of years, but they've never touched the Burkut bearers," David said.Uras avoided looking sideways from David. He didn't want to talk to a stranger about his sword. Still, he felt he had to say something. "It might not always work to carry a sword with the Bürküt mark. I didn't even know he had it until recently, anyway."David nodded to her. “It might work. It wasn't always like this.” David touched the symbol on the sword on Uras' waist. A two-headed eagle." Sacred once among the ice peoples of Bürkut. Another symbol of the Lakeside. This sword must have met your father by
Ewin's gaze fell on the Sage's house. The beam of blue light reflected from the Sage's house was reflected outside. These thoughts in Uras' mind disappeared. David's face was less red than it had been. He jumped when Ewin grabbed his arm. When the blue light finally disappeared, Sage left his house. With heavy steps, he walked towards the Black Lake. The people of the black lake were following him. When he dipped the ram's horn object into the waters of the Black lake, a bright light was reflected and soon dyed the lake dark again.The Sage nodded and sighed as Ewin came near the Sage. "Not yet. I hope not yet. There's a blemish. A wound that won't heal unaided will cause deadly fevers, I've eased the pain, but you won't leave him alone." The sage's words were half request, half command. "I won't leave him alone, I won't," Ewin agreed simply. “I am very tired, Bilge, and I haven't had a chance to rest since last night,” said Bilge assent and walked away from Ewin.A woman wearing a dr
Artam looked in horror at the snowy hills that surrounded him. This was not just a place where spring came late; Spring has never been here and never will. There was nothing but ice on the cold earth crackling under his boots. He sprinted past rocks that were twice his height.The sun was hotter than the hottest day of summer, and bright enough to burn his eyes, with the timing sharp black and silver clouds coming and standing in front of him. Despite the sun, the air was tearing through the skin like a sharp knife.Artam often looked over his shoulder as he ran, but could not see the pursuers. Only the desolate hills and the jagged black shadow…, Even though he couldn't see the shadows, he could hear the howls behind him, the metallic rumblings coming from his throat. Arqs were approaching, and Artam's strength was nearly exhausted.In a desperate haste, Snowman climbed a hill, then fell to his knees, groaning. Below, a thousand-meter chasm stretched out into a vast canyon. Steamy mi
“Noooo!” he screamed… and gasped as she gasped. Artam stood up. He stood near the snow-capped River. They smiled at each other with the figure. The figure was friendly. Artam filled his eyes when he saw the figure’s friendly smile. Tamir… was there. “Right from here.” We have to go and get inside the ring.” The black cloak that protected Artam's naked body fluttered slightly.Artam was moving more slowly than Tamir with his giant size. Tamir was floating on the snow. “What happened there?” Artam asked. Tamir told him about the shadows and the name of the woman he had seen. “I was in the middle of a city, Artam, when I touched him. I crossed a bridge, entered a city through huge gates set in high, pristine walls. It was a wonderland where every building was like a palace. A city hidden in the mountains. It was not stone, brick and tile. I could smell the scents; the scents of pungent spices, wonderful food, and countless flowers. There in the middle of the city was a round building, a