Chapter 15. Preparations

“Kai! Knife!” Alexei shouts, and the young man tosses a sheathed knife to the large Hunter, who immediately draws the silvered blade and slashes a gremlin’s face in half. Steam rises as the wound on the still beast starts to slowly peel wider. The last few pig-faced gray goblins start to scatter throughout the alleys. “Get them!” Alexei tries to give chase as he orders the Hunter-in-training. “They’re getting away!”

Kai stammers as he pulls his crossbow and loads the bolt, then he takes aim to have a bolt sink into one of the gremlin’s arms. It gives a snarl as it spins back around and skitters back towards him. Kai screams as he closes his eyes, swinging his leg as hard as he could, and there was contact as he kicked something.

At this moment in time, Relian uncorks a vial to imbibe a sharp silvery liquid as he starts running around to the other side to cut off the route the gremlins intended to use. Everything seemed to slow down and echo in the Hunter’s mind. He hears