As they advanced the two figures standing on the burial mounds to the north and south of Guiron raised their right hands and pointed dramatically. Between their pointing fingers a lightning bolt seemed to shoot across the plain.
Again the advancing army paused.
Again Panora drove them on.
‘Beware of the wall of power!’ Guiron roared. ‘No man may pass unscathed!’
‘It is a trick!’ Panora screamed. ‘You can see there is no wall!’
The moon had come clear of its ghastly shadow now and the light shone full upon the plain.
There was no wall visible.
The horde advanced again.
‘Now!’ shouted the three great Lords of the Sun with one voice, and in that instant total confusion broke loose upon the plain.
Some screamed as though they had been burned as they touched an invisible wall of fire.
