Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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663
With it their secret strongholds might be penetrated.
5
664
With it one man might, in time, slaughter an army.
5
665
I was pleased that the fourth ring had been brought to Gor.
5
666
Without it, given to me by a dying Kur warrior, I doubted that I could have survived to prevent, some years ago, the detonation of the explosives in the steel tower, in the Tahari, explosives that were intended to destroy Gor and the priest-kings, that the path to Earth might be cleared for conquest.
5
667
But the faction that would have been willing to destroy one world to obtain another was, we speculated, no longer in the ascendancy on the steel worlds.
5
668
Half-Ear, a war general of the Kurii, whom I had met in the north, had not been of that faction.
5
669
Kurii now, it seemed reasonably clear, were again intent upon the possibilities of invasion.
With it their secret strongholds might be penetrated.
With it one man might, in time, slaughter an army.
I was pleased that the fourth ring had been brought to Gor.
Without it, given to me by a dying Kur warrior, I doubted that I could have survived to prevent, some years ago, the detonation of the explosives in the steel tower, in the Tahari, explosives that were intended to destroy Gor and the priest-kings, that the path to Earth might be cleared for conquest.
But the faction that would have been willing to destroy one world to obtain another was, we speculated, no longer in the ascendancy on the steel worlds.
Half-Ear, a war general of the Kurii, whom I had met in the north, had not been of that faction.
Kurii now, it seemed reasonably clear, were again intent upon the possibilities of invasion.
- (Explorers of Gor, Chapter )