Now their attack-and their army-had just had its heart torn out. An instant before, they'd been on the brink of victory. The survivors milled around in complete shock and disorganization. Hundreds more were battered by the explosion and buried in the sudden landslide. The ground beneath Daniel's feet shuddered, both from the aftershock of the matter transmitter's catastrophic energy release and from the collapse of the ancient, buried structure that had borne the hill.Ī good thousand of the attacking warriors had vanished literally into the blue.
The hill was now a crater, its upper reaches completely gone. The spear of light snapped off as if someone had hit a switch.Īnd a reddish-orange fireball erupted on what was left of Hidey-hole Hill, scattering the gold-armored bodies that hadn't been flung into space.
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