Lusam: The Dragon Mage Wars Book Three Read Online Free PDF

not look back,” Lusam said squeezing her hand gently.
    “Only if
you
promise to stay alive too,” Neala whispered leaning in to kiss him.
    “Oh, I think I’m going to throw up,” Alexia said, feigning revulsion at their kiss. “Don’t worry, lover-boy, I’ll make sure she gets to that cave alive. She’ll be right in front of me all the way there. I’ll look after her, and Aysha will look after us both, you’ll see.”
    “Thanks, Alexia, I appreciate that. Now, I suppose you better give me that bow of yours, and the quiver of arrows, so I can enchant them for you. We wouldn’t want you falling short of your target after all our planning,” Lusam said teasing her.
    “It’s still a long way to shoot an arrow, there’s no guarantee I will hit them from this range, just so you know,” Alexia said nervously as she handed over the bow and quiver to Lusam.
    “Oh, don’t worry about hitting them too much. As long as you’re close the arrows will find their targets once I’m done with the enchantments,” Lusam replied smiling.
    “How can you be so sure? What exactly do you intend to do?” Neala asked curiously.
    “Well, the bow enchantment is simple enough, it just needs to be made much more powerful. I can easily make it shoot three or four times further, and give it much more force behind each arrow, without making it any more difficult to draw back the bow. It was the arrow enchantments that took me a while to come up with, but I think I have the answer now. I will actually put two enchantments on those. One to make them fly truer, and not be influenced by any wind, but the second enchantment should make them very deadly. I will make them magically attracted to the sound of a beating heart. If you get the arrow within five paces of an agent, it should find its own target, with deadly accuracy,” Lusam said grinning to himself.
    “Whoa! You can do that?” Alexia asked in amazement.
    “Yes, I’m pretty sure I can, but there’s only one way to find out for sure I guess,” Lusam replied. “Renn, I shouldn’t have to use very much magic at all on this, but it may be better if you sit in front of me again to block their line of sight to me, just in case they can detect the slight increase in my aura when I perform the enchantments.”
    “Okay,” Renn replied, and quickly came to sit in front of Lusam.
    Lusam took less than fifteen minutes to enchant the bow and quiver of arrows. He had Renn watch the agent’s camp carefully for any sign of movement, just in case his activities drew any unwanted attention from below, but all remained calm.
    “Lusam, I have an idea which may help you a little,” Neala said.
    “What’s that?” Lusam asked curiously.
    “I know how tired you are, and how low your magic reserves are right now. I know I don’t have a lot, but I want you to take some of my reserves, like you did with Lucy at the book shop when you healed her. Even if it’s only enough to survive one extra attack, it has to be better than nothing,” Neala said.
    “We’ve no idea how that would affect you, Neala. For all we know it could make you sleep for hours. I don’t think it’s worth the risk, but thanks for the offer,” he said squeezing her hand again.
    “I’m sure it wouldn’t affect me at all. After you lost consciousness healing Lucy she awoke almost immediately afterwards. All she complained about was a headache, and I’m sure I can put up with a mere headache, especially if it gives you a better chance of coming back to me in one piece,” Neala replied. Lusam hated the thought of draining Neala’s magical reserves simply to replenish his own, but he had to admit he wasn’t looking forward to the coming battle in his current state, and even a small amount of magic could make the difference between success or failure. So reluctantly he accepted Neala’s offer.
    “Okay, but if you start to feel tired, or weak in any way, tell me to stop,” Lusam said.
    “No problem, but I’m