Everville: The City of Worms Read Online Free Page B

of assuredness came over him. At least now he had a starting point and something he could discuss with The Keeper. Everville was his next stop, and he wanted to leave as soon as possible.
     

Chapter 4:

    Vengeance
    The Keeper watched through the portal as Toe and the others followed the Ubaloo to the walls of Vermogen, but he could not see past the walls. Once the contingent of Fron disappeared from view, The Keeper turned his attention back to the land of the giants.
    The giants had been preparing for quite some time for the great battles that awaited them, and they had dug deeper and wider than ever before, almost five miles below the brutal desert.
    “Get the monstrum ready,” General Varrick, leader of the giant army, commanded.
    “Yes, General,” two of the worker giants said in unison as they heaved and pushed the behemoth of a rock smasher into place. The monstrum was massive and difficult to move, but it was effective. It was an old-fashioned contraption made of two humungous wooden arms encased in metal shielding with a centerpiece that resembled a large pendulum comprised of dull cast iron.

    A few moments later, they let out a great warning cry to all those in the area. When the centerpiece was released from the top of the machine, the gravity of its own weight created enough force to pulverize tons of rock with one smash. Upon impact, a massive amount of rock broke free and created a rockslide in the underground realm. A cloud of dust filled the immediate vicinity and created a white powder that caked the faces of all the creatures and giants in the area.
    After the dust cleared, dozens of giants created a line starting at the pile of debris. They flung the large boulders in the direction of a manual assembly belt that was powered by brute force. The giants who operated the assembly turned large winders that were used to carry the smashed rock through miles of caverns. With amazing swiftness, the piles of rock that had collapsed next to the machine were whittled away to dust. It was a quick and efficient system.
    After watching the troops work, General Varrick nodded in approval and headed off towards his study. As he walked, his feet created tremors each time they came into contact with the ground that could be felt all the way up to the surface. He sat down on his large stone seat and took a sip of water from the mug resting on the top of the table in front of him. As Varrick took his first drink, The Keeper’s image appeared on the surface of the table.
    “Varrick, Oldrik and his followers are nearing your location, and are on their way to visit the Dark Forest. I need you and your men to delay them as long as possible until the Fron visit the point of origin and find out exactly how Them have managed to overcome our prior fix.”
    “Consider it done, Keeper.”
    “Thank you, Varrick. We are in your debt, and all those who reside in our realm are grateful for your efforts.”
    General Varrick immediately informed the other giants of Oldrik’s location, and a group of three quickly climbed the underground cavern walls and punched through the surface. With the loss of their fellow brothers in the recent Fron battle, they were hungry for revenge. Even their huge muscles hinted of their eagerness as their powerful limbs catapulted them into the air across hundreds of yards above the surface of the brutal desert. With each landing, the impact produced tremendous force and a deafening thunder.
    Oldrik and his followers had continued their journey belowground, but above the main level where the giants were currently residing. They were just approaching the river leading to The Valley of Darkness when they first felt the tremors.
    “Stop,” Oldrik said as the shaking alerted him to the approach of the giants.
    Just then, the three giants jumped one last time, the highest they had ever jumped. They reached almost a thousand yards into the air, and on their descent, they focused the position of their landing