Chosen by K.I. Price

Author:K.I. Price [Price, K.I.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: K.I. Price
Published: 2022-07-14T00:00:00+00:00

Thirty

On the southernmost point of the Arendruil continent, the city of Tian faced a deadly, evil enemy. They had not expected the horde of hov’kor that marched upon them at high noon. Wave upon wave of lizard and snake men oozed through the city like a scaly cloud, burning and killing everything in their paths. No one stood a chance.

Wearing his Arkannon Goldsley disguise like a well-tailored suit, the Overlord walked slowly through the streets of Tian smiling vaguely at the work of his troops, the bodies and carnage all over. The hov’kor were doing their wrap-up, exterminating any who got through the initial attack. A set of high-pitched screams came from the right just ahead of the Overlord. He stopped and waited, watching as a woman and two children ran out into the open from a side street. They didn’t see the Overlord and continued ahead of him.

Grinning, he lifted his hand. It instantly began to glow red, charged with his power. He drew his hand back as if preparing to pitch a ball, then swung his arm towards them. An orb of red energy flew at the woman and children, and when it struck them, they froze mid-run, consumed by a bright flame. When the flame subsided, all that remained were the blackened, hairless corpses of the humans, still posed to run, a set of statues made of charred flesh.

A moment later, the reason why the humans fled appeared—a couple of snake men. Their armor clattered with their movements. They examined the macabre sculptures, then their master, before hurrying off to hunt other survivors.

The Overlord strode right up to statues. He took in a deep breath and blew. The figures crumbled to ash, blowing away in the breeze. He chuckled and reached into his long coat, pulling out a baseball-sized sphere. It was smooth, tinted red, and swirling inside with mist. It was the Opal, one of the three spirit crystals, the only one he could possess for the moment.

He held it up before his eyes, channeling his power through it, using the Opal’s magnificent energy to amplify his own. The Opal’s crimson light intensified until it was nearly blinding, then the spirit crystal lifted from the Overlord’s palm, rising high into the air. Its light spread outward, engulfing everything in the city, conjuring up a tangy, sulfurous wind that made the Overlord’s blond hair whip all around his head. The crystal released a single pulse that rocked through every structure in and around Tian, even the ground. Then the light vanished, and the Opal slowly lowered back down into the Overlord’s waiting hand.

He pocketed the crystal and looked around, satisfied. His mark had been made on the city and the land upon which it sat. The ground and streets were cracked and blackened with vents of sulfur-smelling steam rupturing all about. The buildings were also blackened and ruined. Every tree was dead, every blade of grass gone. There was nothing left of Tian and the immediate surrounding area except barrenness and corpses.

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