Death's Daughter and the Ebony Blade: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 6] by Maito Ayamine

Author:Maito Ayamine
Language: eng
Format: epub

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The Walls of Kier Fortress

That day as with every other day the sun beat down, relentless, upon the blood-soaked earth. At dawn, the Royal Army had resumed their assault on Kier Fortress. Colonel Spencer Dolstoy of the Helios Knights looked down on the attackers and yawned widely.

“How many times have they attacked at dawn now?”

“This will be the seventeenth, ser.”

“They’re so tenacious I’ve circled back around from scorn to admiration. Who knew the Royal Army were such early risers?” Spencer’s voice dripped with sarcasm, tears of mirth in his eyes. His close advisor Major Nile’s face twisted in a half smile.

“I can’t think of better comedy than watching them break their swords on the walls of the fortress they built.”

“Nile, I could not agree more.” Spencer laughed aloud, then in the corner of his eye, he spotted a few Crimson Knights fitting arrows to their bowstrings. “Speed that up!” he bellowed. “Do you think this is a game?”

One of the soldiers in crimson armor stopped shooting, looking openly disgruntled. The others all followed suit.

“I didn’t hear an order to stop shooting!” Spencer continued.

“Colonel Spencer, I’ll ask you to stop there. Defense of this section of the wall falls to the Crimson Knights.” This unwanted interruption came from Colonel Raza of the Crimson Knights. He was an old man, far past his prime, barely able to walk without his cane. Spencer couldn’t for the life of him understand why Rosenmarie continued to employ such a useless old man.

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t Colonel Raza,” he exclaimed. “It must have been an arduous journey, climbing the walls as a man of your years. I’m sure it’ll be beyond me when I’m your age.”

Despite his sneering tone, the other man’s face didn’t twitch. “You will cease these arbitrary insults to the Crimson Knights.”

“Arbitrary?”

“Oh, was it not? It certainly looked that way to me.”

“As if you know what anything looks like when you can barely keep your eyes open. Best leave off the jokes, old man, you’ll only embarrass us all.”

Raza peered at Spencer for a moment, then said, “With that face like a troll in a storybook, you’re doing that just fine yourself.”

“So eager to give up what little life you’ve got left?”

“Sounds like a grand old time. But that’s enough.”

“Excuse me?” Spencer spun around, bristling with irritation, only to find himself looking into the frowning face of chief of staff, Major General Oscar Remnand.

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