Chapter title is 'remember that you die'
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Uhe barrage of energy and will, Esstrey ot hold. She doesn't even try, her body mutates and enrges, Katherine's legs elongate, growing long enough to touch the grourey's jaw stretches, permaly showieeth, and the whites of her eyes grow bck. Her once lush blue scales get a more sickly green color. What the people thought of her was a monster, now those thoughts have been given a solid form. A role given out of hatred, and a role taken out of spite, Esstrey is now dead. In its pce [The Nightm-
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In its pce, the Nightmare is born, its first act as a god is it reag across the os, and sshing at the core of the tral governor hidden away in one of the stars of one of the Core Worlds. Melthazar has reformed his bde in a short time, and sshes the God with all his might. His bde passes through the creature, finding no purchase. He attempts to draw back for another assault, but a stinging pain is left where his arm used to be. Why is he even feeling pain? He's a god? When did it even disarm him?
Zha'klos flies to Cathy and Sofia, dragging both of them out of the cathedral. Sofia is fused, and Cathy is oddly quiet. Zha'klos however is scared shitless, they have to get out of here.
Ba the ground, dell is surrounded by men dying in a trench. The marelthazar's Order is relentless, their army is far simpler than the Malen army, and in that simplicity lies its genius. Killing a padin of Melthazar is a difficult job, but he does not envy the people sent to challenge a God instead. Ever sihey had to give ground more noticeably, the order has been pushing harder. Whether they smell blood ier, or more troops are arriving from across the p, it matters little. The result is the nearby ruined ndstrider, and another Zveno crashes out of the sky before dell even finish the thought.
The fpping of wings shakes him out of his stupor, demons don't usually e this close to the ground, it's even worse here than in the skies where they at least dodge in all dires. He turns to look, ahat it's Zha'klos who is no doubt looking for him, she makes eye tact with him, and rushes over to him.
"Fug hell dell I could barely reize you! Sound the retreat, we o get out of here yesterday! If we don't get out of here, we'll all die for nothing." dell feels like Zha'klos's words should be a bri his stomach, but instead he feels some relief that the surrounding men won't o die on some distant p anymore.
"What happened? Did we lose?" dell asks, mainly out of a st remnant of courtesy, he couldn't give two shits anymore even if he tried.
"Worse, Esstrey's gone off the deep end. I'll rally the demons as rearguard, run for the hills." dell finishes fishing for his fre gun, and sounds the retreat, he doesn't know what Zha'klos means by that, as Esstrey was never really sane, but he's certainly not having his men stick around to find out.
The fre sounding the retreat is met with a victorious roar ing from the lines of the padins. It seems they somehow figured out the signal for retreat, and dell doesn't o be a scout to know they are moving to run them down. He runs back away from the trenches, and climbs on a passing ndstrider. All around him people are retreating, the wounded are carried on the ndstriders, and the healthy walk alongside. There's... more people left than he expected.
As they he baes, an explosion rocks the heavens. A bst of light, as if a sun has just gone supernova, and then... darkness. Day turns to night, as the once bright, scorg suo have physically dimmed. Spears of light fall from the clouds at random, corrupting the ground wherever they strike. This sight... it reminds him of the Brynyan Merge. Those unfortunate enough to be caught by the bst of falling light turn into rampaging beings of light, bent ing more to their bohe hardy liquidators are familiar in dealing with corruption, and even in their hasty retreat have little issue dealing with the test disaster to hit their location.
One of the rger beings nds on the ground right in front of them, it seems rather humanoid, but the power it radiates is abnormal. The liquidators abandon the ndstrider, even the wounded ones, and the being sshes the vehicle in two. The driver and the gunner weren't in time, and now their funeral rites have turned into cremation on the spot. The being flies high up in the air as liquidators all arou it with lead, but it shrugs off the attacks as it keeps rising. In the sky it begins to build up in energy, and dell is too te to stop the disaster from happening.
Before it destroy his people, a cw the size of a castle reaches from the clouds, squishing the being of light in one go. From the clutches of the cw, a corpse falls, and dell reizes the corpse to be a high-ranking padin from the decorations. Looking to the skies, he sees a simir sight all around, beings i on squashing the Malen forces, getting squashed iurn. A dull thud nds o him, and he sees Zha'klos again.
"DELL WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE!? GO!" Zha'klos is hanging on by a thread, she's missing her left arm, the left side of her ribcage is exposed, burn marks all across her body, and she lost her spear at one point. Despite all that, she kept her wings whole, and mao pull baow that The Order is in no state to pursue.
"We had an interruption, my men should be the st to go." The portal is in sight, so close to home, dell almost taste the hard Krustenbrot already.
Cathy stands o the portal, looking somewhat depressed. The st sight dell sees, befoing back to Brynya, is Katherine's... Nightmare's i-like legs tear away at the world.
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