Ikta and his soldiers are sent to deliver supplies to the struggling imperial armies as the war continues. Unused to fighting in the high mountains, and led by incompetent leaders the imperial soldiers suffer heavy casualties.  Ikta devises a brilliant stratagem to retake an enemy fortress, but when a messenger begs him for help in saving his allies, he's forced to choose between risking his own soldiers life, and bringing another imperial force to certain doom.
It's new technology that old man Anarai
put into use in Kioka,
إنّها تقنيّة جديدة طبّقَها العجوز أناراي في كيوكا
Eine neue Technologie,
die der alte Anarai in Kioka genutzt hatte
Es la nueva tecnología
que Analy introdujo a Kioka,
Es la nueva tecnología
que Analy introdujo a Kioka,
C’est une technologie
qu’Anarai a mise en pratique à Kioka
È la tecnologia 
di cui mi aveva parlato il vecchio Anrai
É a nova tecnologia que o velho 
Anarai colocou em prática em Kioka,
Старикан Анарай внедрил эту технологию
 в республике, а заодно и мне о ней рассказал.