Chapter 154 (1/2)

Chapter 154

Chapter 154: Changing Tides

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I gnashed round The eneround and prepared to swing down, his arrogant sneer exposing his yellow teeth, when a thin blade protruded out of his gorget

As the axe-wielder’s body slu, he pulled out his bloodied dagger fro down next to Cedry

in the middle of a battle?

I was inclined to leave him; that’s what Grey would’ve done But I was reht onstage, and the carefree night of drinking that followed shortly after I hardly knew the but the sentiht before—albeit, half-drunk—tugged atue, I dashed toward Jona, as cradling Cedry’s corpse tenderly in his ar the tip of his spear out of a soldier’s head, caught sight of Jona Even underneath his helmet that coveredat his luck

Concentrating on the ground just below his feet, I shot a stone spike at the enemy The spear-wielder narrowly avoided a fatal injury, flopping aardly to the ground as he clutched his bleeding side

I increased the output of mana to my body and dashed toward the wounded soldier As he lay rolling on the ground in pain, I stepped on his chest to keep him steady

Mercilessly, I drove Dawn’s Ballad deep into the breastplate of the spear-wielder and watched the light go out in his eyes

With one fluidrid of the blood on the blade, before tugging Jona by the scruff of his neck

“You need to get out of here,” I growled, shaking him

He looked back atto be okay” heonto his half-elf companion’s body like an infant

The sharp whistles of inco drew my attention, but with both y in e of mana purely because of the unlikely scenario that I’d have to fight against one of the four scythes or a retainer but if I wanted to get Jona and Cedry to a safe place, I’d need to expend more mana than I’d want to

Grey’s voice echoed inme to leave them and conserve my mana for the worst-case scenario

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Cursing under my breath, I knocked Jona out with a firm punch to his solar plexus His body spasmed from the shock I’d added to ensure that he’d be out cold as I heaved him over my shoulders and used my free arm to scoop the half-elf’s body under hed more than Jona’s body as I held her by her waist I couldn’t do anything about her arround, but Jona’s unconscious body see towards her fronoring the creeping desire to just drop theround, I freely released thesense of power rushed out ofout the chaotic clalayer s barrier around us as I prepared to rush them back to base A translucent layer of an shaping itself into a sphere

Strengthening htenThe barrier I’d conjured renited each ti that ca away my mana reserves

Thanks to the mana rotation technique I’d learned from Sylvia, even such a superfluous spell like this could be recovered back in a fairly short aritting ers as I concentrated solely on keeping the barrier active despite the intensifying attacks on it

My body jerked as a particularly powerful spell bombarded my barrier but I held firm and increased the amount oftheir subordinates to bring me down echoed within the forest

At least with all of their conjurers focused on me, Vanesyht

As soon as I was out of theblood The force of the arrow brought down a tree besideed over ainst Before I could spot my attacker, two more arrohizzed toward me

I had barely a second to react, but that would be enough Letting out a deep breath, I murmured, “Static Void”

The deadly arroere only inches away froon’s will The world grew still as even the chaotic sounds of battle deafened

In one swift ht foot on top of one arrow and bit down on the shaft of the other arrow Releasing Static Void, my neck immediately jerked from the force of the arrow in round

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Whipping my head towards the direction of the attacker, I released a torrent of pure rew dark as terrified birds shot fro the malicious intent I’d let loose

I stood there for just a second, staring at the space where I thought the ene hiot in my way

My unspoken threat seemed to have done the trick because there were noback, I bolted into the dense forest, e of the cliff where we’d come from

“Arthur? What happened?” a voice called out as I lowered Cedry and Jona to the ground at the edge of the encampment