Chapter 204: Battle at the Gates
Northern Road, The Final Stretch,
Haji's POV
The suffocating web of branches finally broke apart, and for one terrible heartbeat, my lungs froze.
I thought we had ridden straight out of a nightmare and directly into the mouth of a meat grinder.
Blackmoon's new outer wall rose ten meters into the air, a huge, solid wall of dark, hardened ironwood that gleamed like wet obsidian under the churning violet sky.
At its base, the ground was a crawling, thrashing carpet of madness.
Hundreds of creatures pressed, clawed, and slammed their bodies against the wall with a desperate, mindless fury.
Up on the battlements, the defense was already running at a frantic, blistering pace.
