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Ironfist saw him, too, and put a blue spike in his skull Theinto musket teams," Ironfist said And the effect was al the best ave them fresh muskets, because both the rate and the accuracy of fire increased

A sea chariot driver just behind the the pipes wildly to one side Her chariot flipped, flinging her archer into the sea

"Guard overboard!" Kip cried

Ironfist’s and Gavin’s reaction was i a peak, they shot hard to starboard The skimmer flipped completely backward before they hit the next wave

All of thee in direction, but neither Gavin nor Ironfist slowed Kip thought he was going to tear the post behind hirenadoes froh arcs Then another

"Sub-red on any muskets you see, Kip!" Gavin shouted

They sped toward the swiot the reeds," Gavin said He took theht he was going too close, but as he popped over the last wave, Gavin turned slightly and they splashed barely a hand’s breadth frouard Ironfist reached down and between Ironfist’s strength and the Blackguard’s, the man popped out of the water in barely a second

Kip hadn’t seen what effect the grenadoes had on the deck, but the uns on a lower deck being turned toward theuards on their sea chariots had rallied around the red luxin everywhere, the yellows casting flashboregating in one sector was enough to encourage the cannoneers to turn the big guns

The screaer and the ent orders and the crackling of fireballs and the snapping of distantmortars and the snap of sails and the wash of the waves and hissing of the wind and the rew distant, hushed Kip could hear only the deep, slohoosh of his own heartbeat, ludicrously slow, and around and beneath that a sighing, like the beach when the tide goes out For a ht hit the waves

He saw one of the Blackguard archers drawing an arrow back The string touched her lips and the arrow leapt out at the very moment a musket ball tore her jaw off

Whoosh The world looked beyond real Kip realized he was seeing the whole spectruuns The skiantua And he could see the glow of leaunports, could see straight through the smoke

He swept a hand out and fanned superviolet strands like spiderwebs out to every gun and barrel he could see The superviolet was so fast and light, it hit its targets almost the instant he chose the little bursts of firecrystals so hot they burned his hand even as he shot theh hi whoosh of his heartbeat rolled through his ears

Struck by the firecrystals, every loaded antua went off at once Cannons that were in theloaded went off,over with ra handed up to ed yet, and Kip felt vexed Others, though, had been fully loaded but not yet pushed back into place, and they blew holes out of the sides of the gun decks

The entire ship was rocked to the side from the simultaneous concussive force

Not bad

And then, on three different gun decks, powder barrels exploded Flames and smoke and wood and cannons and men and parts of men blasted fresh holes in every deck