Wraith King by Porter Jack

Author:Porter, Jack
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

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I lunged for it, my fingers closing over the handle as I felt hands on me.

Ilana had grabbed me to pull me out of the flames’ path once again, and this time, she flew us farther away. I felt my feet lift off the ground momentarily before being set back down.

Nya and Syn were nowhere to be found, but I didn’t see any charred bodies once the flames disappeared, only glowing-hot rock.

“I have an idea,” I shouted over the sounds of the wyrm’s shrieks. I looked at Ilana. “Can you fly me up there?”

“Are you insane?” she asked.

“Probably!” I held the flaming whip up. The leather had not burned, which told me that whatever magic it was imbued with, it could even stand up to wyrmfire.

The succubus seemed to understand, and she moved behind me, grabbing me around the waist and lifting me as if I were nothing but a child. Once more, I had the unsettling feeling of being lifted off the ground, and then we were soaring up even higher.

Every beat of Ilana’s wings brought us up and down in the air, and hoping I didn’t accidentally hit her with the whip, I cracked it low. It still fell short of the wyrm, though, and only sought to bring its attention to us.

Ilana saw it and flew out of the way. Smaller and able to better maneuver than the wyrm, we avoided its jaws once again, only this time we were closer. I snapped the whip again, and the flaming tip lashed out, this time catching the wyrm on the snout. It screeched and reared back, its eyes glowing in a fury.

The whip had done nothing to the beast’s nose, but I tried again, this time aiming for its eye. The deadly tip of the whip missed, but a portion of the length fell across the intended target. Hot fire dripped into the wyrm’s eye, which then exploded in a burst of blood.

“You got it!” Ilana yelled.

The wyrm reared back, its wings beating the air but its tail still on the ground. Far below us, Nya and Syn appeared from behind the wyrm, lunging, driving their elven blades under the wyrm’s scales.

The hits weren’t vital, but they caused the creature more pain, and it shrieked even louder, thrashing around as it tried to rid itself of the pain in its eye and now tail.

“Those blades will burn it!” the succubus explained. “Do you want to get the other eye?”

I did, but we didn’t have the opportunity. With a giant beat of its wings, the wyrm rose into the air. It blew fire out of its mouth, creating a terrible path of flames down the mountain. But all four of us avoided it easily.

Some of the elves below us weren’t so lucky, and neither were a few retreating wraiths. They went down in flames.

The succubus landed, and together with Nya and Syn, we watched the injured monster create a path of destruction all the way to the other side of the narrow valley.

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