Emilie

If Cyrus would’ve had his approach, I might’ve been at the back of the infantry, stored out of the primary altercation. Ladon managed to persuade him I’d be higher suited in one of many trenches, protected against projectiles whereas nonetheless in a position to make use of my magic.

Ultimately, Cyrus agreed, and I discovered myself below Lucia’s command, ready for conflict cries to sign the battle had begun.

The longer we waited, the extra my anxiousness rose. I started to doubt my skills, pondering I’d made a mistake insisting on preventing.

“You hanging in there?” Lucia requested.

“Sorry?”

“You appear to be you’re about to go out.”

I pressured amusing. “I’m alright. Is that this regular? The ready I imply?”

She shrugged. “Typically sure. Typically no. Actually, that is the primary giant battle of its variety that I’ve been in. Normally our skirmishes on the border are simply that—skirmishes.”

“You don’t appear nervous in any respect.”

“I’m not. A battle is a battle. The scale of the battle—we’ll be preventing quite a bit longer than typical. That’s all.”

That was a method of taking a look at it.

“Can I give you a bit of recommendation?” she requested.

I nodded. “Sure, please.”

“Simply deal with one factor at a time. Again right here within the trenches, you’ll have the benefit of not having to multitask. Hold a watch out for aerial assaults, however in any other case, deal with putting people or small teams. You’re an air wielder, proper?”

I nodded once more.

She stood and regarded out excessive of the ditch, and motioned for me to observe go well with. We have been midway up a hillside, the Osavian troops seen within the valley beneath and within the distance, I might see Murvort’s armies.

My mouth fell open. “I didn’t notice there have been so many.”

She frowned. “Neither did we. I’m pretty sure Xavier anticipated the battle to be completed days in the past.”

I shook my head. Throughout the preliminary assembly upon our return to camp, we’d realized that conflict had been raging for nearly per week. Hordes poured out of the mountains and so they’d stored coming. After struggling so many losses, Xavier and Cyrus agreed to start siege on the mountain itself, hoping to chop off any others from becoming a member of the battle.

They have been able to danger Ladon’s and my life, hoping they’d rescue us earlier than the mountain crumbled.

Now it regarded as if our forces have been almost even in numbers.

Lucia pointed to the middle of the enemy armies. “Focus your magic on the far aspect. You don’t need to by chance trigger any casualties on our aspect. And Emilie?”

I gave her my full consideration. “Sure?”

“Goal to kill.”

It took one other thirty minutes earlier than we heard the roars signaling the preventing had begun. I watched because the entrance traces clashed, looking for Ladon and Cyrus. As soon as I noticed them, I turned my consideration to my very own process.

I did as Lucia instructed and looked for the farthest troopers, focusing my consideration on a cluster within the again. Inhaling deeply, I let magic fill my physique, swirling and blossoming with every breath. Once I felt it attain its peak, I expelled it towards these small dots within the distance and grinned as a cyclone of wind started to comb by means of.

It blasted by means of dozens of confused troopers. They couldn’t work out the place the mysterious energy was coming from. Till a band of archers noticed our trench and commenced to rain down on us with arrows.

“Down!” Lucia cried, and our squad ducked beneath floor degree. One in all my fellow troopers conjured a thick wall of ice and the arrows bounced off it with out even cracking the barrier. “Nicely finished, Bianca.”

A second wave of arrows hit, however they have been no more practical than the primary. As soon as Lucia was certain we have been within the clear, she signaled for us to rise once more, throwing our magic on the Murvort legions.

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