Battle Mage: Forging New Steel (Tales of Alus Book 9) by Donald Wigboldy

Author:Donald Wigboldy [Wigboldy, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2015-01-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20- Mirrored Actions

The walk through the emperor’s palace always gave Palose mixed feelings. There was a certain amount of opulence, but Emperor Kolban cared less for pretty things than he did about increasing his power; or at least the old Kolban was that way.

Reborn in a new body, the emperor looked like a boy entering his early to mid teenage years; but Palose knew that he had all the knowledge of the original emperor’s mind. Though the warlocks involved and the emperor made them all believe that the transfer had kept him the same, it was hard to believe at times that this Kolban was the same creature who had lived for a millennium.

This Kolban had one thing in common with his previous incarnation, which helped the dark mage; he seemed to have a fondness for the reborn mage. Palose had died and been brought back under a warlock’s spell. While that meant he had been sent to betray his homeland, Southwall; the young mage hadn’t felt any regret at the time and even more than a year later with that warlock dead, Palose barely felt anything for his former country.

He had discovered portal spells thanks to his former master and been given a free rein to learn any other magic that he wanted besides. Learning all that he could of the resurrection magic, which had brought him back; Palose eventually discovered ways around his master’s control. He also learned how to use necromancy to bring others back to life. The dark mage doubted that his use of dark magic was known to the emperor. Such deeds would probably earn him a second death as had happened to every resurrection man before him, but for now the young mage worked to increase his power and learn all that he could of the magic kept in Ensolus’s library.

Now he went to meet with Kolban. His position as someone the emperor trusted had come through his relationship with the sister created from one of two extra vessels created at the same time as Kolban. The emperor had bestowed some of his power on another male called Lanquer, a lesser vessel and even more power to his sister, Acheri. Both held much of his knowledge, but had their own separate minds and personalities.

Orc guards made him wait for only a moment before he was admitted into a room that felt like a large office. Three long tables served as desks holding maps on one, writing utensils on another and some strange artifacts that he wasn’t familiar with on the last. Palose noted the sparse decorations and the mere handful of guards. A door was guarded by two trolls on his left farther down the wall towards the furthest table.

Directly before him sat the boy emperor, Kolban. He sat behind the table using it like a desk. Smiling as he spied Palose’s entrance, the teen stood moving around the table to greet him.

“Welcome, Palose, I have been waiting for you.”

“I received the letter less than half an hour ago, your highness,” he stated with a bowed head.

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