Creation Mage 6 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-04-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

As we approached the mammoth gates into the city of Manafell, my thoughts went quiet within my head. The sheer weight and size of the place squashed all the buzzing internal chattering into silence so that it was only me and my eyes and the great weight of stone in front and above me.

It was a bizarre sensation to be standing outside of a proper fortified city. Of course, I had seen such impressive and intimidating sites on the silver screen, and so there was this odd feeling of familiarity to it, almost as if I had been here before.

But all the tens of millions of dollars of cinema production in movies like Kingdom of Heaven or The Lord of the Rings or Troy could not emulate the feeling of weight and impregnability that those walls and their towers, which marked the outer limit of Manafell proper, impressed upon me.

The walls must have been as thick as four pickup trucks parked end-to-end. They were slightly overhanging so that scaling them was impossible. They were topped with crenellations, where stone-faced guardsmen patrolled. Steel glittered menacingly from brightly polished swords, shields, and chainmail. Every single one of the guards was dressed in an ensemble of bright green cloak, meticulously shined armor, and lethal looking morning-stars. The morning-stars were not pretty weapons, but they conveyed a sense of seriousness to the men holding them. They could be quite easily used to cave in the heads of anyone who fancied climbing a scaling ladder.

It was, undoubtedly, an impressive display of military might. However, I couldn’t help but notice that the soldiers’ helmets were almost identical to those worn by the men manning the border burrow. There was just no getting around the fact that they were very penis-like. It was a bit of a faux pas on the part of the chief armorer or whoever decided on the designs of the helmets.

The open gates were so big that they could have been repurposed as a keel for a war galley. The iron bolts studding the massive planks were as big as my fist. It was, all in all, a very serious gate and matched the four stern-faced guards standing on either side of them. Most of the people hurrying through the gates kept their eyes down and the faces averted from the guards, as if catching their eyes was a sure way to get yourself noticed and into a spot of hot water.

We left the pegasi tethered in a stable that some enterprising gentleman dwarf had set up just outside the gates. Leah flicked the dwarf a couple of coins and told him that it would be in his best interests not to do or say anything that would offend the great steeds.

“Not a problem, madam, not a problem at all,” the dwarf croaked in a froggy voice. “You can trust me to look after these fine fellows.”

Thunder snorted so hard that I was sure I saw one of the boards in the wall flap outward.

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