Paladin of the Shield: Paladin of the Sigil Book 2 by Knight Marvin

Author:Knight, Marvin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Everything hurt a lot less when she woke up. A priestess huddled over her and one cleric with a healing skill holding her hands over her stomach. Sasha’s new wounds had been bandaged at least twice. The bandages she was wearing weren’t nearly bloody enough to be the first set.

“Captain, you’re awake!” Audrey padded into the room. Her gear was tattered, barely holding itself together. Her hair was a mess, and the bags under her eyes told Sasha that she was as exhausted as Sasha felt.

“What of the adepts? Did they make it?” Sasha asked the moment Audrey showed her face.

Audrey froze. “They won’t give us the healing time. You’re a paladin, so you rated, but the healers are becoming increasingly busy. All their time and energy is spoken for. Wounded are coming in from all over. Apparently, we weren’t the only ones ambushed while trying to complete our quests. Things are more dangerous than we were originally led to believe.”

“Heavens curse them. Taking on a team of elite fiends is something I’d want an entire crew of top-notch paladins trained and ready for.” Sasha cursed. “And I wouldn’t dare take them on without a priestess.”

“Others have fared even worse than we have.” Audrey shook her head sadly. “Holy warriors in the Northern Trade Union aren’t quite up to Whiteguard standards. It would take three of them to match one of those fiends in a fight. Maybe more.”

“So they’re sending teams to their deaths?” Sasha asked.

“Looks like.”

Sasha grimaced. “Give it to me. How many adepts did we lose?”

“A lot.”

“I want a number, Audrey,” Sasha growled, wincing as her hand tightened a bit too much for her injured body to handle.

“Nine, with six wounded. Most of them didn’t even make it back to the city even if they’d gotten healing right at the gates,” Audrey said sadly. “But that’s enough questions about that. Your Damage Transference skill saved four of them, and you should be happy about that. Those still alive are stable and you’ll be of more use to them when you’re better. Stressing about them now will only delay your recovery and push back when you can use your skill on them again.”

Sasha stared at the ceiling for a long while. They hadn’t even finished taking out the fiends to the north. After that, they still had to burn the docks. It was the most difficult quest on their sigil for a reason. The bottom of the sea was one of the few places no team of warriors could reach. There were tunnels leading from the water there leading all the way to the fifth Hell. Who knew what ferocious sea demons lurked there?

“I’m in no shape to fight. Neither is the rest of the party. Have the healers said how long it will be before we’re fit again?” Sasha asked.

Audrey shook her head, which Sasha took to be a bad sign. Sasha could be up on her feet in thirty minutes with concentrated, focused healing, like what Audrey had received a few days ago.

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