H29 Might of the Ancient Axe

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**Might of the Ancient Axe**, the 29th book of The Golden Age of the Adventures series, was published in November 2019. It is the English language edition of the original Chinese comic, **开天辟地斧**, which was published in August 2019.

## Sypnosis

AIMING FOR THE TOP! FINDING THE FABLED AXE!

After their encounter with the red demons, Alex and co. find themselves in an unknown world! They end up rescuing a strange lady through whom they learn about the mysterious descendants of the legendary Pangu! It is his fabled axe that they must find and use to separate heaven and earth in order to escape.

## Cast

* Alex
* Lulu
* Fenrir
* Hank
* Lila
* The Void
* Long Snake

## Plot

***Spoiler warning!** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

### Chapter 1: Dragon

Alex and Lulu are shocked that Hank's a woman. Hank wakes up, realises her helmet is off and puts it back on. The Void is gone. Lulu senses a bird, but it is actually a dragon from Western legend. The team look around for water and food. Lulu senses someone being chased by something big. A girl is being chased by a hydra-like dragon. The team helps her kill it. The girl is green-skinned, pointy eared and speaks an unknown language.

### Chapter 2: Hansika Nansen

The girl introduces herself as Lila. She takes the team to the alps via her dragon. At the alps, Lila's grandfather, the cheiftain, lets the team rest in the guest rooms. The food served is insects. Hank tells the team her name is Hansika Nansen.

One day, the World Adventure Union discovered Giant Clam Island, which contained a red demon. The Union commissioned Hansika's parents and four other Adventurers to investigate. Morgan and Natasha Nansen's death left Hansika devastated. Since then, she trained and gained her Adventurer license. She wore the armour her parents left and took her father's Adventurer name.

Meanwhile, the Void studies the fauna of this realm.

### Chapter 3: Long Snake

The chieftain shows the team a jue from the Xia Dynasty. Since they recognise the object, the chieftain suspects they're from another world and knows who they can talk to. Lila will take them to see Long-Snake, who lives beyond the mountains. The mode of transportation is a Yin-Yin Goat. Two days later, they arrive at Long-Snake's abode. Long-Snake speaks Xia Dynasty tongue to the team. Fenrir understands, so he and the others are allowed entry.

The team explained to Long-Snake about the red demons, and Fenrir asks if his ancestor came to this world the same way. The ancestor, Fu Que, Fu Xi's 72nd child, didn't. He used his ancestral axe which can split the barrier between worlds. Alex deducts the axe's original owner was Pangu. Lulu detects someone (the Void) behind the tree.

### Chapter 4: Pangu's Axe

The Void throws a frogmonkey, a common animal in the area. Alex then explains to Long-Snake about Pangu and his axe.

There was darkness. Pangu used his axe to split it, creating the heavens and the earth. Pangu lifted the heavens in fear it and the earth might close. Eons passed, the distance increased so much, the heavens and the earth won't close. Pangu, exhausted, transformed his eyes into the sun and moon, his breath into the wind and clouds and his voice into thunder. Many years later, a girl, Hua Xu, went to Lei Ze. She fell into a gaint footprint. After that she was pregnant, and gave birth to Fu Xi.

Long-Snake continues. Fu Que acquired the Pangu's axe. When Fu Xi died, evil-doers searched for the axe. At the edge of a hill, Fu Que bade good riddance to Earth and swung the axe, transporting him to this realm. Fu Que made this world his new home. One day, he saved an injured snake-girl, then got married two years later. This is why their descendants, like Long-Snake, appear as a snake-human hybrid. But Long-Snake forbids the team from using the axe, because it is a family heirloom and it is kept in a dangerous place.

Long-Snake suggests they make this world their new home. He returns to his house and sees the Void. An Ascaris rises out of the ground and the Void escapes on a dragon with a tied up Long-Snake.

### Chapter 5: Treasure Map

The Void shows Long-Snake the map to Pangu's axe, but Long-Snake won't take him there. The Void injects him with a burning serum. Hansika chases after the Void. She shoots one of the dragon's wings, making the Void drop the map. Hansika catches it.

She shows it to the team. Alex draws on the ground to get Lila to transport the team to Pangu's axe. She understands, and everyone rides the Yin-Yin Goat. Three days later, they arrive at the destination: Fire Crystal Mountain. Fenrir passes Lila out because she would get in the way when facing the Void. The entrance is blocked, so Hansika uses her last shots.

### Chapter 6: Footprints

Twenty minutes earlier, the Void solves the puzzle to get Pangu's axe.

The team finds three entrances. Alex notices one of the set of footprints in 6 cm deep while the others are 3 cm deep. The Void was carrying Long-Snake, so the footprints should be deep. In that entrance, there is a lizard mutant. This is a trap! worm-like creatures explode the ceiling. Hansika protects everyone. They break out of the rocks and enter the next room. It is a pathway between pools of strong acid. Hansika translates a Xia Dynasty puzzle: "The thief carries the dragon egg across the bridge, but leaves no footprints."

### Chapter 7: Crossing the Bridge

Fenrir throws a rock to the bridge. Spikes shoot out. Alex thinks of tying his ropes to the stalactites to swing across. Alex and Lulu, holding the "dragon's egg", swing on one rope and Fenrir and Hansika swing on the other rope. An arachnid-like creature bursts out of the exit. Fenrir and Hansika drop on the creature. Hansika and Fenrir blast their way through the exit before the bridge's spikes shoot out. In the exit, there is the Void. The creature bursts, causing its sticky liquid to cover the team except for Alex.

The Void releases his little dragons, and Alex kills them. A stingray-like creature carries the Void. The Void dodges Alex's kick. Alex slices the stingray's tail. It releases poisonous gas and Alex holds his breath. The Void steps on Alex's steel wires, activating the pin shooters.

### Chapter 8: Checkmate

The Void drops to the ground. Alex checks on Long-Snake. There are poisonous worms. They try to poison Alex. The Void stands back up, his sleeve had bugs protecting him from the pins. As he raises Pangu's axe, Fenrir hurts his nape. Fenrir's golem head now has a body and he shot out of his body. The Void whistles for a giant centipede-like creature. Fenrir creates a portal with Pangu's axe, killing the centipede with the portal. Everyone, except for Long-Snake, is sucked into it.

## X-Venture continuity

### In other series

* **Chronicles of the Dragon Trail**: This series and the realm the book takes place in are the same realm. The dragon that attacked Lila is a Wawel Dragon, Lila's people are known as the Dryads and Lila's dragon is a Pilatus.