Magic Research - Chapter 31：Ambush

Climbing in the caravan Adrian looked one last time Azuria and he promised to return to continue living in this beautiful city.

Emill and Adrian were separated in different caravans but Emill could go to see him because he was leaving the patrol group around the caravans.

For 3 months the trip was quiet, the morale of the soldiers was high and the mages were all training in their caravans, they just went out to eat and admire the landscape.

There was only one month left to go to the fortress where he was going to spend 5 years, Adrian and Emill were talking about the core that Adriano was going to condense, the Blizzard Core, all the conditions were filled he had condense the storm particle, lightning and ice, but however despite its power the Blizzard Core is extremely difficult to stabilized because it is composed of 2 negative energies and only one positive.

Adrian was going to condense Minor Cores for metal and wind, Emill says “I think there is a Minor Core for metal that changes the attribute of metal by making it liquid I think it’s called Bazenia Core, but it’s hard to master because it requires a body strong enough to support a bath of molten metal ”

“How is it possible to bear that, you must be crazy for-” Adrian was interrupted by the sound of an explosion and the voice of the commander “Enemy Ambush, Defensive Formation NOW!” Adrian grabbed his brush and wrote in the air a succession of rune “Vern” towards the caravans, Emill meanwhile joined the other soldiers and he placed himself behind the shield wall formed by the soldiers.

A rain of arrows fell on the caravan and strange two-headed wolves came out of the forest on the left, their furs black as night and their eyes red as rubies a soldier shouted “Gragnirs!”

Meanwhile the arrows started to bounce off the caravans making a noise as if the tent of the caravan were made of metal but Adrian did not have time to deal with this and began to fulfill his role with the other Mages to bombard runes all ennemys that passes through the defensive line.

While the shields were holding out against the wolves, a group of red-skinned humanoids with black eyes and swords and shields rushed to the mages behind the line of defense, despite the fact that the other side from the road was a small ravine the demons had hidden there waiting for the wolves to attract the attention of the soldiers to attack their backs by surprise.

Adrian looked on the other side after hearing the screams of the first victims of the demon assault and he lost no time and took his bow and drew back, and shot an arrow saying “Feln-Trae”, the arrow finished in the torso of a demon creating a gaping hole, the eyes of the demons turned gray and he collapsed.

Adrian knew that his bow would be no longer useful so he decided to write runes with his brush and try to survive enough time for the soldiers to finish with the wolves.

“Save time, our spell is almost finished and that will annihilate all the wolves.”A mage shouted while concentrating energy in a circle created by 6 mages, knowing that the fight was inevitable apprentices came out of the caravans and took weapons in the caravans and brandished their shield to protect the wizards that beat, most of them were at the Control Stage so had no use in combat.

Meanwhile Adrian chained the rune which drained most of the energy in him but yet he had managed to kill a dozen demons, now that protection was before him he could re-use his bow.

The other mages also attacked by sending fireballs, shooting spikes from the earth, splashing the bodies of demons and causing them to hesitate while approaching, but the losses on Adrian’s side were numerous half the Apprentices who wore shields were dead and most of the others were wounded.

Adrian was no longer shielded and found himself in front of 3 demons, Adrian rammed a sword on the ground, 2 demons approached him but Adrian had learned from the fight against the magic bear in the forest from Esmar and say “SAR-VALKRIS” and almost instantly the two demons were pierced up and down by a spear formed in rock but yet the third was already close to him and struck him with a sword on the arm, Adrian stepped back and felt a sharp pain on his arm and saw his bone exposed by an horrible wound, the demon had cut him to the bone.

When Adrian looked away the demon drew closer to try to cut him again with his sword but Adrian had just cast a rune on the demons and said “Sareno”, which caused an explosion that engulfed the upper half of the demon.

But the blast of the explosion propelled Adrian 3 meters back, the result was only the lower part of the demon remained but the explosion did not prevent other demons from running towards him.

Seeing the demons approached Adrian thought he had no chance, he was wounded and he was on the ground.

But he dodged while retreating, however his body was that of a mage so his dodge leaved an opening for an inesquivable blow, after a few seconds he already had 3 additional injuries.

While a demon was going to inflict an injury to Adrian a shield taken the hit for him, they had finally finished the wolves on the other side.

Adrian was escorted to a caravan and treated by a priest before being placed in a bed, once lying Adrian fell asleep not because he was tired but because the priests had given him a sleeping pill, otherwise how to fall asleep on a battlefield filled with corpses and fighting noise.

Adrian was wounded on the arms and legs deeply enough , if untreated he could die in a few minutes due to blood loss.