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The ground heaved and kept heaving, not only the topsoil but the deep layers beneath, all the packed sediments of ages rolling forward at once. It rose like a brown tide and poured across the field.
A wave of earth swallowed the pack of monsters. Howls cut off mid-breath, and claws vanished. Heavy bodies thrashed and then did not. The stronger monsters held out for a heartbeat or two, then the pressure closed and soil filled mouths and lungs. They would not be seen on the surface again. They would die where they lay, and in time their flesh would rot and turn slick as oil in the dark.
Hundreds of monsters went under the earth.
“W-wait—”
“What are you?”
The two demons who had mocked the soldiers’ last stand felt their jest die in their throats. They took to the air in the same motion. One caught a clear look at the man at the wave’s crest and forgot how to laugh.
"Wait, you are—”
Ketal did not wait for the rest of the sentence. He put his foot down and crossed the space as if it were a small room. His fist closed, and Myst ran to it like iron filings to a lodestone. He struck once.
Bone shattered with a sound like a tree trunk splitting in winter. A hole the size of a shield opened in the demon’s chest.
“Argh!” The demon coughed blood and staggered, lifting an arm that no longer felt like his own.
Ketal caught the wrist, torqued the joint, and broke it clean. He drove the demon...
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