Battle Born (Dagger of the World Book 2) by K. L. Reinhart & Jada Fisher

Author:K. L. Reinhart & Jada Fisher [Reinhart, K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2021-07-26T16:00:00+00:00

10

Battle Magic

“Force them back!” Terak heard the Magister bellow, using her booming, ice-goddess voice. If it was meant to spread fear in the hearts of the Ixcht warriors, it apparently had no effect. The elf watched their number turn and hiss their strange, clicking voices at the approaching complement of Brothers and Sisters.

Terak itched to join the fight, but his hand was starting to pulse with pain. When he looked at it, although it had stopped bleeding, the wound had congealed into a large, ruddy scab. He didn’t like how it looked.

Instead, the elf decided to crawl around the battle-site, heading for the Eastern Gate while the Magister and her forces would—obviously—win.

Wouldn’t they?

Terak ran in a hunkered crouch, endeavoring to stay out of sight from the Ixcht. He no longer had any weapons, and he still needed to find Father Jacques, somehow, in all this madness.

“Forward! March! March!” the Magister was shouting as she strode forward, holding both of her arms high and wide as she managed the glittering blue sphere. Terak paused in his progress as he heard the first outraged chittering of the insect warriors.

Looking, he saw that one of the leading Ixcht had launched himself at the approaching blue dome. The warrior leaped high, flinging himself above the normal height of an elf or man. With scimitars raised, he came slamming down against the dome.

The warrior shrieked when he hit the blue shield and fell backward into the disturbed earth.

“Forward! Now!” the Magister yelled. She ran forward, while at the same time the first wave of Brothers and Sisters passed her. In their hands, they held the short spears that they used on the walls. As they lunged, the elf saw how, through some act of the Magister’s magic, their weapons could pass out of the dome, but the Ixcht could not penetrate in.

The team of Wall Brothers and Sisters hit the Ixcht as he struggled to his feet, and Terak saw how their weapons found the creature easily, lancing in and out of his body before the Magister was shouting once again.

“Back! Back! Back!” Magister Inedi commanded, and the Wall Brothers and Sisters jumped out of the way as the wounded Ixcht on the far side shuddered. Its neck once again started to change color, glowing with a sickly green light, and swell—

The Brothers and Sisters of the Enclave clustered around the Magister, who hadn’t moved from her forward stance, but the elf saw her slowly lower her arms down toward the trembling body in front of them. The shimmering haze of the blue shield seemed to intensify, becoming a thick cerulean wall of fog in the moments before the Ixcht exploded.

Some kind of chemical reaction. Terak kept his gaze on the bizarre death ritual of the insect warrior for as long as he could. The green glow had spread all across the upper body, swelling the thing’s carapace of scales as it did so. Then the body burst with a bright light that made Terak see after-images of a rising green ball.

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