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who didn't share his dream and controlled the lands north and east of him.
"Also, according to Freeze, Korbac was not only super aggressive, he was also super smart. He knew he couldn't defeat the Tobors without some help, and we're talking serious help, because the enemy outnumbered Korbac's troops four to one.
"Freeze's version is that this hunk called Korbac went up on a nearby mountain to meditate and pray the night before he launched his campaign. There, so the story goes, he ran into this strange-looking little monk who went by the namewanta take a wild guess?that's right, Sate.
"Freeze paints him like your prototypical apocryphal monksack cloth robes, long stringy beard, thong-wrapped feet, the whole nine yards. Supposedly, Sate told Korbac to study his own weakness and he will know his enemy.
"Korbac plunges into a fit of confession and confides that his biggest fear is that he will be outwitted in battle because he has heard that the Tobors are brilliant war strategists. Sate then calmly informs him that the only way Korbac can overcome this disadvantage is through the process of fortification, and that through this process he will be brilliant in battle. Pretty heady stuff, huh?"
"So what's this fortification bit?"
"This part will knock your socks off,"

 
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