Chapter 95 The Unbreakable Ward
The heat wave hit the central gatehouse with the force of a physical blow. Captain Alden squeezed his eyes shut behind his dark visor and locked his knees. A thousand runic shields angled upward to form a sloped roof of steel over the parapet. Above them the Cataclysmic Ember blotted out the crimson sky. Lord Malakor had unleashed the formidable attack miracle to vaporize the defenders and melt the primary entrance to Ashguard. The falling sphere of divine fire sucked the oxygen out of the valley and cast a blinding glare over the soot covered brick chimneys of the industrial sector.
The ambient temperature skyrocketed in a matter of seconds. The rocky soil of the plains baked into hardened clay under the fierce glare of the nascent sun. The surviving arm
