Shadowspell Academy: The Culling Trials (Book 1) by Shannon Mayer & K.F. Breene

Author:Shannon Mayer & K.F. Breene [Mayer, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hijinks Ink Publishing
Published: 2019-04-08T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Screams erupted back the way we’d come, followed by the sound of distant thumps. The golems had forgotten about us, just as I’d predicted.

A whole new problem lay ahead in this city of death we were trapped in. My eyes locked on what I could only see as a wall of death and dismemberment.

I didn’t mean figuratively either. The ground dipped easily ten feet into a hole that stretched the width of the alley from building to building. The ditch, if it could be called that, was six feet wide, and ended in a metal wall stretching up and out of sight into a bank of fog. It resembled an oversized chicken wire fence with large blades jutting out at random intervals, which would force an intrepid climber along a particular path. I blinked and the blades closest to the ground drew back and popped out somewhere else on the wall. A faint dusting of rain pattered down around us. Not fog, then. Clouds. Wet metal was a right bitch to climb, slippery and cold. I flexed my hands, already sizing up the best path to take, timing the emergence of the blades.

“Okay, so I’ve seen worse,” I said.

The buzz of electricity cut through the air, and the hair along my arms stood as parts of the wall glowed blue, sizzling against the rain.

“Really?” Gregory said beside me, rubbing his arms. “You’ve seen worse?”

I was going to answer but was interrupted by a bellow of pain somewhere above us. Way above us.

Pete swallowed hard enough that it was audible.

“Falls equate for a sum total of over six hundred fifty thousand, five hundred twenty deaths a year. Globally, that is,” Wally said softly, the fear in her voice palpable.

“I’ve seen worse. We can do this,” I repeated, more for myself than the others. “If those ladies in black ahead of us could get through, then so can we.”

“Those ladies in black,” Gregory said, “are from some of the longest lines of assassins this world has ever seen.”

“Then we need to figure out how they did it.” I took a few steps toward the ditch. The marks on the edge showed fresh scuffs left by the Bros who’d jumped across, pushing hard to make the full six-foot leap. I frowned as I lowered my gaze to the base of the ditch. I crouched and put my hands on the lip of the ditch, feeling the marks, seeing others that weren’t immediately visible if you were, say, running from the golems.

This challenge was like going through the most violent haunted house I’d ever thought possible. But it was a puzzle too—one with deadly stakes.

I wasn’t about to tell the others that I kinda liked it.

My wrist vibrated and I glanced at the watch as a message flashed across it.

Getting passed is bad for your health.

“Did you just get that message too?” I looked up at the other three and they nodded in unison.

Which meant we had to go.

Gregory launched across the open space, covering it easily, and began to climb the wall, his words echoing my thoughts.

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