The first test of the Eastern Redoubts occurred on a pitch-black midnight under a heavy coastal drizzle. At the secluded cove of Dover-Crest—a narrow pebble beach nestled between three-hundred-foot chalk cliffs four leagues north of Silver-Water—twenty black-painted imperial reconnaissance skiffs slipped silently through the outer reef under muffled oars. The skiffs carried one hundred and twenty elite Imperial Amphibious Marines—the Emperor’s vanguard shock-troops, clad in form-fitting suits of blackened seal-leather,…
Keep reading in the app
This chapter is in the Booknovel app. Unlock it with coins, a short ad, the free timer or VIP.
Scan with your phone camera
Opens chapter 72 directly. New readers get free coins.