~ZEPHYRUS' POV
"Fall back before they box you in!"
I heard one of our commanders roar from somewhere behind me, but I ignored him the second another Covenant soldier lunged for my throat.
My blade tore through his neck before his warning finished, and I felt the black blood spray across my arm as his body dropped beneath my boots.
"There are too many on the eastern barricade!" someone shouted.
"Then stop counting and kill them!" I snapped back.
My wings burst wide behind me as I launched forward to cut through the next line before they could regroup. Steel crashed against steel from every direction while screams tore through the kingdom I had spent my whole life protecting.
For three straight days, we had been fighting without a single moment of pause.
The courtyards were gone. The southern towers had already fallen into ruin. Even parts of the palace walls were beginning to crumble under the weight of siege beasts that had been dragged in from the outer wastelands.
