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Immortal Hammer

from Fantastic Revenge by Continuum Kingdom

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Three days of straight walking was starting to wear on the young prince, and his current companion was anything but chatty. In fact, he’d barely uttered a single word the entire trip thus far. He was a strange immortal knight to be sure. Instead of carrying a bladed weapon like most knights, he carried only a single enormous war hammer with a pommel shaped like a lightning bolt. The only other remarkable characteristic was a pair of goggles he wore on his forehead. When the prince inquired about them, he simply replied prescription. The thing that troubled the prince was that being fairly well versed in the goings on of the Immortal Army, it vexed him as to why his mother would send such an unremarkable knight on what seemed to be such an important quest.
His musings were quickly put on hold when the prince looked up and saw that they had come to their first hurdle. The HEXA-HILLS. These hills were unlike any other geographical feature in all the kingdom. His father had explained that all of the vegetation that covered the hills had a unique element that interacted with light, and when the wind flowed through the foliage, the light would refract and give the appearance that the hills colors were in constant flux. The King had only taken him to see them once, but at the time he had said that the prince was far too young to traverse them, due mostly to the immense danger that lurked inside the rolling hills.
The hammer wielding knight also suggested that they go around the hills due to the immense danger, but the prince thought that was lame. The long way was much safer, but it would also add 3 extra days of walking to their trip, and the prince was already so tired of walking. So they proceeded into the hills with strangely little resistance from the knight. The prince however, instantly regretted this decision. What he didnt realize was that while the hills were mesmerizingly beautiful from afar, they were overwhelmingly disorienting when you actually had to pass through them. The constant light refraction off of every single surface made a sort of rotating color pattern that never stood still. It gave an adventurer the sense of being underwater at all times, while simultaneously making it impossible to spot any incoming enemies because the scenery seemed to be in constant flux.
After 3 hours of walking (and the prince throwing up twice), the two sat down to take a much needed rest in a patch of land they found that was thankfully devoid of any plant life. The break was short lived and the knight (who had now donned his goggles) dragged the groggy prince to his feet. They were only a couple steps back into the brush when the knight came to a complete stop. Without warning the knight drew and swung his hammer in one flawlessly fluid movement that catapulted a large bug like creature 20 meters into the air. It was then that the prince remembered why the hills were so dangerous. These hills were full of overgrown insects that over the years had developed the ability to camouflage themselves in the ever changing plant life. As abruptly and effortlessly as his last move, the knight grabbed the prince by his shirt and threw him into the air. As the prince flew through the air he saw the knight bring his war hammer to ground and 20 more large bugs were flung into the air due the shockwave created by the hammer.
The prince hit the ground just after he saw all the bugs scamper away. The prince got up and dusted himself off and was beginning to formulate the way in which he was going to chastise the goggled oaf who had just tossed him across the hillside when he noticed a massive shape emerging from behind the closest hill. The hammer was already jamming across the hilltop at a pace that was somewhat unbelievable for such a large man. The prince recognized the giant shape to be a MEGA MANTIS just in time to see its head caved in by the blunt side of the knights hammer.
The prince sauntered over to where the knight was standing, but just as he was in spitting distance, the mantis raised its head once more, and without even looking back the knight threw his hammer behind him and nailed it square between the eyes.

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from Fantastic Revenge, released October 16, 2014

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