Dragon Spirit Hunter 2 by Eric Vall

Author:Eric Vall [Vall, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

I was running before anyone else had even moved. I threw off the cloak so my arms weren’t restricted as I dodged clumsily through the rocks and trees. I had my sword drawn by the time I spotted a clearing that seemed to be the source of the scream.

It was definitely the source of the strange purple glow.

It was hard to make out much at first. The daylight was fading, and the mysterious glow dazzled my eyes in a way that made it hard to make out details beyond the dozen or so figures that were lurching around the clearing.

I blinked hard and narrowly avoided tripping on a fallen branch as I hurried forward. This time, I could make out that there was a woman on her knees in the snow with some kind of greenish fire spinning around her hands, and she was lashing out furiously at the figures surrounding her.

The figures were… strange. Humanoid– or elvenoid?– but the proportions were all wrong. Their limbs were too long, and their movements were strangely fluid in such uneven terrain. All of them were emanating the purplish glow from their hands, and they seemed to be trying to surround the woman.

The woman, however, was not going quietly. She shouted something unintelligible and swept her hands in a circle. The green light around her hands formed briefly into a strange shape in midair before she gestured again, and a column of fire blasted from her fingers at the creature closest to her.

It ripped away from her with a screech. The woman lurched to her feet and tried to run, but she was hindered by the thick snow. The second she stumbled, she was grabbed from behind by two of the creatures while another one reached its grotesquely spindly hands toward her face.

It didn’t get far.

I let my rovkin loose with a burst of shadowy energy and sent him running ahead of me straight into the middle of the clearing, where he instantly unleashed a blast of shadow fire with a thunderous roar. In the same moment, I came pounding in with my sword and slashed at the first creature I could reach.

I got it across the back and gritted my teeth in frustration when my blade just glanced off something hard. Was it wearing armor?

Either way, I definitely had its attention. It whirled around and let loose a horrible scream right in my face. I backed up to draw it away from its friends while I held it back from getting too close to me with my sword. I needed a second to get a better look at what I was even fighting.

The creature had glittering black eyes the size of tennis balls sticking out of a face that was mostly human-shaped, although it was weirdly elongated, and the mouth and nose were merged into one awful beak-like maw. It came at me again with a swipe of its overlong arm, and I realized what I could have mistaken for clothing or armor was actually some kind of hard shell that covered most of the creature’s body.

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