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I doubt you will ever be the type of leader who can lead a charge against the enemy, Elend Venture The words had been spoken by Tindwyl--the wo those words made Elend smile as his soldiers crashed into the koloss camp

Elend flared pewter A warm sensation--now familiar to him--burst to life in his chest, and his y He'd sed the metal earlier, so that he could draw upon its powers for the battle He was an Allomancer That still awed him sometimes

As he'd predicted, the koloss were surprised by the attack They stood h they ed Koloss had trouble dealing with the unexpected They found it hard to co their camp So, it took theood use of that tiive himself yet more power as he cut down the first koloss It was a smaller beast Like all of its kind, it was hu blue skin that seemed detached from the rest of its body Its beady red eyes showed a bit of inhu his sword from its chest

"Strike quickly!" he yelled as more koloss turned from their firepits "Kill as many as you can before they frenzy!"

His soldiers--terrified, but coroups of koloss The "camp" was little more than a place where the koloss had tro firepits Elend could see hised the them braver He was more cootten the hang of leaping about with metals the way Vin did Emotions, however--those he understood

Fatren, the city's burly leader, stuck near Elend as he led a group of soldiers toward a large pack of koloss Elend kept an eye on the man Fatren was the ruler of this sether, they rushed a sroup was soe koloss, this creature's skin--once loose--was now pulled tight around its oversized body Koloss never stopped growing, but their skin always re loose and folded On the big ones, it stretched and ripped

Elend burned steel, then threw a handful of coins into the air in front of hiainst theh to fall to simple coins with any reliability, but the bits of metal would injure and weaken thee koloss The beast pulled a huge sword off its back, and it seeht

The koloss swung first, and it had an aweso his, so blunt they were almo1st clubs The force of the blow shook the air; Elend wouldn't have had a chance to turn the blade aside, even with pewter helping him In addition, the sword--or, hed so much that Elend wouldn't be able to use Allo with steel was all about weight and force If Elend Pushed on so heavier than himself, he'd be thrown backward

So, Elend had to rely on the extra speed and dexterity of pewter He threw hi for a backhand The creature turned, silent, eyeing Elend, but didn't strike It hadn't quite frenzied yet

Elend stared down his oversized eneht, not for the first tiht he had no business leading ured that he thought tooThe koloss anticipated theits weapon down on Elend's head Elend, however, reached out and Pulled on the sword of another koloss--throwing that creature off balance and allowing two of Elend'sElend himself to the side He just barely evaded his opponent's weapon Then, as he spun in the air, he flared pewter and struck froh the beast's leg at the knee, toppling it to the ground Vin always said that Elend's Allo Elend wasn't certain about that--he didn't havedid send hi, however, and then took off the creature's head

Several of the soldiers were staring at hiht red koloss blood It wasn't the first time Elend took a deep breath as he heard inhuinning

"Forether, prepare for the assault!"

The soldiers responded slowly They were far less disciplined than the troops Elend was accusto up at his coround before theed to take down several hundred koloss--an a feat

The easy part, however, was over

"Stay fir down in front of the soldier line "But keep fighting! We need to kill asdepends on this! Give them your fury, men!"

He burned brass and Pushed on their e away their fear An Allomancer couldn't control e soain, Vin said that Elend was able to affect far ained his powers recently, directly froinal source of Allo, his soldiers stood up straight Again, Elend felt a healthy respect for these si away some of their fear, but the deterood people

With luck, he'd be able to save some of theroup of the creatures broke away froe Some of the soldiers cried out, but they were too busy defend1ing themselves to follow Elend threw hi up the weak point As he did so, he burned brass and tried to Push on the e happened The creatures were resistant to e h, he could take complete control of theht tirelessly