Wrath of the Usurper (The Eoriel Saga Book 2) by Kal Spriggs

Author:Kal Spriggs
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Sutek Press
Published: 2015-05-28T23:00:00+00:00

Sergeant Aerion Swordbreaker

Aerion grunted as a spearman's thrust slipped under his shield and then bounced off his scale mail. The armor blunted it, but the force of the attack still pushed him back several feet. He saw the others around him withdraw as well. One of the guards ahead of him stumbled back as a thrown dagger caught him in the throat. For just a moment, a gap opened in the spear wall that blocked the corridor.

Aerion let out a bellow then and charged the gap. A man to his side tried to stab him, but he was inside the spearman's reach and Aerion's blade punched through his armor into his stomach. Another guard dropped his spear and went for his dagger, but Walker was there beside him and a thrust through the guard's eye caused him to drop.

A moment later, the other men from his squad surged around him and swept the last of the enemy away. Aerion rushed forward, for he could see the light of day through the arrow slits of this corridor. He could only hope he wasn't too late.

Ahead of him, he saw one guard slip through a doorway. Behind him, Aerion saw what had to be the controls for the gate itself. The guard looked over his shoulder, a look of panic on his face, and he slammed the door. Aerion could hear the sound of bars and bolts being shot home. Behind him, he heard groans and shouts as his squad realized how close they'd come, only to be foiled by a last door.

Behind them came more of Hector's men, enough to overwhelm them if they had no better place to fight than the corridor. He didn't slow, didn't pause, but he continued his run at the door. “Follow me!” he shouted as he ran at the door.

Just before he struck the door, he tucked his shoulder behind his shield and activated a rune. It was one of Jasper's 'improvements' and the Wold armorsmith had explained that the shield stored up kinetic energy from impacts. Throughout the fight, each strike against his shield had added a bit more energy, along with what he had gained in training and practice bouts since his return to Lady Katarina's forces. Jasper had told him that he could trigger that energy in increments, depending on what rune he activated. Aerion wasn't certain how thick the door was or how strong it's defenses might be, so he activated the full measure of that force as he struck the door.

The door exploded as he struck it. The backlash of energy threw Aerion backwards, even as it turned the heavy wood beams of the door into splinters and flung the twisted metal locking bars as further projectiles into the gatehouse room.

Aerion's head spun and his ears rung. He shook his head and stumbled to his feet as his squad charged around him and through the doorway. Walker clapped him on the back and shouted something to him that he couldn't understand through the ringing in his ears.

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