before him,
and he will ask me,
"What is the riddle of steel?"
If I don't know it, he will cast
me out of Valhalla and laugh at me.
That's Crom.
Strong on his mountain.
Ah, my god is greater.
Ha-ha! Crom laughs
at your four winds,
laughs from his mountain.
My god is stronger.
He is
the everlasting sky.
Your god lives
underneath him.
[ Chuckles ]
Civilization,
ancient and wicked.
Have you ever
seen this before?
No.
Let's waste no time!
It's good. You have no idea
how long it's been there.
[ Pigs Squealing ]
So much meat... stink.
Does it always
smell like this?
How does the wind
ever get in here?
[ Villagers Chattering]
How about two snakes coming
together over a black sun?
A magnificent standard.
The only snakes I know of are those
of Set and those cursed towers.
They have spread
to every city.
Two or three years ago, it was just
another snake cult. Now, everywhere.
It is said that
they are deceivers.
They murder people in
the night. I know nothing.
Hey.
Black lotus.
Stygian, the best.
This better not be Haga.
I would sell Haga to
a slayer such as you?
A pittance to protect you from evil.
I am evil.
[ Chuckles ]
They're all sluts!
He's dead already.
[ Laughing ]
Can you believe that?
Huh?
Can you b--
[ Snorts ]
[ Grunting ]
[ Camel Collapses ] [Man]
You're too big to be a thief.
Come. Let's leave
this place.
You're looking for snakes.
They live in
the Tower of the Serpent,
said to have riches without end
and the greatest jewel of all:
the Eye of the Serpent.
Chew it slowly!
It's the good stuff.
[ Sniffing ]
You are not a guard.
Neither are you.
We are thieves...
like yourself.
We come to climb the tower.
You don't even have a rope.
[ Laughs ]
Two fools
who laugh at death.
Do you know what horrors
lie beyond that wall?
No.
Then you go first.
Ohh! What on Earth
could smell so bad?
Do you want
to live forever?
That one.
He's the High Priest,
second only to Thulsa Doom.
They say Thulsa Doom's
a thousand years old.
I'll see what's here.
Go find out what's below.
[ Rats Screeching ]
[ Hissing, Snorting ]
[ Snarling ]
[ Snarling Continues ]
[ Snarling Continues ]
[Woman Screaming]
[Woman]
Infidels!
[Screaming Continues]
Infidels!
[ Grunts, Groans ]
[ Screaming ]
Ahh! Kill them!
Do you want to live forever?
[ Screams, Laughing ]
[Chattering]
[ Laughing ]
[Pig Snorting]
[Chattering]
[ Bird Squawks ]
[Wizard] All manner of pleasures
and diversions were indulged.
Wealth can be wonderful.
But you know,
success can test one's mettle...
assurely as
the strongest adversary.
[Wizard Continues] They were taken
to the hall ofKing Osric the Usurper,
once a powerful Northman
like my lord...
but now old and sotted.
These are the thieves
you have requested, Sire.
I thought there were three.
O-O-Our companion, he died
in the gardens. Lions ate him.
Lions ate him?
The lions ate him.
[ Laughing ]
Do you know
what you've done?
Why, Rexor himself has come
before me, threatened me, a king!
What daring!
What outrageousness!
What insolence!
What arrogance!
I salute you.
[Laughing]
Thulsa Doom.
I've chafed for years
at this demigod.
Snakes in my beautiful city.
To the west:
Nemedia, Aquilonia.
To the south:
Koth, Stygia, snakes.
Everywhere
these evil towers.
You alone have stoodup
to their gods.
And what are you?
Thieves!
See this?
They call it the
"Fangs of the Serpent. "
And this one...
was thrust into a father's
heart by his very son.
And my own daughter...
has fallen under this
Thulsa Doom's spell.
Is there a dagger
such as this...
in her hand for me?
She follows him
as a slave,
seeking for the truth
of her soul...
as if I could not
give it to her!
As we speak...
my daughter travels east...
to Thulsa Doom
and his Mountain of Power.
She is to be his!
[ Snaps Fingers ]
Steal my daughter back.
Take all you can carry.
There's more.
Much more.
Enough to become
kings