Chapter 247: The Killing Ground
The freezing wind swept across the barren plains of Bastion Six.
Thousands of Cult of the Eternal Eclipse soldiers marched toward the half-rebuilt southern wall. Heavy armored infantry and massive, corrupted beasts moved in a dense, confident formation. They expected to crush a starving, broken garrison. They did not expect to fight the Vanguard's most lethal strike team.
Natalie Tokks stood on the high stone parapet.
She raised her Whisper-String Bow. She focused her emerald eyes, dividing the wasteland into sensory grids using the method her father had taught her. She locked onto a target eleven hundred meters away.
THWIP.
A hyper-condensed arrow of wind split the air.
A Cult outrider tumbled violently off his mutated mount.
THWIP.
THWIP.
