(eng) Michael-Scott Earle by Dragon Slayer 02

Author:Dragon Slayer 02 [02, Dragon Slayer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

How the fuck had Emroth’s minions gotten into the tunnels beneath Windwall? If there was this small band here, how many more were in the tunnels around and below us? Even worse, had some of them found their way back up the path we’d come and into the city itself? Was an army of ghoulins even now ravaging Windwall, all because of the magical door I’d opened? All these thoughts whirled through my mind as I studied the hideous figures shambling up the tunnel toward me.

“It can’t be!” Captain Daxos whispered, and I saw his face had gone pale.

The ghoulins had seen us and were lurching faster to cover the remaining fifty yards to reach us. I could sense twelve or fifteen individual magical signatures, so there was no way Captain Daxos and I could take them all down alone.

“Come on,” I said and grabbed the captain’s arm. “Let’s get back to the others and make a battle plan.”

Captain Daxos stared at me with wide-eyed surprise, as if his mind was still trying to comprehend the ramifications of our discovery of Emroth’s minions in the passages. It took him a moment to gather himself, then he nodded and hurried after me back down the short tunnel to the circular room.

“It’s ghoulins,” I told the four people in the chamber.

A hint of fear flashed through Lieutenant Trosken and Sergeant Dai’s eyes. They had spent their lives fighting the creatures from behind the safety of the Windwall. Had they ever confronted the ghoulins directly, or had it always been with arrows, ballista bolts, stones, and burning pitch?

“We can’t let them get in here,” I said as I heard the ghoulins’ gurgling cries growing louder. “We hold them in the tunnel and use the room to give us more mobility. Sergeant Dai, you’ll hold the front line with the captain and me. Lieutenant, use your longer reach to keep them from breaking through.” My eyes went to Arieste and Irenya. “Be careful with your magic.”

“I’ll make sure you walk away from this without scorched eyebrows or burnt hair,” Irenya said with a mocking grin that prompted Daxos and Trosken to reach for their long, black braids.

“Time to see what that magical sword of yours can do, eh?” I told Captain Daxos. I pressed the white gemstone set into my shield, and a thin sheet of ice covered the wooden teardrop-shaped surface. I tapped into my ice magic to thicken the coating of ice. I could use a bit more protection against the claws and fangs of the ghoulins.

Flames crackled from Captain Daxos’s sword as he took his place on my right, and Sergeant Dai grunted as he stepped to my left.

“Let’s do this,” I growled just as the first of the ghoulins surged toward me.

The creatures had been horrifying enough from atop a dragon’s back, but now it was a much more direct threat. There was no Windwall to hide behind, nothing but the strength of my armor and weapons and my skill to keep me alive.

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