Chapter 181: Insufferable
Irwin stuffed his book back in what remained of his jerkin. He'd hoped that Daubutim could read it, but in the end, even he couldn't read the Terullian script.
"It actually attacked the teleport canal?" Rindiri asked.
"Yes. The thing wrapped some sort of shadowy tentacles around it and tried to shatter it," Irwin said while holding back a groan. The headache seemed to be dropping to his neck, causing his muscles to tense up, and he rubbed his neck to try and lessen the headache. "Do you know what they are?"
"Most people do," she said, looking at him oddly.
Irwin couldn't bring up the energy to care and just waved at her to continue.
"They have many names, Shatter Omens, Advent of Cataclysm, and some even call them plain evil. Where I'm from, we call them Oculithar, the Worldgaze," Rindiri said.
"Monster works," Bendi muttered from the side.
"True, some call them monsters," Rindiri agreed. "They hover around exit portals near highly unstable worlds, and there are legends of people seeing them while they teleport across farming or mining worlds."
Zender and the girls began whispering excitedly at the other table while Ib was visibly struggling to hold back some questions.
Irwin ignored them. Something about Rindiri's words sounded familiar, but he couldn't think straight due to the headache.
"Anyway, I've never read about one attacking a teleport canal," Rindiri said.
Irwin decided to think about it later and turned.