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incinerates servitors

Sep 7th, 2022
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  1. I didn’t see the enemy team holding our end of the bridge through the haze until they popped up from under cloaks like ghillie suits and opened fire. Angry wasps hissed through the air and someone hit me in the stomach with a baseball bat and drove the wind out of me.
  2. For a second, I couldn’t tell what was happening. Some of my volunteers had raised their weapons and returned fire immediately, but most were confused. I knew the feeling. Getting shot at often confuses the hell out of me, and only training and experience allow you to respond with the kind of instant aggression necessary to counter that kind of surprise attack. I lifted my left arm, and only a lifetime of practice and dedication allowed me to bring up my shield through the pain.
  3. Pain?
  4. I looked down at my belly. There was no blood.
  5. I felt a hit on my shoulder. Another on my cheekbone, even though nothing had touched my shield.
  6. And then I got it.
  7. My people were dying. I could feel it. Feel their pain. Their terror. Their confusion.
  8. The air seethed with magical potential.
  9. I drew my blasting rod, gathered my will, dropped the shield, and screamed, “FUEGO!”
  10. Because nothing cuts through bullshit like a proper fireball.
  11. The lance of energy that emerged from my blasting rod was an order of magnitude more potent than any I had thrown before, thanks to the cloud of terror over the city. The very air boiled and shrieked in protest, and when the blast hit the ground among the enemy fire team, the thermal bloom that erupted was a sphere of white-hot light. The concussion of that expanding heat slapped me in the chest so hard that it rocked me back a step.
  12. The enemy fire stopped.
  13. All that was left a few seconds later as the fire boiled away was a black circle on the ground maybe thirty feet across, in a mound, where the heat had sucked the very earth up in a low scorched dome, some unrecognizable lumps, and a small mushroom-shaped cloud of sullen red flame that vanished into black smoke.
  14. There was a second of stunned silence, and then one of the volunteers, damned if it wasn’t Randy, shouted, “We’ve got a goddamned wizard! F*ck those guys!”
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  16. Battle Ground Chapter 25, Page 225-226
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