Champion's Bond by Rinelle Grey

Author:Rinelle Grey [Grey, Rinelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-12-26T06:00:00+00:00

14

Taking a Chance

The pass seemed longer than he remembered.

At least he was here and he didn’t have any lingering effects from the woman’s magical attack. She had thrown a lot of power at him, even if she was untrained. Strange that it hadn’t affected him more.

But he wasn’t arguing.

He should be further towards the front of the troll force running towards the human village, but Kriss had insisted that a dozen trolls go ahead to clear out any humans before she and Jasyn emerged from the pass. Apparently his injuries last night had shaken her.

Jasyn stepped around a dead troll who had fallen across the four human corpses. He didn’t look down to see who it was. There were going to be losses. He couldn’t let them get to him now, or their sacrifices would be in vain. He needed to focus on his goal—getting that gem and removing the human threat.

The end of the pass was up ahead. Soon he’d see the village. Jasyn gathered up his magic, letting it roll down into the village ahead of him.

A rainbow of colours danced between him and the end of the pass. Between him and the first group of trolls who had raced ahead and were smashing through the human’s wall.

As he watched, the colours separated and arranged themselves neatly into a full spectrum, one colour fitting and merging tightly with the one next to it. Trapping them in the pass. Jasyn flung his magic at it, searching for a way through, trying to batter it down or find a crack.

But it was firm. He’d never seen anything like it.

Were the two mages who had come after him last night actually not their most powerful? Had he grossly underestimated the humans’ magical power?

Had he brought all the trolls here to die?

“Stop!” He held up his hands and the trolls behind him halted.

None of them could see the barrier. Kriss didn’t say anything, just waited for him to speak.

“There’s a magical barrier,” he said quietly. “Right in front of us. And no way through.”

As if they couldn’t believe him, a couple of trolls walked up to the barrier, feeling it with their hands, beating on it with their swords.

It was all pointless. All of it.

“How high does it go?” Kriss asked.

Of course. Without even stopping to answer, Jasyn turned to the barrier and sent his magic skimming up it. Up, up, and then he was over and flying towards the village.

He let a portion of his consciousness fly with the magic to find out who was controlling this barrier. That person would be the one with the gem. If he found them and attacked them while their magic was busy holding the barrier, the trolls could make it through and take the gem.

He followed the stream of rainbow magic back to the village. On top of one of the wooden towers stood four mages, holding hands.

Four of them? Four mages working together, sharing their magic and sharing one gem? That wasn’t possible.

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