War Realm [7]

The Dreadjaw encampment was chaos carved into order. Rows of tents made from beast hides and bone stretched along the uneven valley floor, surrounded by spikes, glyph wards, and pits lined with iron-tipped stakes.

Fire burned at every corner, warriors sparred in blood-soaked rings, and the drums of war thundered endlessly.

The stench of sweat, blood, and magic tainted the air.

Clinton walked through it all, led by the shaman.

All eyes turned to him, the skeleton cloaked in tattered robes, marked by silence and aura.

Some hissed, some snarled, some even dropped to a crouch, unsure whether to pounce or kneel. But none attacked. The presence of the shaman warded them, for now.

They reached the center of the encampment.

There, a crude throne carved from the ribcage of a mountain wyrm loomed atop a raised stone platform. There sat the chieftain.

DING!

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