Chapter 61 - Nametaker
Kat
Destruction surrounded her.
Kat was standing in the middle of a wide dirt street, with black-clad bodies surrounding her. The faces of the bodies had strange white symbols painted on them. Every single one of the nearby buildings was ruined beyond recognition, what remained of the scorched wooden pillars and stone littering the street.
"The entire southern section of the town is on fire!" a voice screamed out behind them.
Kat turned to look as Thurlow, a fellow Shielder, came running up to them. There was blood running down the left side of his head.
"The knights are heading there as we speak, but we need to send mages to assist them with controlling the fire," he continued as he stopped close to Kat's group, bending over as he breathed heavily.
All of them turned their heads to the south. The night sky was beginning to take on an orange hue there.
"We'll go," Wilmer said as the man took a step forward along with Muriel. The two of them were the best among them when it came to hydromancy.
"I'll guide you," Thurlow said, standing straight after he'd caught his breath for a moment. Then the three of them immediately took off down one of the muddy streets.
That left seven Shielders in their group. Two A-ranks and five B-ranks.
"Can't believe they're causing all this destruction," one of the other Shielders muttered. "Blazes...what could they even be after?"
"I doubt even the Augur could understand these maniacs," Arnall—the current leader of their group, and an A-ranked senior Shielder—said.