Eskau: An Unplanned Infiltration, Progression Fantasy (Millennial Mage Book 7) by J.L. Mullins

Author:J.L. Mullins [Mullins, J.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter: 35

That Depends

Tala lay on the ground, surrounded by slowly leaking, broken constructs of metal and magic.

That was actually pretty exhausting. What the rust?

The ten heavily armored automata had required her to get in close and hack through their defenses a little at a time, all while evading the ones she wasn’t currently assaulting.

The stupid things had had wells of power that were entirely too deep, and they had that power directly connected to their own integrity-defending magics, rendering her disintegration breath ineffective, at least at its current efficiency.

The automata were too quick to cut their losses and seal off limbs for the void-blades to reasonably drain them.

They had just enough magical weight to make enacting workings directly on them infeasible.

She’d tried to hold them in place to deliver punishing blows, but they’d worked together to wriggle free or otherwise minimize the damage.

Thus, most of her hits had sent them flying away, allowing that target to heal while she fought the other nine.

Throughout, they’d struck her with armored, empowered fists and mostly mundane blades.

The attacks had hurt, but only occasionally made her bleed, sometimes internally, sometimes mixing her red blood with their purple vital fluids to splash across the ground.

Thus, the fight had turned into a contest of endurance.

It was no surprise to Tala that she had won in the end, but it had taken a couple of hours.

That was dumb. She was no longer panting.

Honestly, she’d never needed to breathe heavier, but her body still had that reaction to extended, strenuous activities.

How can something requiring such precision, and filled with so much action, have been so boring?

-Repetition?-

It had been incredibly repetitive.

-They knew you to be an unstoppable force with what they had available, so they sent a delaying force?-

Yeah… that would be my guess from their actions as well. She sat up.

Even knowing that this hold was delaying her for some reason, she still wanted to prepare. Sure, she could go sprinting off to find whatever they were doing, but a half-hour more of preparation would set her up so much better for whatever this place had in store and shouldn’t mean the difference between success and failure.

-Deep within the bowels of the guild hold, the ‘Tala-destroyer’ neared completion. They just needed twenty more minutes. Their best minds were at a loss: How could they delay the invader? Little did they know, the invader was delaying herself.-

Rust you, Alat. I’m trying to be wise and methodical.

-Definitely the wise choice. This won’t be the point at which, in a poetic twist, your standard brashness would have been the wiser course.-

Tala glared at nothing in particular, making it very clear that the look was intended for Alat.

-Fine, fine. Do what you want.-

I was going to anyway.

Tala pulled out a set of one-inch tungsten spheres and hesitated.

You know, instead of tying these on after, I can skip a step by… She applied her will and power to the garments, and a small flap of leather extended from the front of her elk leathers.

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