Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1575

Chapter 1575 - Nightmares And Reality (Part 1)

Captain Locrias used a pair of enchanted binoculars to check on both the kids and the arrays that protected the Verhen household. He knew the layout of the magical formations like the back of his hand, but when lives were at risk, he couldn't afford a memory lapse.

"The children are moving toward the edge of the dimensional blocking array!" He said via the communication earpiece to the three teams that were evenly spread around the cultivated fields.

The members of the Queen's Corps reacted in unison, using their scouts to check the surroundings with spells and magical devices while the others chanted their spells. To not leave anything up to chance, one of them contacted the headquarters and renewed their request to keep reinforcements on stand-by.

The Verhen and the Yehval kids kept playing their version of a game of dodgeball where both the magical beasts and their riders could throw or block the ball while Locrias gritted his teeth in anxiety.

"The life sensing array on the north side came out clear." One of the soldiers said.

"East side is clear as well."

"West side is clear. No enemy in sight or in the range of the arrays."

"South side is clear. Requiring permission to go back on stand-by." The last soldier sighed in relief at the realization that everything was fine.

"Denied! You get to relax only after the children get out of the arrays and nothing happens." Locrias said while remembering the directions from which the previous two attacks had come and adjusting the position of his soldiers accordingly.

Then, his worst fears came true.

A series of Warp Steps opened near the borders of the dimensional sealing arrays in a spot that was not only close to the kids, but also the further away from the members of the Queen's Corps.

To make matters worse, he immediately recognized the crimson uniforms that the enemies wore. Except for the color and for the pin on their chest depicting the claws of a bird of prey instead of a crown, they were dressed exactly like the Corps.

"We are against the Talons!" Locrias cursed their bad luck and flew forward to protect the kids.

By adjusting the position of his soldiers, he had contained the disadvantage, but the members of the Queen Corps were already on their back foot.

The Talons was a criminal mercenary unit, whose members were once part of the elite troops from the armies of all the three great Countries. All of them had either deserted their own duty or had been dishonorably discharged.

Some of them came from the Queen's Corps, making the Talons the worst possible enemy. They had received the same training of Locrias' men, they knew all the standard tactics that a detail team would employ and how he had distributed his soldiers on the fields.

They had opened small gates around the Verhen farm to cast life sensing arrays from a distance to find out the position of the members of the Queen's Corps without being detected before launching their assault.

If not for Locrias' last-minute maneuver, his soldiers and the kids would have been ambushed at the same time. The assassins opened their Gates where their marks had been until a minute back, losing the element of surprise and giving the members of the Corps the time to react.

On top of that, the communication officer managed to call for reinforcements, tipping the scale. At least until another mercenary unit walked through the Talon's Steps. And then another and another more.