Kopyryshj's Faithful

Kopyryshj's Faithful is the thirty-ninth chapter of Tales of Sheol'gotha:  Shadow of the Abaddon.

Synopsis
Palus and Gadden speak about Palus' actions, which he regrets, but knows that Gadden is an important member of the army, though he resents such a thing. Gadden taunts him, suggesting that Palus would see Palus dead before himself because Palus is just a general, but Gadden controls the army, so to speak.

Palus is drawn over to Valon when called, and ordered into the temple to scout it out with Asus and Schurr. They take soldiers in with them, and when Palus cannot break the barred doors down, Schurr demolishes them. The soldiers get torches and they enter together, and Palus approaches the rear of the room where there is an altar and a tome, and he lights a brazier there. A scream from within the temple draws their attention, and the group becomes very concerned.

Asus draws their attention to the object barring the doors, realizing it was a body, and Schurr goes to fetch someone who can read vampiric - the language within the tome. He returns with Soltas who is undeterred and explains to Palus that there are corpsificers here, and that is likely the sound they heard. He finds references to the corpsificers within the tome, but another howl echoes around them and Soltas freezes. Palus does not believe the sound to be corpsificers, and the group makes an attempt at leaving but realizes there is a figure between them and the door. The figure charges them, and Schurr moves to intercept, but is bowled over and struck down by the demon.

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