"You're right, Aaron. This barrier is impressive, and I don't really know who would last longer between you and my minions if this barrier wasn't there, but here is the point: I'm not trying to kill you. Not yet."
He let the words hang in the air while his summons kept attacking. The barrier flickered but stayed strong.
Then Reidar's gaze shifted from the unbound man to the figure cowering just behind him, Judas Venn.
"To be right, you're not protecting 'morons,' Aaron," Reidar said. "You're protecting an asset."
He waved his free hand over the scared War Hounds. "You and the Church worked on this for months. You found the biggest, meanest bully in the area, let him loose just enough to make him dangerous, and then built this small army of thugs around him. You thought you were making a weapon to use against Creamont."
Aaron's calm outside changed. As he put more mana into the flickering shield, his hands got tighter. Reidar's words were too close to the truth.
