Chapter 255 - Weakness (2/2)
In his standard display of disinterest the oldof alcohol “Really, what are you worrying about kid You think if you can see the clues General Skye will miss them?”
That was true While it was easy for people in the thick of it to s, standard tactics like this weren’t beyond the General’s ability to see through He reat leaders, but no one would dare assume he was easy to fool He was shrewder than most
Cloudhawk shook his head “It doesn’t o, we still need to find Drake”
Dawn stole a glance toward the old drunk She still wasn’t sure about who he really was Could he actually be the old War Saint? What would turn such a noble man into… this? If he wasn’t the War Saint, then hoas he so good at Templar martial techniques?
Each of the techniques as they traveled toward the front lines By now the benefits were starting to show They felt ile, especially when it came to body control even oncredence to the old man’s skill
And whoever the old drunk was, he illing to follow Cloudhawk around for the ti name for the Polaris family At least for now, it looked like his presence would also include this strange but capable old man If he chose to remain with the family under Cloudhawk’s command, it would be an incredible boon for the Polaris clan
“We’re close to the front”
Cloudhawk stared toward the horizon, calculating the distance yet to travel He figured they were still about a day out
It was probably the last ti to stop and search for clues The front was bound to be mired in chaos, with hundreds of shi+ps and tens of thousands of soldiers fighting for their lives It was likely the Crimson One and his closest lieutenants would be there as well Trying to erous, they had to be careful
“Move out”
The others nodded and started heading back to the shi+p And then, suddenly, everyone looked up toward a streak blazing stars trailing into the distance
“What’s that?”
Everyone fixed their eyes on the scene, and by then the twinkling lights had filled nearly the entire pre-dawn sky They couldn’t be stars, besides they were h his connection with Oddball and borrowed the critter’s sharp eyesight When he sahat it was, his face blanched “Abandon shi+p! Everyone needs to abandon shi+p!”
Too late!
Dozens of… so tails of fire in their wake, carved a path through the black sky They split the darkness like a hot knife before s into the airshi+p overhead The projectiles were small but shook the whole vessel from the i explosion boomed across the barren landscape as their means of escape was blown to pieces like it was an to tuh the ruins and caused the debris to shi+ft Half-toppled buildings fell fro metal fell from the sky the land all around Cloudhawk suddenly becahtmare
The world turned red
“They blew up our shi+p!” Daas ers wrapped around the hilt of her weapon and ripped it frolared in the direction the attack had come from “Who’s the bastard that dared destroy my shi+p?! I’ll cut them to pieces!”
Cloudhawk tried to talk the rash wo off!”
Barb and the old man stood to one side, faces stern The shi+ps burned and crashed to ground over the next several minutes
Shortly after the air was filled with raucous sound Fifty or sixty wastelands shi+ps appeared on the horizon, heavily outfitted for coether specifically to deal with the expeditionary force’s arht of the fires danced in the drunk’s craggy face He stared at the shi+ps as they traversed the earlysky “These don’t look like the Crimson One’s men”
“No This is the Dark Atom”
“The Dark Atoanization?
The battle of the Blisterpeaks was Skycloud’s most costly defeat in hundreds of years Everyone had been distracted by the Conclave’s meteoric rise over the last several ht froreatest Seeker cell in the wastelands no one dared doubt the destructive capabilities of the Dark Atoment?
It was the reason they didn’t join when the Church established its wasteland alliance But fro overhead, it was clear Skycloud’s perennial foes had returned
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2 She wanted hi else, hey hey hey
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