The Ulangar: Book II, Part 11

This continues Book II of the epic I wrote between 1991 and 1996.

It could be heard among one man speaking to his life-friend

`This one demigod has stolen our birthrights

and we succumb to his terror that spreads like fingers from his malignant hair

This god-sent plague will only stop when he is destroyed

and no one save the undying gods in their highest perch can do such a feat

Let us slaughter a first born lamb and two calves to appease these ungrateful deities

so we may at long last rest in peace from horrors in our retirement'

These words were spoken by the townsmen in their laments

and the highest god of that cult

Ukko was unable to save them from his son

for he makemade this Lamaraz's spirit intangible to god or man

His only available option which he accomplished with a prowess unsurpassed

waswillbe to wait and watch his son destroy his world and worshipers

and Ukko sawwillsee in silence Lamaraz leave to his Volx

with the harvest of Ukko's wealthy planet

Lamaraz having returned to his keep in the same way he left

added the furnishings that make house home

In his lair he set a bed lovely in decoration

and he set stands for treasured armor and weapons

In the laboratory he placed beakers and vials of glass

and jars of herbs and regents

In the training ground he placed mats and rings and exercise equipment

And in that armory he placed his many trophies

plundered from the war gear of the fallen

and he placed a forge of sweltering heat

and buckets of coal and barrels of oil

and an anvil weighing twenty stones

and it was mounted on a one-hundred stone slab

of concrete and mortar and brick

and hammers and tongs of iron

to bend and shape the metals of man

and a workbench of oak and walnut to hold these tools

and a vice to work hot metal

Next to this foundry

Ulangar placed a smelting unit

with millions of tons of ores and pig iron

to supply that burning forge