Conan #8

In the shadowed reaches of Shadizar and the cursed dark valley, Conan joins forces with the enigmatic Laza-Lanti to slay the monstrous lord of the abyss. As the two stand at the edge of a terrible fate, a bond forms—torn between survival and a choice that will echo beyond death.

In "Zwischenfall in Argos," Conan and his companions arrive in Messantia only to be set upon by royal guards who attempt to enslave him. After fleeing and seeking refuge with a seer who glimpses his fate, Conan is captured and refuses to betray his friends—only to break free and kill the corrupt judge Portus.

In "Königin der schwarzen Küste," Conan flees Messantia’s justice by taking passage on a southern-bound ship, only to be seized by the fearsome pirate queen Bêlit and her Black Corsairs off the coast of Kush. Forced to prove himself in combat against the warrior Odongo, Conan emerges victorious—and earns not only his life, but Bêlit’s respect, and soon, her trust. With the sea as their stage and blood as their bond, the two forge a fierce alliance that charts a new course through the wilds of the black coast.

In "Die Ballade von Belit," Conan listens as N’yaga recounts the tale of Bêlit, the exiled princess of Asaglun and daughter of a murdered king. Raised in secret by the tribesman who saved her, she was whispered to be the goddess Derketa’s child—until her rise as the tribe’s fiercest warrior led to betrayal and a deadly mission. Now a pirate queen, Bêlit sails with vengeance in her heart, seeking to reclaim what was stolen.

In a tale of vengeance and forgotten horrors, Conan confronts a monstrous feathered serpent on a remote island, where the past rises like a storm from the sea. As the legacy of Ahmaan the Merciless resurfaces, old betrayals and blood debts come to life—Tez. falls, and the island itself seems to remember every death it has swallowed.