“If this was to represent their rule, they would be here. Looking down on it, you know, ruling. As kings.”

  “You’ve been awful talkative recently.”

  Dali was a bit skeptical about that. He did not think he would go insane that easily.

  “Really?”

  “Messing with me?”

  “Ah, yeah. Right.”

  “They didn’t want to rule over people, although they obviously had influence in the underworld as well as politics.”

  “They wanted to rule the land itself.”

  “Not the flatlands, because they’re boring. They wanted to climb the mountains and conquer them that way. To push themselves to the limit.”

  “Same story. Like the joke, ‘can god make a mountain so heavy he cannot lift it?’ they wanted to test themselves against the creations of man as well.”

  “Traceur?”

  …

  “What would that even look like?

  This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

  …

  “Ninja ballerina sounds like it fits pretty well actually.”

  “Nice try. You do have emotions.”

  “Yeah, so the eight other monuments are also in the city?”

  “It was an educa-”

  “Please, please, never call me ‘baby’ ever again.”

  “...Yes.”

  “Are you going to help me find the monuments?”

  “I understand, wouldn’t be much of a quest. Are you in charge of all the windows in Royal Road?”

  “Do you know why I hadn’t gotten any quests until recently?”

  “You mean Selana?”

  …

  “Ah!”

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