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"Your Majesty, what in the Creator’s name just happened?" Commander Roan asked as he came to join Richard and Henrik on the walls not so long after the pillar of fire rose into the sky, looking as perplexed as the rest of the people. "It's the Conqueror's flames, Commander," the king replied. "Ariel must have bound it to the Barren landers and now they're virtually immortals, which in hindsight I think that's how the previous Conqueror was able to subdue the realm. Unless we quench the flames and very soon too, we might be in for a repeat of that event." "But how are we supposed to do that?" the commander returned. "The Conqueror's flames is at the end of the battlefield with twenty thousand immortals between it and us." "We use the siege tunnels," Lucian suggested as he strode towards
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