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** One of the Warden's followers spits at the ground while arguing to his fellows that though they're about to die, they can make their last moments worthwhile by killing the prisoners. He does it again in response to Yoruichi's threat of ensuring they'll end up answering for their desertion.

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** One of the Warden's followers spits at the ground while arguing to his fellows that though they're about to die, they can make their last moments worthwhile by killing the prisoners. He does it again in response to Yoruichi's threat of ensuring that she'll ensure they'll end up answering for their desertion.
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Frost starts the attack to end the siege of Cavigor, while the defenders are faced with even more problems from treason.

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Frost starts the attack that's to end the siege of Cavigor, while the defenders are faced with even more problems from in the form of treason.



* BigWhat: Vathek and Drake have a simultaneous one when Yoruichi informs them about the soldiers who've decided to slaughter all of Cavigor's inmates.

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* BigWhat: Vathek and Drake have let out a simultaneous one when Yoruichi informs them about the soldiers who've decided to slaughter all of Cavigor's the inmates.



* EpicFlail: The Spikeback opens the tunnel's entrance with a giant iron ball attached to a metal chain.

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* EpicFlail: The Spikeback opens the secret tunnel's entrance with a giant iron ball attached to a metal chain.



** Frost makes one as he sees the defenders' horrified faces upon the entrance of Razor Khan.

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** Frost makes has one as when he sees the defenders' horrified faces upon the entrance of Razor Khan.



** Curbag, the second-in-command of the rhino-rider squads, leads the reserve force that enters the secret underground tunnel to break into Cavigor.

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** Curbag, the second-in-command of the rhino-rider squads, leads the reserve force that enters the secret underground tunnel to break into Cavigor.



** After summoning the Razor Khan, Frost tells Vathek and Drake to remember the following words as their men lay dead at their feet:

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** After summoning the Razor Khan, Frost tells Vathek and Drake to remember the following words as once their men lay dead at their feet:



** The Warden's dying words are: "For...the...queen."
* SecretUndergroundPassage: Shallowsands is revealed to have been built around the entrance of an underground tunnel leading to Cavigor. Originally a maintenance tunnel used to make the construction of the subterranean prison easier, it was magically sealed by the contemporary queen and forgotten once the prison was completed. After Frost's reserve force digs the tunnel open, they use it to enter the prison while the main army launches the final assault.

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** The Warden's dying words are: "For...are "for...the...queen."
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* SecretUndergroundPassage: Shallowsands is revealed to have been built around the entrance of an underground tunnel leading to Cavigor. Originally a maintenance tunnel used to make the construction of the subterranean prison easier, it was magically sealed by the contemporary queen and forgotten once the prison was completed. After Frost's reserve force digs the tunnel open, open in this chapter, they use it to enter the prison while the main army launches the final assault.



* SlutShaming: When Yoruichi tries to talk the Warden's followers out of killing the prisoners, their leader dares to call her a whore willing to consort with Phobos' followers since she's following Vathek's orders to keep alive the prisoners they're convinced to be Phobos sympathizers without exception.

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* SlutShaming: When Yoruichi tries to talk the Warden's followers out of killing the prisoners, their leader dares to call her a whore willing to consort and accuse her of consorting with Phobos' followers since she's following Vathek's orders to keep alive the prisoners they're convinced to be Phobos sympathizers without exception.followers.

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* EvilLaugh: Frost makes one as he sees the defenders' horrified faces upon the entrance of Razor Khan.

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Frost makes one as he sees the defenders' horrified faces upon the entrance of Razor Khan.Khan.
** The soldier who leads the deserters to murder the prisoners on the Warden's orders lets out a dark laugh at the thought of denying Phobos any possible minions.


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** Frost throws a grin filled with bloodlust at Vathek and Drake as he sics the Razor Khan on the defenders.
** After Yoruichi leaves to assist Vathek and Drake, the man who argued with her gives a bloodthirsty grin as he leads his fellows to carry out the Warden's order to kill the prisoners.
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* {{Irony}}: The former rebel army are now having rebellious cells in their ranks, and the irony isn't lost to Vathek.

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* AssholeVictim: After the Warden defies Vathek's orders by remorselessly ordering all the prisoners to be slaughtered while arrogantly claiming they're unquestionablyPhobos' monsters it's Elyon's will, he's killed when a Razor Khan impales him from behind.




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* AssholeVictim: After the Warden defies Vathek's orders by remorselessly ordering all the prisoners to be slaughtered while arrogantly claiming they're unquestionablyPhobos' undoubtedly Phobos' monsters it's Elyon's will, who deserve death, he's killed when a Razor Khan impales him from behind.



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* BloodFromTheMouth: After the Warden's fatally stabbed by a Razor Khan, blood gurgles out of his throat and mouth.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: With Cavigor's defenses breached and the Warden killed, Vathek, Drake and Yoruichi retreat into the prison to prevent the deserters from killing the prisoners.



* AHouseDivided: When the final attack begins, the Warden and his more fanatical soldiers decide to kill all the prisoners in order to deny Frost the victory of freeing them for Phobos. Vathek, Drake, and other more levelheaded soldiers are horrified by this dishonorable act, and only avoid coming to blows due to the more pressing need of preventing Frost's forces from overwhelming the prison.



* KnightTemplar: The Warden of Cavigor, and at least some of his soldiers, are of the belief that anyone sent to the prison was loyal to Phobos, and that they're therefore justified in unilaterally deciding to kill all the prisoners to prevent Frost from freeing them.

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* KnightTemplar: The Warden of Cavigor, and at least some of his soldiers, are of the belief that anyone sent to the prison was loyal to Phobos, and that they're therefore justified in unilaterally deciding to kill all the prisoners to prevent Frost from freeing them. The Warden's even in his final breath convinced he's doing Elyon's will.


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** The Warden's dying words are: "For...the...queen."

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* ActionGirl: Yoruichi of the White sands is a rebel soldier and BadassNormal who can fare against Razor Khan with her agility.



* AssholeVictim: After the Warden defies Vathek's orders by remorselessly ordering all the prisoners to be slaughtered while arrogantly claiming they're unquestionablyPhobos' monsters it's Elyon's will, he's killed when a Razor Khan impales him from behind.




* BigWhat: Vathek and Drake have a simultaneous one when Yoruichi informs them about the soldiers who've decided to slaughter all of Cavigor's inmates.



* DanceBattler: Razor Khan are noted to be almost dancing between attacks thanks to their speed, agility, slender forms and staked feet.

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* DanceBattler: Razor Khan are noted to be almost dancing between attacks thanks to their speed, agility, slender forms and staked feet. Yoruichi is also described to be practically dancing as she brings down many Razor Khan with her agility and grace.
* DareToBeBadass: While fighting the Razor Khan, Yoruichi boosts the morale of her fellow soldiers by tauntingly asking if they're really going to let themselves be ended by "a few boogeymen that crawled out of the Abyss of Shadows".



* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Vathek cleaves one of the Razor Khan in two.
* InTheBack: A Razor Khan uses its clawed hands to impale the Warden of Cavigor from behind when the latter is busy arguing with Vathek about executing the prisoners.



* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: When the purple-haired ActionGirl leads her men to assist Vathek and Drake without being able to stop the deserters from going to kill the prisoners, she informs that she's Yoruichi of the White sands

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* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: When the purple-haired ActionGirl leads her men to assist Vathek and Drake without being able to stop the deserters from going to kill the prisoners, she informs them that she's Yoruichi of the White sands
sands and tells them to remember that name for it'll send them to the gallows.



** One of the Warden's followers spits at the ground while arguing to his fellows that though they're about to die, they can make their last moments worthwhile by killing the prisoners.

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** One of the Warden's followers spits at the ground while arguing to his fellows that though they're about to die, they can make their last moments worthwhile by killing the prisoners. He does it again in response to Yoruichi's threat of ensuring they'll end up answering for their desertion.

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* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: When the purple-haired ActionGirl leads her men to assist Vathek and Drake without being able to stop the deserters from going to kill the prisoners, she informs that she's Yoruichi of the White sands



* PunctuatedForEmphasis: After summoning the Razor Khan, Frost tells Vathek and Drake to remember the following words as their men lay dead at their feet:
-->'''Frost''': We...gave...you...a...chance.

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* PunctuatedForEmphasis: PunctuatedForEmphasis:
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After summoning the Razor Khan, Frost tells Vathek and Drake to remember the following words as their men lay dead at their feet:
-->'''Frost''': --->'''Frost''': We...gave...you...a...chance.chance.
** The soldier who argues with Yoruichi says with a hint of madness that "all that matters is enacting the Queen's will and protecting Meridian's people at...any...cost".



* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: When Yoruichi asks if the Warden's followers want to stain their honor by slaughtering unarmed prisoners, the head deserter replies:
-->"Honor?! This is war whore! Honor only belongs in fairy tales, or is used by those like Raythor to excuse their crimes! All that matters is enacting the Queen's will and protecting Meridian's people at...any...cost."



* SpitefulSpit: Vathek spits at Frost's boots while turning down the chance to surrender.

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* SpitefulSpit: SpitefulSpit:
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Vathek spits at Frost's boots while turning down the chance to surrender.surrender.
** One of the Warden's followers spits at the ground while arguing to his fellows that though they're about to die, they can make their last moments worthwhile by killing the prisoners.
* TakingYouWithMe: With Razor Khan having infiltrated Cavigor, the Warden, knowing they won't win and convinced all of his prisoners are as vile as Phobos, orders his men to murder them before they can be freed and join Phobos' army.

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* ArrowsOnFire: Two are used to tell Frost that the SecretUndergroundPassage to Cavigor has been excavated open.

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* ArrowsOnFire: Two are used to tell Frost that the SecretUndergroundPassage to Cavigor has been excavated open. When he begins the final assault, he has three flaming arrows shot in the air to order the reserve force to enter Cavigor through the tunnel.



* DanceBattler: Razor Khan are noted to be almost dancing between attacks thanks to their speed, agility, slender forms and staked feet.



* EvilCounterpart: The Warden turns out to be a more {{Knight Templar}}ish version of the WardensAreEvil behavior Vathek has started [[TheAtoner moving past]] following his recent HeelRealization.



* {{Expy}}: Vathek and Drake are sided against the Warden's deserters by a purple-haired ActionGirl named [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Yoruichi]].



* KnightTemplar: The Warden of Cavigor, and at least some of his soldiers, are of the belief that anyone sent to the prison was loyal to Phobos, and that they're therefore justified in unilaterally deciding to kill all the prisoners to prevent Frost from freeing them.



* OhCrap: Vathek's face is filled with a sense of horror when he realizes Jade has given a troop of Shadowkhan under Frost's command.

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* OhCrap: Vathek's face is filled with a sense of horror when he realizes Jade has given a troop of Shadowkhan under Frost's command. The other soldiers have similar reactions to seeing the "shadow demons".



* SlutShaming: When Yoruichi tries to talk the Warden's followers out of killing the prisoners, their leader dares to call her a whore willing to consort with Phobos' followers since she's following Vathek's orders to keep alive the prisoners they're convinced to be Phobos sympathizers without exception.



* WhiteFlag: To honor Jade's wish to give the rebels a chance to surrender, Frost approaches the prison's entrance with a white flag and one of his captains as a witness to give Vathek and Drake that chance over the wall of flames. The warden considers shooting Frost, but Vathek says they'd be arrested for a war crime. After Frost's offer is turned down, he throws the flag into the fire and sics the Razor Khan on the defenders, satisfied he has a pretext to use them.

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* WardensAreEvil: The Warden of Cavigor, while loyal to Elyon, is proven to be a KnightTemplar who views all his prisoners as irredeemable loyalists of Phobos, and decides to kill them all to prevent Frost from freeing them.
* WhiteFlag: To honor Jade's wish to give the rebels a chance to surrender, Frost approaches the prison's entrance with a white flag and one of his captains as a witness to give Vathek and Drake that chance over the wall of flames. The warden considers shooting Frost, but Vathek says they'd be arrested for a war crime. After Frost's offer is turned down, he throws the flag into the fire and sics the Razor Khan on the defenders, satisfied he has a pretext to use them.them.
* YouKilledMyFather: The soldier who argues with Yoruichi about killing the prisoners says that he's been fighting for the Rebellion since he lost his father to Phobos' servants as a boy.

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* EvilLaugh: Frost makes one as he sees the defenders' horrified faces upon the entrance of Razor Khan.



* OhCrap: Vathek's face is filled with a sense of horror when he realizes Jade has given a troop of Shadowkhan under Frost's command.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: After summoning the Razor Khan, Frost tells Vathek and Drake to remember the following words as their men lay dead at their feet:
-->'''Frost''': We...gave...you...a...chance.



* WhiteFlag: To honor Jade's wish to give the rebels a chance to surrender, Frost approaches the prison's entrance with a white flag and one of his captains as a witness to tell that to Vathek and Drake. The warden considers shooting Frost, but Vathek says they'd arrested for a war crime.

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* SnarkingThanks: After learning that Frost's giving the rebels a chance to surrender because that's what Jade wants, Vathek thanks Frost for being one of the few things that haven't seemed to have changed in such a short period of time; in other words, he'll always be a brutish lackey for those more powerful than himself.
* SpitefulSpit: Vathek spits at Frost's boots while turning down the chance to surrender.
* WhiteFlag: To honor Jade's wish to give the rebels a chance to surrender, Frost approaches the prison's entrance with a white flag and one of his captains as a witness to tell that to give Vathek and Drake. Drake that chance over the wall of flames. The warden considers shooting Frost, but Vathek says they'd be arrested for a war crime.crime. After Frost's offer is turned down, he throws the flag into the fire and sics the Razor Khan on the defenders, satisfied he has a pretext to use them.

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* ArrowsOnFire: Two are used to tell Frost that the SecretUndergroundPassage to Cavigor has been excavated open.



* FlatWhat: Vathek and Drake have this reaction to Frost telling them that he's giving them a chance to surrender because he was asked to.



** Bulcro, the Sand Dweller head a Shallowsands, is in charge of breaking down the sealed entrance of the secret underground tunnel.

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** Bulcro, the Sand Dweller head a of Shallowsands, is in charge of breaking down the sealed entrance of the secret underground tunnel.





A rhino-rider named Curbag leads the reserve force that enters the secret underground tunnel to break into Cavigor, while Bulcro, the head of the Sand Dweller settlement named Shallowsands, is in charge of [[spoiler:breaking down the tunnel's sealed entrance]].

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\n\nA rhino-rider named Curbag leads * SecretUndergroundPassage: Shallowsands is revealed to have been built around the reserve force that enters the secret entrance of an underground tunnel leading to break into Cavigor, while Bulcro, Cavigor. Originally a maintenance tunnel used to make the head construction of the Sand Dweller settlement named Shallowsands, is in charge of [[spoiler:breaking down the tunnel's subterranean prison easier, it was magically sealed entrance]].by the contemporary queen and forgotten once the prison was completed. After Frost's reserve force digs the tunnel open, they use it to enter the prison while the main army launches the final assault.
* WhiteFlag: To honor Jade's wish to give the rebels a chance to surrender, Frost approaches the prison's entrance with a white flag and one of his captains as a witness to tell that to Vathek and Drake. The warden considers shooting Frost, but Vathek says they'd arrested for a war crime.
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* ContinuityNod: Bulcro is one of Cavigor's guards from "Escape from Cavigor", while the Spikeback is the kind of a creature that Cornelia run into while infiltrating Phobos' castle during "The Mogriffs".
* EpicFlail: The Spikeback opens the tunnel's entrance with a giant iron ball attached to a metal chain.
* GiantMook: When Curbag complains about the Sand Dwellers' slow progress on breaking down the seal of the underground tunnel, Bulcro calls in a Spikeback that finally breaks the seal with six strikes of his flail.
* MookLieutenant:
** Bulcro, the Sand Dweller head a Shallowsands, is in charge of breaking down the sealed entrance of the secret underground tunnel.
** Curbag, the second-in-command of the rhino-rider squads, leads the reserve force that enters the secret underground tunnel to break into Cavigor.


A rhino-rider named Curbag leads the reserve force that enters the secret underground tunnel to break into Cavigor, while Bulcro, the head of the Sand Dweller settlement named Shallowsands, is in charge of [[spoiler:breaking down the tunnel's sealed entrance]].

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