Deadly Rescue: (The Path of Dragons, Book 5) by Pedro Urvi

Author:Pedro Urvi [Urvi, Pedro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pedro Urvi
Published: 2025-07-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29

They came out of the building and prepared to follow the soldiers, archers, and the two Magi. Lasgol went first, with Viggo at his heels. Nilsa and Gerd followed them. They went in a single file, as they usually did, and they went close to the wall of the building, moving cautiously.

Lasgol got to the corner and put his head out in a whiplash movement to look without being seen. He raised his fist, and they all stopped.

“More soldiers and archers are coming to join the ones we’ve seen,” he told them in a whisper.

“And more Magi?” Nilsa asked with interest.

Lasgol shook his head.

“Soldiers with spears and shields and archers,” he informed them. Then he waited a moment and took another quick look. He motioned for them to keep going.

They headed southeast. The soldiers and Magi were running as if chased by savage lions. Lasgol followed, also at a run but carefully, checking the adjacent streets and tall buildings in case anyone saw them. As he went on passing avenues and squares punished by the attacks, he thought that, in the eyes of the defenders, they would look like another group of archers trying to connect with the group running ahead of them. They would not look too suspicious. That eased him, but even so, he did not cease looking right and left at all times, just in case. If they encountered another group something ugly might happen, like the last time, and now was not the moment for additional complications.

They turned the corner of a large building that was quite punished, and they found the reason why the soldiers and Magi were in such a hurry. Right ahead of them they found another group of soldiers, archers, and Magi fighting against a brown dragon that roared, proclaiming the death it brought. It was standing on the ground and was attacking the soldiers with its mouth, killing them with its jaws.

“We’ll hide in the heights,” Lasgol told his friends as he climbed the half-collapsed stairs of a four-story building. As he climbed the steps, he noted that the stairs and part of the wall were about to crumble.

“Be careful, light feet,” he warned his friends.

“Rather than feet, feather body,” Viggo replied, as the step where he set his right foot collapsed. With his prodigious agility, Viggo flew in a jump to the next step and went on climbing. They were going as fast and gracefully as they could. Lasgol reached the open rooftop, and Viggo followed close behind. Nilsa was almost at the last steps when Gerd put his hand on the wall and it crumbled inside. The giant, with his physical episodes, was unable to recover and fell inside the building, following the wall. Nilsa heard the noise and turned her head.

“Oh no…” she muttered and went back down to help Gerd.

The giant was on his side on the floor, covered in dust. Nilsa entered the building with her bow at the front and saw there was no danger.

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