Chapter 126

“I told you to go to the tunnels! Don’t you understand you could die?” he asked angrily as he urged Ayla down the stairs.

Ayla tried to free herself from Rhobart’s grasp. “The Arch-Mage. We have to help him!”

“He is dead. Where is Rania?”

Tears pricked her eyes, but Ayla blinked them away. The time to mourn the dead will come later when the Orcs are defeated. “At the stable with Kerra.”

Rhobart took Ayla to where Rania was.

Zell and Eydyia came out of the stables. Eydyia jumped in the air, wings spread wide, and circled the stables once before diving straight at Rhobart and Ayla.

“Get down!” Zell yelled from the top of the griffin.

Ayla and Rhobart crouched down while Rania glued her back to a stone wall just as Eydyia flew so close to them, her wings almost touched them. Eydyia grabbed an Orc—that was about to attack Rhobart from behind—in her powerful talons and rose up in the sky, taking the Orc away from the monastery.

“I can’t concentrate on this damn battle if I know