The Journey through the Valley of the Dead

Morgone and Mariea looked around at their surroundings as they walked through the Valley of the Dead. It is a long barren valley covered with destroyed tombs and large craggy mountains surrounding the valley forming a narrow crevas Morgone and Mariea had to walk though the long narrow crevas on there way to the Spire. The sky was dark and grey with no moon or stars to shed any light.

As they walked Morgone saw many dead skeleton-like creatures roaming about searching for food. Other creatures skins were dark green with mold and skin falling off of them. Morgone could hear their moans and groans that sounded like a thousand demons screaming in pain being tormented in the depths of Underhell.

Morgone saw that these creatures were paying no attention to them. Some of the creatures had on Dark demon Amour with large black spikes jetting out and they held long fiery whips and would whip the other creatures that were dressed in rags and would yell out in a tongue that Morgone did not understand. Morgone asked Mariea " What are those creatures, why do they not care about us who are the ones whipping the creatures and what are they saying?" Mariea replied "Those are the Dead Walkers they are the ones who are not on the Gatekeepers list and then sentenced to give up their mortal soul and became a slave to his Workmasters for all time who only speak in the Forgotten Speech." As they traveled through the valley it became intensely hot and there were less Dead Walkers. Morgone asked Mariea " Do you know where we are?" she replied " Yes, I do we are in the desert part of the Valley of the Dead. We should soon be approaching the wintery part of the Valley."

As they continued though the blistering heat, all of a sudden the heat turned into a ice storm. Morgone yelled over the storm " Mariea I see a pathway that leads up a mountain do we take it? Mariea replied " Yes we take it!" as they ran for the pathway that was enclosed inside of a mountain. Morgone and Mariea walked into the dark and evil looking tunnel. As Mariea and Morgon walked into the tunnel they picked up a lit torch and as they were walking around they saw pictures of unknown origin painted on the walls. Many of the pictures showed a man wielding a sword of pure light while surrounding him were the symbols for fire, water, earth, air, and ice, while fighting a huge dragon like beast. " What do all of the drawings mean." Mariea asked as she touched the drawing of the man wielding the sword.

" Mariea I found a way out to the other side." Morgone cried, as he had found a tunnel that lead from the Valley of the Dead to the Spire. Mariea said " Well you are almost there and this is were I leave you Morgone." Morgone asked surprised " Why?" Mariea replied " I do not want to go up to the Spire. The closer I get the more unstable I became." She paused and then said " I will give you one piece of advice, with all of the dark power of the Spire will come drastic transformations and side effects, the more power you obtain, the more warped your mind will become." Morgone replied "

How do you know my plan?" Mariea replied " I am not dumb, I knew from the start. I just was not going to stop you. I am only telling you this warning as a guide you can chose to ignore it if you wish." Mariea turned around and said " that is all I have to say so long Morgone. I hope that we meet again."

When she was long gone Morgone said " Finally, I thought she would never leave." He then headed up the pathway that lead up the Spire. The pathway was steep and many of the passage ways were blocked off so he had to use magic to move the boulders. As he traveled up the Spire the pathways became wider as he reached the top all he could see were dark clouds. Once he finally reached the top of the Spire, Morgone could see the Seven Dark Power Crystals. He could all most taste the dark power. His first mission was nearly complete then he would be one step closer to his ultimate goal to find the six remaining Rings of Darkness.