Maya continues to relate her tale.
The sorcerer-priest Kar Datha appears and turns the tide of battle. Creating or bring in in new troops and casting protocols (spells) of immense power. Despite the deployment of armored cavalry columns (one led by Maya's friend Alexandra Goncharova), the battle is lost and entire skyfurnaces are shot down.
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