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Beast stepped into the dark forest located deep in the mountains of Mongolia. It had been a long time since he’d been in this part of the upworld. The population was sparse. With so few souls to corrupt, it wasn’t a place demons hung out often.
Here, the dark fire elemental king reigned. The ash-colored ground and the trees were charred and mangled. Even the air tasted like smoke, as if a fire had recently been put out and the remnants still hung in the air. Beast could feel eyes upon him as he moved silently through the woods, but no one approached. All was quiet, still as a stone. There were no scuttling creatures or squawking birds. It was quite a difference from the painful moans of the inhabitants of the underworld.
Finally, the silence was broken. “Why has one of Osiris’s lac
