The area ahead had suffered trampling, the ground pockmarked with depressions created by tremendous force, the soil upturned, as if the land had been plowed anew.
At Star Dragon Ridge outpost, Great Knight Leo gripped his longsword, a faint red glow of flames wrapped around the blade. The ground before him was charred. On the ground lay a twisted shield of Rand infantry, a huge hoofprint nearly piercing through it.
A bizarre combination of man and horse...
When Lind arrived, he finally saw what the hoofprints he had been tracking belonged to.
Covered in long, black hair with a horse's lower body that had no neck, a large mouth positioned at the forefront, its teeth shining coldly like steel blades.
And on that massive body, a human's upper torso grew.
A centaur, but not the typical form, as certainly the upper body of a centaur does not grow from the horse's hindquarters.
