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The Med-jai had taken few casualties, considering the fierceness of these foes, and a resounding cheer went up across the desert battlefield as they stood victorious in the blood-soaked sand. But Ardeth Bay—surrounded by his
commanders, who felt the same as he—knew this had been too easy. They were at war with the undead... surely this was not yet over....
Ardeth Bay did know that Horus had to be dead, or dying, and as he spun toward the sound of the shot, he called out the bird's name, his love for the creature apparent in the agony that colored his voice. Staggering forward, the Med-jai chieftain stared into the empty blue sky, devastated.
In the midst of the carnage, in a swirl of smoke as black as his soul, the Scorpion King—caked with blood and mud, streaked with soot and sweat—basked in his triumph, savoring the completeness of his revenge. His massively muscular chest heaving under the golden arachnid breastplate, he swiveled to watch his grotesque warriors—these creatures who, like a great flood, had washed away all that lay before them— wander the ruins they had created. These dog-soldiers seemed lost, suddenly, with no one left to kill, nothing left to burn, no city to sack, their task done.
Then all hell broke loose.
The mound burst like a boil and thousands of beetles—those rancid dung beetles known as scarabs— came spilling out, and rose in a chittering, wriggling wave to flood the sandy pit, turning it black, and red, as the hard-shelled, flesh-eating insects swarmed over the workers and fed an insatiable appetite.
Evelyn said, “And this justifies killing innocent people?”
“To stop this creature,” the warrior said, “I would gladly kill you now.”
