Chapter 186

Lyle was backing up slowly. He did not want to make any sudden moves. It appeared that the King was able to use the manticores from the first challenge again. Lyle continued slowly. Stopping only when the creature looked right at him. Lyle had decided to continue toward the center of the maze when he came to a dead end up the side and had to back track. When he decided to make his move into the middle he ran right into the manticore and now he was here unable to move. Lyle could see like most of the other creatures that he had seen in the maze so far it was chained to stay in this one spot, but manticores can shoot the barbs out of their tails, which means that they have a much greater range than just the area that they are chained in. That potentially can make them more deadly than the other creatures in the maze except for one. Amaris could see that Lyle was having a stare down with the manticore. She was terrified after seeing what they did to those two poor men in the fi