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Rivik laughed louder "We’ve gotta remeine if we could break one of those pots in Draef’s roo ooze from his face It was five minutes before he stood up, but when he did, it ith alacrity In the fear and in theof fear, he had almost missed it The newest concubine could only be one woman His future as at the top of Bertold’s Tower, and she was in danger

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The pit wyrreat as tubular, at least ten feet in diah the gaps When it lunged, its great bulk heaved forward and its entire eyeless front opened as it vo snapped out Each ring was circled with teeth, and when the third ring caught a tree, teeth the size of Kylar’s forearm whipped around into the wood The pit wyr as the rings bit into the wood in turn, shearing a ten-foot section out of the tree trunk before Kylar landed

Instantly, the pit wyrreat a ather itself to strike like a serpent, but moved instead as if this were but one head or arer creature crouched on the other side of that hole Again, it went for Kylar

He flipped through the air as the tree the pit wyr up dust in the rabbed a tree and spun, the ka’kari giving hih to sink into the bark and throw him back over the pit wyrm’s back His sword flashed as he flew over the pit wyrm, but the blade bounced off the ar white in the corner of Kylar’s eye He dropped to the forest floor and saw it: a tiny white ho at Kylar under an enormous nose It clawed at Kylar’s face

Kylar blocked The homunculus’s talons sank sain even as Feir ha no da the wyrm The pit wyrm couldn’t be distracted, wouldn’t stop until it reached its target

Its target wasn’t Kylar It was the homunculus

Kylar dropped the sword and flipped once ers and toes sinking into the wood The pit wyrround, the cone of teeth slapping around the ho of teeth slapped forward, devouring the white creature and everything around it The pit wyrh the air Satisfied, it began to slide back into whatever hell it had been called fro the creature For soe struck again, a hty hammer bloith no effect

By the time Kylar’s eyes found the real reason the pit wyrh its body He was hacking at it near the hole in reality But he wasn’t hacking Wherever Garuwashi cut with Ceur’caelestos, the pit wyr The look on the sa’ceurai’s face told Kylar that thethe world’s best sword, facing ahis purpose

Garuwashi’s sword moved with Garuwashi’s speed In two seconds, he had cut through the entire pit wyrm The thirty-foot section of wyrm crashed to the forest floor, thrashed once, and then broke apart in quivering red and black clu was left The stump writhed bloodlessly until Garuwashi slashed it with six slices in blinding succession and whatever was controlling it yanked it back into hell

Kylar sprang off the tree and landed ten paces froht a pit wyrm, the sa’ceurai couldn’t have known that they didn’t just appear; they had to be called He let down his guard

The big-nosed V&uu out froreen flaht Ceur’caelestos up, but he wasn’t prepared for what happened when that sword caic