Once it was clear there was no saving her from the inferno, I took back off into the fray.
I had slayed one of our enemies, but we still had one more to dissolve into flames, especially since this one needed to stay dead. I didn’t know how Keziq’s magic worked, but if Lennox hadn’t killed Adreona, I hoped dissolving the witch into ashes would prevent her from coming back until Adreona was dealt with.
82
LENNOX
Kara fought at my side as we continued to slay the guards surrounding Adreona. With each guard we killed, Adreona’s panic rose. I could see it on her features.
Her eyes were constantly darting around, trying to find a way out. But I wouldn’t let her.
She wouldn’t get away this time. Adreona would die today.
We had her surrounded; our soldiers were pressing in closer and closer, overwhelming the remaining forces that joined her. Nico and the wolves were ripping the Dhampirs limb from limb around us.
“Kara, care to help me with a little magic to take care of the rest of these guards?”
“Always.” Her sword sliced through another soldier. They screamed, her sword falling to the ground as Kara finished them off. “What did you have in mind?”
“I need you to soak them; I’ll do the rest.” I threw my elbow back, the sound of bones crunching filled my ears as I connected with a male’s nose.
Served him right for trying to sneak up on me.
“On it.” I could taste Kara’s magic in the air as she threw out her water magic. A massive cresting wave appeared in the clearing. The guards didn’t have time to run before the wave crashed over them.
I drew my own magic to my fingertips, my body warming from the inside out as my magic churned.
Water dripped off the soldier’s hair as they sputtered, scrambling to stand and run, wiping water from their eyes as they ran away, away from me.
Rumors of me had spread.
I thrust out my magic. The ground beneath the soldiers froze, sending them slipping and sliding, their feet coming out from under them as they continued their attempt to escape. I closed my fists.
The scene before us went still, the soldiers suspended in frozen terror as Adreona cowered behind them.
She rose to her feet, attempting to wipe the mud from her red leathers. “Why not me too?”
“Unlike them, I want to feel your death.”
Adreona’s eyes widened, but she didn’t retreat. Her hand flexing at her side was the only warning I got before she sent a dagger of ice flying toward me. I ducked, avoiding the ice blade.
But she didn’t stop.
There was a determination to her features as she continued to fling her ice daggers toward me.
I blocked them with my sword, the ice cracking against the steel as I continued to block them, ducking and swooping around her assault. I winced as one slid through the side of my arm, blood pooling at the surface of the cut.
“Bitch.” I summoned flames to my fingertips, manipulating them until I had a shield of fire. I rose, shielding my body with the flames.
Adreona’s blades continued to come, they sizzled as they met the shield and melted to the ground.
I sent my own blades toward her, mine made of fire.
She shrieked at the first one barreled toward her.
She summoned her own shield of water as my flames continued to assault her.
I hated this, fighting with magic. Trading blows. This could go on forever until one of us ran out of magic.
