Even a Hero Needs a Vacation Every Now and Then: Tipsy Pelican Tavern Volume 1 by AUGUST

Author:AUGUST
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TPT
Published: 2020-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

19

A True Templar

Cassia’s shoulders slumped slightly, but then she took a breath and straightened herself again, a look of determination taking over her features. "You are right, you have fulfilled your agreement with me, Arch-don. You should escape now. I do not know if I will be able to defeat him."

I gave Cassia an incredulous look. "Escape? Are you kidding?" I said and chose one of the large white rocks protruding from the walls, climbing on top of it for a better view. "This is going to be a great fight! A church templar against a church templar—I wouldn’t miss it for the world."

Darren laughed, hearing my words. "What a fool you have there, Templar Hightower. He wishes to watch you die. And when you are dead, he will be next."

I could tell he was happy that I wasn’t leaving. Even as a Radiant, it would likely take him some time to kill Cassia. If I had gotten away, I could spread the word about his corruption.

Cassia looked at me for a moment, then got into a fighting stance. "If you will not leave, then I must not lose."

"That’s the spirit," I said.

"You have no chance," Darren said to Cassia. "With your ability, you can only cast low-tier Rules. I bet you haven’t even broken thirty."

Cassia grimaced. He was right, it appeared. But being able to use Celeru’s Rules up to thirty was already an impressive feat without the third gate open. Rules beyond twenty required significant halos. Technically, it was possible for someone without the Gate of Radiance open to cast a high-level spell, but they’d likely blow out all their halos on just the one. However, the likelihood of such a scenario was low because spells, especially high-level spells, were very difficult to master. And you can’t practice much if you don’t have the halo reserves to draw on.

Another problem was that as the spell difficulty increased, so did the risk to the caster’s body. Celeru’s Seventy-Seven Rules of Ruin turned one’s halos into destructive energy—a dangerous thing to hold within your body before releasing it. Even with the Gate of Radiance open, this posed limits to which spells a caster could use.

If Cassia ever did open the third gate, she would be a seriously powerful fighter, perhaps even surpassing the ability of some of my past disciples.

But right now, the person with the third gate open was her opponent.

"Rule of Ruin, Forty-Five, Desert Doom," Darren said with a scythe of a smile.

The ground around Cassia morphed into black sand. She jumped half a moment before the spell struck, but the sand rose up from the ground in sharp black pillars, attempting to pierce and swallow her.

"Grace of Seraphel, Red Armor!" Cassia called out just before one of the pillars struck her and knocked her to the ground. The pillar did not impale her, hitting instead the gleaming crimson light that covered her body. But it looked as she had still taken damage from the fall and the blow.

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