1. Across Eternity: Book 5 - Chapter 6


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

    ... galloping horses, regardless of the terrain. Valia rode in the lead, cutting down any beastmen that tried to stand in her way.
    
    Behind her was Noah, wielding not a bow or sword, but another illusory gun. Any time one of the beastmen jumped into the air, he’d strike them with mana bullets, and though they couldn’t cause harm, they broke the attackers’ focus and made them stumble in the air, turning graceful leaps into bone-breaking landings.
    
    Shannon was in the back, picking off the beastmen running behind them. Like all members of the centaur tribe, she had learned at an early age how to gallop and shoot at the same time. She could run at full speed while twisting her upper body around and nailing enemies behind her.
    
    They were racing on winding paths along the edges of cliffs under stone arches, with every step a risk. Their fortune turned when they were flanked from above while circling a hill at the edge of a ravine. The beastmen sprinting down the crumbling slope set off a small landslide, and though Valia and Shannon managed to avoid it, Noah’s horse got swept up in the falling rocks, and he was sent tumbling down into the ravine.
    
    “My Lord!” Shannon cried out.
    
    “Shannon, take my horse and find a way down to us!” Valia shouted before leaping from the saddle. “Zodiac: Sandulam!”
    
    She slid down the hill perfectly balanced, like riding an escalator, and reached Noah, half-buried under gravel and pinned by his dead horse. She pulled him out, though, from how he ...
    ... hissed and gasped in pain, his leg was clearly broken. The beastmen had them surrounded, circling their wounded prey.
    
    “Leave them to me,” Valia said coolly.
    
    “I’ll join you in a moment,” Noah replied as he drank a healing potion.
    
    The beastmen snarled and closed in, brandishing claws of both steel and bone. They attacked as a group and were knocked back in pieces. Valia’s sword swerved through the air so fast it was almost invisible, deflecting the marauders’ blades and slicing through their flesh in the same stroke. Despite the attacks coming from all angles, she stood her ground and rotated like a turret, able to intercept anyone who came close.
    
    That said, these beastmen were fast, powerful, and driven. They pounced like real mountain lions and could attack and defend with cat-like reflexes. Valia was using her magic to keep up with them, but their blades scraped and sparked against her steel skin more than once. While she had her back turned, one of the beastmen activated a spell and conjured a pair of jaws that appeared in the air around his head. Made of mana, the apparition resembled a massive bear trap, and he leaped towards Valia, ready to close it around her throat.
    
    Before he could reach her, a mana bullet struck him in the throat and interrupted the spell, and Valia beheaded the incoming warrior. Noah was back on his feet, brandishing his sword and gun. The two fought back to back, carving down any beastman that got close. They fought with unparalleled ...
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