Whisper was mad.

  He picked up his sword and stabbed the Adventurer in the chest. He spun out of the way of the handful of arrows and magic that were shot his way.

  “WAVE!”

  I pointed at the Adventurers to the west. A large wave of water surged at them, and as soon as it was ten feet tall, I threw out my other hand.

  “FREEZE!”

  The water froze, giving a moment of cover for my ally.

  I touched Ether on the shoulder. “Help Whisper!” I knew that there wasn’t much damage that she could absorb, but as long as there were still Adventurers on their feet, Whisper couldn’t focus on freeing everyone else.

  I looked over at the silver man and saw that he was leaving a trail of Adventurers behind him. Each one was stunned by the black mark that his sword was leaving on them as he stabbed them.

  “You’re useless!” Yorial growled, then smiled. “Blondie! How long do you think you can keep this up?”

  The ice that I’d made had shattered, and the Adventurers on the other side were heading towards the older man. He’d made his way through almost half of them and it actually looked like he might have a chance of winning. I readied myself to throw another spell and a blast of fire washed over the barrier that Kara was trapped inside of. The three of us huddled behind it for cover. I glanced over at Rix, unlike the others whose faces that I could see, she looked at peace.

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  “You think you’re going to win?!?” Yoriel smiled broadly as he kneeled down in the circle he was trapped in, and grass started spreading out from where he was. Within seconds of the grass touching them, the black mark vanished and their wounds healed.

  “WHISPER!” I tried to wave to grab his attention. “HE’S HEALING THEM!’

  The silver man turned around, and I could see the look on his face change as he gripped his sword.

  “We’ve got to do something!” I looked down at the two women that were with me, but we were way out of our league. What we needed was someone who could PK, but both Rix and Gesai were restrained. I wasn’t going to suggest it to Ether and I knew that Justia wasn’t capable of something like that.

  “I’m going out there.” I knelt down and looked between the two women. “Try to keep me healed as best you can.”

  “Why..?”

  “You’re going to finish them off.” Ether cut off Justia. “You know what that will do to your seal and Trent’s not around…”

  “If I don’t finish what Whisper won’t, then none of us are going to be around!” My heart was speeding up as I tried to steady my breathing.

  Both women looked like they had an opinion, but neither had a solution, so they kept it to themselves.

  “WHISPER!” I focused on the woman who was keeping us pinned down. “CUT ME A PATH AND I’LL COVER YOU!”

  The blonde bandit paused for a moment and looked over at me. His expression changed as he knocked one of the Adventurers away from him.

  “STAY THERE! I’M GOING TO TRY SOMETHING!”

  I swallowed and was about to tell him that we were running out of time when the silver man decapitated the Adventurer closest to him.

  Whisper didn’t kill people. That was something that everyone knew. It was to keep the seal hiding his class intact. He didn’t break that rule because he needed someone powerful to fix his seal if he broke it and most of those powerful people would rather arrest him than help him.

  I wasn’t ready for what happened next.

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