Megan had no idea how long she had been mourning beside her dead companion as a tremendous explosion shook the ground.
She looked up to see a fiery cloud roar up into the sky from the center of the market. Bodies and body parts flew in every direction, along with bits and pieces of burning wreckage. She could taste the magic in the air, knowing instantly that this had been no ordinary blast, that this was the doing of the sorcerer atop the corpse mountain.
The sudden devastation had created a circular kill zone smack in the middle of the marketplace, sending almost everybody in close vicinity to the floor, setting man and buildings afire. Yet the exodus continued almost uninterrupted, the survivors even more desperate to get away. To her amazement, the butchers atop the hill had stopped their bloody handiwork as if appraising the destruction the sorcerer had wrought. It was then that Megan decided she would chance her luck and climb that mountain.
There was nowhere else to go anyway.
Sobbing, she wiped away her tears, leaning forward to place a kiss on her companion's forehead.
"Goodbye, old friend," she whispered.
Shehad a feeling they would be together soon enough.
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The Harvest Wars - Part 2 - Crusade (Reading Sample)
FantasiaFollowing the mysterious outbreak of the Blood Plague, the once mighty city of Covenport lies in ruins, its former citizens reduced to ghouls and zombies that roam the streets in search of living flesh. Yet amongst all the ash and burned-out buildi...
