Summoner 10 by Eric Vall

Author:Eric Vall [Vall, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-23T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Just as the trolls began to lunge at us, the sun vanished below the horizon.

All at once, the monsters around us began to burn and dissipate. Particles hissed into the air as monster flesh decayed, and wisps of magical energy rose from the field as creatures died.

A jungle troll made a passing grab at Arwyn as it decayed, but she whipped her rapier across its palm as she dodged away. The troll stumbled backwards as it died, and it collapsed to the ground harmlessly.

The sky was the moon’s domain now, and sunset had doomed these monsters to death.

I hadn’t seen the night kill monsters like this before, and I found it fascinating how quickly they died. Even the flying monsters began to fall from the sky as deadweight, and one hit the ground near us. I identified it as a beakrok as its leathery form disintegrated, and I was glad they hadn’t had the chance to attack us.

“Gryff,” Gawain panted with a smile, “please never let the situation get that dire in the last moment again.”

“I’ll try to avoid it,” I laughed. “I don’t think I enjoyed it either.”

The air was thick with particles of dying monsters, and I let my tired legs rest for the first time today. I sat in the grass and watched as the trolls and the curachuas faded away on the light, warm breeze.

Nia sat down beside me, and soon the whole team was laying in the grass as we had our first moment of true respite since this morning.

“At least we have pretty sweet bragging rights now,” Varleth chuckled as he wiped sweat from his brow. “Nobody in my class will believe we fought for so long and killed so many.”

“Especially not since our mission here is classified,” Almasy added with a snort of laughter.

For a while, we just sat and watched the darkening sky and the trees. Deep purple clouds rolled across the navy expanse above, and green leaves rustled in the cool nighttime breeze.

The moon was just past being full, but Gawain threw up a simple flame spell to hover above his head. The warm glow of it made me feel safer, even though I knew the feeling was an illusion.

“What are we going to do about Miralea?” Nia murmured, and she moved her shoulder to touch mine.

“I think we can take care of the first of her monsters,” I answered. “Phi told me all about them. There’s the mantis we fought, which is called a verden reaver. The verden reaver is tough, but we know it’s not invulnerable to our swords.”

“Damn right it’s not,” Gawain said with a pleased chuckle.

“Plus,” I added, “Archon monsters don’t recover instantly. If we’ve injured it badly enough, it might be a much easier opponent on the second time around.”

“Good point,” Arwyn observed. “Not only have we recovered the other half of our team, but we’ve also made strides forward in defeating Miralea.”

“That’s one hell of a glass-half full outlook,” Varleth sighed.

“Only because your outlook is more like glass-half shattered and rolled through the mud,” Gawain snickered.

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