Chapter 407

SHAWN

Thank god. Xenois would bring reinforcements, proper warriors, maybe even other allied alphas.

"How long?" I asked.

"Minutes," Lake said. "Maybe five? He's moving fast."

"We hold for five minutes," I told everyone. "Whatever's coming, we hold."

The attack hit like a tsunami.

Creatures poured toward our position from every direction. Nightwalkers, fae, rogue werewolves, things I didn't have names for. All of them coordinated, all of them determined to break through our defense.

I fired plasma blasts as fast as I could generate them. Vaporizing attackers, creating barriers of superheated air that made approach difficult, trying to thin their numbers before they reached our perimeter.

But...