دانلود رمان انگلیسی “احضار سیاه” – جلد 5

The Grand Scarlet Canyon was located to the east of Parth, its length serving as part of the border between the city-state and Trycen. Trycen had owned the area long ago but had ceded it to contribute to the territory of the City of Peace upon its founding.
The ravine that wound through the canyon, roughly fifty meters wide and flanked on both sides by precarious scarlet cliffs that soared high into the sky, was the shortest and most direct route connecting Trycen and Parth. Technically, the cliffs weren’t entirely impassable, but the incline was so steep that they were almost perpendicular to the ground, and their highest points reached up into the clouds. Even if one had the power of flight, making it over such summits would be a feat in and of itself.
Furthermore, the summits were dotted by nests of Rank C bird-like monsters who were sensitive to other life forms. As such, it was far safer for large groups—armies, for example—to use the ravine instead.
It’s such an obvious place to spring an ambush that I’m sure the Trycenians will be fully on guard against one.
“And…we’ve arrived. What time is it now, Efil?”
We had forged our way through violently blowing clouds of sand to reach the Trycenian end of the canyon. We had thought the bone-dry path at the bottom of the ravine bad enough until we saw that it opened into a wide, expansive desert.
If all of Trycen’s land is like this, I can see why they’d be so desperate for food. Then again, they just declared war on Toraj, who they were supposed to be buying food from. How do their people, especially the merchants, feel about this war?