Chapter 46: Braedon

Ren's face turned to a frown. He glared at Cassandra and then at me. I was the guy always looking after her. If Ren did have something to do with Cassandra's magic issues, I was always the guy there to make things not as bad as he probably would have liked.

I blocked another spell, and my body began to give way. Like it did several years ago while Cassandra and I were taking a break from training at the guild. The two of us had traipsed into the forest, blasting trees and rocks, when a small group of young Sarchi surrounded us. Because they were young, they were also fast and managed to avoid most of our spells. We fought for hours but luckily, they wore down before we did. It took me a week to recover from the energy I expelled. After that battle, Ren taught us how to conserve our energy during similar fights. "Let your legs take most of the defensive brunt of a fight since most of your offense comes from your hands," Ren often taught.