Blade of Ghosts (The Lost Sect #1) by Julian Gyll

Author:Julian Gyll [Gyll, Julian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Portal Books
Published: 2022-01-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Eight

I dropped back down to the ledge. I held my hands out to summon shadows, and they flooded towards my fingers.

The first Void started its initial swoop as my shadow-staff materialized in my hands, and I swung it through the darkness as soon as the shadows hardened in my grip.

It was just in time. The blade at the end of the staff met its target, slicing through the jaw of the approaching Void with the sharpness that can only be found on shadow-blades. My weapon carved through the face of the gray Void with almost frightening ease. The creature let out a screech as it caterwauled into the rock at my side and tumbled down into the gloom.

The next ones were more cautious. A whole swarm hovered in the air, circling above my head like a flock of birds. Then two descended, dropping down upon me with the speed of lightning bolts.

I wielded the shadow-staff, jabbing it in the air in the direction of one opponent and then the next, causing them to stop in their tracks. With a swoop of their wings, creating a tumult of shadows, the trajectory of their assault was halted.

Their claws took purchase on the rock; one Void settled to my left, and the other above me. The long, jutting head of the Void above loomed close as it crawled, face down, to me. I jabbed one end of the staff upwards, and it retreated, only to surge forward again immediately after I retracted my weapon.

At its advance, my foot almost slipped, and for a brief heartbeat I thought that I was going to topple down the rockface. With the Void circling around me, ready to catch me in their jaws, I doubted whether I would even have the chance to hit the ground.

My temporary imbalance gave the Void the moment they needed. The one on my left pounced, and I let out a shout as suddenly my world became nothing but a frenzy of movement, of wings, teeth and claws. I ducked as jaws snapped at my head. In panic, I wheeled the shadow-staff through the air. It tore its way through some part of the Void—in the confusion it was impossible to tell what—and there was a spurt of liquid on my hands as my blade stabbed its way into something fleshy, planting itself into the creature.

The Void shrieked as it cascaded down. The staff was wrenched out of my hands, embedded in its body, and away from my touch it dissipated, returning into formless shadows.

The monster above me on the rock did not give me a second’s respite. Its face speared down towards me from its perch. I put my hands out, turning into shadow-claws in a Weave of pure instinct, and I started to swipe blindly into the air. But I could not stop the monster; it continued forward, and to escape its teeth I had to jump to one side—

Only the ledge wasn’t big enough. I’d mistaken my movements—and now there was no ledge left.

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