Magic The Gathering - Invasion Cycle Book 02 - Planeshift by Magic The Gathering

Author:Magic The Gathering [Gathering, Magic The]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: OCRed & Converted by Evil Punker, Magic: the Gathering Novel
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

J. Robert King

"The cudgel is turning the false Twilight into true Twilight."

The glacier leaped. It was as though a gargantuan

creature beneath the ice shoved upward. The geyser spewed higher. Its superheated waters rose to the height of the Necropolis. Then, as though the world itself bled, the

watery column turned from white to brilliant red. Crimson stuff spattered across the ice, eating it away.

"Lava!" Eladamri realized.

The cudgel had sunk right down through the glacier,

even through the rock beneath, to awaken the fire of the world. It had ignited a volcano. The searing lava that

jetted from the crater was only the smallest portion of the stuff that gushed out below. In moments, the ice would lose its integrity. They all would plunge into the volcano.

The true battle of Twilight had begun—not a fight

between Keldons and Phyrexians, but a battle of ice and fire.

Sheathing his blade, Eladamri strode toward Warlord

Astor. "Turn the ship around! Get us out of here!"

The young warlord stared fore, a strange light in his

eyes. "This is Twilight. This is our battle—"

"It will be your grave, a mass grave, unless you turn this ship around!"

Astor did not seem to hear. He spoke in a faraway

voice. " 'All the warriors of Keld will fight in the Twilight, but only the true warriors of Keld will survive.' "

Growling, Eladamri turned toward Doyen Olvresk. He

too stared with the blindness of belief. Doyenne Tajamin and every other Keldon wore the same beatific expression.

Even the dead Keldons watched in awe. It was as though

they hoped to be consumed by fire.

"Sivi!" called Eladamri.

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She tapped his shoulder. He spun, startled. Always she

knew what he was thinking.

"Gather up the elves who live. I'll bring our colos.

We've got to get our people out of here," Eladamri said.

"Yes," Liin Sivi said simply as she headed out across the deck toward a pair of elves.

Eladamri meanwhile climbed to the stern castle. There

a steep-pitched roof covered a colos barn. The beasts had naturally wandered to it in the confusion. Ten mounts

milled within. Eladamri strode purposefully in among them, grabbed the reins of the first, and spoke the words he had heard from countless riders: "You will bear me." Swinging into the saddle of the mount he stared at the others. "You will follow." Setting heels to his colos, he rode out of the barn. He drove his beast down to the amidships deck. The other colos followed.

Liin Sivi had gathered the seven remaining elves. They

eagerly climbed onto the beasts behind Eladamri.

"We've got to reach the main elven contingent," he instructed. "We've got to lead them out—"

A new eruption drowned his words. Beyond the prow,

the crater had quadrupled in size. At its center, the lava column had collapsed, giving way to a boiling mound of

water and rock. Deep concussions shook the ice. It cracked in a thousand places. Faults opened beneath catapults.

Crevasses swallowed ships and platoons. Cracks even raced up the black mountains all around.

Still, the Keldons stood, unmoving.

"Let's go!" Eladamri ordered.

He kicked the sides of his colos. The great mountain

yak bounded toward the rail.

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