Deceived by Magic (The Baine Chronicles Book 6) by Walt Jasmine

Author:Walt, Jasmine [Walt, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Blue Bolt Publishing
Published: 2016-12-26T05:00:00+00:00

17

Killing an entire crew of pirates off was pathetically easy. So easy that I felt bad as I burned, stabbed, and sliced them to death. They were an entirely human crew, and stood no chance against four mages and a shifter-mage hybrid. Especially since we were on a mission and determined to get hold of their ship.

Thankfully, Iannis knew how to navigate as a sailing master, and Henning did too, so between the two of them and our unskilled contribution, we got the junk started down the river again. Once the vessel was briskly moving along, Chen and I went below decks to inspect the quarters and supplies. It was no surprise that the place was filthy and infested with rats. She taught me a spell to drive vermin from the ship, and we went from bow to stern and cleaned out the place, while the men stayed above deck and did who knew what.

Typical, I thought, and I was only half-joking.

“If you are feeling bad about killing all those men, don’t,” Director Chen said quietly as we inspected the meager stores in the pantry. There wasn’t much aside from a few bags of rice and dried fish. “They were all thieves, and almost certainly murderers or rapists as well.” Her voice, which was normally always so smooth and calm, darkened in disgust. “They deserved their deaths.”

“Yeah.” I let out a little sigh, hating that Director Chen sensed my tension. “You’re right.” I decided not to tell her that it wasn’t their deaths that weighed down my thoughts, but rather, how easy it had been to kill them. It was truly impossible for anyone to stand against the might of the mages, no matter how clever the Resistance thought they were. What if peaceful protests and negotiations were not enough to get the regime to change? If one day they decided to crush us beneath their magical thumbs, what could shifters and humans really do against such terrible power? It had been five against twenty, and yet we’d massacred those pirates so efficiently, without a single loss of life on our end, or even any major injuries.

“Why didn’t that pirate crew have any mages or shifters aboard?” I asked as we left the pantry and went to inspect the weapons stores. I was unsurprised to see gunpowder and pistols, along with sabers—more than a few of the pirates had carried guns, although they were technically outlawed in Garai too. “How is it that they haven’t already been wiped out by another mage?”

“This section of Garai is populated by human villages,” Director Chen said. “There is a mage warlord who oversees the area, of course, but the villagers themselves hold no magic. They rely on the warlord to protect them, but he cannot be everywhere, and the pirates take advantage of that by passing through and hitting villages they know to be defenseless.” Her lips twisted into a grim smile as she picked up a heavy pistol, her fingers dancing across the barrel.

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