The Treacherous Alchemy (The Magic Academy of Paris Book 2) by Isabel Campbell & Michael Anderle

Author:Isabel Campbell & Michael Anderle [Campbell, Isabel & Anderle, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2023-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Sam took a deep breath and put up her shield.

She remembered what Helena had told her. Let your magic flow. don’t let it dominate. With her shield up, she had already taken the first step. Sam cast a fire rune. At her back, Helena let out a cry and sent her magic jolting into the revenants gathering around her. Sam faced four of her own. She felt her magic coursing through and called on the magic in the rune on the ground to her fingers. Sam yelled and sent it forward, blazing into the human flesh worn by the controlled creatures.

To her dismay and surprise, it did little other than hinder them from moving forward. The fire burned through their flesh but seemed to give them no sense of pain. Sam’s heart thundered. Could they only be hurt from magic within? That seemed to be the case.

She set her jaw and waved her wand, speaking the spell to stun. This kept the two she hit from coming forward with their reaching hands and gave her time to deal with the others. She pulled out her knife with her other hand and cut across the revenant’s chest. A thin line of dark red blood appeared. The revenant made no reaction, only a pained sound, as if something was happening inside it.

Sam lurched forward and cut across its chest again, intersecting with the cut she had already made. More blood poured forward but the revenant was not backing down. With a wild cry of rage, Sam plunged the knife into its chest. She did not have time to take it out before something grabbed at her shoulders and yanked her back, slapping a clammy hand over her mouth. Sam struggled. The revenant that had taken hold of her was weaker and she jammed her elbow back into its stomach, making it double over. She whirled and kicked up, hitting the creature in the face with the end of her boot. It fell with a moan. Sam turned again, this time to wrench the knife from the revenant she had killed. The creatures let off a strong odor as they lay on the ground, dead or injured. The one she had stabbed began to smoke.

Sam set her jaw and spun to face the two revenants she had stunned before. They had gotten to their feet and staggered toward her, eyes wild with the desire to kill. Ironic, Sam thought, since the human aspect of these creatures seemed to have once been killed themselves. By what or whom, she did not know, and now was not the time to consider it.

Behind her, she sensed the swift movements of Helena fending off the other revenants. Sam reinforced her shield and plunged her magic into it so that when the two revenants lunging toward her collided with her magic, they were stunned and thrown back more than they were when she’d used the spell.

Sam stalked over to them and pointed her wand at one, then the other.

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