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The silence thickened

"We have to move, fast and hard," Tavi said "There are millions of lives at stake, and the eneoing to be in Calderon by to to find the vord Queen and pay the bitch back for what she did tonight"

Eighty men raised their voices in a sudden, furious roar of approval

"Schultz will give you your assignments," Tavi said "Get it done"

Another roar went up, and Schultz began striding down the ranks, striking eachthe name of an Aleran or Cani into the dark, and within nal to prepare to march

"Sir," Schultz said, after he'd sent the last of the ht make Calderon that fast But the Canim can't, sir, nor their beasts There's no way"

Tavi showed the legionare his most Canish smile "Faith, Schultz," he said "Where there's a will, there is a way And my will is for us all to be in Calderon by the sunrise after next"

Schultz blinked "Sir?"

"Get the rest of the 'Crows ready toall of us there? That's mine"

Chapter 45~46

Chapter 45

The vord came precisely when Invidia said they would Sunrise was still four hours away, and once the ht turned as black as the inside of a coffin

A to see if Invidia had spoken the truth There was no warning whatsoever In one ht was cole flicker of round illu black chitin of the horde exploded froround in the ru the still-scorched earth

They e of the lights, Aion could possibly have moved stealthily in such vast nuionares on the walls were ready and waiting

Hundreds of Citizens brought up the flickering curtain of fist-sized fire-spheres that had first been used at Riva It proved just as deadly to the foe here as it had at the great city Vord surged into the burned zone before the wall and were slain in blasts of fire and superheated air, atheir way The horde died by the hundreds, then the thousands, but as they had at Riva, the weight of nurind their way forward, scra a road of death and twitching li behind them