Anything Ebook by Dakota Krout

Author:Dakota Krout [Krout, Dakota]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Mountaindale Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

- TAYLOR -

Taylor watched as Andre fainted again. She was starting to get annoyed with how often- “Oh. He sank into the earth. I thought he swooned.”

Luke shouted some nonsensical syllable, making her flinch before she defaulted to her standard of ignoring him. Putting aside her concerns for her companion’s health, the Archmage-hopeful hurried to get her Spells in place. The smart choice when dealing with stealthy attackers like this was obvious. “Lightning Beast’s Eye!”

Thunder rumbled softly as her nerves impacted her control, allowing slight vibrations into the surroundings as she coalesced nearly the entirety of her mana into strands of heaven’s judgment. Despite the many times she had cast it as practice, it never failed to amaze her how utterly awe inspiring it was to have total control over power of this magnitude. Just as she got down to the last dregs of her mana, the spell snapped into place fully and the eye began searching around for a target.

She sat and meditated for a minute as her mana recovered, then slowly rose back to her feet. Taylor was surprised to see that Luke hadn’t moved at all, but was instead staring at a rock that had crashed down near them. “You know we’re under attack, yes? You can go and fight the people attacking us. The King said so.”

“Hang on. Not sure about this rock. Rocks aren’t supposed to fly.” Luke waved her off as she tried to explain that it had likely been launched. “Yeah, yeah. I know what thrown weapons are. That might be it. Still. I wanna see if there’s more to it. I’ll catch up.”

There was no reasoning with the insane, so Taylor simply ignored his fatuous comments and began stalking around the vegetation. A blade *whisked* past her face and slammed into a nearby tree all the way to the hilt. Another shot through the air as if it had been released from a bow, curving to follow her as she dodged. She cursed and started moving, her devotion to Senses paying off as the person controlling the metal lost their target.

It was easy to tell when the Ascender attacking her decided to stop attempting pinpoint strikes: a spray of flechettes tore through the area, mulching plants as they closed in on her from multiple directions. The terrain was trained to help her, and a vine reached down from a tree to provide her an escape. She jumped and backflipped off the tree, used the vine as a swing, and searched for the location of the metal Manipulator.

All she knew about Manipulators was that they needed to be close enough to control the element they used, as if they were accurate lodestones that only interacted with something specific. This one must have come fairly close if they could target her well enough to almost slay her—especially with her reaction speed all but guaranteeing her ability to escape almost any situation. As she neared the edge of the oasis, it didn’t end up

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