Chapter 16

Saying that they had been ready would be overstatement. They hadn’t had their strategy, the battle formation, the attack fleets. Nothing. They hadn’t even distributed the uniforms and hadn’t got to inform the soldiers. They hadn’t gone over the plan with the soldiers and hadn’t even gotten to recruit the new citizens that enlisted.

They had been in Snow’s kingdom when they had felt the quake. It was sudden and new because it had never happened before. Just before Snow could pull up a hologram to find out what was happening, there was a distant blast and it didn’t just happen once or twice, it continued.

And when it hit the castle it was from the ground up. Elementa had strong defense. Snow had claimed many times that the barrier was impenetrable to any attack, but the barrier broke and they had all heard it break like glass. The castle took a pretty bad hit, but they were able to get out of there before any serious damage could be done.

“Hale” Snow said with a hand on his ear.