We looked into a thousand vaults7, a thousand spaces. There came another avalanche8 roaring — before us opened the crater9 of the cones10.
Through the torn gap I saw them, clustering undisturbed about the base of that one slender, coroneted and star pointing spire11, rising serene12 and unshaken from a hell of lightnings. But the shields that had rimmed13 the crater were gone.
Ventnor snatched the glasses from my hand, leveled and held them long to his eyes.
He thrust them back to me. “Look!”
Through the lenses the great hall leaped into full view apparently14 only a few yards away. It was a cauldron of chameleon15 flame. It seethed16 with the Hordes17 battling over the remaining walls and floor. But around the crystal base of the cones was an open zone into which none broke.
In that wide ring, girdling the shimmering18 fantasy like a circled sanctuary19, were but three forms. One was the wondrous20 Disk of jeweled fires I have called the Metal Emperor; the second was the sullen21 fired cruciform of the Keeper.
The third was Norhala!
She stood at the side of that weird22 master of hers — or was it after all the servant? Between them and the Keeper’s planes gleamed the gigantic T-shaped tablet of countless23 rods which controlled the activities of the cones; that had controlled the shifting of the vanished shields; that manipulated too, perhaps, the energies of whatever similar but smaller cornute ganglia were scattered24 throughout the City and one of which we had beheld25 when the Emperor’s guards had blasted Ventnor.
Close was Norhala in the lenses — so close that almost, it seemed, I could reach out and touch her. The flaming hair streamed and billowed above her glorious head like a banner of molten floss of coppery gold; her face was a mask of wrath26 and despair; her great eyes blazed upon the Keeper; her exquisite27 body was bare, stripped of every shred28 of silken covering.
From streaming tresses to white feet an oval of pulsing, golden light nimbused her. Maiden29 Isis, virgin30 Astarte she stood there, held in the grip of the Disk — like a goddess betrayed and hopeless yet thirsting for vengeance31.
For all their stillness, their immobility, it came to me that Emperor and Keeper were at grapple, locked in death grip; the realization32 was as definite as though, like Ruth, I thought with Norhala’s mind, saw with her eyes.
Clearly too it came to me that in this contest between the two was epitomized all the vast conflict that raged around them; that in it was fast ripening33 that fruit of destiny of which Ventnor had spoken, and that here in the Hall of the Cones would be settled — and soon — the fate not only of Disk and Cross, but it might be of humanity.
But with what unknown powers was that duel34 being fought? They cast no lightnings, they battled with no visible weapons. Only the great planes of the inverted35 cruciform Shape smoked and smoldered36 with their sullen flares37 of ochres and of scarlets38; while over all the face of the Disk its cold and irised fires raced and shone, beating with a rhythm incredibly rapid; its core of incandescent40 ruby41 blazed, its sapphire42 ovals were cabochoned pools of living, lucent radiance.
There was a splitting roar that arose above all the clamor, deafening43 us even in the shelter of the silent veils. On each side of the crater whole masses of the City dropped away. Fleetingly44 I was aware of scores of smaller pits in which uprose lesser45 replicas46 of the Coned47 Mount, lesser reservoirs of the Monster’s force.
Neither the Emperor nor the Keeper moved, both seemingly indifferent to the catastrophe48 fast developing around them.
Now I strained forward to the very thinnest edge of the curtainings. For between the Disk and Cross began to form fine black mist. It was transparent49. It seemed spun50 of minute translucent51 ebon corpuscles. It hung like a black shroud52 suspended by unseen hands. It shook and wavered now toward the Disk, now toward the Cross.
I sensed a keying up of force within the two; knew that each was striving to cast like a net that hanging mist upon the other.
Abruptly53 the Emperor flashed forth54, blindingly. As though caught upon a blast, the black shroud flew toward the Keeper — enveloped55 it. And as the mist covered and clung I saw the sulphurous and crimson56 flares dim. They were snuffed out.
The Keeper fell!
Upon Norhala’s face flamed a wild triumph, banishing57 despair. The outstretched planes of the Cross swept up as though in torment58. For an instant its fires flared59 and licked through the clinging blackness; it writhed60 half upright, threw itself forward, crashed down prostrate62 upon the enigmatic tablet which only its tentacles63 could manipulate.
From Norhala’s face the triumph fled. On its heels rushed stark64, incredulous horror.
The Mount of Cones shuddered65. From it came a single mighty66 throb67 of force — like a prodigious68 heart-beat. Under that pulse of power the Emperor staggered, spun — and spinning, swept Norhala from her feet, swung her close to its flashing rose.
A second throb pulsed from the cones, and mightier69.
A spasm70 shook the Disk — a paroxysm.
Its fires faded; they flared out again, bathing the floating, unearthly figure of Norhala with their iridescences.
I saw her body writhe61 — as though it shared the agony of the Shape that held her. Her head twisted; the great eyes, pools of uncomprehending, unbelieving horror, stared into mine.
With a spasmodic, infinitely71 dreadful movement the Disk closed —
And closed upon her!
Norhala was gone — was shut within it. Crushed to the pent fires of its crystal heart.
I heard a sobbing72, agonized73 choking — knew it was I who sobbed74. Against me I felt Ruth’s body strike, bend in convulsive arc, drop inert75.
The slender steeple of the cones drooped76 sending its faceted77 coronet shattering to the floor. The Mount melted. Beneath the flooding radiance sprawled78 Keeper and the great inert Globe that was the Goddess woman’s sepulcher79.
The crater filled with the pallid80 luminescence. Faster and ever faster it poured down into the Pit. And from all the lesser craters81 of the smaller cones swept silent cataracts82 of the same pale radiance.
The City began to crumble83 — the Monster to fall.
Like pent-up waters rushing through a broken dam the gleaming deluge84 swept over the valley; gushing85 in steady torrents86 from the breaking mass. Over the valley fell a vast silence. The lightnings ceased. The Metal Hordes stood rigid87, the shining flood lapping at their bases, rising swiftly ever higher.
Now from the sinking City swarmed88 multitudes of its weird luminaries89.
Out they trooped, swirling90 from every rent and gap — orbs91 scarlet39 and sapphire, ruby orbs, orbs tuliped and irised — the jocund92 suns of the birth chamber1 and side by side with them hosts of the frozen, pale gilt93, stiff rayed suns.
Thousands upon thousands they marched forth and poised94 themselves solemnly over all the Pit that now was a fast rising lake of yellow froth of sun flame.
They swept forth in squadrons, in companies, in regiments95, those mysterious orbs. They floated over all the valley; they separated and swung motionless above it as though they were mysterious multiple souls of fire brooding over the dying shell that had held them.
Beneath, thrusting up from the lambent lake like grotesque96 towers of some drowned fantastic metropolis97, the great Shapes stood, black against its glowing.
What had been the City — that which had been the bulk of the Monster — was now only a vast and shapeless hill from which streamed the silent torrents of that released, unknown force which, concentrate and bound, had been the cones.
As though it was the Monster’s shining life-blood it poured, raising ever higher in its swift flooding the level radiant lake.
Lower and lower sank the immense bulk; squattered and spread, ever lowering — about its helpless, patient crouching98 something ineffably99 piteous, something indescribably, COSMICALLY tragic100.
Abruptly the watching orbs shook under a hail of sparkling atoms streaming down from the glittering sky; raining upon the lambent lake. So thick they fell that now the brooding luminaries were dim aureoles within them.
From the Pit came a blinding, insupportable brilliancy. From every rigid tower gleamed out jeweled fires; their clinging units opened into blazing star and disk and cross. The City was a hill of living gems101 over which flowed torrents of pale molten gold.
The Pit blazed.
There followed an appalling102 tensity; a prodigious gathering103 of force; a panic stirring concentration of energy. Thicker fell the clouds of sparkling atoms — higher rose the yellow flood.
Ventnor cried out. I could not hear him, but I read his purpose — and so did Drake. Up on his broad shoulders he swung Ruth as though she had been a child. Back through the throbbing104 veils we ran; passed out of them.
“Back!” shouted Ventnor. “Back as far as you can!”
On we raced; we reached the gateway105 of the cliffs; we dashed on and on — up the shining roadway toward the blue globe now a scant106 mile before us; ran sobbing, panting — ran, we knew, for our lives.
Out of the Pit came a sound — I cannot describe it!
An unutterably desolate107, dreadful wail108 of despair, it shuddered past us like the groaning109 of a broken-hearted star — anguished110 and awesome111.
It died. There rushed upon us a sea of that incredible loneliness, that longing112 for extinction113 that had assailed114 us in the haunted hollow where first we had seen Norhala. But its billows were resistless, invincible115. Beneath them we fell; were torn by desire for swift death.
Dimly, through fainting eyes, I saw a dazzling brilliancy fill the sky; heard with dying ears a chaotic116, blasting roar. A wave of air thicker than water caught us up, hurled117 us hundreds of yards forward. It dropped us; in its wake rushed another wave, withering118, scorching119.
It raced over us. Scorching though it was, within its heat was energizing120, revivifying force; something that slew121 the deadly despair and fed the fading fires of life.
I staggered to my feet; looked back. The veils were gone. The precipice122 walled gateway they had curtained was filled with a Plutonic glare as though it opened into the incandescent heart of a volcano.
Ventnor clutched my shoulder, spun me around. He pointed123 to the sapphire house, started to run to it. Far ahead I saw Drake, the body of the girl clasped to his breast. The heat became blasting, insupportable; my lungs burned.
Over the sky above the canyon124 streaked125 a serpentine126 chain of lightnings. A sudden cyclonic127 gust128 swept the cleft129, whirling us like leaves toward the Pit.
I threw myself upon my face, clutching at the smooth rock. A volley of thunder burst — but not the thunder of the Metal Monster or its Hordes; no, the bellowing130 of the levins of our own earth.
And the wind was cold; it bathed the burning skin; laved the fevered lungs.
Again the sky was split by the lightnings. And roaring down from it in solid sheets came the rain.
From the Pit arose a hissing131 as though within it raged Babylonian Tiamat, Mother of Chaos132, serpent dweller133 in the void; Midgard-snake of the ancient Norse holding in her coils the world.
Buffeted134 by wind, beaten down by rain, clinging to each other like drowning men, Ventnor and I pushed on to the elfin globe. The light was dying fast. By it we saw Drake pass within the portal with his burden. The light became embers; it went out; blackness clasped us. Guided by the lightnings, we beat our way to the door; passed through it.
In the electric glare we saw Drake bending over Ruth. In it I saw a slide draw over the open portal through which shrieked135 the wind, streamed the rain.
As though its crystal panel was moved by unseen, gentle hands, the portal closed; the tempest shut out.
We dropped beside Ruth upon a pile of silken stuffs — awed136, marveling, trembling with pity and — thanksgiving.
For we knew — each of us knew with an absolute definiteness as we crouched there among the racing137, dancing black and silver shadows with which the lightnings filled the blue globe — that the Metal Monster was dead.
Slain138 by itself!
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avalanche
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crater
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cones
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spire
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chameleon
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sanctuary
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wondrous
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beheld
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vengeance
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realization
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duel
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catastrophe
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