Sorcerer of the Ancient Depths: The Vanished Book 2 by Jay Barnson

Author:Jay Barnson [Barnson, Jay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rampant Publishing
Published: 2022-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter thirteen

Endless

“Everyone, stay on the stairs. Check the door above us.” I called, using my Telepathic Command. Kaela and I positioned ourselves on the first landing, while the others continued up to the second landing and the door. The zombies surged toward us at an uneven jog, closing the distance to the stairway more rapidly than the previous minions.

“If we’d been down there opening the big doors…” Kaela started to say.

“It was a trap,” I said. We would have been engulfed and killed within seconds. Part of me really had wanted to go through the double doors, so it was only chance that we were still alive. For a little while longer, at least.

The minions climbed the stairs two at a time. They were armed with swords, but the first ones in the group were not wearing armor. Perhaps that was why they were moving faster than the rest. I sliced the arm off my enemy, while Kaela’s larger, curved blade bisected her opponent cleanly in half from its shoulder to its thigh. I kicked my now-one-armed foe into the oncoming horde behind it, while the two pieces of Kaela’s enemy slid down the stairs, hands grasping for us as they descended.

I tried to count the mass of enemies pursuing us, but things were happening too quickly, and there were simply too many of them—easily over a hundred.

“The door won’t budge!” Roark called down.

“Are you sure?” I called back.

“Do you think we’re not trying?”

“Shit,” I muttered as Kaela and I engaged the next two undead minions. With regeneration, they might as well be endless. Like the others in the front of the surge, these were not armored. We hacked, rendering them temporarily incapacitated as they were pushed out of the way by the next group.

“There’s one coming up with a battle-axe,” Kaela said. “You should take it.”

I wasn’t sure how long my sword would keep its recently-maintained edge. Not long, once the armored zombies made their way to the front. I looked down at the advancing mass, and spotted the one Kaela was referring to about two rows away. Our only salvation was that our position limited them to attacking us two at a time, forcing them to stand in line.

Mostly.

“Holt, behind you!” Malwyn cried out. I turned in time to avoid a spear being jabbed at me from below. The minion wielding it couldn’t reach higher than my knee, but that could have been enough to pull me down. As I was distracted, another minion threw itself forward on the stairs, forcing Kaela to handle two at a time. I pulled Dane’s trick of kicking the monster backward, at an angle that made it fall from the stairs into the sea of minions making their way onto the steps.

“I’ve got your back!” Malwyn said, moving behind us on the landing. “You worry about the guys in front. Try not to push me off!” Small, and faster with the club than I would have anticipated, she intercepted the next spear thrust from below, binding the spearhead with one of the spikes from her club, and yanked.

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