The Awakening: A Dark Romantasy (Blood and Kisses Book 2) by Paquette-Harvey Danielle

Author:Paquette-Harvey, Danielle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 (Erendriel)

Living Armors

Ithought we’d killed most of the dwarven army, and we probably had, but I wasn’t prepared for what awaited us when we got to the courtyard. An army of living armors, as far as the eye could see. There were dozens of them blocking our way into the castle. The armors floated in the air. The metal pieces weren’t even touching, and they had no feet. Yet they acted as beings, brandishing swords and shields in their invisible hands.

There was no flesh to wound, no blood to shed.

We’d been trying to get past them for hours. The sun was bathing the morning in its light. Yet the air was filled with nothing but dust as the wind blew and the ever-present smell of blood rose in the heat of the day ahead. People were not stirring in the streets, for they were still hiding. Death had not finished taking her share of souls.

I had no idea how dwarves possessed living armor. Dwarves had no magical powers, and I’d never seen anything like it. I’d be sure to ask Elaine when I returned to my kingdom.

No matter how hard we struck, the pieces of armor moved to avoid the blades of our swords. We felt as if they were mocking us. As I swung my sword again, my lungs burned from the effort. My heartbeat echoed in my head, mingling with the clash of swords and the cries of my soldiers, exhausted by prolonged combat.

The arrows of my archers struck armor and fell to the ground. The mages’ spells passed straight through without causing any damage. Yet everyone continued to fight the same way as the living armors struck relentlessly. Nothing seemed to exhaust them.

The few soldiers wielding a mace were the only ones who seemed to have any effect on the damned piles of junk. They sent pieces flying around, a stone floating in place in the center when they hit the enemy full force with a blow in the middle. We thought we’d found the way to victory, but it was short-lived, as the pieces immediately came together again.

We continued to strike, and despite the goddess’s magic, I was beginning to tire. I parried a sword at the last minute, just in time so it didn’t hit my face. As I kept pushing my sword to counter my enemy, a soldier at my side struck my assailant with a violent mace strike. As the pieces flew through the air, I was drawn to the rune that floated and grabbed it. The armor immediately fell to the ground, dead once and for all. Whatever this stone was, it was the source of the armor’s power.

“Hit the armor hard and grab the runes,” I ordered.

One by one, the living armor fell. The sound of clinking metal hitting the ground was our salvation. Moments later, a pile of armor, swords, and shields lay in the cursed courtyard. After hours of fighting, we were finally about to reach our goal.

I studied one of the stone runes in my hand.

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