(eng) Michael-Scott Earle by Dragon Slayer 03

Author:Dragon Slayer 03 [03, Dragon Slayer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The massive bodies of the three serpents were literally clinging to the rough surface of the wall, and their powerful coiling muscles propelled them upward toward the wooden barrier at the top. As I watched as their broad viper heads rose above the wall, and their open mouths streamed two long sprays of acid. White Guards and recruits screamed as their skin, clothing, hair, and armor began to sizzle, and the stink of burning metal and flesh filled the air.

I whirled to Captain Daxos. “Captain, I’ve got to go after them!” I shouted and thrust a finger at the two giant serpents.

“Go!” he shouted. “We’ve got this.”

I raced toward the massive serpents as they crashed through the wooden barrier on top of the wall and they quickly slithered onto the parapet. A trio of recruits were crushed beneath their long, sinewy bodies, and another was sent flying off the wall when one of the two serpents lashed out with its tail. The second snake snapped forward so fast a black-armored Windwall soldier was brought down before he even realized the danger. The snake’s two foot-long fangs punched through the man’s armor and pumped acid into his body. He fell with a scream and died a few moments later as the vitriol ate him from the inside out.

“Shit!” I cursed as I raced toward the nearest giant snake. It was fifty feet from where I stood, and I had to dodge fighting men and flying murloc spines to reach it. By the time I got within ten yards, the snake had brought down two more White Guards and had coiled its long green body to snap out at a recruit.

A shout burst from my mouth as I summoned the fire to my axe and leapt high into the air. The flame-covered axe blade slammed into the serpent’s head even as it struck for the fallen recruit. The man froze, wide-eyed, as the snake’s massive body flopped to the parapet not two inches from his head. Its fangs snapped off as its open mouth hit the stone wall hard, and its coils twitched as it died.

I tore my axe free and whirled to face the other snakes, but to my satisfaction I found the defenders fighting back. Those surrounding the snakes raised their polearms and thrust sharpened wooden tips and steel spear heads at the serpents’ coiling bodies. A loud, angry hissing echoed from the snake’s throat as it retreated from the wall of wood and metal, only to find more men pressing it from behind. It chose the only way out: down into the city.

Horror roiled through my gut as I watched the snakes slither down the stone steps set into the wall, right toward the waiting recruits and the healers tending to the wounded. I had seconds to act before they broke through our lines and got into Whitespire itself. They could wreak all sorts of havoc in the broad streets and tall buildings of the city, and with everyone on the wall fighting the murlocs, there’d be no one to stop them.

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