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He found hie all burned away at his guts, Gaius Octavian was same he kne to play

He altered his course abruptly, shooting straight up into the air The Queen ca, cyclonic roar

It took him only a moment to clear the ritualists'up red on the eastern horizon under a heavily clouded sky, painting the Calderon Valley in the colors of blood To his right, the Cani vord, though Varg and the infantry were loping swiftly toward the vast bank of ions Awakened vord ran amok by the thousands, and the coroup of vord who thought they ht attack the Canim infantry from the flanks while they hs of s drifted up to hied below him after several seconds The unblackened part of her body sported fresh black-edged acid marks, and her speed seelittered coldly, focused on Tavi and Tavi alone

Tavi felt the grin spreading wider across his face "All right If you want the Calderon Valley so badly, the least I can do is give you the tour"

He poured all his concentration and will into his windstream and shot off to the northwest, toward the thunderstorm-shrouded peak of Garados

Chapter 55~56

Chapter 55

Fidelias struggled to pull some semblance of order out of the battle's chaos Granted, battles were never orderly, tidy, or easily ed - but this one orse than most

With only minutes to prepare, and his army broken into separate elee thehe could do He'd marched the First Aleran out of the ruined steadholt and deployed the line around the steadholt's exterior, while ordering the healers, wounded, and medical personnel into the relative safety of the steadholt's great hall He'd placed the Free Alerans on the steadholt's flanks, intending to let his veteran troops take the brunt of the co assault, while the less-experienced freelers or ene his legionares into position - at ti about him with his fists rather than a baton - the Windwolves had nonchalantly swept doith their wind coaches as if this was simply another day in Alera Imperia

Fidelias directed Aldrick ex Gladius to the hive and left hiet the First Lady and company out of this disaster before the vord sed them whole He had just returned to the ireat stone barn, when soround and buzzing through the sky, all of the, sinuous sort of rhythht Aeris from the Free Aleran - all three of the ions, without the defenses to which they were accustoht fore The vord flung the shrieks

Men started dying