The other two hundred? They became the course.
Kaelen wiped sweat and tar from his brow. The first leg of the Tournike was over. But the real race had just begun. tournike ep 1
As he crested the ridge, the world opened up before him: the Scorchlands. A graveyard of old industry. Towering, skeletal cooling towers leaked steam into the gloom. Dried riverbeds were now canyons of broken glass. And in the distance, piercing the perpetual haze, the Spire of a Thousand Needles—a black, jagged tower that scraped the underside of the clouds. The other two hundred
Kaelen ran.
He didn’t answer. He just ran, the copper ring humming against his chest, and the Spire growing ever larger on the horizon. The first leg of the Tournike was over
That was the finish line. Fifty kilometers of hell away.
The other two hundred? They became the course.
Kaelen wiped sweat and tar from his brow. The first leg of the Tournike was over. But the real race had just begun.
As he crested the ridge, the world opened up before him: the Scorchlands. A graveyard of old industry. Towering, skeletal cooling towers leaked steam into the gloom. Dried riverbeds were now canyons of broken glass. And in the distance, piercing the perpetual haze, the Spire of a Thousand Needles—a black, jagged tower that scraped the underside of the clouds.
Kaelen ran.
He didn’t answer. He just ran, the copper ring humming against his chest, and the Spire growing ever larger on the horizon.
That was the finish line. Fifty kilometers of hell away.