"J. Robert King - Invasion Cycle 02 - Planeshift" - читать интересную книгу автора (King Robert J)

"Aye, Commander," came the voice of the
communications ensign.
"So, that leaves just us and the jump ships?" Sisay
asked.
"Not just us," Gerrard reported, jabbing a finger toward
the rapidly approaching shoreline. "Urza's made landfall."
Taller than the treetops, Urza's titan engine marched
into the swamp. The hulking mechanism still streamed
water and seaweed but looked all the more sinister for it.
Rockets jumped away from his wrists and corkscrewed
through deadwood forests. They plowed through earthwork


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trenches and exploded in the bunkers beyond. Hunks of
bug flesh rained outward.
Gerrard shook his head in grudging amazement. He
lifted a captain's glass to his eye to watch the carnage.
Urza's titan engine strode onward. A huge fireball
formed before the planeswalker and swooped down to drive
Phyrexians into a shallow marsh. Lightning leaped from
the fork above the pilot bulb and jagged through the water.
Monsters thrashed and sizzled. Urza strode atop them,
paying no heed. He drove straight across the ground,
making toward some goal only he knew.
Weatherlight reached the shore and roared out over the
treetops.
"There's another titan engine," Tahngarth shouted.
"Another what?" Gerrard asked in amazement.
"Another titan engineтАФthree more!"
Gerrard paused in his attacks to stare at the spectacle.
Above the mossy treetops on the far sides of the isle moved
gleaming pilot domes. These engines had fought at Koilos
and now had come here.
"And ground troops!" Tahngarth called, "Metathran
ground troops."
Between the flashing boles of trees, Gerrard saw them.
Agnate and his Metathran army of forty thousand had been
brought here, too. They swept across the land in a purging
blue tide, destroying the Phyrexians in their path.
"Watch your fire, friends," Sisay advised. "Our own
troops are down there."
"Yeah," Gerrard confirmed, nodding blankly. "It looks
like the old man brought help after all." He folded the
captain's glass. "We're useless back here. We can't fire with
our own forces on the ground. Sisay, take us to the center
of the Phyrexian encampment."
"Where would that be?" she asked