Weaponsmaster 8: A Monster Girl Fantasy Adventure (Weaponsmaster Saga) by Phil Aerix

Author:Phil Aerix [Aerix, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-01-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Forty-Five

The clearing we’d stopped in allowed me to build up to top speed quickly. So quickly that the umbrenix’s pause allowed me to get closer than I would if it had taken off running. I wasn’t sure if it was going to take the classic umbrenix response and attack me or the increasingly common choice of fleeing. Either way, I needed to get to it, and fast. Flat out, they could move faster than me.

I started spinning one of my chain knives by a short length of chain. It was something I couldn’t usually do in heavy forest, but there were still several paces of clearing before I reached the monster. I planned on taking advantage of it.

I’d only made it to within ten feet of the shadow when it started moving away from me. I only had one chance to get my attack right. Once it moved into more congested areas, there was no way I’d be able to outrun it.

Just before I released my knife a blur zipped past me and slammed into it. The familiar black and yellow fletching on the arrow pressed my mouth into a rictus grin. Fuck yeah, Tip! The arrow didn’t kill the umbrenix, but it caused the monster to wobble, to stumble. If that was even the right word with how the shadows glided. I didn’t care how it should be described. All I knew was that Tip’s attack gave me the second I needed to release my weapon.

The chain knife flew through the air, dragging the chain attached to it as if it had no weight at all. It missed the umbrenix by inches, passing by it without harm. But then I yanked on the chain, which caused the knife to flip. The weapon came back toward me and slashed the shadow just below the headlike bundle of dark stuff at the top of the monster.

It fell.

I wasn’t sure if the simple slash had killed it, but it didn’t matter at this point. I caught up to it. Ignoring the knife that had expended its momentum, I thrust with the knife in my other hand even before I stopped moving, tackling the shadow while I did so. Five savage stabs later, the umbrenix was dead.

Irinia and Deema slid to a halt beside me, their eyes sweeping the trees. The other two Dragonfish made it to us seconds later. I was still trying to catch my breath when I spoke.

“See any more of them?”

“No,” the blonde siren scout said. She didn’t even sound winded.

I yanked Tip’s arrow from the umbrenix and waited for my other friends to get to me.

“We have seen no others,” Brin told me. “I have looked with my Lunar Light sight. How did you spot this one?”

I held out Tip’s arrow as he stepped up to me. “Pure luck. Just a flicker of shadow at the corner of my eye. We need to watch for them from now on. I hadn’t even thought to look for umbrenix, though now I think I’ve been stupid.

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