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For noe had to handle the idiots she left behind I had to focus One cultist down, and three more to deal with I was about ready to step into the roolasses, I could do the old Sneaky Dustin Special Just shadowstep behind hihed my options, a mist started to rise from the floor That decided for me I knew on instinct to stay the hell out
It wasn’t a trap set by the Viridian Dawn, though, judging by the pale orange tinge of the vapors Carver, wherever he as trying to put these guys to sleep again I guess I appreciated his non-violent approach to suppressing threats, but so what these people had done, and had in store,the for Thea
The lad that we’d be able to end things quickly The only thing e was a bunch of normals in possession of lethal artifacts Thea – no, it couldn’t have been her – their leader had equipped theht have mentioned this before, but that’s about as responsible as handing a grenade to a small child
One of the out loud frouess you couldn’t cast spells directly frorand fantasy of sending someone a fireball as an email attachment – but there wereI re with the Lorica, it’s that the vehicle for ic didn’t matter, only the intent That notebook paper was a scroll, and so super shitty was about to happen
The scrap of paper vanished in a puff of flaht They watched, eyes wide in terror, as theat theirhappened Whatever was on that scroll had countered Carver’s spell The guy with the notebook paper – the one with the ponytail and glasses, let’s call him Scrolls – smiled and reached into his pocket for another piece of paper
“There’s three of the as he thrust his finger into empty space Wait – those were enchanted too He’d spotted Carver
One of themess, pulled out what looked like a tiny pebble, and hurled it at the patch of eh the air harnitudes into a boulder So in the room cracked, and snapped Carver screamed Pebbles thrust his fist in the air, triuly taken down a supremely powerful sorcerer with a rock But he didn’t expect Sterling to react so quickly
No one could have In a blur of black hair and leather, Sterling shot through the darkness, teeth bared and hand outstretched Sterling’s th slammed Pebbles into the opposite wall The man-boy cried out in fear and pain as the impact cratered the wall and sent up a shower of broken plaster With his other hand, Sterling forced Pebbles’s jaard, and he began to feed The boy yelped, then whi I looked away
Gil growled and charged directly for the largest of the e wall of confused but sturdy muscle my mind immediately labeled as Chunk Gil’s talons slashed in a crescent, the sweep of his claws leaving a trail of black blood With his chest cut open, Chunk screamed
Which left just Scrolls, and with Carver out of commission that meant that it was up to me to take him down I shut my eyes and willed myself into the ethers I was spoiled for choice with the entire house thrust into darkness, but I figured ht behind Scrolls I could grab the lamp off a side table, then beat him in the back of the head with it Excellent
The jaunt through the Dark Room went quick and easy, and the shift in tenaled that I was back in our reality, just a short distance away from Scrolls I reached behind rabbed the lamp –
And was prorunted and stu of blood in ue
“Can’t get the juratulatory, except that I could hear his voice shaking His fingers treled to unfurl another sheet of notebook paper “I’ll dodge you every time”
“That fucking hurt,” I said, spitting out blood
He keptthe spell in his hands I drew a deep breath, flush with the i the shit out of hi in the roo was a surface for e from