All Chapters of Reborn before my betrayal : Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
12 chapters
The Second Awakening
The Imperial Legion didn't hesitate. Realizing their tracking ravens had pinned the rogues inside the crater, the forward vanguard surged over the ridge line.Five hundred heavy vanguard infantry descended the shale slopes in perfect, mechanical formation. Even without their glowing light-aspected enhancement arrays, their heavy steel armor and tower shields made them a crushing wall of iron. Behind them, columns of imperial mages drew mundane short-bows, ready to compensate for their suppressed elemental magic with a rain of steel-tipped arrows."They're coming down," Vane growled, his voice weak but stable as he gripped his great-axe with both hands. His raw physical strength was his only remaining weapon in this anti-magic zone. "Sixty against five hundred. We won't last five minutes if they lock shields.""We aren't going to fight their shields," Kaelen said.He hobbled toward the center of the skeletal graveyard, his crutch digging deep into the coarse black sand. Every step clos
The Vacuum
The needle of silver light pierced the crimson smoke, moving too fast for human eyes to track.Kaelen didn't try to roll away. He didn't call out to Vane or Mara. A decade of warfare had taught him that trying to dodge a high-tier tracking spell with an unawakened body was a fool's death.Instead, he leaned forward, opening his arms wide, and met the light halfway.THWACK.The needle struck him dead center, right in the middle of his chest.Mara let out a sharp gasp from behind the bone barricade, her hand instinctively reaching for her axe. High Mage Joshua began to lower his staff, his face a mask of absolute, professional indifference. He had executed hundreds of rogue mages; they all looked the same when a holy needle parted their sternum.But the explosion didn't come.The silver light didn't detonate Kaelen's heart, nor did it exit through his shoulder blades. The moment the high-tier imperial magic entered his chest, it hit the absolute, frozen void of his shattered core.Kaele