Chapter 237 (2/2)
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Virion cast a harsh look at the lance before speaking “The war is lost With the Castle in their hands, they have access to all the teleportation gates throughout the continent It’s only a ure out how to fully control it”
“So what did you have in mind?” I asked Virion
Virion’s knees buckled, toppling forward until Sylvie caught hi towith a few other trusted friends constructed a shelter to take refuge, just in case disaster fell—although no one would’ve expected an outcoht of Elder Buhnd sent a sharp pain through my chest but I sed it “Where is it?”
“You can’t be serious,” Bairon interrupted “You are a lance We have a duty to uphold for our people Are we going to abandon them and leave them all to die by the Alacryans?”
“We’re not abandoning anyone!” Virion snarled, his patience wearing thin “But going back into battle and risking the death of myself and any of you three would leave no hope for the future!”
“The future…” my bond echoed
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“Yes! The future We need to recoup if we ever want a chance to take back Dicathen,” Virion continued
Bairon’s shoulder sluile and vulnerable “So… there’s nothing we can do right noin this war?”
“Our best chance is for us to stay alive and gather the lances,” Virion replied, looking sincerely pained
‘What do you think we should do?’ Sylvie asked, knowing that hts were still filled with Tessia andat the two of theaze “Sylvie and I will take the two of you to wherever this secret shelter is but after that we’re going to look for my moible distance in Virion’s voice as he said my name, a hollow and al upthat Vincent had giventhatthat there’s still a chance she’s alive”
I had kept it off during the war, but through the connection between the two rings and the fact that she and my sister both had the Phoenix Wyr hadn’t activated because she was still alive… not because she had taken it off
“I’ll direct Dicathians that Imy search, but I need to do this,” I finished
“I understand,” Virion whispered, closing his eyes
Quietly, I got to work, destroying the earthen shelter and erasing all signs that we had ever stopped here to rest
“So… where is this shelter, Commander Virion?” Bairon asked
Virion used a nearby twig to draw a roughour position with a circle “The refuge that we had found is near the southern coast of the Kingdo the Grand Mountains—”
“Found?” I cut in “I thought you said you and the elders had built it”
“Most of what seemed like a man-made cave already existed We just built on top of it and hid itto traverse the near-thousand miles it’ll take to reach this shelter? We can’t fly; it’s too dangerous,” Bairon noted
“You’re right And it’ll be just as risky to try and take a teleportation gate to a city within Darv Should ait until nightfall?”
“How about this,” I suggested, drawing a jagged line running through Sapin “We’re about an hour hike away froh Darv and into the ocean We’ll take the river down until nightfall and travel the rest by sky”
“There are cities built along the Sehz though,” Sylvie countered “Won’t we be a bit noticeable traveling on the water?”
“Who said anything about on the water?”
“This is… fascinating,” Virion marveled as atched various aquatic animals and ed through the water, away fro eyes, while I concentrated on the e in order to make all of this possible
I had to create two pockets of air, one over Sylvie’s back to allow Virion, Bairon, and I to breath and stay dry, and another encoe draconic head While eren’t subh to have to worry toothe air pockets stable was quite a bit harder
With the aid of water ic to push us faster and a fin made of mana that Sylvie had fashi+oned at the end of her tail, ere reat distance
Virion was able to take this new mode of transportation in stride, but the same couldn’t be said for Bairon The poor lance had latched hih her tough scales, she complained to me about the pain
“How did you even think of such an idea as traveling underwater?” Virion asked, twisting left and right to see all around hirown up with back when I had first shown up in Elenoir with Tessia
“Did you forget that I’ his question
We stayed fairly deep in the water except for the times that we had to replenish our air pockets After the initial amazement had worn off, the four of us traveled in silence, brooding in our own minds with little desire to converse Sylvie and I still conversed telepathically but even those conversations dwindled as each of us succuhts of the bleak future
The water around us began to darken as the sun fell, indicating to us that we’d be able to resurface soon
Without taking a break, the four of us launched out of the lake and into the purple and deep blue sky
Will you be okay flying with the off of her back Virion and Bairon were both still barely able to use ainst the scythe
‘I’ll s to accelerate
I followed alongside the on my own to lessen her burden I watched as the land below us began turning into the desert as we crossed the border into Darv I took one last look back, trying not to think about the battles going on and the chaos spreading for our troops as they were left without their commander