Hill was a little surprised. Calimshan was a dark, corrupt country, but the Pasha of Almraiven Fortress was a rare decent man. He was truly fighting for his life. No wonder so many scholars and mages had stayed in his fortress.
The Fire Genasi attacking Almraiven Fortress quickly massed together and charged the Undead... They didn't even try to flee.
"Were they really human sorcerers before?" Selûne couldn't help asking. "They're so badly outnumbered. Why aren't they running?"
"Abandoning their human blood and form isn't just a figure of speech," Shar said casually. "They gave up the reason and emotions their human blood granted them, too. Now they're no different from those brainless Elemental Giants that know only how to fight."
The Undead probably hadn't expected the God-Monsters to charge straight at them either... The knights at the front were sliding across the ice in a charge when they slammed into the enormous fire spirits. Flames sizzled against the ice shields around them, each one like a transparent white eggshell.
The collision rang out with a tremendous boom... The Fire Genasi hadn't expected anyone to meet them head-on. After all, the flames burning around them couldn't be blocked by defenses. They could pass straight through so-called protective fire barriers.
But the Undead had come prepared. Those who could change their attributes had switched to ice, while the rest had put on ice-element armor. Forged from Luskan's Azure Ice, the armor was made for this fight, and the knights kept ice shields active around themselves.
Then the mindless Fire Genasi vanished beneath a boundless blizzard... At first, only the quickest to react had cast their spells. Now every ice mage was casting Blizzard at once. More importantly, the knights were constantly receiving fresh ice shields and weren't easily hurt, so the