James's Ragtag Adventures in Questworld: The Eye of the Earth by M. Doyle

Author:M. Doyle
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Young Adult, Magic, Action & Adventure, Fantasy, Video Games, Boys, Friendship
ISBN: 9781734465341
Publisher: Brie House Publishing
Published: 2020-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

Barrett the Red

“Walker be hiring kids now, eh?” Barrett says. “Not surprising after what happened to his old crew.”

“Look, we were just looking for a ride to the northern lands,” I say, hoping to pull off a better bluff than EJ did with the elemental. “We have no beef with you. You wanna get revenge or whatever on Captain John go for it, it’s none of our business as long as we can get to the northern lands.”

“Even if ye story be true, I can’t let ye be, lad. How would it look if word got out that Barrett the Red has a soft heart?” Barrett says, getting into his own fighting stance.

“Yeah, I kinda figured that was the case,” I say nervously.

Barrett charges in, swinging his sword in a downward motion. I get my sword up to block, but the power of his swing almost rips my sword from my hand.

He comes in with three more strikes, all of which I block, and all of them almost causing me to drop my sword. He’s strong, like, crazy strong. I don’t know how much longer I can keep deflecting these attacks.

“That all ye got lad?” Barrett asks, coming in with another attack.

I dodge this one by sidestepping and go on the offensive. He’s blocking all of my attacks with ease, but at least he’s not swinging back yet. I don’t think I can handle blocking anymore of his attacks.

“Brie!” I yell, trying to keep all the pressure on Barrett that I can.

“Don’t worry lad, I’ll be getting to her soon enough,” Barrett says, parrying my sword to the side and coming in with an attack of his own.

His attack is too fast to block so I spin to the right and the blade catches me across the top of my arm. I wince in pain and take a step back.

Barrett doesn’t slow down one bit, coming in with another swing. I get my sword in front of his with a sloppy parry that blocks the attack but knocks my sword out of my hand at the same time.

Barrett raises his sword again...

“Duck!” I hear through the guild stone.

I hit the deck as Bentley blindsides Barrett with a drop kick. Bentley lands on the deck hard but quickly gets to his feet, axe in hand.

“Dude, not cool tryin to sword my best friend to death,” Bentley says.

I grab my sword off the deck and take up a fighting stance next to Bentley.

“Hah!” Barrett laughs, “the two of ye be no match for Barrett the Red.”

“We’ll see,” Bentley says, charging in to attack.

I follow right behind him, focusing my attacks on the opposite side Bentley is, hoping Barrett is not quick enough to block us.

He is.

And he doesn’t even look like he’s breaking a sweat.

“Dude, let’s chain him,” Bentley says, “rising into earth.”

A chain attack is something you could do in Questworld where one person did a special skill, and if you followed it up with a complimentary skill, it would cause a powerful combined attack.

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