Chapter 378 (2/2)

With a roar, Mica appeared like a catapult stone to crash against the asura Her haainst his upraised arain as he swatted it aside

A jolt of electrical force leapt froers to her ha rocked Taci to the side Just behind hiht couldn’t escape—appeared, and he lurched back into it

But I had to turn away as I ai body There was a low boo her out of the air just before she would have crashed into the rubble of one of the

She was breathing heavily, her eyes wide, his teeth bared like an ani That spear…”

I flew behind the cover of a house, hoping against hope that Varay and Mica could hold him for a moment so I could inspect Aya’s wound But as I set her down and began looking her over, she pushed me aside

“I’, interruptedto a bloody wound in her side

As she spoke, I took Aya in with fresh eyes It had been aunt, her eyes dark Gone was the ly in her voice, the pouted lips, the pretense of seductiveness that she used to wear like a suit of armor

There was no tih since the battle at Etistin and the fall of the castle, but I also knee all ht?”

She shoved me aside “There’s no ti h t n o v e l r e a d e ro r g

“We can’t fight hi tactics ork for only so long This isn’t a fight for hialare from Aya at the interruption “What about your illusions? Perhaps—”

She scoffed, floating off the ground and staring fiercely up toward Taci, her eyes full of hatred, the desperate need for vengeance carved in every hard line of her face “Maybe— like that would work once before the asura realized what I was doing, and what difference could it possibly ames with this deity”

Wind whipped around her as she bulleted back toward the fight, and all I could do was follow

The black hole Mica had conjured was gone Varay had closed in as well, her body encased in glea ice-armor, but the two Lances were on the defensive and couldn’t break away fro straight toward hithe asura’s back

I followed close behind her, sending arcs of lightning into Aya’s wind-infused bolts landed, the electrical ih his mana barrier and into his nervous system to paralyze him

He barely twitched

Aya closed on Taci, a dozen transparent blades scything toward him from every direction

Taci’s for with such instant precision that it was like he was teleporting an inch at a ti as much movement and effort as was absolutely necessary to avoid an attack or let it shatter against an arm or shoulder With eachin every direction at once, cutting through the spells he couldn’t dodge, breaking apart our spells and then reabsorbing the th

The others needed to fall back, but they were locked in place

Scanning the ceiling, I found what I needed There was a large chunk of iron-rich stone above where the others were fighting I hurled a bolt of lightning-attributethe stone I infused it with the h the iron

Taci kicked backwards, sending Mica spinning away, then whirled his spear around him in a circle As he shi+fted his hold on it, I pulled The iron beca the spear out of Taci’s unexpecting hands It flew straight up into the air and hit the ceiling with a clang

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Varay took the opportunity, falling back, conjuring several barriers of ice as she did

But Aya kept fighting The sphere of blades encircling her expanded and condensed, so e the the wind blades strike at hi

“Do you know the purpose of this trial?” the asura said, looking Aya right in the eye “To prove that I have the strength to learn the World Eater technique…the same one that destroyed your home”

The battlefield seerabbed thein the air, as he had before But the instant before he broke Aya’s spell, she released it Her body became as the wind, which coiled around Taci and reforht behind him, her blade across his throat

They moved simultaneously Her blade flashed to the side as he spun, his hand pointed like the tip of a spear to strike her in the sto her mana barrier

With horrible clarity, I watched as his arh her sto with her life’s blood, and had a section of what I thought ht fist

Even froht leave her eyes As her body fell, so did my stomach

My eyes tracked her doard motion until she vanished, then snapped back to the battle just as Taci blurred away before s Mica into the ith the back of his bloody hand

A thick layer of glittering black crystal formed around Mica, but when the asura struck there was a sound like shattering glass, and cracks webbed across the surface He struck again, and pieces of black crystal flew glittering into the air On his third strike, the Black Dia in up to the elbow

When it ripped out an instant later, blood sprayed froed shards of black crystal

A solid bea warped the air between us with the s ozone, and Taci rocked to the side

Varay appeared froht breeze feathering her short hair Her icy cold hand wrapped aroundray of cold white energy She metfor later”

I could have laughed “Back tenorders”

Under the co pushed back, a layer of electrically-infused frost building up over his skin For an instant, I felt a flicker of hope

There was a flash of red as the spear reappeared in Taci’s hand like a shi+eld, splitting the beam in half so that it fired off to either side of him with a crash where it impacted the walls An avalanche of stone collapsed onto the buildings below, crushi+ng thee in the rubble

I pushed and pushed, concentrating everything I had into that singular attack, Varay’s grip getting tighter and colder on my arh theit in two

I lurched sideways as the cavern exploded An invisible blade of mana split open the roof and carved a deep ravine into the wall behind us with a deafening blast

The air aroundhorror, I slowly turned toward Varay Her left arm, hich she had pushedred-black gash at her shoulder

Then Taci was on us A shi+eld-shaped panel of blue-white lightning appeared in front of me with the crack of thunder, but Taci’s red spear cut effortlessly through it, striking h the rent inwent black for a second before reality lurched back in

I was falling Above, Varay had grabbed onto the red spear with an ar the arh Varay

My vision di

Varay’s head drifted in one direction, the rest of her body in the other

I tried to stand, butdown, I saw that I had been cut froh both armor and mana It was difficult to tell if I was already dead andout between the jagged edges of my armor would be what finishedh t n o v e l r e a d e ro r g

But I was the only one left

I drew in a tre breath as my eyes shi+fted to where each of htened An intense pressure built up behindlow in my throat, I rolled onto uely acknowledging that uts didn’t i toward the collapsed tunnel to begin his hunt

“Asura!” I shouted,tears

He stopped and glanced back at le drop of bright blood was smeared over the side of his neck where Aya had cut hih the wound itself had already healed

My fists clenched, the stone beneathto life inside me The tears dried asthat the Lances—the greatest le drop of blood fro the others escaped was the true goal of this battle, but that didn’t mean I had abandoned my pride I was a Wykes, even if the rest of my family had proven unworthy of the name

“Thunderlord’s Wrath,” I uttered The spell took all er andin an to spill out of the wound acrossfrom my eyes and inside my skin Deviant mana infused every particle of my body

The asura shi+fted his spear into a defensive position, hisinto me

My battle cry was a thunderclap as I screa follohen I flew up into the air, ai I channeled, jagged and unpredictable, and I was on hi out of , burning daggers plunging into every square inch of hi ran up the shaft and into his hand When he ripped the weapon free, a thunderbolt struck hi-infused blood between an to burst out of the long gash onaway his defenses I wrapped a hand around the back of his neck to ensure he couldn’t flee, and when his spear pierced h

A cool breeze caressed my cheek, and I closedas I could This was a death I could be proud of

Just before I erupted, a sh, Bairon It isn’t your time”

My eyes bolted open, and I searched wildly for the voice, unsure how it could be real, afraid it wastricks onout ofain on my already shattered shoulder I barely noticed when I cratered into the ground

Taci brushed soot from his red uniform Even the fabric he as unscathed, I noticed with detached bitterness

I fought to get my elbows underneathe I could to the asura, but the voice caain, breathy and very real in my ear “Don’t move No matter what you see Don’t rin at his victory, or offer less platitudes about our battle There was a thoughtful frown on his face as he raised the red spear one last ti down the burden I’d carried since the Council’s fall I’d done everything I could Though I hoped Virion and Rinia would reach their destination in ti to the softly spoken orders of this strangely fa into hh t n o v e l r e a d e ro r g

As darkness overtook ht settled into the cold drowsiness

I expected death to hurt a at read