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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
The Isle Of The Griffins Chapter 25
Blink and the other Griffins took off and flew down out of the canopy of the great tree as Lolite went gliding down, they met up again at the bottom, where they were joined by the creamy white spider again, which had leapt down the tree In one jump.
"Do you all remember the plan?" Grappleclaw asked.
Blink and the other two nodded, the plan they had created was surprisingly simple: Goldenbeak was to be captured by the crystal queen's snakes, simultaneously allowing Lolite an opportunity to slip in, and would then free herself once she was in the cells, which were seemingly close to the centre of the stronghold, then find a way to allow the others in. While Lolite made his way to the middle chamber early, where he would wait invisibly until the others arrived in order to surprise the wyvern, who would hopefully not expect this. Blink did, however, have a way to further help this plan using the snakes, but feared that it would harm the plan to reveal it.
Blink and the others began to make their way to the Crystal Queen's home...
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Lolite walked across the mosses on the ground toward the, now looming, stronghold of Garnet. It was a huge structure, visible from the windows and takeoff balconies that glowed in the green-tinted night with bright torches, and directly ahead from the two carved columns, each at least thirty metres high and one carved with a likeness of a great serpent, the other with that of a dragon, behind her hundreds of winged dots and carved wyverns and griffins, and between the columns was a great gate, it was carved from a single vast slice of reddish wood from the dead remains of one of the great trees. And across it were huge ribs of metal. Each pinned to the door they were fitted of by gigantic, shimmering copper doornails, each as large as the body and head of a Griffin, and elegantly moulded into the winged visage of snarling wyverns, and on either side of the columns was a great brazier, in it burning a bright bonfire, tinted a strong red by what Lolite guessed to be magnesium. Lolite realised that something this elaborate, this incredibly crafted, would have taken longer by far than the years since Garnet's defeat and dethroning.
Lolite, from his invisible place below the amazingly massive doors, also saw many Griffin guards, each carrying spears in their front legs, and some with serrated iron talon extensions and tail-fitted blades. Many also wore finely crafted armour, varying from full plate which covered even their wings to simple boiled leather. One Griffin guard saw Goldenbeak, who was walking near Lolite, and called the others with a serpentine hiss, leaping down from its perch on one balcony and landing with a clang of steel on the springy ground.