Blood Mage Empire Book One by Darknight C.S

Author:Darknight, C.S.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I used the amulet Rapture Winterhollow had given me to contact her telepathically.

“Hunter!” she responded with excitement pouring from her lips. “It’s time for war, isn’t it?”

“We’re going to march on Freetown,” I said. “Nindor has launched an attack on the outpost, just the god-king and a thousand warriors.”

Rapture paused. “One of the Triumvir will be present?”

“He will be,” I said. “But I’ve got a feeling this Triumvir isn’t as powerful as he’d like us all to think he is.”

“Shall we march to Ice Forge City to join your host?” Rapture asked.

“No,” I said. “Your vampires can move more swiftly than the Frozen Folk. We’ll link up a mile or so north of Freetown.”

“Very well,” she said. Then, her telepathic voice lowered to a whisper. “Once the battle is won, we’ve got some…business to conduct.”

Then her voice vanished from my thoughts.

I liked our chances in Freetown. Even though Nindor promised to be a tough opponent, I was confident about our victory.

If I was right, and Nindor’s power was lessened the farther he traveled from his home territory, then he’d be a more manageable enemy.

Plus, even if he proved to be too much for me to handle alone, his puny force of a thousand warriors would be impossibly outmatched. There’d be Frozen Folk, barbarians, and vampires there to aid me in my battle against him.

Even if I wasn’t able to strike this Brother Dekkan character dead, I’d at least be able to route him, to send him running back to his capital city in defeat.

While killing him outright was preferable, his citizens would have their faith in him shaken if they saw him fleeing back south with his tail between his legs.

Yes, the battle for Freetown would most likely end in victory, but I had concerns going forward.

Though the Frozen Folk and the vampires were itching for war, there were a few cold realities that we’d have to deal with.

Being isolated up in the Northern Tundra, neither the Free Folk nor the vampire militaries had been built for a siege offense.

There weren’t many big, standing armies in the north. Likewise, there weren’t many big cities, either.

Given that, we had a distinct lack of siege engines. We’d need those for our future battles, especially when we’d move on the southern cities, starting with Nindor City.

It was a question that had been gnawing at me, a question that didn’t have a clear solution.

True, the Frozen Folk, when motivated, were probably the hardest workers in this realm. If these hardworking northerners set their mind to it, I had no doubt that they’d be able to crank out siege towers and catapults by the dozen.

Yet, to do that, they’d have to construct the siege machines here, in the distant north, in Ice Forge City.

Even with the enchanted stone paths that helped to ease the troubles of travel in a frozen landscape, these paths weren’t large enough to accommodate big siege machinery.

The problem was a logistical one. It would take too long for the Frozen

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