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Chapter 77 ~ When The Storms Converge

Author: Clinton Edits
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{3rd Person POV}

The first scout died without understanding what he’d seen.

He had been riding the eastern ridge at dawn, breath fogging in the cold, eyes trained on the horizon where the land dipped into shadow. For days, the Palace had expected Gregon’s forces from that direction— corrupters, rot, fire.

They were ready for that.

What they were not ready for was the west.

The scout slowed his mount, squinting.

Dust rose in the distance. Not the chaotic plume of a fleeing village or a scattered warband, but a disciplined line. Even from miles away, he could tell.

This wasn’t panic.

This was formation.

His stomach dropped.

He reached for the horn at his belt just as the wind shifted, and brought with it another scent. Eastward; Burning iron and blood soaked too deep into the soil to wash away.

His head snapped around.

The western horizon moved as well. Not shadows. Not mirages.

An army.

Two storms.

One from rot and hunger.

One from silence and steel.

The scout blew the horn once: hard,
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