Chapter Fourteen: The Array of Black Fire (I1B0C14)
Chapter Fourteen: The Array of Black Fire People dashed through the crowded streets of the island city Procella. It was once a calm island in the steamy sea, but now ash and dust tainted the ocean air. The wind was weaker than on the Agrideī mainland, but the pressure in the air had never been this strong. Though people dashed through blocks of homes and rows of trees, they understood the grim reality that a simple escape did not exist. The city of Procella sat upon a lightly-forested island, meaning that people could only evacuate reliably by boat. As helpless citizens flooded the streets, relying on speed to save them from the monster, Hatasuko and Vaida raced toward the Interfectus. They were the only line of defense. Vaida kept her twin swords sheathed in an X-shaped holster on her back. Both fighters kept a whip clipped to their sides; they both dangled a sack of rocks from their right shoulders. ...