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Around the spheres of Letherii h ranks of Tiste Edur, devouring shadoraiths by the hundreds One landed in the midst of a co the Kenryll’ah coround towards the rise to the west of the e to oppose it as it swept up the slope, and struck the encampment of the Edur woered in that direction, but Ahlrada Ahn dragged hi now but bones, spun in the sky above the hills The Merchants’ Battalion The Riven Brigade The Snakebelt Battalion The King’s Battalion All those lives Gone

And the colu, each one on an independent path, eastward and ard, plunging into the panicked ranks of , the appetite insatiable

War? This is not war -

‘We’reforward!’

Trull stared at Ahlrada Ahn

The warrior shook hiar!’

Udinaas watched the deadly sorcery cut through the shadoraiths, then roll towards the rise where he stood with Feather Witch There was nowhere to run No time It was perfect-

A cold wind swept over hi forward, colliding with the Letheriilike a net, trapping the wild fire Then shadow and flame vanished

Udinaas turned

Uruth and four other Edur wo in a line fifteen paces back As he stared, two of the women toppled, and Udinaas could see that they were dead, the blood boiled in their veins Uruth staggered, then slowly sank to her knees

All right, not so perfect

He faced the battlefield oncehis warriors across the blistered, lifeless basin The enemy positions on the hillsides opposite looked virtually e Or, rather, slaughter Where the pillars had yet to stalk, Letherii lines had broken of their own accord, and soldiers were fleeing, even as Soletaken Jheck dragged theround, as demons ran them down, and squads of Edur pursued with frenzied deterully had been overrun To the west, the Cri’s terrible sorcery continued to rage, and Udinaas began to suspect that it was, like the Letheriisround, earth and stones spinning ever higher Two bone-shot columns clashed near as left of Brans Lake, and seemed to lock in mutual obliteration that sent thunderous concussions that visibly battered the hills beyond Then they tore each other apart

The bases of round, and this triggered an upward plunge that ended in their dissolution into white and grey clouds