Book 7, Chapter 112-1 - Merciless Chaos
“What happened?”
Dawn heard an impact nearby the capital’s center. They couldn’t afford to ignore any potential threat, so she rushed to the scene as quickly as possible.
She came upon a hole one hundred meters across. Scores of trees had been splintered and flattened by whatever happened. Only, there wasn’t anything there. The hole was empty. It looked like something had impacted here, but she had no idea what.
“How did this happen?” She was surprised and confused, but thankfully no one had been hurt.
Cloudhawk’s plan had gone perfectly, lucky for him. One misstep and he could have been seriously wounded, even killed. As he cut down the Supreme within Chaos, his allies were still battling it from outside.
They watched as a spectral body was flung from the beast. Headless, a tail of green flame followed its descent. Nothing – not even a god – could survive such injuries.
A flash of light and Cloudhawk stood by their side once again.
Cracks were visible on the front and back of his armor. Wounds leaked thick blood. But the hand that gripped half the god’s ghostly head held it tight.
“Hah!”
“That’s our leader. You killed it!”
Everyone had seen Cloudhawk blink into the body of this monster to do battle with the god. Through strength and courage he had prevailed, a miracle only Cloudhawk could pull off. Others might have the Daring to try, but only their leader was strong enough to succeed.
“Can we get it under control now?” Cloudhawk’s breath was a little strained. The fight had taken a lot out of him. “We need to stop it!”
The Supreme inside Chaos had been eliminated. Like a truck without its driver, they should expect it to cease its attacks.
“I’m afraid it’s not that easy.” Legion’s discouraging words were confirmed when Chaos began to change. All the dark clouds and mist gathered close around it and the hulking behemoth began to shrink.
The sudden collapse of space caused everything to be pulled toward it. Nearby mountains were uprooted and boulders were drawn high into the air. Everything was being drawn inexplicably toward a dark center as though a black hole had opened up over the wastes.
“Fall back!”
Cloudhawk’s body flickered as his spatial powers extended, teleporting him and the others a safe distance.
Thankfully the intense gravitational pull didn’t last very long. After two minutes, Chaos had compressed from the size of an island to the size of a small hill twenty or thirty meters tall. It also abandoned the tentacle form from previously and adopted something new.
Phoenix glared at their foe. “What the hell is it doing?”
From their vantage everyone could see the area of earth beneath Chaos that had been ripped into the sky. Something lay within now, a strange creature in the deepest part of the five-hundred meter deep crater. It slowly raised to its feet – yes, feet. It had the torso and limbs of a humanoid but four horns jutting from its head. Its skin was black as pitch but for a faint glow beneath the folds. Within the eyes, ears and nostrils was a storm of energy ready to be released.
“As expected.” Legion regarded the beast. “Chaos has changed forms.”
Chaos could always take whatever form it pleased. Now it chose to look like its attackers. In this new skin it lost the ability to traverse space, but gained increased speed, power and combat ability.
Cloudhawk was puzzled. “How could it have a physical form like this?”
“Chaos has many forms. The tentacle monstrosity is suitable for movement and combat in the vacuum of space. It materializes on the planet’s surface to adapt to its surroundings. You managed to kill the spirit controlling it, but you have not stopped Chaos yet. It is now free of its masters and acts on instinct alone.”
Cloudhawk had assumed without a driver Chaos would cease to fight. Instead this fucking thing just kept trucking along!
Still, without the gods’ direct control Chaos was relying on its own lacking intelligence. Now that it had taken physical form that meant it could be killed, as opposed to the quantum cloud it was before.
Cloudhawk waved everyone forward. “With me!”
Thirty warriors attacked Chaos in unison. They tore across the landscape and down into the crater with their relics bursting to life. A brutal series of attacks slammed into Chaos before it regained its footing.
Autumn unleashed her full power, lashing at her foe with countless vines. They wrapped up the ten meter tall monster like a dumpling. After absorbing the Cloud God’s power, she had become one of Greenland’s strongest protectors.
Torrents of sand poured from Abaddon and coated the vines. Governor Pelagius and other Elysian leaders unleashed any control measures they possessed. Under a barrage of constraints, Chaos was held fast for the moment.
“Now’s the moment. Kill it!” Frost launched himself at chaos with Ashfall held high, screaming toward him like a meteor.
Legion attacked from behind with a thrust from the Blade of Oblivion. Phoenix, meanwhile, launched her assault head on with two flaming fists. She crashed into Chaos at nearly thirty times the speed of sound.
The rest of the team followed, utilizing every tool at their disposal.
“AARRGHHOOORRGH!!!”
Chaos unleashed a deafening roar of fury. It slammed a fist into the earth that caused it to buckle another several dozen meters. Rock was superheated for a thousand meters all around and turned the crater into a lake of lava. All of the vines around it broke apart.
With a deft step to the side it avoided Ashfall and grabbed at LEgion with its left hand. With its right it struck back at Phoenix. All other attacks were completely ignored as they drilled into its body.
Phoenix was the first one to make contact. She slammed right into Chaos’ fist and went spinning backward in a spray of blood. Her nearly immortal body was nearly broken by the strike.
Its left hand then reached for Legion. The Elder juked away and hit the monster with his sword. It released its terrible power all at once, carving a wound in its palm. It was the only attack that managed to cause any damage.
Chaos belched another earth-shuddering scream.
The strange lines all over its body glowed brighter before a supersonic wave of force burst from it. Everyone – Legion included – was blasted away as though struck by a tidal wave and smashed into the ground.
By now Chaos had risen to its full height. The wound in its left hand was quickly healing. It towered over the humans. An ominous scene – there was no question that this was one of Sumeru’s most terrible weapons.
One of these monsters could wipe out a planet and all life on it. Its energy was inexhaustible and with a single punch it could liquefy rock. Phoenix and others, the best of humanity, were powerless. With a stomp of its feet it spawned earthquakes. What few things could wound it were rendered impotent by its healing abilities.
There was nothing they could do.
After swatting away these irritating gnats, Chaos did not elect to finish them off. Instead, with a gentle leap, it exited the crater and landed a thousand meters away.
Boom - - -!
A section of mountain range fell apart in a landslide. Chaos ran a few steps and leaped again, soaring several kilometers before disappearing across the horizon at frightening speed.
“It’s headed for Southern Capital!”
Cloudhawk immediately knew the monster’s intentions. It wanted to destroy the city and everything Cloudhawk had built. It was going to decimate humanity’s defensive line.
Book 7, Chapter 112-2 - Drawn Away
Chaos was not intelligent, but that hardly meant it wasn’t a threat. It was Sumeru’s preeminent biological weapon with the power to eliminate an entire planet, leap dozens of kilometers, never tire and heal any injury.
It was a world-ender.
Adopting a physical form, the beast had improved combat abilities. It fought according to the skills of its enemies, with many tools to undermine their strengths. Furthermore, its body changes with the environment so that no terrain was a disadvantage. Chaos was an almost perfect killing machine.
If Cloudhawk didn’t stop it, Southern Capital was doomed.
However fighting into the capital would not be easy, even for this beast. The city was protected by five layers of defense. Under direction from the gods Chaos had only broken through the first. Several more still remained.
Cloudhawk gathered his people and teleported to the boundary. Chaos was fast, they only had fifteen minutes or so to prepare.
“I can’t believe this thing’s so tough!”
“This old man has never seen anything so terrible in all my life.”
Every one of Cloudhawk’s team was injured in some fashion. Phoenix was especially maimed after her clash with Chaos, nursing broken bones and lacerated organs. Luckily her relic was designed exactly for this and was keeping her alive. However, at least for the time being, she couldn’t join the fight. Even with the body of the War God, Legion only barely managed to protect himself from the monster. Everyone was suffering some harm from the exchange, but the ones Cloudhawk had brought with him were not common warriors. In a couple minutes they were stable and ready for round two.
“Now is no time to complain. If anyone has a lock on the thing tell me where it is.”
“Allow me.” A Master Demonhunter from Highmorn stepped forward. “I am Toroa Wiater [1]. My specialty is in tracking. Since I have fought this creature I will be able to know its location, no matter the distance.”
Cloudhawk knew a little about Toroa. Anyone who reached the rank of Master Demonhunter had an area of expertise. He was average in a fight, but peerless when it came to hunting down a target.
“Well Master Toroa, it’s up to you.”
“Say no more.”
Toroa produced a small mirror. When released from his grip it floated up and hovered above the Master’s head. A strong light reflected off its surface and fired off in the direction of their foe. They could see it fixate on some unseen thing in the distance and move with it.
“There,” Toroa confirmed.
Now that they knew where it was, Cloudhawk calculated what was in the monster’s range. It was enough information for him to activate the Eye of Time and see where Chaos would strike.
“Chaos is too strong for us to try and just beat down. We have to use home turf to our advantage. Block it with the boundary enchantments and use the psionic towers to give yourselves a boost. We have to stop it here, we can’t let it get any farther in.”
Cloudhawk picked where they would make their stand. A hundred airships were dispatched to the area as backup. Hovering a thousand feet overhead, they were reasonably protected from danger.
They weren’t just there to participate in the fight or offer support. Against a monster like Chaos most of their weapons were useless anyway. Throwing them directly into the fray would cause meaningless casualties.
Instead, every ship was equipped with a psionic tower. Belial’s inventions amplified mental ability, making Cloudhawk and his allies much more effective on the battlefield. They also lowered the rate of mental exhaustion. Enough of them could turn the tide of battle.
Chaos was brutal and extremely dangerous, however, and prone to explode. They couldn’t get mired in a long fight. The monster had to be dealt with as quickly as possible.
Cloudhawk helped his companies recover from their injuries. “Well Elder, what’s the plan?”
“No matter how mighty one’s enemies, everyone has a weak point. Chaos is no exception. In this form our ordinary strength will not be enough to stop it, but we can destroy it.” Legion explained, “In physical form Chaos must have a core. It is the center of its will – the same as any other living thing’s brain. Destroy the brain and we destroy the beast.”
“Where is the core supposed to be?”
“I am unsure. More than likely it moves. The gods manufactured this weapon and know its weakness. It could not be made perfect, but the gods could at least make the weakness difficult to exploit.”
The core of Chaos was packed into a small orb and could be anywhere within the monster’s body. It’s head, chest, leg, arm or hand… to stop Chaos they had to locate and destroy this elusive core. Of course, thanks in part to the monster’s high rate of healing this would not be easy.
As everyone was pondering the best plan forward, the creature appeared on the horizon. With every leap the ten meter tall monster drew closer.
Boom!
It landed with thunderous force. Fissures split the ground from its point of impact, slithering through a number of hills and valleys. A number of muttered curses followed. The damn thing was too fast, they had only just caught their breath.
“Alright everyone. Time to get to work.” Cloudhawk drew himself up. “Whatever happens we stop it here.”
Chaos was charging ever forward. With its limited intelligence it didn’t know what it was running into, so it slammed head first into the energy shield blocking its path. Everything shook as though the heavens had come crashing down – but the barrier held. Chaos was flung backward with a terrible explosion.
With a roar of fury, Chaos released a column of destructive energy at the barrier. But again it failed to break through. The earth shook in protest.
Cloudhawk sighed in relief. Now in physical form, Chaos couldn’t just slip through their protections any longer. They could hold the monster in this spot and stop it from pushing further into Greenland. Of course that was assuming Chaos didn’t change back to a quantum state.
**
At the same time, atop the Source mountain.
Selene, Belial and others peered toward the horizon with pensive expressions. Their area was encapsulated in a dedicated energy shield and scores of elite soldiers were posted here as defenders of the southern wastes. IF anything happened to this mountain the consequences were unthinkable.
As Selene peered out into the distance with an alert gaze, the hulking white creature by her side released a low growl. Anima, defender of Skylcoud’s Temple, had bound to Selene after she became the Avatar. IT had remained obediently by her side ever since.
Rarely did it go outside. Most often it serves as protector back in Southern Capital or other important places. This was because of its peculiar ability to sense imminent danger. Anima warned them that something was amiss.
“Is an enemy near? From where?”
Selene scanned the area but said nothing. It was then she heard the explosion. By the time she turned toward it Janus and her team of assassins had arrived to deliver their report.
“Two Supremes have appeared near the mountain.”
“Supremes? Here?” Selene felt like something had a cold grip on her heart. “How did they get through the shields? We have to stop them.”
How had they gotten so close to the Source mountain without anyone knowing? There was no indication that something had broken past their defenses.
Chaos was supposed to be their primary gambit. But here they were, in this critical location. Selene couldn’t afford to be careless, she was here because Cloudhawk made her responsible for the safety of their back line. If Chaos was just a diversion, Selene and her team were the only ones standing between them and Southern Capital!
1. ‘Reaching wind’. Toroa is Maori for albatros, reaching out. Wiater is a polish name meaning ‘fast as the wind.’
Book 7, Chapter 112-1 - Merciless Chaos
“What happened?”
Dawn heard an impact nearby the capital’s center. They couldn’t afford to ignore any potential threat, so she rushed to the scene as quickly as possible.
She came upon a hole one hundred meters across. Scores of trees had been splintered and flattened by whatever happened. Only, there wasn’t anything there. The hole was empty. It looked like something had impacted here, but she had no idea what.
“How did this happen?” She was surprised and confused, but thankfully no one had been hurt.
Cloudhawk’s plan had gone perfectly, lucky for him. One misstep and he could have been seriously wounded, even killed. As he cut down the Supreme within Chaos, his allies were still battling it from outside.
They watched as a spectral body was flung from the beast. Headless, a tail of green flame followed its descent. Nothing – not even a god – could survive such injuries.
A flash of light and Cloudhawk stood by their side once again.
Cracks were visible on the front and back of his armor. Wounds leaked thick blood. But the hand that gripped half the god’s ghostly head held it tight.
“Hah!”
“That’s our leader. You killed it!”
Everyone had seen Cloudhawk blink into the body of this monster to do battle with the god. Through strength and courage he had prevailed, a miracle only Cloudhawk could pull off. Others might have the Daring to try, but only their leader was strong enough to succeed.
“Can we get it under control now?” Cloudhawk’s breath was a little strained. The fight had taken a lot out of him. “We need to stop it!”
The Supreme inside Chaos had been eliminated. Like a truck without its driver, they should expect it to cease its attacks.
“I’m afraid it’s not that easy.” Legion’s discouraging words were confirmed when Chaos began to change. All the dark clouds and mist gathered close around it and the hulking behemoth began to shrink.
The sudden collapse of space caused everything to be pulled toward it. Nearby mountains were uprooted and boulders were drawn high into the air. Everything was being drawn inexplicably toward a dark center as though a black hole had opened up over the wastes.
“Fall back!”
Cloudhawk’s body flickered as his spatial powers extended, teleporting him and the others a safe distance.
Thankfully the intense gravitational pull didn’t last very long. After two minutes, Chaos had compressed from the size of an island to the size of a small hill twenty or thirty meters tall. It also abandoned the tentacle form from previously and adopted something new.
Phoenix glared at their foe. “What the hell is it doing?”
From their vantage everyone could see the area of earth beneath Chaos that had been ripped into the sky. Something lay within now, a strange creature in the deepest part of the five-hundred meter deep crater. It slowly raised to its feet – yes, feet. It had the torso and limbs of a humanoid but four horns jutting from its head. Its skin was black as pitch but for a faint glow beneath the folds. Within the eyes, ears and nostrils was a storm of energy ready to be released.
“As expected.” Legion regarded the beast. “Chaos has changed forms.”
Chaos could always take whatever form it pleased. Now it chose to look like its attackers. In this new skin it lost the ability to traverse space, but gained increased speed, power and combat ability.
Cloudhawk was puzzled. “How could it have a physical form like this?”
“Chaos has many forms. The tentacle monstrosity is suitable for movement and combat in the vacuum of space. It materializes on the planet’s surface to adapt to its surroundings. You managed to kill the spirit controlling it, but you have not stopped Chaos yet. It is now free of its masters and acts on instinct alone.”
Cloudhawk had assumed without a driver Chaos would cease to fight. Instead this fucking thing just kept trucking along!
Still, without the gods’ direct control Chaos was relying on its own lacking intelligence. Now that it had taken physical form that meant it could be killed, as opposed to the quantum cloud it was before.
Cloudhawk waved everyone forward. “With me!”
Thirty warriors attacked Chaos in unison. They tore across the landscape and down into the crater with their relics bursting to life. A brutal series of attacks slammed into Chaos before it regained its footing.
Autumn unleashed her full power, lashing at her foe with countless vines. They wrapped up the ten meter tall monster like a dumpling. After absorbing the Cloud God’s power, she had become one of Greenland’s strongest protectors.
Torrents of sand poured from Abaddon and coated the vines. Governor Pelagius and other Elysian leaders unleashed any control measures they possessed. Under a barrage of constraints, Chaos was held fast for the moment.
“Now’s the moment. Kill it!” Frost launched himself at chaos with Ashfall held high, screaming toward him like a meteor.
Legion attacked from behind with a thrust from the Blade of Oblivion. Phoenix, meanwhile, launched her assault head on with two flaming fists. She crashed into Chaos at nearly thirty times the speed of sound.
The rest of the team followed, utilizing every tool at their disposal.
“AARRGHHOOORRGH!!!”
Chaos unleashed a deafening roar of fury. It slammed a fist into the earth that caused it to buckle another several dozen meters. Rock was superheated for a thousand meters all around and turned the crater into a lake of lava. All of the vines around it broke apart.
With a deft step to the side it avoided Ashfall and grabbed at LEgion with its left hand. With its right it struck back at Phoenix. All other attacks were completely ignored as they drilled into its body.
Phoenix was the first one to make contact. She slammed right into Chaos’ fist and went spinning backward in a spray of blood. Her nearly immortal body was nearly broken by the strike.
Its left hand then reached for Legion. The Elder juked away and hit the monster with his sword. It released its terrible power all at once, carving a wound in its palm. It was the only attack that managed to cause any damage.
Chaos belched another earth-shuddering scream.
The strange lines all over its body glowed brighter before a supersonic wave of force burst from it. Everyone – Legion included – was blasted away as though struck by a tidal wave and smashed into the ground.
By now Chaos had risen to its full height. The wound in its left hand was quickly healing. It towered over the humans. An ominous scene – there was no question that this was one of Sumeru’s most terrible weapons.
One of these monsters could wipe out a planet and all life on it. Its energy was inexhaustible and with a single punch it could liquefy rock. Phoenix and others, the best of humanity, were powerless. With a stomp of its feet it spawned earthquakes. What few things could wound it were rendered impotent by its healing abilities.
There was nothing they could do.
After swatting away these irritating gnats, Chaos did not elect to finish them off. Instead, with a gentle leap, it exited the crater and landed a thousand meters away.
Boom - - -!
A section of mountain range fell apart in a landslide. Chaos ran a few steps and leaped again, soaring several kilometers before disappearing across the horizon at frightening speed.
“It’s headed for Southern Capital!”
Cloudhawk immediately knew the monster’s intentions. It wanted to destroy the city and everything Cloudhawk had built. It was going to decimate humanity’s defensive line.
Book 7, Chapter 112-2 - Drawn Away
Chaos was not intelligent, but that hardly meant it wasn’t a threat. It was Sumeru’s preeminent biological weapon with the power to eliminate an entire planet, leap dozens of kilometers, never tire and heal any injury.
It was a world-ender.
Adopting a physical form, the beast had improved combat abilities. It fought according to the skills of its enemies, with many tools to undermine their strengths. Furthermore, its body changes with the environment so that no terrain was a disadvantage. Chaos was an almost perfect killing machine.
If Cloudhawk didn’t stop it, Southern Capital was doomed.
However fighting into the capital would not be easy, even for this beast. The city was protected by five layers of defense. Under direction from the gods Chaos had only broken through the first. Several more still remained.
Cloudhawk gathered his people and teleported to the boundary. Chaos was fast, they only had fifteen minutes or so to prepare.
“I can’t believe this thing’s so tough!”
“This old man has never seen anything so terrible in all my life.”
Every one of Cloudhawk’s team was injured in some fashion. Phoenix was especially maimed after her clash with Chaos, nursing broken bones and lacerated organs. Luckily her relic was designed exactly for this and was keeping her alive. However, at least for the time being, she couldn’t join the fight. Even with the body of the War God, Legion only barely managed to protect himself from the monster. Everyone was suffering some harm from the exchange, but the ones Cloudhawk had brought with him were not common warriors. In a couple minutes they were stable and ready for round two.
“Now is no time to complain. If anyone has a lock on the thing tell me where it is.”
“Allow me.” A Master Demonhunter from Highmorn stepped forward. “I am Toroa Wiater [1]. My specialty is in tracking. Since I have fought this creature I will be able to know its location, no matter the distance.”
Cloudhawk knew a little about Toroa. Anyone who reached the rank of Master Demonhunter had an area of expertise. He was average in a fight, but peerless when it came to hunting down a target.
“Well Master Toroa, it’s up to you.”
“Say no more.”
Toroa produced a small mirror. When released from his grip it floated up and hovered above the Master’s head. A strong light reflected off its surface and fired off in the direction of their foe. They could see it fixate on some unseen thing in the distance and move with it.
“There,” Toroa confirmed.
Now that they knew where it was, Cloudhawk calculated what was in the monster’s range. It was enough information for him to activate the Eye of Time and see where Chaos would strike.
“Chaos is too strong for us to try and just beat down. We have to use home turf to our advantage. Block it with the boundary enchantments and use the psionic towers to give yourselves a boost. We have to stop it here, we can’t let it get any farther in.”
Cloudhawk picked where they would make their stand. A hundred airships were dispatched to the area as backup. Hovering a thousand feet overhead, they were reasonably protected from danger.
They weren’t just there to participate in the fight or offer support. Against a monster like Chaos most of their weapons were useless anyway. Throwing them directly into the fray would cause meaningless casualties.
Instead, every ship was equipped with a psionic tower. Belial’s inventions amplified mental ability, making Cloudhawk and his allies much more effective on the battlefield. They also lowered the rate of mental exhaustion. Enough of them could turn the tide of battle.
Chaos was brutal and extremely dangerous, however, and prone to explode. They couldn’t get mired in a long fight. The monster had to be dealt with as quickly as possible.
Cloudhawk helped his companies recover from their injuries. “Well Elder, what’s the plan?”
“No matter how mighty one’s enemies, everyone has a weak point. Chaos is no exception. In this form our ordinary strength will not be enough to stop it, but we can destroy it.” Legion explained, “In physical form Chaos must have a core. It is the center of its will – the same as any other living thing’s brain. Destroy the brain and we destroy the beast.”
“Where is the core supposed to be?”
“I am unsure. More than likely it moves. The gods manufactured this weapon and know its weakness. It could not be made perfect, but the gods could at least make the weakness difficult to exploit.”
The core of Chaos was packed into a small orb and could be anywhere within the monster’s body. It’s head, chest, leg, arm or hand… to stop Chaos they had to locate and destroy this elusive core. Of course, thanks in part to the monster’s high rate of healing this would not be easy.
As everyone was pondering the best plan forward, the creature appeared on the horizon. With every leap the ten meter tall monster drew closer.
Boom!
It landed with thunderous force. Fissures split the ground from its point of impact, slithering through a number of hills and valleys. A number of muttered curses followed. The damn thing was too fast, they had only just caught their breath.
“Alright everyone. Time to get to work.” Cloudhawk drew himself up. “Whatever happens we stop it here.”
Chaos was charging ever forward. With its limited intelligence it didn’t know what it was running into, so it slammed head first into the energy shield blocking its path. Everything shook as though the heavens had come crashing down – but the barrier held. Chaos was flung backward with a terrible explosion.
With a roar of fury, Chaos released a column of destructive energy at the barrier. But again it failed to break through. The earth shook in protest.
Cloudhawk sighed in relief. Now in physical form, Chaos couldn’t just slip through their protections any longer. They could hold the monster in this spot and stop it from pushing further into Greenland. Of course that was assuming Chaos didn’t change back to a quantum state.
**
At the same time, atop the Source mountain.
Selene, Belial and others peered toward the horizon with pensive expressions. Their area was encapsulated in a dedicated energy shield and scores of elite soldiers were posted here as defenders of the southern wastes. IF anything happened to this mountain the consequences were unthinkable.
As Selene peered out into the distance with an alert gaze, the hulking white creature by her side released a low growl. Anima, defender of Skylcoud’s Temple, had bound to Selene after she became the Avatar. IT had remained obediently by her side ever since.
Rarely did it go outside. Most often it serves as protector back in Southern Capital or other important places. This was because of its peculiar ability to sense imminent danger. Anima warned them that something was amiss.
“Is an enemy near? From where?”
Selene scanned the area but said nothing. It was then she heard the explosion. By the time she turned toward it Janus and her team of assassins had arrived to deliver their report.
“Two Supremes have appeared near the mountain.”
“Supremes? Here?” Selene felt like something had a cold grip on her heart. “How did they get through the shields? We have to stop them.”
How had they gotten so close to the Source mountain without anyone knowing? There was no indication that something had broken past their defenses.
Chaos was supposed to be their primary gambit. But here they were, in this critical location. Selene couldn’t afford to be careless, she was here because Cloudhawk made her responsible for the safety of their back line. If Chaos was just a diversion, Selene and her team were the only ones standing between them and Southern Capital!
1. ‘Reaching wind’. Toroa is Maori for albatros, reaching out. Wiater is a polish name meaning ‘fast as the wind.’
