Blade of Rebels (The Lost Sect Book 2) by Julian Gyll

Author:Julian Gyll [Gyll, Julian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Portal Books
Published: 2023-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Forty

“Can you weave a vine of fire like that again?” Aelia asked.

I nodded.

“Give me one end, and then ignite it when I give the signal!”

I did as I was told, a gout of shadows came to my hands, and I knotted them into a vine.

“Tie it to my blade!” she instructed, a dagger materializing in her fist. I did as I was told, she made it easier by creating a hilt to knot around it in a figure eight.

I had hardly even begun when Aelia threw herself forward, her strides so long that it seemed more like she was flying. Her figure, cloaked in black, tore across the roof, with me following behind her. The vine trailed longer and longer as it stretched from Aelia’s dagger and my hands.

She tore across the line dividing the rebels and the Lightguard, the boundary tightened between two snarling hordes. There were weapons, made of gold and silver light as well as shadow and ice lining that divide but it did not deter Aelia. She stayed close to the rebels, who gave her cover by throwing projectiles at the Lightguard and got them to take a step back.

When the clamor of weaponry was too thick, she cried out… and threw herself down, skidding across the tiles and passing under the spikes. Rolling, she made it to the far side of the corner of the roof. Leaping up again, she curled behind a Lightguard and dug her dagger into his shoulders.

There was now a shadow-cord stretching from a guard’s shoulders on the far side of the battle, to me.

“Ignite!” Aelia bellowed.

I obeyed. Using my Mind’s Eye, I combined the dragon’s flames with the vine, until black flames overlined it, leaping from the streak of shadows.

It created a dark, midnight fire between the rebels and the guards.

The Lightguard retreated, stepping away from the black glare of the fire. It caused a ripple of shock, and I realized that these soldiers might not have ever seen the Shade used in such a way, or at such a grand scale.

It gave the rebels the time they needed.

“Go!” Aelia ordered. The first rebel turned away from the fight and went to the edge of the roof. The chute carrying Elixir down into the city was almost directly below them, the river held in the air by stone. They leapt and landed in the water, getting whisked away into the city.

The rest of the rebels followed, wrestling their hostages with them, plunging them into the waters, and getting carried off too, a stream of black figures pouring off the roof and plunging into the moving waters of the Elixir.

Some guards tried to leap over the line of black flames or stamp it down. It was wrenched from my grasp, and the cord dissipated.

Chaos broke out across the roof. The Lightguard went to pursue the rebels, getting to the chute, and it was all Aelia could do to hold them off. Her daggers back in her hands, she parried and danced, doing her best to hold them back.

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