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APOCALYPSE


INVASION CYCLE Х BOOK III

J. Robert King
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J. Robert King
Chapter 1

The Gladiators

It all came down to this: two men kneeling side by side
before Yawgmoth.

These were no mere men, of course. One was a virtual
god. His long, ash-blond hair spread across the stone, and
his powerstone eyes were cast in deep shadow. Urza
Planeswalker had first opened the gate to Phyrexia, had
fought the first Dominarian war against demon hordes, had
planned and executed the current world war down to its
minutest detail. He had lived for millennia and had spent
all the while preparing to face YawgmothЧthough he had
never expected to do so in a full, abject, and willful bow.
Beside him knelt a man who wasn't even a hundredth his
age. No gray showed in his jet-black hair, and no worry
lines in his high forehead, though he had inherited worry
enough for a whole world. As Urza had unwittingly begun
this great horror,

Gerrard had unwillingly received the onus of ending it.
Centuries of eugenics had distilled courage, resourcefulness,
wit, tenacity, and ferocity in a single vesselЧGerrard
Capashen. With these qualities, he should have defeated
the invaders. Instead, he bowed to them.

Side by side, the two best hopes for Dominaria pledged
themselves to Yawgmoth.

The Ineffable was there and not there. Yawgmoth's
mind formed the black dais where Gerrard and Urza
bowed. Colder, sharper, more merciless than granite, the

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