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Setrákus Ra is just standing there, watching the show He roars so loud I can feel the vibrations inup to this er is if the rest of the Garde were here; we should be fighting hiht I will take him out for all of us

After I finish off the last soldier, Setrákus Ra moves into the middle of the room to where I stand He reaches behind his back and produces a round It lights up with orange fla he can do to scare or stop , ‘For Lorien!’

He flicks the whip overa thick blanket of flae and roll in the direction of his feet As I dodge his sto boot, I see several scars branded around his ankles I register them but don’t have time to think if there’s a connection between his scars and hest scar on his left leg and then I spring to my feet The mark I made immediately hardens and fades to another scar He is cole step

He snaps the whip at ain and I try to cut off one of its two tails but when the flames touch my sword, the blade melts I throw the remains of the sword at him He raises his hand and halts the weapon in ers, the learound

I dive for the sword, but when I reach down to grab it, his whip snaps across the top of ht hand My skin boils and opens and, instead of blood, a hard black substance appears in the gash I look at it and know I should feel unbelievable pain, but I’et hold of the sword Weapon in hand, I circle back around to face the Mog leader But soht hand now It won’t ain and I ju a trail of flames in its wake When he raises his arain, I see an opening and take it Gripping the sword in e I yank it doards, ripping his waxy skin apart until the sword is lodged at the botto up at hi I’ve delivered the final blow, that I’ve ended the war

No such luck Though Setrákus Ra gri into a pile of ash he just reaches down and pulls the sword out of his body He exa off of it Then he puts the blade in hisit in half, and lets it drop to the ground It’s like he’s playing withquickly whatSetrákus Ra long enough to figure it out I wish,with

I continue to back away fro to putchance That’s when I notice le I look down and see the skin around the whip’s wound has turned black As I watch, the discoloration spreads to ernails; in a ht hand is black up tosensation vanishes My hand feels incredibly heavy Like it’s turned to lead

I look up at Setrákus Ra The purple scar on his neck begins to pulse with a bright light ‘Are you ready to die?’ he asks , now is the time In fact, it’s now or never

I want some that she and the others are just outside the door We should be together, fighting Setrákus Ra with our Legacies, the gifts the Elders bestowed upon us, until there is nothing left to him but the worthless, powerless, pile of ashes all of the other Mogs have become Instead, I’ cat andhere in front of acies useless, toying withon?

I take one more look around at the desert, then reach for the wheel on the brown door and give it a spin After one rotation, I decide to speed things up and just yank it off its hinges A steel ladder goes down into a black hole

‘I can see in the dark,’ Marina volunteers ‘I’ll go first’ I stand aside to let her get by

Marina cliht Eight tosses her Chest down after her

‘It’s about twenty feet down Looks like there’s a long tunnel,’ Marina calls up ‘All clear so far I don’t see anyone’

Nine looks at Ella and me and says, ‘Ladies first’ Ella starts down the ladder, and when she disappears, Nine s to you, Four’