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Lion
Nrisimha by the hundreds of thousands, then by the millions.
How could Nrisimha continue to replace the decimated armies? How many
soldiers could the single city of Medina produce? What was the secret
of
the fanatical hordes?
No one knew.
But they poured forth, fearless, unstoppable, unslowable, unturnable.
All
that the forces of resistance could do was slaughter them by the
million,
and they fell, they fell, but their fellows only marched across their
very
bodies, their strange bodies that did not putrefy like the corpses of
normal soldiers but seemed instead to turn to an amorphous gel and then
to
sink into the Earth itself leaving behind no sign of their presence,
not
even uniforms or weapons or equipment, but only, in the wake of their
passage, fields of strange flowers and fruits that bloomed gorgeously
into
towering pillars and petals and berries the size of melons, that
produced
sweet narcotic fumes and brought to those who harvested and ate them
dreams of haunting beauty and incomparable weirdness.
Strange messengers sped across the sands of the deserts of Africa and
Asia
bearing the word that the Little Lion Nrisimha had come to bring peace
and
glory and splendor to a new Empire, to Khmeric Gondwanaland, an
absolute
dictatorship of unparalleled benevolence that would stretch from
Siberia
to Ireland and from the Arctic Circle to the Cape of Good Hope.
It took remarkably few years for the followers of the Little Lion
Nrisimha
to complete their conquest, and few more for the establishment of an
efficient infrastructure and the appointment of regional satrapies
under
the absolute command of Nrisimha.
 Khmeric Gondwanaland was a roaring success.

It was less than a century from the complete triumph of Yamm Kerit ben
Chibcha throughout the Laddino Imperium and that of Nrisimha the Little
Lion in Khmeric Gondwanaland, the two great empires were driven into
union
by the eruption of attacking battrachian forces from beneath the seas
of
the planet. How long these strange, frog-like intelligences had lived
in