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emitted, invisible for them, were enough to hush any throat. In the moment in which the
Princess was drawing the primordial Sign and the Dragon rose, a frightfulness scream sprouted
from every mouth. Just over the turret, not so far from its roof, the sky moved along as if
would have been torn a cloth.
A black aperture was now clearly visible for all those who were witnessing the weird
phenomenon. And the most curious and abnormal was that the tenebrous hole occulted
completely the Sun, even if this, for being much higher, should be seen from some far angle.
However no one saw the Sun anymore, although its light continued illuminating the
midday as if it would have been on its zenith. It is comprehensible that submitted to such
intense emotions no one worried about the luck of the Sun due to, meanwhile, the terror had
paralyzed the cowards hamitic, the Kassites howled with fury elevating their fists towards the
sky. Is due to the spectacle was impressive and justified any distraction. The monster of fire,
after the Gates of Heaven were opened, had transformed completely. In a first moment seemed
as though the frightful head had been introduced into the tenebrous aperture due to just a
shining cylinder was visible, as a beam of fire that emerged from the turret and interned on the
heights. But suddenly was evident that a metamorphosis was occurring and after a few seconds
a new prodigy was offered to the startled sight of the dwellers of Borsippa. First it turned
bulbous and then covered by protuberances, while its colour was changing dyeing brown; then,
very quickly, the bulbs extended outwards and transformed in sharp branches covered of acute
thorns and some green leaves; just some seconds later it became in a giant hawthorn tree which
rose, extraordinarily, over the Ziggurat of the King Nimrod.
From the base of the Tower just a part of the trunk and of the superior foliage was
possible to see, because the coup seemed to fade away inside the Door of Heaven whereas the
root remained occult to the sight, in the interior of the turret. But what is worth to standout is
that, once completed the metamorphosis, disappeared every trace of fire, energy or plasma, and
the phenomenon stabilized without occurring more changes. It seemed then as if the hawthorn
tree would have been always there… except for the sinister rift of the Sky that suggested
outrageously every kind of alterations anomalies of the natural order.
But no one had the enough time as to be horrified. Once the Sky was opened two
figures ran rapidly up to the last ramp, which guided to the terrace of the turret, and there,
they tightened the arches pointing towards the Threshold. They were Nimrod and Ninurta, the
King and the Brave General, the only warriors who possessed the armour of metal and that, for
this reason, they advanced first, protected by the Elite of archers.
The King and the General were pointing their arches towards the mists of the aperture
trying to distinguish a target when, suddenly, two figures emerged brandishing enormous
swords. The Demons, with aspect of «men of White Race», of five cubits high, seemed to be
floating on the air, but in some way they obtained point of support due to they achieved to
discharge their swords over the heroic archers. The blades lightened when furrowing the space
but they rebounded without penetrating the armors of Nimrod and Ninurta. Nevertheless the
impact made them roll stunned by the roof of the turret that was part of the last terrace.
A rain of arrows struck over the «Immortal Demons» and, even if many of them
rebounded on their armors, many others penetrating riddling them. Both giants fell wounded

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