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to Zardin, and the fury in his
red eyes blazed wilder.
     
    “Those cursed fiends!” he roared. “The
crystal contains everything for us. Everything we’ve worked for … I worked for. We need it to finish what I started!”
     
    A tense silence gripped the place as Redgarn
stood where he was, his fists curled in anger. He was quiet for a
few moments and Zardin waited, letting him pore over the
situation.
     
    “We have everything right now.” Redgarn
growled, turning to the cruiser parked across the rough hands. “We
have an entire battalion of armed forces. We can crush them like an
ant beneath a boot. But we don’t have the one thing that matters.
The location where they now hide.” He paused for a moment’s
thought, and his frown sank deeper. “And after eight thousand years
of heavy prosecution against mystics, they would have gone far into
hiding. It would impossible to find where they are now.”
     
    Zardin allowed a small pause to trail his
words, before heaving a breath and speaking in a completely calm
tone:
     
    “The Nyon temple is located in the planet
Farnor, in the seventh level of the outer spectrum.” He thought for
a moment and added, “Just thought you’d like to know.”
     
    A stunned silence dropped over the entire
place.
     
    The entire batch of cloaked Xeni had their
eyes strapped to him, widened in shock. Redgarn slowly turned to
face him, his jaw hanging wide open. Looking as though wondering if
he had heard right.
     
    “There are enchantments placed to protect
it,” went on Zardin, completely unperturbed by the effect he had
made on the others. “but they are meant to protect against non
mystics. The masters would be alerted if any non mystical energy
force enters the planet. And the temple is invisible to all non
mystic eyes. In other words, they saw a threat only from the Naxim
… and not from us. Sadly for them.”
     
    Redgarn continued to stand on the spot,
gaping at Zardin through the stunned silence. Then, taking a step
forward, he whispered, “ How the hell did you know? ”
     
    Zardin gave a casual shrug. “I just took a
wild guess.”
     
    The shock drained from Redgarn’s face, and a
look of savage fervour came upon his red features.
     
    “Well, it seems that fate has evened the
pains of my past with a new pleasure for the future.” He turned and
gazed across the rough lands at the cruiser. “We’ll take everything
we have and attack them.”
     
    As the shock of Zardin’s announcement passed,
the cloaked figures looked about at each other with a new
excitement. A steady anticipation could be felt climbing over the
air.
     
    Redgarn turned about the entire batch of Xeni
and called in a loud, commanding voice:
     
    “Men, prepare yourselves, and get armed.
We’re attacking the Nyon temple. Take everything you have, from
bows and arrows to Sparklers and spears. Arm up for the single most
important event in the history of our order.” He turned and looked
about the entire group of Xeni standing around the tunnel. “Today,
we attack our long hated enemies and scour their existence forever
from the face of this world. And when we’re done, there will be
nothing of the ancient brotherhood but ashes…”
     
    He turned to Zardin. “How far away is Farnor
from here?”
     
    “Just a few minutes’ space jump away.”
replied Zardin, giving a moment’s thought. “I’d estimate not more
than four.”
     
    A mad smile lit Redgarn’s face. “Excellent …
we’re getting there, and showing them that we’re back with a bang.”
He turned and boomed for the entire lot of them to hear, “Let’s
head out!”
     
     
    And together, the entire group of them,
Zardin, Redgarn and all of the Xeni, boarded the large cruiser. And
less than a minute later, the giant vessel was ripping through
space towards Farnor, carrying the Xeni order and an entire
battalion of armed forces that they now commanded. To attack and
bring about the fall of the brotherhood of Nyon at