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Grile, hard pushSari within the reach of his blade-and he was determined that no e alive

As he was about to screae

For the space of a breath, confusion turned the combat into a spastic, inexpert affair, as virtually everyone involved turned their gazes to the sky in shock For the first tiolden sun shone down upon the Eli-narch, the blazingly hot sun of a late-suh he kneould never be heard, Tavi screahts there letting out a sudden cry of mass effort, and unleashed upon the Canih not all of the Knights Aeris could fly well, their lack of ability was th Every Knight Aeris there had considerable power for other applications of windcrafting-and given how-basic this one was, they were ine as happening now, behind him and up on the walls and in the skies over the Elinarch Thirty Knights, all together, raised a far-viewing crafting of the kind nor only between their own hands, however, this crafting wasin tande a quarter of a athered in all of that sudden sunlight, shaping it, focusing it into a fiery streay only a few inches across that bore down directly upon Max

Tavi heard Max bellow, and hisup his own far-view crafting in a series of individual disks that curved and bent that light to flash down the length of the bridge's slope

To shape it into a weapon Precisely as Tavi had used his bit of curved Roer

The searing point of sunlight flashed across the bridge, and where it touched, raiders and ritualists screa and fur instantly burst into flalanced over his shoulder, and saw Max on the wall, are He cried out and that terrible light began sweeping over the Cani them as a scythe fells wheat A horrible stench-and an cacophony of infinitely hideous shrieks-filled the air

Back and forth flicked the light, deadly, precise, and there was nowhere for the Canile one of Tavi's labored heartbeats-and suddenly the tide of battle began to change The rift in the clouds widened, ht he could see the shadow of a single person high in the air, at the center of the clear area of sky

And, as the Caniain, not twenty feet away The ritualist stared upward for a second, then whirled to see his ar, burned to death before his very eyes He whirled around, naked terror on his face, as his final assault became a desperate rout The panicked raiders ran for their lives, trae in their effort to avoid the horrible, unexpected Aleran sorcery Those nearest the next wall h it in time

The rest died They died by fire, at the hands of their cory sea-beasts in the river below By the hundreds, by the thousands, they died

In seconds, only those Canim nearest the Aleran shieldwall, and therefore too close to the Alerans to be targeted, were still alive Those who attempted to flee were cut down by Antillar Maximus's deadly sunbeareater frenzy born of their despair and the death they knew had costaff, and when he looked back at Sari, he saw the Cane staring at him-then up at the sky overhead

Sari's eyes turned calculating, burning with rage andup precisely as it had the day before

Sari had to know that his life was over, and Tavi knew that Sari had plenty of ti once h the blast would be meant for him, anyone near hi struck Captain Cyril's coiven Lady Antillus's bloodstone to Crassus, so Tavi made the only choice he could