The Chosen, Kris Kramer [reading e books .TXT] 📗

as the evil energy assaulted him. Through barely open eyes, he could see the enemy ranks regaining their feet and forming up to finish off the incapacitated Anduains.

“So this is how I die,” he mumbled as he feebly raised himself into a crawling position, still unable to give up, despite his current state.

The enemy army must have assembled themselves in suitable numbers, because then Cadman heard a terrible battle cry ring out all around. The ground trembled now with the charging feet of a hundred hell-bent enemies. It would all be over soon.

A soft voice pierced the dark, tumultuous noise all around. Cadman turned to see a druid standing amongst her fallen friends, chanting out what he recognized as the most powerful healing spell known in Andua. Knowing that he would be fully recovered in about two seconds, Cadman prepared himself for a final confrontation with the incoming enemy. They would not take him without obscene losses on their part.

The soothing words of the spell hit him like a mule kick to the backside. The entire group of Anduains leapt up and charged the enemy, engaging them in a last stand for the bards to sing of for years to come.

As long as one of us lives to tell the tale.

Cadman fought valiantly, slashing enemies in two as they came at him three or four at a time. Their blood now layered his armor in crimson streaks. He looked to his left and saw the young girl with the shield charging through a crowd of the enemy untouched. She was yelling something unintelligible. That stupid girl! It was only a matter of time before they noticed her and killed her.

The soldier in Cadman automatically drove him in her direction, but the enemy swarmed him incessantly, halting his progress. Despite his cries for her to stop, she just kept running, screaming the name Ruaidhri. Cadman didn’t understand, but he couldn’t dwell on it. The enemy had them surrounded again and the undead dragon now approached, thumping the ground so heavily that Cadman could hardly remain upright.

He looked over the enemy army one more time and saw the girl slip through a crack in the wall, apparently unharmed.

“Perhaps I’ve saved one,” he muttered to himself as he watched his death approach once more.

But yet again, I couldn’t save them all.

 

 

To Be Continued in…

Rise of Cithria Part 2 - The Descent

 

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The fragile truce between the three kingdoms is no more. The armies of Andua, Bergmark, and Caldera wage war against each other on blood-strewn battlefields, but it’s the mysteries below that summon our heroes ever deeper into the unknown.

The disgraced soldier Aiden and his ragtag Calderan allies have ventured north, into the deadly lands between Caldera and Andua, only to be waylaid by both Anduain and Bergsbor armies. In the caves below Teekwood Forest, the timid Eilidh gathered Anduain friends to help her find her lost love, only to run away during their darkest hour. And Pjodarr, Gruesome, Tarac and Blade, proud warriors of Bergmark, continue their dangerous hunt for rampaging havtrols, even into the bowels of the world itself. 

Death, danger, and despair await our heroes as they embark on a journey that will take them not only into the depths of a lost city, but into the twisted remains of their own past. Something terrible has chosen them, and now they must face their destiny. Cithria is rising, and a dark power rises with it. 

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