A Shade of Vampire 57 by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight
Published: 2018-03-01T16:00:00+00:00

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We reached the hill base just as another explosion rocked the entire city from beneath. It came as a surprise, and it prompted me to look at Vesta, who seemed just as shocked as I was. Instinctively, I shifted my focus to Velnias, who was grinning ear to ear.

“The pacifists,” he said. “They finally did it.”

We all slowed down and turned around to look at the city of Kerentrith. The sea of daemons behind us had stopped running, too. Vesta frowned and waved the smoke curtain away to reveal the trembling mass of white marble buildings, just as a second bang erupted below.

“What’s happening?” I asked, noticing the daemons as they came to a halt, most of them no longer bothered by their companions on the front line writhing in agony as the blue flames of Druid fire consumed them.

Caia shot another Death Claw down. The creature landed somewhere to our right, its bones crushed upon impact. A third explosion tore through the underground, and we all gathered and took several steps back. I could hear the murmurs and gasps of daemons, all of them stunned and wide-eyed as they realized what was happening in Draconis below.

“The pacifists are sabotaging the support structures of the prison,” Velnias said, narrowing his eyes at the crowd of confused daemons. “What you’re looking at now is a bunch of confused idiots who don’t know whether they should keep chasing after us or go back down and see what’s going on.”

“Well, what exactly is going on?” I asked, wiping the sweat and soot from my face.

“We’ve always had this plan, you see,” Velnias said. “As long as we knew it wouldn’t all end with mass arrests and a botched rebellion, we were ready to do it. We rigged the four support pillars of Draconis a long time ago. There are hundreds of pounds of explosives embedded in the columns. We took turns hiding them and connecting the wires. It took decades to have it go unnoticed. Once you people came in and told me what your plans were, I knew… I knew it was time to do this. The one thing we’ve been waiting for.”

The fourth explosion startled us. It came from the underground pillars that were closest to our location. The ground shuddered beneath us, prompting me to grab Caspian’s shoulder for support. It was then that I understood the length to which the daemon pacifists were willing to go for the sake of a new world that didn’t involve eating souls and tormenting innocent creatures. They were bringing their entire city down, in the name of freedom.

They were ready to kill scores of their own, as long as they had the guarantee, or at least enough faith, that someone would help them bring the entire regime of King Shaytan and the Exiled Maras down. We were the outside force they’d been waiting for.

“And now, we need to go,” Velnias added, staring at the daemons. “They’re about to find out the speed with which an underground city can collapse in on itself.

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