Cradle, Path of Gold: Box Set (Cradle Collection Book 2)

While the Abidan read the Way and bowed to the current patterns of Fate, Daruman wrestled destiny and bent it to his own will. He created the future he wanted and projected it in front of himself, and he saw it spin out.

[Our enemies have centuries if not millennia of experience we don’t, and they have spent that time building up resources. Any of them could crush us, either personally or with a command to their organizations. This is the fragility of advancing so quickly.] “I understand, so if you could speed this up…” [We hang under the cloud of doom, and yet we

His black flames, his cleansing tide of pure madra, and his Dreadgod arm all harmonized with his will of destruction. The Void Icon sang, closer than ever.

A lifetime of fury burst from him in one word. “KILL!” the Shield Sage roared. For all the people this death would protect, the Shield Icon approved.