03 - Warblade by David Ferring - (ebook by Undead)

Author:David Ferring - (ebook by Undead)
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Warhammer
Published: 2011-04-29T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

The Wasteland lay to the west of the Reikwald Forest, and it took much longer than two days for Konrad and Wolf to reach the border. By then, Konrad’s five years of service had expired. Neither of them made any mention of the subject.

The Wasteland was barren and inhospitable, a cold wind from the Middle Sea perpetually sweeping across the plains, and so poorly populated that there was only one town in the whole desolate country. That was Marienburg, the largest port in the entire Old World. But that was not where Wolf led Konrad, and neither did they stop at any of the small villages or farms where the rest of the inhabitants dwelled.

Wolf would not reveal their destination or who would be there when they reached it, and Konrad soon gave up asking. This was the reason that Wolf had suddenly appeared out of the night to rescue Konrad from the bull-headed beastmen: so that they would ride together into the Wasteland to meet the mysterious “someone” who could answer all of Konrad’s questions on Chaos.

Or at least he could pretend this was what fate had intended, that there was nothing else he could do but allow himself to be carried along with the course laid out for him. And the further west that he travelled, the more he seemed to escape the web which had threatened to trap him amongst the interwoven strands of his life.

Wolf had also refused to reveal how and when he had become infected by Chaos. Konrad could understand that, because he was unwilling to speak about his time within the bronze armour and what it had done to him. But the fact that Wolf had survived for so long since he must have been affected, and that he was still such an implacable enemy of Chaos, gave Konrad renewed hope. He knew that the touch of warpstone had condemned him to ultimate destruction, but perhaps he could delay the time of his inevitable doom.

For as long as he had known him, Wolf had been fighting against Chaos, although he had never used that word. Wolf had been aware that the battle took on many forms, that the world was in danger upon many fronts. Because he was a warrior, he had chosen to combat the legions of damnation the only way he knew— by force of arms. He used military might to hold back the northern hordes which sought to break through the frontier defences in Kislev, and in this he had proved very successful. The mercenary army he built up had even pushed the barbaric tribes back towards their own benighted realms. But then came the day when the feral invaders had swarmed south, eliminating the mining town and destroying everyone within. Or almost everyone. Krysten had been the final victim.

Konrad and Wolf rode on, day after day, across the wilderness. The Wasteland was aptly named. The grass was parched and withered, the occasional tree was stunted and twisted.

There was hardly enough vegetation to sustain the few wild birds and animals that they saw.

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