I stopped trying to take it easy.
Every wolf I reached, I zapped with my power, making me just a little stronger and dropping them like a tranquilizer. Starna was in the middle of a magic duel with one of the Humans, which let me know that she wasn’t a Human. Humanity had been able to use magic for almost two thousand years, which meant she was either a Sineater or a Succubus.
While the thought of finding someone else like me made my heart speed up, I knew that it was far more likely that she was half Succubus. The temptation demons would have children that looked like the father, regardless of the race the mother took after. The Dark Legion used them as assassins, training a generation of Succubi and Incubi that looked like other races to infiltrate and gain positions of power. Using a Human for a template was a great way to get the majority of the Universe to underestimate you. While Earth was sealed away from outside influence, there were plenty of colonies of Humans scattered throughout the Universe.
Even here, Humans were regarded as the weakest of races, but that didn’t answer the question of why the caravan was being attacked.
The Twelve wouldn’t knowingly work with a Succubus, since they were all about purity. I could see the Sively working for the Goblin, especially since the two were hunkered behind the same wagon, but the small, yellow-skinned man was shooting at the other woman.
I knocked out a few more wolves as I pushed my way to the front of the pack. There were just over a dozen left by the time I reached the barrier.
“Starna! Make a hole!”
I didn’t stop running as a three foot circle appeared in the barrier in front of me. I dove through the opening and rolled to a crouch beside the lovely Elf. Thuds and screams reached my ears as the wolves were unable to repeat my maneuver.
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“What’s going on?” Starna pointed her staff over the top of the wagon and blasted a cone of ice at the other mage.
Half the horses were dead and the other half were kicking the barrier from the inside, trying to get out. Our driver was one of the casualties as were both Orcs. The Ogre was fighting the Sively and didn’t look like he was going to last much longer. The youngest Human, he wasn’t even eighteen, was hiding under the wagon in front of us. Starna had encased the other side with ice, making it the safest place he could hide.
“Centaur in the woods. Vin is handling the Alpha!” I looked around. “What happened here?”
Starna ducked down. “Quiggy was smuggling gold out of Bollilundr. Nheglek demanded he surrender the gold. When the shooting started, Francine made a barrier to deflect a stray bolt. Brahmin called her Tempest and said something about a bounty, so she killed him and started shooting at me!”
I looked down at our dead driver as I tried to figure out who was a friend and who was a foe.
“QUIGGY! STOP SHOOTING AT THE MAGE!” I put my hand on Starna’s shoulder and sent some of my stolen energy to her.
Her eyes widened as the rush of vitality filled her.
“You good?” I looked into her blue and gold eyes.
She nodded. “Why stop returning fire?”
“Because NHEGLEK IS WORKING WITH THE TWELVE!” I raised my voice. “THAT MAKES US THE ALLY OF THE SUCCUBI RIGHT NOW!” I looked over at the fight between the Ogre and the Sively. “I’m serious Quibbly!”
Two crossbow bolts landed in the wood of our wagon as an answer. I shook my head. “I tried…” I glanced over at the young woman hiding two wagons clockwise from us. She had shifted closer to us, but wasn’t attacking. I held up my hand for her to stop. Just because we didn’t have a reason to attack her right now didn’t mean that she might not be trying to collect the bounty the Agate Senate had out on us.
“Keep an eye on Tempest.” I looked over at the fight. “I’m going to go end this before our lead gets killed.
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