Chapter 6048

Jared treated the threats like background noise. The Dragonslayer Sword dissolved into a silver-gray storm, each rotation faster than the last.

His eyes burned crimson. His chaotic force was nearly spent. Fresh cuts striped his arms and shoulders. Still, the blade never slowed.

He tore his gaze away from the blazing wreck of the nearest sky-skiff.

Lucky hovered beside him, wings beating unevenly. The unicorn’s crimson scales were cracked and dulled, their natural brilliance faded. Each breath released only a few weak sparks.

The heat that once radiated from Lucky like a furnace now felt like late-autumn air.

That change squeezed Jared’s chest tighter than the bruises wrapping his ribs.

A raw roar rose above the clash of steel and the hiss of shattered spells.