In truth, when a fellow who looked unreliable in every possible way told you everything was going according to plan, you had better give some serious thought to whether adventuring with him was worth it.
Lorewalker Cho was turning that very question over and over in his mind, while constantly struggling to hop across the ground to dodge the fiery bombardment of the Iron Colossi that had emerged from who knew where. Brann had it even worse. A pack of red-eyed Steel Iron Dwarves was chasing the old dwarf everywhere, as though he had stirred up a whole nest of them.
Yes, these two had gotten into trouble again. More precisely, trouble had come looking for them.
Everything had still been normal when the Earthen protecting the two explorers had just broken through that layer of ice. But the moment Brann and Lorewalker Cho stepped into the rune-covered tunnel before them, everything stopped being normal.
Their arrival seemed to have activated some defense mechanism in this ancient passage, which was tens of thousands of years old, bringing hordes of Iron Dwarves down upon them. There were few Earthen, and they soon found themselves at a disadvantage. Even Brann and Lorewalker Cho, neither of whom was good at fighting, had to join the battle. But just after Lorewalker Cho knocked down an Iron Dwarf officer with a Lorewalkers Scroll, something even more terrifying appeared.
Iron Giants!
Yes, even on the battlefields of the Storm Peaks, these Iron Colossi rarely appeared. Yet here, in this damned passage that had been sealed for tens of thousands of years, two had sprung out at once!
Like the final straw that broke the camel's back, their appearance instantly routed the Earthen who were still holding their ground. The Steel Iron Dwarves split them apart, cutting