Book 2 Ch 56: Muita Força

Finn and Tai came to the same conclusion as Michael and yelled out to the rest of the group.

“Find solid ground! Archers watch the trees! Mages get something fucking BIG ready!” yelled Tai.

Gemini was scattered in an ugly long line with smaller groups trying to find footing and clustering together to prepare for the attack. Luckily the Cantalians didn’t seem to have slowed their harrying of the enemies lines. That bought them extra time.

Michael and the others found a solid piece of ground where their feet only sank slightly into the ground and turned to face the approaching column of Burndan soldiers. Now that they were closer he could finally see how they were managing to maintain their pace in spite of the terrain. They seemed to be floating over the ground as they walked, until Michael realized that they were actually walking on what appeared to be a barrier, the same kind he used as a shield, that must’ve been summoned by mages within the column.

“Marcus-”

“I know, I can see what’s going on,” he raised his rifle and started to scan. “I can’t tell which one’s the mage!”

“Here,” said Ollie, raising a hand and firing, not the fireball he had growing in one hand, but a colorful burst of light in the shape of an arrow that burst right in front of one of the approaching soldiers.

Marcus pivoted and fired, dropping that mage and starting to reload again. A large number of the approaching soldiers dropped onto the ground and lost their footing. As they did, Ollie let loose his fireball and a dozen of them were caught in the explosion of flame.

A second fireball and a number of arrows started to slam into the slowed troops from a short distance away and Michael realized that Clara and Alvarez were just a dozen yards away along with Finn and Tai.

While they peppered the approaching enemy, Michael, Pyotr, and Davi took position right where the ground began to solidify to give themselves the advantage.

The troops in front of them that were still marching on floating barriers all dropped at once. They were ready and so none of them lost their footing. As they charged they were peppered by spells, arrows, and bullets before they reached the Gemini forces that had gathered together.

Michael met a spearman head on, catching the speartip on his shield with a grunt before smashing his mace downward to break the shaft of it and then rapidly shifting his mace into a sword on the upswing to slash across the man’s throat.

“That’s new,” said Pyotr as he dodged a spear himself before sending out a quick slash with his longsword cutting across a man’s face before giving him a crippling kick to the chest that knocked him back into the approaching soldiers behind them.

Michael shifted his sword back into a mace as a knight approached. He blocked the knight’s swordstrikes a few times before crushing his pauldron into his shoulder and smashing his shield into his faceplate. The soldiers were as strong as they had been during the fight the previous day, but now their footing was worse and that made all the difference.

Davi seemed to be enjoying the increased traction he had compared to his opponents. His full-strength strikes caused even those that managed to block them to stagger backwards and fall into the mud.

One of the winged in the trees loosed a rock from a sling and managed a full powerful blow on Marcus’s shoulder, causing him to stagger as his shoulder blade cracked.

Michael raised his hand toward his friend, healing him with his hands’ golden glow even as he blocked another spear strike.

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Very suddenly, the soldier he’d been fighting’s eyes widened and he attempted to disengage. Michael went to strike him as he fell back, but his flight was quick enough that Michael missed.

Once the soldier was out of his range he raised his hand and sent out a small magic flare like they’d seen in the last fight. This one popped with golden light.