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“You already know this much,” Bayern said, letting his voice carry across the square until it reached the edges of the city. “Our land is under invasion by demons.”
In the North the demons had descended in force. They were trampling the borders, raising their lines, and pushing forward to stain the earth and claim the surface.
“But there are no demons on the front I am sending you to,” he continued, tone dropping just enough to make every ear lean closer. “Something else has come, and it is fouling the land.”
He chose his words with care. “It is dangerous. It is powerful.”
A ripple ran through the gathered barbarians. They could not yet name the thing, yet the fact that their king himself acknowledged both danger and might made the crowd mutter. There was something on that front that even Bayern marked as worthy. In more than a few eyes, a bright, reckless hunger stirred.
“That creature is defiling the North,” Bayern said. “Piece by piece, the North is becoming something that is not ours. If you cannot defend the ground under your feet, do you truly believe you can conquer the continent? It is impossible.”
Only then did many of them understand what he wanted from them. He raised his hand and declared, “Here is my condition. I will give you one week. Cleanse the stain that is...
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