IV. Field of Skulls
It turned out that the Black Knight of Angilbert did have an alchemist and a flash powder cannon, a noisy beast that belched smoke and fire and blasted a mighty rock toward Kurval’s forces, only to miss its mark by the length of a spear throw. Though the rock did leave an impressive crater in the grassy plain that stretched between the castle and Kurval’s forces.
“Chew on that,” Kurval thought.
Next to him, Izgomir was getting twitchy, but then patience had never been a virtue of the vizier.
Kurval, meanwhile, just waited. Sooner or later, the Black Knight would have to make his next move. And while Kurval and his army had plenty of provisions and could easily send for more, Adelard of Angilbert had only whatever was left in his stores.
But first, the Black Knight’
