Inn. At the pass. Snow all around, three meters deep. At the inn, designed for 100 people, there are only 7 people who managed to get to the unprecedented snowfall.
Dark. A dust storm arose. The stars, the moon are not visible. It's dark, no light. 7 guests and 10 servants began to be afraid of this. Talk about the arrival of monsters and demons.
Although they both sat at home and drank tea and pies, no one wanted to meet a monster, a maniac. He did not disdain either monsters or people, a real monster! Just such a weather, his favorite time, according to rumors, which were already circulating on 4 continents. even that, forgotten by all continent.
Rumors have become overgrown with terrifying and half-truthful details. So any creature, more or less concerned about his health, would stay at home. Instead of walking across the continent to become a snack for a strange alien monster.
He has already destroyed three dozen kingdoms, not considering that they were human empires or monsters.
They say that on the southern continent, on a plateau of black water, he had a palace, and next to it a palisade on which the severed heads of monsters and people hung.
He beat heroes from another world and sent them back, after that, the heroes broke down and no longer wanted to go out. The reality was the same. Heads hung, but they were dummies, ill-mannered emperors, nobles, and other aristocratic rabble, worked for him incognito. They collected information from all continents using their connections. To search for information about ruins, old archives, books in order to receive an award for this.
Magic weapon. The fat man's favorite phrase was - Bring his head quickly! They will decorate the pike in front of my palace! Although in practice this meant that find me that aristocrat, let him look for information for me, for a good gift.
But his translation device was not quite perfect and the word covercolored. Machine translation, without checking programs like Grammali or other programs for checking stylistics, grammar, building correct phrases. It translated with distortion! In the tavern, it became sharply cold, red sand was hammered into the cracks.
There was nothing to breathe. People had lung pains, watery eyes. It became sharply cold. Magic stones giving light and warmth cracked and crumbled into small pieces.
The wind howled terribly in the chimneys. Even adventurers who have seen a lot in their time huddled together, holding their weapons forward. They were all very scared, melancholy, they were trembling ... Teeth chattered against each other.
Fingers were shaking. It was as if lightning had hit them and they were shaking with the energy passing through them. The tavern employees sat down on the floor and howled in fear. The former "B" rank adventurer, the owner of the tavern, was without a leg and an arm, his magic prostheses, too, crumbled. He fell onto the thick carpet on the second floor.
And the former tank of his party with the stew "C" the chef looked with an empty gaze at the extinct fireplace, where the leg of a mountain deer was roasted. The fat froze in an instant. All his many hours of work was gone in a few minutes.
All were expected, not the most pleasant night. They remembered the old legend that in such weather snowmen descend from the mountains and eat humanity !!! In the other place. Dara, sat on a giant and they were heading to the forest of elves, there were rumors that they had found ancient ruins.
As they moved along the ridge, they were attacked by white giants, but it was their mistake. After beating up those states of tofu, Dara moved on.
The giants followed at a farther distance. Snowmen respected only strong people.
Dara walked downstairs, he was hungry. A strange picture could be observed at the watershed. There were one hundred black giants 5 meters in black armor. On one of which sat a fat man in a ridiculous black fur coat. Behind him was a whole village of white monsters, old, young, children, warriors and magicians.
They walked in a long line. Dara, from far away, felt the pleasant smell of delicious meat!