دانلود رمان انگلیسی “دختر مرگ و تیغ آبنوس” – جلد. 2

Two small nations lay in the center of the continent of Duvedirica—the Kingdom of Swaran, and the Principality of Stonia. The central front ran along their border with the Asvelt Empire, and right now it was there that the fiercest fighting raged. There, the impenetrable Kier Fortress had fallen. There, those who remained after the annihilation of the Fifth Legion fought on against all odds.
“There’s been an urgent message from the capital.”
A man looking through a spyglass lowered it with a sigh. He knew from the speaker’s clipped tone that this wasn’t news he’d welcome. News from the capital only ever meant trouble, as far as he was concerned. “I suppose you have to tell me?” he asked reluctantly.
“O-Of course I do, ser!” came the enraged reply. “How can you even—?!”
“Yes, I know. You don’t have to yell…” He returned the spyglass to the holster at his hip, and turned to face Colonel Lise Prussie, whose eyebrows were furrowed in a sharp vee When he nodded for her to speak, however, her expression became sorrowful.
“The Third and Fourth Legions were destroyed in battle on the northern front. Lieutenant Generals Latz Smythe and Lindt Barthes were both killed in the fighting.”
“There’s no chance the report is mistaken?” The question was a last, vain attempt at hope, but Lise shook her head listlessly. Memories welled up within him of his youth and the time the three of them had spent together at the military academy, all the antics they’d gotten up to… The good old days.