The seer must not be lying, because Nero breaks another wall in a burst of fury.
“Not that I’m going to run, but how can that last part be true?” I ask as Marius whimpers. “How can Tartarus kill me on, say, the dragon world?”
“He can drain energy from dragons, same as from other Cognizant.” Nostradamus soothes Marius with a scratch behind the ears. “It will take him decades to rebuild his forces and attack, but attack he will. Oh, and since he’ll know he’ll be facing a seer and a probability manipulator, he’ll breed an army accordingly.”
Before Nero can bring the whole place crashing down around us, I put a hand on his shoulder. “Stop, please. I have to do this. We don’t have a choice.”
Nostradamus nods. “This surprise attack is the best shot at Tartarus. It’s a culmination of years of
