//How the hell can Zeros' see Melkoth from the other side of the Dark Continent? For a start, Melkoth would be beyond the horison, a few hundred times over. Does Zeros' constantly use x-ray vision?//
"Duilin? You might like to ask Quintus, he might have met him in his travel. He will also be pleased to see you again.
"What have we accomplished so far? We have paralysed internal communication, transport and travel, excepting orbs, within the Crimson Empire, although, of course, they do not realise it yet. Quintus is just now contructing the Grey Palace in that forest over there, in the clearing. I myself have caused a little panic, no doubt, by darkening the sky. Apart from that, we are just beginning.
"I am led to believe there is a port city to the west of here, called Retangrad, which is quite large and significant. We are going to attack it and some villages between it and us, and some more surrounding our position here, to get ourselves a foothold."
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The helpless acolyte placed the barbed dart in a fold in Draven's clothing, the one that would signal Draven's position.
The acolyte then took a deep breath, and there was a loud crack as he cracked open an insertion in one of his teeth containing poison gas. He breathed out as he did so, blowing the gas in Draven's face.
Just before he himself died, he used the last of his magical power to make his still alive body explode, flattening an area of forest 100 metres in radius, with Draven in that area.
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The palace was now about 1/4 finished. Columns were being slowly built up.
Quintus, the Prophet, received a homing device signal, and information from it about the target. It was Draven! At least now they could see what he did, whether he was fighting, and where he was. Good, I can see how effective my slave might be.
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Salazar's troops started to fly over the deserts and salt mines of Wahabia, flying towards the capital city of Wahabia, Mellibasra.
From the city walls, arrows came flying up, picking off one or two of Salazar's soldiers.
The soldier-mages sent down a few explosive fireballs, blowing up sections of the mud brick and stone wall. In return, fireballs were thrown at them by defensive mages on the walls, about 40 of the soldiers were killed.
Horns sounded in the city, and out of the central palace flew the king of Wahabia, and his personal bodyguard, consisting of about 400 mages, flying toward the invaders...
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Haraldur now starts to explain about Marx and Engels, the Paris Commune and the Anarchists.
He tells them of the First World War, and then of the Russian Revolutions, both of them. He tells them of Lenin's death, and then of Stalin's betrayal of the revolution. He tells them then of the Civil War in Spain, and the Revolution there. He tells them of the differing factions in the Republican government, and how the Stalinists crushed the Revolution, as they had in Russia. He then tells them of George Orwell and his books (and reads them to them, from memory) and of the Second World War, and of nukes.
He then starts talking of a group in North America called the Technical Alliance...
The five structures are still being contructed, and are rising fast, now being very tall.
