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Pickax Welcome back to Althea the Dragon Empire.

Episode 42.

Wow.

Our heroes rushed through mine belonging to the Shurikar Earthworks Group,

hoping to rescue Rowan, who had been lured deep into

the earth by a cultist of Boulain, the hungering worm, she who feasts one of the embered gods

of Althea. Whilst his friends raced to his aid, battling hideous creatures and angry earth elementals. On route, Rowan's mind

flashbacked to an incident where he entered a protomagai vault and was caught in some strange

machine. As his life was nearly brought to an end, the strange patterns on his arm began to glow,

and the stone itself sprang to life

in shrouding him in a shield that protected and healed him, at least for a time.

Whilst in this state, Rowan experienced visions and mentally battled against a fragment of

Boulain's divine will, managing to seize it and choke it, he bargained and learned information

about their current quest.

Eventually, his stone shield was broken just as his friends arrived and together with the

aid of a new angry Earth Elemental friend.

They defeated Jay Soon, the cultist who had lead Lured Rowan down there.

With their foe slain, the party began to make their way out of the mind,

though unsure about how Jay Soon's brother Kuro,

who remains above with a well-trained mercenary company, will respond.

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