Legacy of Winter by Sarah Hawke

Author:Sarah Hawke [Hawke, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Erotica
Publisher: Jade Fantasy
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

4

“Forget learning ancient moshalim channeling techniques,” I grumbled. “If we survive this, Zalheer is going to teach us how to channel a silence spell.”

When the Roskarim drums continued pounding for the second consecutive hour following the wyvern attack, I genuinely started to question the limits of my own sanity. Every echoing beat felt like a miniature earthquake in my skull, and I was half tempted to take the girls and charge straight into their lines just to get this over with. Hell couldn’t possibly be this annoying.

“She’s here,” Kaseya whispered. She was crouched down next to the battlements again, her forehead creased in concentration.

“What?” I asked. “Who?”

“Ayrael. I can sense her presence amongst the army.”

“Well, that’s just wonderful,” Valuri muttered. “You two better have enough energy left to fight her when she personally leads their next charge.”

The words had barely escaped her lips when the war drums abruptly changed their rhythm. On cue, the distant wall of torches began crawling forward like a giant, undulating mass of flame and flesh. The Roskarim gradually picked up speed as they drew closer, the moonlight glinting off their sharp axes.

“Archers: to the wall!” General Serrane’s voice rang out across the fortress. The Icewatch defenders and her surviving rangers lined up along the battlements, and Kaseya and Valuri followed suit.

“It’s been a while since I used one of these,” Val said as she lifted the bow she’d been given.

“If you fire in their general direction I’m sure you’ll hit something,” I replied, grimacing. I had mostly recovered from overchanneling earlier, but my arms and fingers were still tingling. I honestly wasn’t sure how long I would be able to keep this up…

“Archers: nock!” Serrane shouted. “Draw!”

I held my breath and watched as the barbarians charged closer and closer. They weren’t riding wolves or hiding behind a wall of shields; they were just running forward and screaming like a horde of bloodthirsty orcs. I wondered distantly if Ayrael had tried to teach them better tactics or if she simply didn’t care how many of them died.

“Fire!”

A volley of arrows streaked through the night sky and rained down upon the charging Roskarim, maiming or outright killing dozens of their warriors. But the dead were swiftly trampled into the dirt by the living, and the screams of the wounded were completely drowned out by a new wave of battle cries.

“Nock! Draw! Fire!”

The defenders unleashed another salvo, but no matter how many barbarians died it didn’t seem to thin their numbers in the slightest. Still, the more we killed here the fewer we would have to deal with when—

“Get down!”

I glanced up just in time to watch the distant catapults fire another salvo of flaming boulders. The surviving wizards conjured a barrier, but there weren’t enough of them to cover all the gaps. I reached out to the Aether to try and help…

But it was already too late. The boulders crashed into the fortress, showering the battlements in even more oily, flaming debris. Most of the archers in

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