“Passivity now will cost us in years to come,” Hanno said.

“I don’t disagree,” Catherine grunted. “I just don’t see a solution. Besides, let’s start by putting out the fire in front of us.”

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“Let us end it before more died needlessly,” the White Knight agreed.

The two of them tore through the Philosopher King’s personal guard like a storm. Numbers meant little to the likes of them, at the summit of their power, and it was not long before they entered the chamber where the Philosopher King himself awaited.

- Book 7, Epilogue II