87 Now You See Me 2 (2/2)

I raised a palm up. ”Don't worry. We'll be moving out soon and there will be lots of Magesong bastards for you to run over.”

There were a few muffled cheers at my statement that only increased in volume after Xanthor's words of, ”Start your engines, boys and girls! Get ready to unleash max horsepower!”

Luckily, in such a huge battle, the war cries of a few dozen centaurs weren't enough to catch anyone's attention. There was just too much noise to pick us out.

The next thing I did was order Jensen to raise the green flag which signaled Thom's squad to begin their retreat behind the army's vanguard. This also served as a signal for Luca's group to begin preparations to renew their attacks in an entirely different location than the one they left behind.

”We will, we will rock you,” I sang along to the tune drummed by the dwarves behind me. A few centaurs joined in by stomping their feet to the ground in tune to the beats. ”We will, we will rock you.”

After a while, I asked Jensen to re-raise the red flag which signaled Edo's group to restart their attacks about twenty yards east of their first attempt. Luca's group, which was fighting around twenty yards west of their original location, would slowly fade back into the army as well.

We raised our signal flag once more and sent Thom's squad back to the front barely ten yards away from their first attack point. It also served as a call to retreat for Edo's group.

This meant there were now six different spots where the Foolhardies flag had risen, and each one proved difficult confrontations for the enemy Magesong soldiers who could only hold their line when they were reinforced by Azuma's Immortals. This also meant Azuma's soldiers were now stretched thin along the enemy's front and was heavily engaged with our army's vanguard. Meaning Azuma had less of his trained soldiers around him now. Not that this would be such a big difference where he was concerned, but facing five hundred with roughly my eighty cavalry members was better than taking on the entire one-thousand-man unit.

”Dean,” Aura called urgently, ”I found him!”

My eyes followed the direction Aura pointed at. Roughly fifty yards away on our one o'clock, a black-clad soldier riding atop a gray swifthart was swinging his spear around mercilessly against the Darah soldiers who faced him.

My eyes narrowed at the sight of them falling like fodder to Azuma's martial might.

”Geez, I forgot how much this guy scared me...” My hands shook as if in agreement with my words.

Around Azuma, a much leaner group of soldiers gathered. They were less than the five hundred soldiers we'd accounted for, and it looked like their mounted troops were no more than twenty.

I felt a hand grasp my shoulder, and I turned around and saw Aura's blue eyes gazing back at me.

”We're ready to go on your order, Dean,” she said in a resolved tone.

At her touch, I felt my own fear get swept away as if it was nothing more than dust on my windshield. We stayed in that position a minute longer before I pulled away from her feeling gratitude at the inner strength she'd just shared with me.

I glanced over to Xanthor and the rest of the centaurs who were all looking to me with breathless anticipation. The determination in their eyes mirrored mine. They knew what I knew—now was a time for action.

”Let's ride,” I said.