CHAPTER 1.7.9

“What are you waiting for! They are closing in on him, get to him before they do!”

Reene was the first to advance, thumping Valmon on his shoulder and jolting his senses back into action. Robert, on the other hand, needed no wake-up call, as soon as he saw Reene take off he was hot on his trail. Salron the cowardice was the last to advance.

Tyndale's army was closing in on them, fast. They noticed the small group breaking up from the larger formation and some of them focused their attention on them. Although they were relentlessly firing arrows at the group of state guards, the cover of the trees made it difficult to obtain pinpoint precision. At times arrows would be stopped by the forest cover, others that made it through would have passed through the obscurity of leaves, losing momentum that could've made the shot lethal.

The state guards managed their plight, maintaining their hold on their shields. Drom had already sprawled to the ground, he was pushing past his limits and althou