Chapter 86: The Deal with the God?
The freezing wind of the Himalayas was completely gone.
In its place was a suffocating, metallic heat that burned Anise's throat with every desperate breath she took through her oxygen mask.
'What is happening? It is all my fault! I should have listened to Rob! I should never have come here. We had many chances to return. He kept warning us, but we did not return back. It is all my fault. All because of me!'
The cavern was bathed in a nauseating, blood red light. The glowing runes carved into the stone floor pulsed like a dying heartbeat.
SQUELCH. BLUB.
Thick, steaming crimson sludge poured endlessly from the top of the cracked obsidian altar.
It flooded the floor, soaking into the ancient grooves.
But the blood was not the true horror. The true horror was climbing out of the shattered walls.
GROOOOAN.
'They are the missing climbers. Men and women who had vanished on this mountain decades ago.'
