"Even this place is not safe anymore"
These were the words of a borderline guard once he saw the numerous camps around the base of the Barrier. When the notice was reported to the great archons, they knew that the sanctuary could no longer be hidden from the outside world. Adventurers were already exploring the zone, and that would be only the beginning. After that, kigdoms, empires and entire races would put their hands on the sanctuary.
So, a notice was sent to all the population of Rasorua Azge, to create a recognition squad, able to explore the outside world and face any attempt of invasion.
After a long and rigorous selection proccess, ten young people were separated from their family and trained in both fighting techiques and magic usage, and their endurance was pushed to the limit. During the training, one of them died, but the other nine, after 8 years, were ready for their final test.
They were guided by one of the archons through cave corridors below the buildings of the sanctuary, until they arrived to the bottom of the cave complex. An icy dome raised above them, and the temperature was so low, that even stepping was a hard task, but, they kept going. As they were reaching closer to the center, inmese bones began to apear around, which seemed to form the skeleton of an eldwurm. At the center of the dome, there was the hearth of the eldwurm, that, instead of decaying like the rest of he body, was completely frozen, but its beating could still be heard. The last order the selected ones received was to touch the hearth simultaneously. They did as ordered.
As soon as they touched the hearth, four of them were instantly frozen, and shattered away, and other two were screaming in pain, while their bodies slowly turned into ice. While the three remaining were still recovering from the shock of seeing their friends die, they felt a new power inside them, as if the power of the eldwurm was shared to them, and so, Vescembra, Jorekun and Alissa were ready for their task.
After some days, howerver, Vescembra just dissapeared, saying nothing to no one.
Some weeks later, Alissa and Jorekun were called by the great archons for their first mission. A squad of raiders were scalling the Barrier, all of them armed. Once they arrived the Barrier, Jorekun jumped in and attcked them directly while Alissa used her spells from the backside, all acording to the plan. But, as the fight was extending, the movement caused an avalanche. Alissa and Jorekun reacted quickly enough to scape it, while it burrowed the raiders. Or that's what should have happened. A chain surged from the snow, grabbing Joreku's feet and dragging him towards the snow. After that, the sound of multiple stabbings were heard. When the avalanche stopped, the surviving raiders stood up and kept climbing, while the blodied body of Jorekun was half-burried in the snow. Filled with wrath, Alissa's fury manifested in a heavy snowstorm that burried everything at the Barrier.
The raiders were no longer important, they were already under meters of snow, but also Jorekun was, if he was still alive. She searched his body during days, but there was no sign of him. Finally, she just gave up. There was no way that someone could survive that long under the snow.
When Alissa returned to Rasorua Azge, she told to the great archons all what happened there, but also asked if she could be sent to explore the outside. If she could end the war that was happening out there, her people, and the sanctuary would no longer fear another invasion, and no more unfair deaths would have to happen. Her petition was accepted, and so, Alissa adventured to the outside world, with a new task to complete.
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