CHAPTER 23

The valleys deepened, the incomprehensible depths were black and terrifying, the mountains higher. Now the rock giants have made the peaks around Russvik look like hills that don't deserve to be called mountains. The mountains that ran between them were like walls built by the gods to ward off demons, and they were truly huge. Their size was astounding. Locked in place with lightning speed, they raced across long, dark valleys filled with debris and glaciers that glistened like frozen rivers. The shadow of the speeding aircraft fell over the frozen lake and disappeared into the clouds below the high cliffs. As if the chariots of these gods were trying to ascend through the air, the thunder grew louder as they ascended the mountain. Then the airship went up the steep slope, and when the ship was sick, Ragnar saw it. The greatest mountain, the greatest mountain he has ever seen or seen, is probably the greatest mountain in the history of creation. . It leaped over all the other peaks li