At Lux's trusting smile, the earth beneath Jotunheim began to tremble.
Karya sprang into action.
With Lissandra gone from Jotunheim and all her attention focused on Lux, who was "wasting her magic," Karya had finally found the opportunity he'd been waiting for. He was underground with the strike team that had launched Operation Blossom.
The Eye of the Desert had seen Lissandra leave, and his magical senses told him that the heart of the blizzard was moving away from Jotunheim. Now that the rumbling iceberg had pulled away from the glacier, it was time for Karya to make his move.
Inside the mine, the soot-stained strike team burst out in a shouting mass. Led by several squad leaders, they charged toward their assigned targets. They would seize the strategic positions inside Jotunheim as quickly as possible, including the warehouses, armories, and command center.
The Hextech users and Avarosan Warmother's guards among the strike team, meanwhile, followed Karya toward the city walls.
Their task was the most demanding of the battle: stop Lissandra—or, rather, attack her from both sides.
As Karya hurried toward the city walls, a torrent of sand poured from behind him.
It was his preparation for the battle to come.
As an Ascended and a Darkin who wasn't known for his fighting prowess, Karya might have looked utterly confident, but in truth, he had no idea how things would go.
Lux had briefly told him about the earlier battle between Lissandra and the Hextech users. Judging by her account, even at the height of his power, Karya's magic had been nowhere near a match for the Frost Witch's.
And she was ancient, with an immense reserve of magic. Fighting her would hardly be easy.
So Karya had to bring his A-game!
And to do that, he first