"03 - Time Streams" - читать интересную книгу автора (McGough Scott)

It wasn't regret that later sent Urza on his own private

invasion of Phyrexia. It was revenge for his brother.

Somehow, Urza convinced himself he hadn't killed Mishra,

that the Phyrexian Gix had done it. True, Gix seduced Mishra

with promises of awesome power and in the end transformed

him into a monstrous amalgam of flesh and artifice. But Urza

was Mishra's slayer. Not in his mind, though.

In the mind of madness, Urza blamed Gix and plotted to

get even. His motive was mad, and his invasion madder still.

Urza attacked Phyrexia-one planeswalker against armies of

demonic monstrosities. He lost, of course. He couldn't

defeat a whole world and was nearly torn to pieces trying.

Tail between his legs, Urza retreated to Serra's Realm,

a place of angels and floating clouds. There he convalesced,

but he never truly recovered. Madness still haunted him, and

so did Phyrexia. Gix followed on his tail. No sooner had

Urza left Serra's Realm, thinking himself whole and hale,

than Gix and his demons arrived. A war began in heaven. That

place, like any other where Urza had chosen to dwell, was

decimated. Centuries later, it is still shrinking in its

long collapse.

When I point out these mad indiscretions, Urza shrugs.

He claims he regained his sanity after all that. He credits

his newfound perspective to Xantcha and Ratepe-"two dear

friends who sacrificed themselves to slay the demon Gix,