1. Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 6


    Date: 4/7/2024, Categories: Fantasy Author: Sage_of_the_Forlorn_Path

    ... her eyes. Noah scrambled to his feet and hobbled towards the control panel. The webbing wouldn’t let him walk, but he could still hop. He reached the panel, grabbed the lever with his teeth, and pulled it down.
    
    Throughout the room, runes lit up as the machinery activated. Power surged from the generator overhead, but rather than linking to the tanks in the pit, it arced to the webbing throughout the room. The webbing carried the current like copper wire, spreading to every single thread in and around the complex, and causing them to simultaneously break down into their base elements. Every line was dissolving, causing the tent over the prison to disintegrate. Sunlight poured in, blinding the fiends who had grown accustomed to the darkness and burning Carthace’s spider minions. The dark mana that saturated the city and weakened the uncorrupted was also purged.
    
    The anguished snarls of the fiends were then smothered by a thunderous impact as the main gates were ripped off their hinges by a mighty blow from Valia. She zoomed into the complex at super speed, slashing and carving every fiend she could find. Blinded by the sun, they couldn’t react in time and were easy prey, with limbs and heads sent flying ...
    ... with every swing of her blade. As Valia kept the guards occupied, Shannon galloped in behind her and went to work freeing the prisoners. She’d kick down doors with her equine legs and give the beastmen inside the weapons of the slain guards.
    
    “Go! Fight for your freedom! Everyone is getting out of here!”
    
    The spiders, having hidden in the buildings to escape the sunlight, lunged for her with pincers and stingers ready, but after fighting on the frontlines alongside Valia and receiving her tutelage, she was more than capable of defending herself. She quickly cut the spiders down and led the prisoners into the light.
    
    While this was going on outside, Noah’s predicament inside had worsened. Though the webbing that bound him was gone, he was now pinned to the wall, with two of Carthace’s legs stabbing him through the hands like crucifixion nails.
    
    “I’ll make you suffer for this,” she hissed.
    
    “You can try, but at this moment, my friends are freeing all the prisoners and slaughtering your guards, and as long as the sun is out, you won’t be stepping onto the battlefield anytime soon.”
    
    “Maybe so, but if your friends want to see you alive, they’re going to have enter the darkness, and I’ll be ready.” 
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