Metal Mage 9 by Eric Vall

Author:Eric Vall [Vall, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2019-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

The sight of my three women each grabbing a limb of the enormous carcass and hoisting it over their shoulders for me was equal parts comical and fucking ridiculous, but they sent me wry grins as I walked past them to follow the leader.

Then they towed the damned thing behind me for what seemed like ages at the pace of the ogres, and I could hear them straining against the weight of it while they tried to stay in proper formation.

Did I feel like an asshole? Kind of, but the periodic laughter coming from Aurora as Deya fumbled to get a good grip on her leg eased my conscience a bit. Considering we were walking out in the open with about seventy ogres who were not trying to eat us, I would say things were going pretty well, and as I looked around, I couldn’t help but feel a little badass. I was the only one in the whole flock with three women in my pride, but I saw a couple ornery looking ogre men with two ogre women carting dead bodies at their backs.

The majority shuffled along solo with all manner of lizards, birds, slugs, and what looked like dark red bats slung over their shoulders, but every single ogre I saw had a stout stone drinking vessel clutched in one hand.

“When we get to the caves, don’t show any hesitation around Grot,” Haragh warned. “Go right to where he’s sittin’ and get yer bird cooked up.”

“When can I start discussing the missing ogres?” I asked as I eyed an ogre who turned to clock one of his women over the head with a dead lizard she’d accidentally dropped.

“Oh, get right to it,” Haragh instructed. “Don’t tiptoe around nothin’, ogres have no patience for it, especially Grot. If he gets too bored, he’ll set his women on ye’.”

“Fantastic,” I muttered, and when Hulsan snorted, I glanced over. “How you holding up?”

“Just fine.” The old guy shrugged as he pulled his tin of pollen out. “It’s about how I pictured it. Muddy, slimy, piss all over. We’re not dead, so I’ve got no complaints.”

He took a loud snort of pollen as he stepped out of the way of an ogre’s arm, and he kept on walking through the mud like it was any old day on the farm. He might’ve been a bit rough around the edges, but he handled weird shit surprisingly well, and I guessed he must have seen many strange things during his thirty-five years in the Order.

“Yeah, this isn’t half bad,” I chuckled. “I’m sure you’ve seen worse. Did you ever deal with ogres when you were serving the Order?”

“I’ve seen a lot,” Hulsan said as he raised his bushy brows, “but I’ve never seen a mage waltz into Jagruel and not get eaten.”

“Not eaten yet, anyways,” I said with a grin, and Hulsan chuckled as he stepped around a bubbling spring of mud.

“I’m startin’ to think you might walk out of here with that alliance after all,” the old man admitted, and he studied me carefully for a moment.

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