My hearing sense could never lie to me. I was quite sure of my ability to hear from a distance—and now, I could hear footsteps of around 7... no, 8 people walking towards us.
“Are they armed?” Alaric asked, tightening his grip on my shoulder, snapping me out of my panicked thoughts and back into reality, focusing my gaze again.
I nodded slowly and opened my dry mouth. “Um … almost all of them were carrying heavy weapons.”
I knew this because besides the sound of their footsteps, my ears also picked up the noisy sound of metal scraping against dry ground, indicating that they were dragging their weapons on the ground.
I glanced back at Alaric with a worried expression. Although I was confident enough to defeat one person, and Alaric was also very skilled in combat—defeating them all was
