Chapter 62

Alaric’s POV

We barely reached the border when boulders started raining on us.  They rolled from the top of the mountains in succession at a speed that surprised us. 

We did not expect the enemy to start early. We have not left our territory yet, but the enemy uses our location against us to pin us down. 

For a while, we had been busy dodging speeding giant rocks.  They were fast, but we were faster. 

My men trained for these kinds of things. We use our senses to detect danger faster than any other creature. 

Smoke billowed around us.  Dust stings our eyes. 

It was like an avalanche of giant rocks coming from all sides. 

“We have to take cover,” I told Ben and the others. 

The area we are in is like a catch basin circled with slopes. We are on the low point, and every time a boulder rolls down, it creates an ear-splitting sound like the rocks were protesting fr