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“I understand, but two of us to protect your tree with everyone else here is enough. I beg you let Mozell go with you as our youngest but still someone very old.”
After a moment, I nodded. “Thank you for your advice. I accept. She and Petre will be the ones to bring me and get me out if it gets too dicey.”
We all moved fast, and I gave three small jars of blood to get the fighter jets different positions to hit. Plus to get some corrupted away from a different side.
Only a handful had been checking the other settlements and we hadn’t been making a big deal of it. The three that were in the visions were Keres’s immediate targets, but only an idiot would think that was all she was after.
The bad guys tended to think everyone else were idiots. Even if He was a God, it stood to reason He might be the same.
Maybe this one time He was, but I doubt it was a mistake He would repeat.
Or she would on His behalf? Fuck if I knew what was really going on.
Right before we were about to leave, Tian showed up and I was glad for it. I went right to him which clearly shocked him, but there was something important I wanted him to specifically handle.
“You can cloak yourself too, and I would hope you’re older than any noble she might have tricked,” I said quietly as if others in the armory couldn’t hear us. “I would bet she’s there with her soldiers. I would be. She was last time.” I waited until he nodded. “I want you to try and track her. The moment we arrive, I’ll try to sense her, but if she’s smart—”
“She’ll flee because there’s no way she has enough to handle what we’re coming with,” he muttered, nodding when I did. “I will try my best, but I did not sense her last time.”
“I know, and they’ll dart around if they even have a hint they’re being followed, but it might be able to tell us something. Even if we can figure out what fucking direction they’re heading. There has to be something. She doesn’t come from another fucking realm and just appear. We need to start looking for a trail or getting information on her.”
“I agree.”
I figured Tian would. He still sighed like he always did, but I was pretty sure it was at himself for being stupid enough to try and track Erebus’s champion and possibly get on her radar.
I honestly didn’t blame him for that.
Everything was a mess when we arrived. The amount of gunfire was overwhelming and clearly it was all hands on deck. The gobs of corrupted made me shiver. She’d really gone all out with this battle. I couldn’t think it was just to take down this huge settlement with the rest of the US government that we had nothing to do with.
Had we really killed so many in North America that she was desperate for the numbers? I was pretty sure there were over five million people at Fort Knox and Louisville, but… My gut was telling me there was something more to this.
Right then, I had to focus on what was in front of me. Corrupted immediately sensed me and the ones nearest turned towards me.
I wanted to work on what I’d learned with Vitor and Petre’s help the night I’d taken out Bahati and used again since. I wasted energy putting up a dome. I didn’t actually need a dome since nothing was coming from up above.
But I’d been able to feel more in the ground between growing my tree and the freaky times blood touched my energy beads. Stuff like that was all in my arsenal of power.
So I knew I could be smarter and not waste my precious power.
I hoped I could at least.
I focused on the ground and felt my power sort of build. The way I visualized it was a circle five feet around me.
Then ten.
Then fifteen.
Each time adding five feet to the diameter until I felt confident the circle was built solid but without wasted energy.
“Wait,” I told Kristof when he was about to go out and handle the ones closest to me. “Please, I want to work on this. You can move me if it doesn’t, but I have to stop wasting so much energy to—”
“I understand, my love,” he whispered. “You need to know the range of your gifts. I support you. I just wish you wouldn’t do it in circumstances so extreme.”
“It seems to be the only way I can unlock the next level,” I grumbled. Though I agreed with him, and maybe I just needed to take a day to play and really try different ideas that the people I trusted could spitball.
Right, in our spare time.
It did work. I felt the first corrupted hit about thirty feet away from us. Then I could build it, gasping when I got so many so fast. I glanced at Kristof and nodded. Now that I knew it would work, he could thin them out.
