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With only three pieces away from forming the Octa Virga, the Winter King prepares his armies of monsters and humans to overtake the realm and claim it as his own-crown himself a God. But his daughter lays the chessmen to play one last game of deceit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho will move first?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pawn can be a queen, but a queen can never be a pawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd a king who has lost his queen will do everything to claim her back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn alliance like no other forms in Numen to face the inevitable war. 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