28. Chapter 28
Chapter 28
Cain
I t’s in front of my tent that Koenig finds me, standing with my hands clasped behind my back and my eyes narrowed at the Academy.
“General,” he tells me as he salutes. “We’re detecting signs of life again.”
I nod, fighting the smirk as I turn my focus back onto the wretched place. For the past forty eight hours, this has been my main source of annoyance — the fact that I’d figured out she’d left but not where she’d gone.
Now? Now it no longer matters.
“Give the first line the signal. We’re starting,” I tell my right hand.
He salutes and gets moving.
This unusual tremor of excitement fills me as I wait for the men to execute the order.
I watch them bring out the magic ram and start attacking the Academy below.
Unless she wants to die, that should get her crawling out in a matter of minutes.
But half an hour passes after the attack and there’s still no movement whatsoever.
I tell Koenig to increase the force.
Nothing.
My jaw working, I tell them to increase it some more.
“Still nothing,” Koenig comes to report. “Would you like us to do a full blast?”
I grit my teeth, thinking. There’s no doubt as to the effect that would have. It would kill everyone inside, along with her . And, unfortunately, I need her alive.
“No,” I tell Koenig. “I’ll take care of it.”
As soon as the words are out of my mouth, Koenig disappears, just in time not to be knocked down by my shadow wings as I clench my muscles and kick my feet off the ground.
I come to hover above the entrance into the Academy, fixing my eyes below. It’s my shadows that I send down there, feeling for signs of life.
Not a minute goes by and they start getting out, throwing weak magic at me.
Excitement floods me and I signal to my men to surround them, my eyes scanning the group for her likeness.
But instead of fighting my men, the enemy surprises me by attacking the Academy.
It doesn’t take me long to figure out what they’re doing, but by the time I do, they’re already getting back inside, the Academy being zapped out and into another dimension.