Damon grinned and continued. Naturally, he made sure to stay away from the tall mountain in the distance.
Somewhere high above, the jagged peak of that distant mountain caught the sickly light filtering through the haze. Damon's grin lingered as he cut down another plagueforged dwarf, venom hissing from the corpse.
He knew exactly what was sleeping up there. He also knew the moment he woke it, this little "vacation" would turn into a warzone. But for now? The big boss could keep dreaming. Damon still had plenty of chests to loot, monsters to butcher, and poisons to claim. The real fun hadn't even started yet.
Meanwhile…
Inside the same mountain, something stirred.
Deep within the cavernous heart of the mountain, past walls slick with black resin and veins of luminous green crystal, a single eye cracked open. It was not the eye of any normal beast. It was a vertical slit, the iris glowing with the molten green-yellow of toxic flame.
