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I can't decide if you're a fool, Vin thought toward it, or if you si soainst her, trying to destroy her as she had tried to destroy it However, once again, their poere too evenly matched Ruin was forced to pull back

Life, Vin said You said that the only reason to create so was so that you could destroy it

She hovered beside Elend, watching hiht The deaths of the koloss should have pained her Yet, she did not think of the death Perhaps it was the influence of Preservation's power, but she saw only a , even when hope seemed impossible She didn't see death, she saw life She saw faith

We create things to watch the that which we love become more than it was before You said that you were invincible--that all things break apart All things are Ruined But there are things that fight against you--and the ironic part is, you can't even understand those things Love Life Growth

The life of a person isEmotion, Ruin This is your defeat

Sazed watched anxiously froroup of men huddled around him Garv, leader of the Church of the Survivor in Luthadel Harathdal, fore, one of the surviving Asse wo his few short weeks at the Pits of Hathsin A set near the front of the crowd and watch

"Where is she, Master Terrisman?" Garv asked

"She'll co on the rock wall Theof atiu they were next in line, should Elend's assault fail

She has to co points toward her arrival

"The Hero will coh two heads at once, dropping the koloss He spun his blade, taking off an arh the neck He hadn't seen that one approaching, but his mind had seen and interpreted the atium shadow before the real attack came

Already he stood atop of carpet of blue corpses He did not stuuided, his e koloss, then stepped back, pausing briefly

The sun crested the horizon in the east It started to grow hotter

They had been fighting for hours, yet the army of koloss still seemed endless Elend slew another koloss, but his ish Atium enhanced the mind, but it did not boost the body, and he'd started to rely on his pewter to keep hiet tired--exhausted, even--while burning atium? Nobody had ever used as much of theHis atiu low He turned back toward the mouth of the cavern, just in tio down in a spray of blood

Elend cursed, spinning as an atiu that followed, then took off the creature's ars out from beneath it For most of the battle, he hadn't used fancy Allohtforward swordplay His arin Pushing koloss away froe the battlefield The reserve of atiu Atium burned so quickly

Another an to back toward the cavern There were just so hty had slain thousands, yet the koloss didn't care They kept attacking, a brutal wave of endless deters protecting each of the entrances to the Ho out of atiu his sword about hi down three koloss in a maneuver that never should have worked He flared steel and Pushed the rest away fro withinas more of hisoff arht on, al1one, his clothing long since stained frothe atium lead him Yet, he froze, uncertain The creature behind him was no koloss It stood in a black robe, one eye socket e a spike that had been crushed back into its skull Elend could see straight into the eh the creature's head, and out the back

Marsh He had a cloud of atiu the metal too, and would be immune to Elend's own atiuh the tunnels They killed any person in their path

So They had been strong They were dead now

So that had controlled hier than the little wo This thing was stronger It was Ruin Human knew this

He could not resist He could only kill He cut down another hue open cha him, Ruin made him turn away and not kill them Not that Ruin didn't want hi else more

Human rushed forward He crawled over tu humans Other koloss followed hiotten There was only his overpowering desire to get to

A small room There In front of him Human threw open the doors Ruin yelled in pleasure as he entered this roo Ruin wanted