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Humans Don't Make Good Familiars- Part 88
🕑 Added 2022-03-29 07:01:03 +0000 UTCJake’s POV
“All right recruits, time’s up.” We heard the Major yell from a distance. “This section begins... now!”
“Well then Sir Sentinel, let us be off.” Two said and flew to my armor’s perch on my shoulder.
“Which way?” I asked.
“I will fly up and try to find it. Just a moment.” Two said and with a few flaps he was airborne. He went pretty high up, over a hundred feet at least, then came back down and landed on my armor again. That direction,” he said with a gesture of his wing. I cast the enhancement spell Suma taught me and started running towards the enemy camp. I felt like I was running pretty fast, but two seemed unimpressed. “Is this as fast as you can go?”
“At the moment, yeah.” I answered. “But if I dropped my armor, I could pick up speed. That would mean you wouldn’t have a perch though.”
“We need to get there as quickly as possible, do what you need to do; I will fly beside you.” He spread his wings and began to glide alongside me.
“Alright,” I said then sent Jericho away. Once it was gone, I started to move much faster, now that I wasn’t being weighed down.
“A bit better, but it will still take us time at this speed.”
“What about mana wrapping? Couldn’t you just carry me or something?”
“Certainly not, you’re far too large. Anyway, that is a mana intensive skill, it wouldn’t be a good idea to use it before combat.”
Suddenly a bit of movement in the distance caught my eye. “What’s that?” I asked.
Two looked to where I pointed, “It’s a member of the opposing team.” He said.
“How can you be sure?”
“I can see them.”
“From this distance?”
“Can you not?”
“Not in detail; they look more like a speck to me.”
“I do not recognize them. They most likely are not healing mages.”
“Attack mages?” I asked.
“Or support mages.” I thought about asking what a support mage did, but now wasn’t the time.
“Will they attack us?”
“They are not flying at us; they are probably heading to our crest.”
“I’ll warn Suma and Lauric.”
“You can not turn back now!”
“I’m not going to. Suma and I can talk to each other no matter how far apart we are.”
“I see, then that is a good idea.”
“Suma, Two and I just spotted someone heading to you and Lauric, be careful.”
“Thank you Jake, we will be.” She said.
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Suma’s POV
“Lauric, Jake just told me that he and Two spotted a mage flying this way.” Lauric was perched on top of our crest, watching the sky.
“I can’t see them yet, we still have some time. We should prepare.” He cast a spell that raised a large cylindrical column of rock around the crest, so that it was only visible from the top. “This will be our last line of defense.”
“Lauric, you asked me to let you handle the close-range fighting, but what did you want me to do?”
“I suppose I should have been clearer; I want you to support me from afar. You have flame spells right?”
“Yes.”
“I do as well, but as I said, Nature-Magic is my specialty. Nature-Magic can’t be used effectively at long-range, but it is nearly unstoppable close-range. Please use you fire spells to attack the enemy from a distance and cover me if I get overwhelmed.”
“Okay, I understand, but we need a plan.” I said.
“There… in the distance! I see them!” Lauric announced. “We don’t have time, Lady Suma, please find a perch that will best allow you to see the area, but that isn’t too far.” Lauric then landed on the ground. “I summon you, Loyalty!” His Black Serpent appeared, and they both readied themselves while I found a perch at the top of a nearby hill. The serpent hid itself in one of the patches of tall grass on the hill with the crest. The tension in the air was thick, I could feel my feathers standing on end, but Lauric seemed unphased by any of it. He returned to his perch on the column surrounding the crest, and waited. It was only a single mage who arrived, but it was soon clear why. Without a word, he launched three attacks, Lauric intercepted two of them with his magic, but the third hit the column directly. Fire spells, powerful ones.
