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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4783440" data-attributes="member: 3285">Secret of Semar: Part 8d – Ancient SecretsBeldin closed his eyes.  “Let me go.”“What?” shouted Vlad.  “No!”“It’s okay,” the dwarf said calmly. “Find my body later.”“No, Beldin, wait!” But the dwarf had already made his decision. Beldin released Kham’s hand. He was distinguishable only by his flapping beard as he plummeted to certain death on the unstable ground below.Kham caught a glimpse of Mashudu running towards Beldin’s body.  He picked the corpse up and ran, the collapsing rock nipping at his heels.Vlad looked down.  “We’re still falling!” The earth had given way to bright red and yellow streaks, like bloody veins in the earth. Lava. The spawn slowly sank beneath the crush of rock and earth, sputtering and hissing as it was forced downwards into the lava pool, until even the glittering green cap was no longer visible.“I can’t fly anymore,” Sebastian’s body shuddered with every beat of his wings.  The exertion and the Nyambe heat had taken its toll.  They continued in a barely controlled descent. “We’ll never survive the lava,” Kham said morosely. He could do nothing but hold on to Vlad.“Wait!”  Sebastian remembered Calactyte.  He pulled a wand from his robes. “Let go of the rope.”“What?” Kham looked up at him.  “Are you out of your mind?”“Trust me!  Let go of the rope!”Kham shrugged and released his leg from the rope.  It twirled, unraveling him and suddenly they were free falling.  Vlad and Kham tumbled through the air. Sebastian aimed the wand.  This time, he swore, he wouldn’t miss.The wand of resilience sparked and a bubble of magical force enveloped them as they fell. It landed in the lava flow like a bit of foam on a calm surf.  Vlad held Grungronazharr in both hands; though the force bubble would protect them, he wasn’t taking any chances.Finally relieved of his burden, Sebastian was able to flap enough to keep himself afloat.  He stretched, taking in great a lungful of air.  Then his smile faded.Down below, something stirred beneath the lava.  Tentacles curled upwards, melting in the awesome heat but undeterred.  “No!” Sebastian went into a nosedive.  “I will not let you take any more lives!”Vlad and Kham looked up, helpless to do anything but watch as the spawn threatened to drag them down into the lava with it.Sebastian lifted a palm.  A glowing sphere of pale blue light appeared in it. “Frigus sphaera!”Sebastian hurled the blue sphere straight at the crown of the spawn.  His aim was true.Still dripping with lava, the sphere passed through its flesh and burrowed to the center of its being.  Cracks of ice appeared throughout its form.  For a split-second the spawn shuddered as heat and cold struggled for dominance.Then it exploded in a million pieces of frozen chunks, pelting Sebastian in the air, bouncing off the sphere of force, and even threatening Mashudu who stood protectively over Beldin’s smashed corpse.</blockquote>

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