Chapter 205 (1/2)

Chapter 205

Chapter 205: Enemy Territory

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CIRCE MILVIEW

Alacryan

“Howleft and right His voice was hardly louder than a whisper None of us dared to be any louder than that

I held up two fingers, turning my focus back on the tree in front of rit my teeth to keep hbarrier isn’t going to last ritted teeth

I wiped a bead of sweat running down rabbed my arm and ere already on the move I turned back one last time to make sure the three-point array I had just finished was in place

It’s in place I allowed h this forsaken forest

We traveled at a frustratingly slow pace with Maeve andmy crest did my senses extend to about thirty yards—much too restricted than I was comfortable with It didn’t help that, because of thisthat only seemed to exist in this forest, I was the only one that could see past a few feet around us

“Do you see anyone around us, Circe?” Fane asked for the fifth tilare “I said I’ll tell you if I see anything out of the ordinary”

He narrowed his eyes, discontent, but didn’t say anything further

After about an hour of practically crawling through the fog-laden forest, I signaled for everyone to stop “We need to place another array”

Everyone got into position Maeve hopped onto a nearby tree with her hands poised to fire Cole stuck beside me and enveloped the area in a veil to help mask mana fluctuations while I worked Fane circled the perimeter ary eyes as our first line of defense

After everyone was in place, I continued in our most important—and quite likely our last—an setting up the first part of the three-point array Withit up The tricky part wassure it was all but undetectable until I finally activated it There could be no trace, no leakage, ofaround the forest will sense it If any of the arrays that I had made were discovered, the whole plan was ruined

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Pushi+ng aside the burden weighing down on ers as it began seeping into the first tree A rustle sounded to my left and I jerked

Were we discovered?

By the time I turned my head in the direction of the sound, Fane was already there He shook his head, holding up a rodent whose neck had been cleanly broken

As expected of a veteran emblem holder The striker’s attitude was foul, but he was a reliable tea e of my instilled mana until it buried itself deep into the core of the tree After it was in place, I had to cover the tracks and the mana fluctuation at the site of the ‘wound’

For this moment, my attention had to be concentrated I wasn’t able to afford to spread my senses around us in case an elf sneaked up on us

Minutes crawled at the pace of hours as I blinked away the tears trying to get inside my eyes The mana iical precision so that no one could sense that ic was used in the area

Done, Ionto the next point

Kneeling down on the ground a few feet away from the tree, I repeated the process until finally I was on the last part on a tree on the other side of the array I had round

After this three-point array had been coain on the move Luckily, Cole’s veil barrier didn’t leave any ic

Truly a tea out of place Afterall, I was a sentry I wasn’t built or trained for this

My only source of comfort was that eren’t the only team

Maybe one of the other tea a route, I hoped, knowing how unlikely it was Out of all the other teams, I knew that ere the most likely to succeed… because of my newly acquired e azes withwas a small ditch with spikes of wood

My heart thumped at the close call

“The spikes weren’t sharpened, it isted into this shape,” Maeve inforic,” I breathed My heart dropped at what this meant

“We’ll have to find another route,” Fane said from behind, still on the lookout

“Then we’ll have to stop in a bit for me to scout another route,” I replied, disheartened