God of Magic by Logan Jacobs

Author:Logan Jacobs [Jacobs, Logan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-15T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

“Shit!” Lavinia hissed. Then she stood and let fly the three arrows that took down three of the dwarves who guarded Aerin and Maruk.

I almost couldn’t believe how fast she had shot. It had to have been less than a second for her to release the three arrows, and the dwarves probably died before they even hit the ground.

Shouts of anger and surprise sounded from the crowd as Lavinia pulled another arrow from her quiver. “Stupid. Fucking. Evil. Cult!” she yelled, and before I could even think to argue or stop her, she vaulted over the bushes and began to run toward the camp.

“Lavinia, wait!” I called after her, but she either didn’t hear me or intentionally ignored me, so I had no choice but to follow her.

Lavinia yanked back her bowstring casually, and then her arrow streaked across the clearing and took a dwarf in the throat. Then she swung her bow to the side as she pulled another arrow from her quiver. This one was almost instantly sent away, and it passed through the eye socket of one of our enemies before it lodged into the skull of another. A third shot happened half a second afterward, and a dwarf that had opened his mouth to scream had his words cut off as her arrow drove straight through his mouth.

Holy shit, she was really damn good.

Lavinia continued to shoot as she ran, and her arrows cut a path through the startled dwarves and toward our friends and the captured woman. Perhaps the dwarves were simply too shocked to react to our sudden arrival properly, or perhaps we were just outstandingly lucky, but in our mad dash Lavinia and I managed to reach the others, and I drew my knife to cut the ropes around Aerin’s wrists as Lavinia freed Maruk.

Not to be forgotten, the woman on the platform struggled against her own bonds and tried in vain to shout something to us through her gag. I removed the gag, and she gasped, but as I started to cut through the ropes that tied her to the bier, I realized that they’d been strengthened with some sort of waxy coating that made them almost impossible to sever.

“It’s alright,” I said, as much to myself as to the woman while I worked at the ropes. “We’re here to rescue you.”

A few flowers were still stuck in the waves of her dark hair, and her cheeks were flushed as she shifted and craned her neck up as much as her bonds would allow. She stared at me, her manicured brows bent in an incredulous expression as she panted, “Oh, right, and a fine job you’re all doing! You know, it usually works out so much better when you slay the captors before you rescue the maiden.”

“Great, she’s one of those,” Aerin muttered.

“Everyone’s a fucking critic,” Lavinia agreed.

I ignored the woman’s sarcasm and was able to cut through a few of the ropes, but clearly, whatever extraordinary luck Lavinia and I had experienced to get here was short-lived.

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