Chapter 334 Last Mercy (2/2)
Turning back to the battle, I spotted Regis who had h armor and flesh alike with ease
As I stepped back toward the reh the air right in front of ht er, which shi+mmered as it irl, had so her al us
“You should’ve escaped when you had the chance,” I said, snapping the wrist in ed ascender screaer she held in her other hand
The dagger never reached er, extended into a sharp claw, tore across her throat
With a spray of blood and an unintelligible gurgle, she fell to her knees
Behind her, I watched as Regis leapt on a spear-wielding Striker, catching the shaft of the spear between his jaws and snapping it in two before dragging thepast Regis’s shadoolf for, where a couple of the htascender, hile clasping her torn throat with one hand—ers into
I winced, er free
The ca but stare as the wound she had desperately inflicted began visibly healing in front of her, before succuan to break as a couple of the is had already killed one of the after the second when one of the white disks caught hier flared fro the runaway first
By the tiis had his attention back on the caster that had injured hirizzled wo steel plates
As the two stumbled back into an alleyay fro the mana around her and the caster A second and third box manifested around the first, and she took a deep breath, her hard eyes bearing down on Regis as the relieved caster behind her began su white disks
With each steplowed until destruction flickered silently, h each of the three conjured barriers I could tell thatin his final two prey
Leaving Regis to wrap up, I walked over to where Darrin and Alaric were both watchingtheround where it had been dropped, projecting ethereal golden chains that snaked around my companions Without preamble, I stepped down hard on the unfolded pyraround—crunched under ht faded, bothhis knees, Alaric’s gaze swept across the bloodied battlefield before taking inhis throat unco up at me “You…uh…hurt?”
“It would’ve been faster if you two had joined,” I said with a shrug
“You sees…under control, ” Darrin ht around us
A figure stirred on the ground to the left of where we stood
Alaric and Darrin looked to me but I shook round with a haggard groan The once-orange armor was dyed in crimson, but most of the blood wasn’t hers Aside from a raw scrape across her face, and as likely to be a vicious headache, she wasn’t badly wounded
I walked toward her and waited silently until she was finally able to take in the sight surrounding her
“No…” she whispered, eyes red and lined with tears
The ascender turned her tre body tohere I stood
“Please…just let me live,” she croaked
“I didn’t leave you alive just to show you this mess,” I answered, even-toned “I have a job for you”
She nodded fiercely “A-anything you want”
“Tell the h the portal platform now littered with corpses—“was my last act of mercy”
The mercenary’s jaw clenched, but she nodded once ard whatever seain, I’ll make sure that Ada is the only Granbehl left toher a mirthless smile “After all…I knohere they live”
With one last nod, she scrah the portal
I made my way to Darrin and Alaric, who had watched riree with how I handled this?” I asked
“The outcome? No, not in the least,” Darrin answered before he looked off in the distance “The method, well…”
“The outcome would’ve been better if you could’ve broken us out of the force cage without breaking it,” Alaric gru the broken scraps of the artifact tenderly “Do you have any idea how much this orth?”
“If you sold it, it would just end up back in someone like Granbehl’s hands,” I replied, deadpan
“Well, sure,” he sputtered, “but I’d be significantly more wealthy in the ave is chose that moment to reappear out of the alley He loped up beside me, his maw red with blood, and I couldn’t help but notice the way Darrin eyed hiis sent a fine spray of war Alaric, Darrin, and myself with little specks of blood Darrin flinched back, covering his face with an arm, while Alaric stared off into the distance, unamused and face dotted red
‘I feel sofrom the side of his mouth ‘Gonna take a nap now’
Darrin and Alaric watched, awestruck, as Regis faded away, drifting back into ic and…suht words He opened his ain In the end, he only shook his head helplessly
“I’e, myself,” Alaric adular panels closed “That should be impossible”
“Do you really want to know?” I asked,Alaric’s eye
He looked down at the hard-packed dirt for a second before kicking away a loose stone “Nope, I don’t suppose I do”
Over his shoulder, Darrin said, “Well I certainly would like to know, and I hope one day you’ll trust h to let is snorted in amusement
When I didn’t immediately reply, Darrin’s face twitched with a tentative s our party out of the Relictombs