Chapter 696 - Book 6, Chapter 88 (1/2)
Book 6, Chapter 88 – Raid on the Temple
“Ash is dead”
The Avatar sat within the Te black hair, snohite clothes, silvery eyes and beautiful face
She spoke the words with cal far away But the faces of Lucian, Bruno and Phoenix changed They'd suspected Ash wouldn't be able to stop Cloudhawk, but his death came much quicker than expected
“Skycloud's defensive line is broken For our safety we ine and retreat from the battlefield”
Visions danced across Selene's visions She kneas to come Cloudhawk and the Cloud God would lead a teaht would ensue between the Avatar forces who lay in ah, then split into four groups and make for the focus devices
The Avatar's mastery of the flows of tie at her disposal it was already a great advantage to her people She kneould break through, with how ets As such she kne to respond
Not long ago Selene had ordered Bruno to gather the real his dih to spread the enchantment across the whole of Skycloud No, the true heart of the realm was its Temple
The purpose of the foci were to spread out and stabilize the power of the Teies were constant Rather than produce the power Skycloud relied on, they served to utilize and recycle it
Once the Cloud God joined the hu in Skycloud was no longer feasible
Several years ago, Adder had used a nuclear weapon to destroy the stability Skycloud's enchantment Cloudhawk and the Cloud God seek to do ht was no erous
Skycloud was being abandoned, but its focus devices retrieved Shrunk to eable proportions, the field could be maintained easily around the Temple The benefits of such a decision were clear
First, it meant their defenses were sturdier and y field made it more potent
With the field only around the Tey they needed for so like a defensive barrier or to escape fro now
The Temple floated over the city because it was equipped with an anti-gravity engine The Avatar orderedthe Teher The aim was to not only escape Skycloud, but the entire atmosphere She wanted the Temple to rise into outer space No airshi+p – be they Elysian or wastelander – could reach them there
The Temple couldn't ravity engine it was capable of escaping earth's atot ninety percent of the way there, not enough atet close The Green Alliance efforts would fail
Once it shed earth's gravity and rose into space, the Te space vessel Once the energy field reached critical mass they could then open the Boundary Portal and no one would be able to stop them All they had to do was take care of Cloudhawk and his team, then victory was assured
The Avatar had prepared a nuuests She knew exactly the path he would take and thus crafted her net with precision
“Cloudhaill attempt to attack the focus devices Phoenix, take the east Lucian, west Bruno, south I will be responsible for defending the northern device Stop at nothing to ed”
“As you command”
Lucian, Bruno and Phoenix left to their posts
A few minutes later, Cloudhawk teleported his small crew to the outer platform of the Temple
The structure was protected by a circular field of protective energy They were over eight thousandaway [1] Several batteries from airshi+ps and other weapons were aimed at the Temple, but its shi+elds protected it fro an iron skillet