Книга только для ознакомления
. The high black wall surrounded the
entire structure. It provided space for barracks, troop train-
ing, and even an arena for gladiatorial combat.
The temple and the entire city, now as always, lay under a
leaden, overcast sky. The gray blanket was caused by the
smoke and ash that spewed from its surrounding summits,
and because the valley of Sanction was a windtrap, termi-
nus of the Newsea.
A river of steaming lava, glowing cherry red in the eter-
nally twilit valley, cut through the center of Sanction. An-
other finger of flaming rock trickled toward it by a different
path. Soon the two boiling streams would meet, forming a
lava moat around the other temple.
The general's gaze lingered on that great construction -
now a pile of rock, slowly being given form by the lava and
ash. The Temple of Luerkhisis, that one was called, after the
second of the Lords of Doom. The temple held the keys to so
much of the future, for in its bowels were kept the precious
eggs of the good dragons. Those gold, silver, brass, and
bronze orbs would - when the time was right - force the
neutrality of good dragonkind, allowing the empire of dark-
ness to be born
|
