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  Axion stood defiantly before the enormous charging wurm. He raised his axe raised to front the raging winds of its roar. He was forced back a step by sonic shockwaves. His body trembled with trepidation but he did not retreat. He moved to block the opalest egg, lifting the axe high toward the wurm while r his ce.

  The wagon holding the egg started vibrating, growing in iy until the boards began peeling apart. Nails rattled loose from the wood and turned into projectiles, shooting into the stone walls of the tuimber splintered into tiny fragments. No longer able to support the weight of the giant wurm egg, it colpsed to the floor of the tunnel, rolling away in the sonid. Apanied by the unbanced wagon wheels spinning away into the distance.

  “Fuck it,” Axion said. He suddenly spun on the spot, swinging the axe toward the egg with full force.

  The wurm reacted immediately, rearing away from him and smming into the ceiling of the cave as it skidded to a halt. Axion’s axe stopped a hair above the surface of the wurm egg, just making enough tact to prevent it from moving further away. The wurm became unnaturally calm, l its gigantic head down to peer at Axion reflected through its six cold eyes.

  “It looks like we have ourselves a stalemate, Big mama. Dink will have to take care of the rest,” Axion said, patting a hand against the wurm egg.

  ***

  Dink was surrounded by swelteri, ging to a toothy protrusier than he was. He was ihe wurm’s throat. It was extremely wide, lined with tless rows of spikes preventing prey from esg out of the opening. He attempted to saw at a protrusion with his sword but it failed to even leave a mark. Irritated, he lifted his bde and tossed it into the darkness. Watg it desd, it cttered against spikes on its way down. It fell past the twitg figure of the horse from earlier impaled on a spike as it slowly bled out.

  “Little Goblin, was this a wise course of a? How do you io escape this on your own? I feel myself returning to slumber. The stimulus from that caged creature is wearing off.” Dink spoke drai deep guttural tones.

  “Go fuck yourself, dragon. You should’ve stayed dead when I killed you,” Dink replied in annoyance.

  “Perhaps. It seems that will not be a problem for much longer, Sword Saint. We will both die here without avenging ourselves on those Hags. I have a proposal you may find attractive.” the dragon spirit suggested.

  “I’m listening. What do you propose?” Dink asked.

  “This body attempts to mimic a dragon’s physique but it has corrupted the most vital part. A true dragon does not store mana, our spirit is oh it. The world responds directly to our and. A world w, if you will. That is why you are only capable on magic while I am awake. What I offer is a ge allowing this body to harhe mana within you. It will be a refining of those crude scripts c your friend out there.” the dragon offered.

  “What you’re saying is that you make me an Attuned?” Dink fervently asked, desperation invading his voice.

  “Correct. It is not without cost. I want something from you in exge, Sword Saint. Your surrender. We will not be able to escape this pce with your mana alone. We do not have the time to recim the talents of your previous life.” the dragon answered. Dink was silent as he carefully sidered the proposal.

  “Do it,” Dink firmly agreed.

  Intense agony crawled up from the base of Dink’s spine, ripping apart flesh. He let go of the spike he was ging to, slipping against the surface as he cwed at his back. He tore away his makeshift vest, revealing burning symbols ly lined up his spihe script was different from the are nguage, something a and far more potent. He plummeted into the darkness, mindlessly screaming in pain.

  Bck scales prevented him from being injured as he crashed against spikes in every dire. His eyes flew open, radiating blue in the darkness. His scream of pain transformed into a mighty dragon’s roar, reverberating through every inch of the wurm’s body. The wurm’s external rea was immediate. It fot about Axion and the egg, abandoning it in an attempt to escape toward the surface.

  Dink gripped a spike, halting his fall. He inhaled deeply, drawing in particles of blue mana from every dire. It visibly accumuted inside his throat, illuminating the freshly formed mana tattoos along his spine. He climbed onto the spike. Finding a stable purchase under his feet, he k while crossing his arms across his chest.

  He suddenly uncoiled his taut body, unleashing a sea on fire. It rushed to fill every crevid er of the wurm’s internal ans, bleeding through to the surfa between its armoured segments. The dragon spirit was growing fatigued uhe stant stream of fire.

  The wurm started screaming in pain and fear, sonic pulses sing everything is throat. The dying horse somehow esg the dragon fire due to proximity, was reduced to a puddle of blood and flesh by the sound. Blood started to leak from between Dink’s scales uhe strain. It had bee a war of attrition to see which of them could endure more.

  Dihe dragon spirit inside his sciousness bee indignant, rousing itself. It swallowed back the dragon fire and roared a challenge. Dink’s face torted to bee bestial in appearance while exposing his vicious fangs. The vibration shifted away from Dink to instead pee the wurm’s flesh, spikes colpsed around him as pressure mounted.

  Suddenly, the sound became a horrifying keening as an intricate tticework of blue light spread to cover the surface of the wurm. A moment ter, an immense sonic pulse burst outward in every dire, exploding the wurm intments of meat. Dink was uedly exposed to sunlight. He lummeting through the air, the ground below covered by gore in a radius surrounding the hole the wurm had emerged from.

  In the distahe shockwave travelled toward Burrowton. Colpsing buildings he bst, dust billowing out in every dire.

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