Stavros scans the battle with an depth that hums off him, flicking his gaze each couple of seconds to refocus his broken imaginative and prescient. Alek and Casimir alter their positions under us, unable to see a lot from their decrease vantage level.

“How does it look?” Casimir asks in a hushed voice simply loud sufficient to succeed in us.

I smile. “The Darium troopers are carving their means by the march, however the Order members are taking down fairly a number of of them within the course of. The scourge sorcerers don’t appear to have the ability to?—”

Earlier than I can end that sentence, a sudden wave of power slams into the Darium troopers.

As my pulse hitches, the entrance traces of the Darium troops topple into one another. Blood splatters pink throughout the white-painted patterns on their uniforms.

Extra magic thrums by the air. I swallow thickly, a chilly sweat breaking over my pores and skin. “The scourge sorcerers have rallied. I don’t understand how.”

Stavros’s physique goes completely inflexible. “Rheave, take out that man, the one in inexperienced off to the aspect of the battleground!” He jerks his arm ahead to level.

Rheave’s arrow springs from his bow in the identical on the spot. With the sizzle of his power, it flies true.

The arrow strikes a determine in a inexperienced cloak within the aspect of the top, and he slumps right into a heap on the fringe of the fray.

Stavros’s knuckles have whitened the place he’s gripping the wood railing alongside me. “I noticed—my present—that sorcerer was going to unleash a blast of energy that’d have killed dozens of the troopers.”

Whilst he speaks, extra magic streaks by the battle. There are different sorcerers nonetheless ramping up their assaults.

The previous normal pushes away from the railing. “They’re turning the tide. The Darium troopers haven’t felled sufficient of the Order members to make sure the march received’t nonetheless assault the king. We have to end them whereas they’re distracted.”

My abdomen flips over. “What are you going to do?”

“Rally reinforcements.” He motions to Rheave along with his prosthetic as he grasps the ladder along with his different hand. “Include me. We have to open the fort and get the help of our personal troopers. Casimir, you trip with us too—perhaps you need to use your knack for diplomacy to persuade them to not slaughter us for trapping them first.”

He is already clambered down the ladder earlier than he’s completed talking. The three males sprint into the woods to seize the horses and set off at a gallop.

Uneasiness creeps over my pores and skin. I look down at Alek. “Do you could have any concept what number of troopers can be in that fort?”

He shakes his head. What I could make out of his expression within the darkness seems to be sickly. “Lower than 100, I’d think about.”

“Not essentially sufficient to show the tide if the Darium troopers can’t.”

“No.”

Julita shudders in my head. I suppose Stavros feels he must take each potential likelihood to destroy the risk right here. He’s alerted the king—there may very well be extra royal troops on their means.

Possibly. However will even that be sufficient towards the scourge sorcerers at their full energy?

What shook them out of their demoralized state? I couldn’t see something from up right here that defined it…

As I peer on the persevering with battle, the currents of magic shift towards my pores and skin. My gaze veers to the west.

I might swear a big waft of that power is coming not from the battlefield however from farther afield.

Is somebody serving to them from a distance?

I didn’t discover that present of energy earlier than. Has a brand new arrival come to rally their colleagues?

Squinting by the evening, I can’t distinguish any figures and even particular constructions on the low hills in that course. However as I stare, a crow circles beneath the celebrities after which flies to the southwest with a faint caw.

Julita lets out a ragged snicker. I feel your godlen is summoning you.

Whether or not Kosmel is or not, I’ve to behave. Somebody’s supporting the scourge sorcerers from over there, the place the sight of loss of life within the type of the Darium troopers isn’t affecting them.

And my sensitivity to their magic is the one means we’ve got of looking them down.

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