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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion

The Tribe of Shadows

Chapter IV

The Ruins of Dorban

I was hiking up a large hill in the south of Pyrrhia when I noticed something nearby: a massive hole in the ground. Could it be? I thought. I approached the hole, and looked down.

A city so large I couldn’t tell how big it was was beneath me. A city of pure black stone, glowing slightly in the growing light of sunrise. It was beautiful, yet it looked like it was in ruins. Toppled statues lined ancient cracked streets of stone. What appeared to be a tree was growing out of the center of the city, the top of its withered branches barely a foot beneath the edge. The ruins of a massive hall of what appeared to be obsidian, basalt, and… was that iron creating the arch at the front? The massive branches, each one a few feet across, were rather easy to climb.

What the hell? I thought, seeing the strange flowers growing at the bottom of the tree. They seemed to radiate a bad feeling.

And then I saw the monster: a giant, mangy direwolf-looking creature, with an iron collar around its neck, with chains attaching to it. Its glowing red eyes made me feel horrible, like maggots were crawling in my skin. As I thought this, the beast lunged…

And fell to the ground with a thud as a figure stepped from the shadows with a long spear in his hands, running it through the dead wolf’s body. “Hello, Dilath, welcome to Dorban,” said the man

To be continued.