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battle. When Akhdar gained power, he feared they would revolt.” Then the elder’s voice descended into despair, “He had them hunted and executed one by one. All except for Kar-Tyr. And now the once proud warrior merely serves as entertainment for Akhdar.”

The conch of battle sounded again. The crowd gave out a laundry list of cheers and jeers when the guards pulled open the giant door under Zhar Akhdar’s terrace. The thing that emerged was far greater in height and more horrendous than the moktar.

It was at least two stories tall and its body was transparent. The people in the viewing gallery and Kar-Tyr could see the creature emitting some sort of electric charge inside its body. Its arms were two very lengthy tentacles with hundreds of suction cups on them. And enough force to pull a man’s face clean off. Unless its long ragged teeth would gnash them first. The jellyfish-like monster had an extensive jaw that could swallow a man whole, bones and all. Fangs, the size of swords, protruded through its receding gums. It had no legs, but it got around with six small tentacles on the bottom of its bulbous base. The strangest thing was it had no eyes. It relied mainly on some sort of radar sense, which was being produced by sound. It was receiving a clear view from all those cheering spectators.

Kar-Tyr speedily galloped towards the monster, whirling his kunai in coercion. The giant monstrosity screeched and began to flay its stretched appendages at him. Kar-Tyr dodged its devastating blows, while the aftershock sprayed sand all over the fighting circle. Kar-Tyr was trying to find the beast’s weakness. He knew the rope attached to the end of his kunai wouldn’t be long enough to reach around its swollen neck. He had to find another way to take this enormous fiend down.

Kar-Tyr was biding his time. Allowing the monster to make attacks so he could catch it off guard. It lashed its

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