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Sineater - Book 2 - The First Quest - Chapter 43

  It was an act of war.

  I knew enough about the wyvern-class monsters to know that something that large so close to another nation’s city was just asking for something to go wrong. We’d fought a sea serpent before and that thing had been wild enough that it ran off after a whale as soon as it realized we weren’t going to be an easy meal.

  Bringing something this dangerous next to a city was just asking for it to go after at least the miners. If the Ager were smart, they’d stay far away from this fight. I didn’t know if the people from Bollilundr would be able to see us, but a fight this big was bound to attract eyeballs from somewhere.

  “You should have surrendered when we gave you the chance to come peacefully!”

  Of course Finael Gratten would want to watch us get eaten.

  The blonde Elf mage walked out of the hole that had been made larger, probably by the Earth Elementalist beside him. It looked like the same Elf that had been with him yesterday, but they were the only two. The powerless Elves were either not there, or were hanging back. In a fight like what was coming, they’d only be in the way and could serve as witnesses. Leaving them out of this was probably the first sensible thing that the younger Gratten had done.

  I pulled my sword out and gripped the short blade tightly in my right hand. Not that it was going to do much against that thing’s scales. I’d thought about getting a darksteel or mithril sword, but those weren’t things that were kept on hand, waiting for someone to come purchase. They were usually made to order, which would have taken longer to craft than I was staying. Even then, it would have taken a lot more than the couple gold coins that I had, so I hadn’t bothered to look.

  “This is the mud kisser that’s been causing problems for you?” My brother flexed his arms as a big smile parted his lips.

  “Vin…” I looked over at my brother. A Camadt’s claws were strong enough that he could pierce the scales, but two inches wasn’t going to get anywhere close to the vital organs. It was going to take him a few minutes of being able to slice into the thing before it could be considered even a wound. But he was our best bet for fighting against it.

  “Demon! If you’re smart, walk away and we’ll let you leave!” Finael didn’t have near enough fear on his face as he glared at my brother.

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  “You think I’m afraid of your little snake?” Vin pulled off his jacket and threw it away from us. “I was hoping to get a trophy on this trip!”

  “Are you sure you can take a basilisk?” I knew the monster had some way to petrify things. A Camadt might be tough, but I wasn’t sure if he was that tough.

  “Its eye beams are magic based.” My brother laughed. “I could take on all three of these irritants!” He winked at me. “I thought that was an adult, they only brought a baby.”

  If a thirty foot long serpent was just a baby, I didn’t want to see how big the adults got.

  “I gave you a chance.” Finael nodded at the other Elf and the basilisk shot towards us.

  “Starna! Can you take the mage?” I rotated behind my brother. I wasn’t sure how far away those petrifying rays would reach, but I didn’t want to get hit by one while there wasn’t anyone around that I could transfer the petrification to.

  Even though the rays might be magical, the moment they turned flesh into stone, it would stop being magic based, so I wouldn’t be able to transfer it to Vin without my brother taking the petrification on himself.

  I glanced over at Starna for her answer, but she was already shooting finger-length icicles at the other mage. With both of my allies focusing on two of our three enemies, that left one for me.

  Vin closed the distance with the basilisk and punched it on the snout, before dancing down the mountain away from us. I wasn’t sure how difficult it would be for the Earth Elementalist to redirect the monster’s focus over to us, so I threw a rock in his direction to distract him while I started running up the incline.

  The rock stopped just past the halfway point and shot back at me.

  I’d thrown a rock at an Earth Elementalist. That was like trying to soak a Water Elementalist or torch a Fire Elelemtalist. All I did was give him ammunition to use against me. Not that there was a lack of it, with nothing but rocks and dirt around us for miles.

  I batted the rock out of the air and kept running. A rock spear shot out of the ground in front of me, trying to get me to impale myself. I twisted out of the way, but the lateral movement caused me to lose my footing and slip back a few feet. The terrain felt a lot looser than it had been when we’d ran down the slope.

  My palms hit the ground as I tried to keep myself from falling. The ground got even softer underneath me. I pushed off the ground and took a few quick steps backwards, dodging two more rock spikes as I was forced back.

  “Your kind is always so cocky.” The Earth Elementalist looked down at me. “But take away anyone for you to touch and you’re just a powerless human.”

  Before I could snap back, he slashed his hand at the slope between us. It was like half of the slope in between us had been separated from the rest of the mountain. I swallowed as a shipload of rocks, dirt, and gravel rolled towards me.

  I really needed to work on my magic.

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