The Beginning After The End (Early Years Book 1) by TurtleMe Read Free Book Online Page B

only sell for
less.”

 
    Goods? Sell?

 
    I felt my body heating up; tensing
from a burning rage I haven’t felt in a while.

 
    The audacity of this swine! How
dare he!

 
    I was ready to rush towards this
brute, almost forgetting that I was now in 4 year old child when…

 
    “There are only 4 mages and none of
them seem to be Conjurers! The rest are normal fighters!” This time my father
shouted out.

 
    Looking for slight mana fluctuations
around a person’s body makes mages distinguishable compared to normal humans
but only if you focused well enough.  Whether they’re an Augmenter or
Conjurer, making an inference based on physical structure and the weapon
they’re holding gives a pretty solid guess.

 
    Quickly reverting back to his
former adventurer days he when once led the Twin Horns; he put on his
gauntlets, yelling, “ Safeguard formation!”

 
    Adam quickly arrived next us,
facing the back of the road, spear pointed, while Jasmine and Helen came to our
left with both their weapons unsheathed, facing the front of the road.  My
father and Durden faced the mountainside, positioning themselves to shield us
from the archers overhead.  Angela maintained her
position, but stood up, preparing another spell while she kept the wind barrier
active.

 
    “Gather and guard my allies O
benevolent earth; do not let them be harmed.  Earth Wall!”

 
    The ground rumbled as a 4 meter
earthen wall transmuted up from the ground curving up in front of Durden.

 
    At that instant, my father burst
forward with his gauntlets raised in a guard against arrows, towards the enemy
archers.

 
    Moments later, Angela finished
chanting her spell and unleashed a torrent of wind blades aimed at the front
and back of the road.  With that as the cue, Adam and Jasmine followed up
behind the wind spell, arriving to face their enemies that were in distraught,
trying to block the flurry of blades.  Helen stayed behind, arrow knocked
and bow drawn and anchored with the tip of the arrow shining in a bluish light.

 
    This position was ideal for
protecting valuable goods or people, with two layers of protection from the
conjurers and an archer mage ready to fire at anyone who manages to cross the
assaults of Adam, Jasmine and Father into the defense line.

 
    “Fighter coming your way Helen!”
Shouted Adam as he dodged a mace crashing down at the ground where he was at
before promptly giving a quick swipe to the jugular of the unfortunate fighter.
 His eyes widened as he desperately dropped his weapon and tried to
seal the fatal wound with his hands, blood spurting out through the gap
between his fingers.

 
    Meanwhile, a scruff, middle-aged
man wielding a machete lunged towards Angela, trying to disrupt the spell.
 Although the wind blade spell wasn’t that powerful, it provided a
distraction that needed to be stopped.

 
    I tried to free myself to block the
man before he gets in range of Angela but before I could pull myself apart of
Mother and grab my wooden sword, it was already over.

 
    Followed by a powerful “Fwoosh!”
The arrow unleashed by Helen carried a force strong enough to pierce through
the armored chest of that said fighter and lift him up and back a couple
meters, impaling him on the ground.

 
    Mental note. Never piss off Helen.

 
    Nocking and drawing another arrow,
Helen narrowed her eyes.  I can faintly see the mana gathering into her
right eye as she closed the other one.  After another “Fwoosh!” The
reinforced arrow streaked through, ignoring all opposing air resistance before
arriving in front of another enemy fighter.

 
    This man reminded me of a smaller
Durden, except with more muscle and a much more sinister face.  He
furrowed his eyes in concentration and met the arrow with his giantsword that
was the same height as him.  With a sound that reminded me of a bullet
hitting metal, the enemy fighter was blown back a meter but wasn’t really
harmed as he