Chapter 1896 - An Inland Kraken - Part 8

He was not a man to raise his voice for pointless command or begging. He saw the foolishness in the way the other Stormfront Generals did it, and he declared again there, that such a place would not be him. He refused too to acknowledge that he was on the back foot, even if that was indeed where he was heading. After the collision of the arrowhead, with now Skullic and his men joining the fray, and Blackwell to come shortly after, Tiberius' number had reduced all the way to ten thousand. That solid unbreachable mountain upon which he had himself perched, where not might reach him, crumbled beneath his feet.