Chapter 69: Raiding party 12
Chapter 69
Reskeme locked eyes with the master mage, the man grinned like a mad man making reskeme begin to sweat. The only time Kellar gave him that look was when it was time for reskeme to learn something, He watched in confusion as Kellar walked towards the commander. Reskeme shuffled in his place jostling the soldier next to him. The master mage stopped next to the commander and crossed his arms seemingly ignoring the Commander as he talked with the other soldiers.
The army held the field the river once again at their back and the forest at the front, Reskeme breathed deeply, he stare at the start sky, he could see the faint outline of a cloud drifting into the sky, how odd he thought, the clouds seemed to touch the ground but he didn't have time to contemplate odd clouds. From the dark trees to both his right and left Darva flooded from the trees.
Unlike before the warriors didn't lead the charge, the rush of mana brushed at his senses, his skin tingled and he felt his body tremble, the ground shook as the Darva and their reinforcement charged from both sides. Jostling reskeme followed the solder next to him forming a tight wall of spears to meet the charging Darva. Reskeme waited for the archers to shoot, the Darva was in range.
He realized the archers must be keeping their arrows for a sure shot, the large-scale volleys in the stories only worked if they had a large supply of arrows. The Darva ahead of him reached 50 steps, 40, 30,20, 10, He leaned over the shoulder of the crouched man ahead of him the man's dark hair hung past his neck, the man's steel cap stood up as he peeked over the shield. A soldier next to him mumbled "damn it, we walked into a trap."
Reskeme felt fear, the hoard of murderous Darva cut The man's words short, the Darva came to a halt just out of reach of the spears. Reskeme watched and waited, the snarling warriors stare at them their hate evident. He wanted to fall back and the shuffling of the soldiers next to him made it clear they were also uncomfortable standing soo close to the enemy.
4 soldiers away a group of soldiers exploded sending blood and other disgusting bits flying in every direction. Reskeme braced himself, the Darvan soldiers charged forwards towards the staggering humans. The darva fell back their line reformed in second the soldiers behind them ushered forwards the two dead replaced in seconds.
Cursing the damned Darva Reskeme wonder what in the hells was going on, why was master Kellar just letting the Darva do what they wanted? Reskeme spotted one particular Darva, the warrior wasn't particularly special, its fur kept to the normal black with light grey covering half of one ear. The warrior noticed his stare, Reaching down The Darva Picked up a rock and threw it straight at him. He tried to move to the side but was clipped on the shoulder as the hurled stoned bounced off his armour.
Reskeme grimaced, the damned thing was taunting him, glancing over the shoulders of the warriors on the front line he noticed all up and down the line the Darva was taunting the humans. Reskeme scowled, He felt their hate and rage but at the moment he was feeling his own anger towards the Darva. glancing at his feet reskeme grinned he said," hey get me that stone so I can give them a present" One soldier passed the rock forward to the man next to him. The large man was going to throw the rock back from behind the line but reskeme stopped him by grasping his arm.
Reskeme said," wait give me a moment, ill put some magic on the rock before you throw it." the soldier warily looked him over but handed him the palm-sized rock. Channelling his mana reskeme formed two runes on the rock and channelled mana making the dome of mana around the rock dense.
The big soldier shook his head refusing the rock, The man said," you do it, i dont trust your witchcraft, Shrugging He drew back his arm balancing on his toes as he aimed at the warrior who had thrown it, grunting he released the shimmering stone, the rock arches and smashed into its snarling face.
Around him the tense ranks of soldiers who could see the floundering Darva cheered, The warrior's fur on the right side of its face burst into flame burning the skin and fur. The clearing lit momentarily revealing the mass of prowling Darva just outside of the reach of the humans reach. Reskeme cheered along with his fellow soldiers, the site of a small green fire devouring the face of the warrior made the humans start throwing various rocks at the snarling Darva.
the Darva were slightly below him and soo he could see over their shorter frames, Reskeme felt a creeping dread, the Darva must outnumber them by over double judging by the mass of bodies. Reskeme wondered why nothing was happening, the human mages seemed to just be being lazy while the Darva mages seemed content to let the soldiers just stand around.
Reskeme glanced back using his sensitive vision to pick out the stern features of Kellar, sweat beaded on his forehead and the man gestured frantically in the air first in one direction and then in another. He felt for something, only then he realized the constant thrum of mana being channelled had gone unnoticed in all of the excitement.
He channelled mana, immediately his site was filled with bright runic colours, His mind whorled as he took in the sight of runic layers forming and falling apart. Confused he glanced frantically, first he watched runes begin forming before it was completed and the runic layers would fall apart.
A small 3 layers rune exploded in the Darvan ranks sending 2 warriors to a fiery death as the two warriors erupted in a pillar of red fire, the army cheered, but reskeme ignored them, he was focusing intently on the flickering battle the mages were engaged in. Flickering grey runes formed in the air over the Darva rapidly covering an area of 10 steps, first one rune two and then three, a fourth rune formed completing the pattern, Reskeme braced himself but was disappointed when the runic layers fell apart.
how on Laurentia was the commander creating different coloured runes? the last rune he created was a bright blue finishing off the final layer. Another set of runes formed much to close for comfort as a dome of mana began rushing around the three soldiers on his right, the normal soldiers couldn't see the mana until it had finished the final layer soo they didn't realize their danger. Just and he was staggering back reskeme watched in detached fascination as the last of the 4 shimmering blue runes formed only the last one was a bright red.
The distinctive fiery red of Kellar's runes formed over the massed ranks of darva and a small explosion of fire erupted moments later. Screams and yipping followed the loud boom, Reskeme wasn't sure but he could swear the commander and Kellar were somehow stopping the layered runes of the Darva from exploding. And worse most of the attacks that began forming over the Darva flickered as they formed.
Reskeme felt terror as three rows down a small dome of blue mana formed on the second line and what looked like 13 soldiers packed together were caught in the three-layered rune. the bright blue mana flashed rushing wildly like a whirlpool and a moment later a gaping hole stood in the packed soldiers leaving an empty spot that remained as body parts fell to the ground in small pieces. A burning rage filled him as the stench of coppery blood drifted to him and filled his nose, he felt the rushing intensity of burning as he channelled all the mana he could hold.
Feeling angry and wreckless reskeme Formed his first rune in the air over 5 of the darvan warriors, he created the first rune parallel to the ground, his green rune formed and he began channelling power madly forcing more power than ever before, he created three haphazard runes not caring if he made them perfectly. He reached into his armour and watched his mana gauge.
Filling with the intense emotion of the Darva and his own hate he went beyond common sense, he held firmly to the power runes and forced mana into them, His mana gauge emptied the circle moving from full to half, his veins felt on fire but he pushed on he couldn't get the site of bodies torn apart from his mind. The mana gauge reached empty and he felt a tearing pain, Swaying on his feet he broke the first and most important rune. His three power runes began vibrating out of control the mana inside them shaking and sparking before spiralling out of control.
When his control rune broke apart He felt a blinding pain in his head, squinting he shielded his eyes as a bright green light covered the field in a flash. He felt the ground tremble and he felt the darkness falling over him. Reskeme collapsed on his butt legs failing him and he felt completely helpless as the fire flashed washing out in a circle, the soldiers in front of him collapsed over him her large body covered him as the chaoes of his attack burned the packed Darva.
He felt the comforting rush of his flame's taking lives. how odd he thought, his addled mind must be playing tricks on him, somehow he felt stronger as the flame devoured the enemy. The darkness took him in its embrace, the last thing he heard was the screams and terrified howls of the enemy as his balefire sent them to the hells.
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