Doom Wielder (Star Warrior Quadrilogy Book 4) by Isaac Hooke

Author:Isaac Hooke [Hooke, Isaac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-27T16:00:00+00:00

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Tane returned to his quarters. Via the Galnet, he sent a missive to the Paramount Leader. The mines Alric had built to transfer raw minerals to the creodenti were to be reopened immediately.

I always uphold my end of a bargain.

Then Tane had the four ships under his command proceed to jump altitude, and the vessels created distortion tunnels to the closest system containing a rift to the Umbra. They appeared in random locations, and began the lengthy journey toward the gas giant where the rift was located, rendezvousing with one another along the way.

During the trip, when Tane was not making love to Sinive, he practiced the level one work the creodenti had given him in their digital manual. Rock Skin. He did so in the specialized padded compartment he had set aside for the practice of Essence.

Now that he had finally achieved the Gray Siphoning, learning Rock Skin came rather quickly, surprisingly. He got it after only six hours of practice. Apparently the Gray was one of the easier Essences to learn. It helped that his intelligence was relatively high at the moment, versus when he had first tried to create a work of the White manually from a hologram. Plus the stamina drain was also fairly low, allowing him to make repeated attempts before a rest was required.

So when he finally created the necessary fractal design of quarks along his skin, and allowed it to set in this reality, a thick rock shell formed over his body, covering his epidermis everywhere, including underneath his clothes. In fact the extra thickness ripped his clothing in places—namely the crotch and armpit areas. Even his eyes were covered, though by some form of translucent quartz that still allowed him to see, albeit at the cost of foggy vision. He’d probably be using Essence Sight when he invoked this work, so it wouldn’t matter anyway.

Sinive was in their stateroom, but she liked to monitor him during their practice sessions, and she yelped in surprise over the comm when she saw what had happened to him.

“It’s all right,” Tane said. “The work was supposed to do this to me.”

“You know,” Sinive said. “I’m kind of turned on, looking at that rock skin of yours. I’m coming down there.”

Sinive arrived soon enough, and jumped him.

Unfortunately, Tane couldn’t quite get it up, not with all that rock weighing down his member, so he had to disappoint her on the sexual front. But when the Rock Skin wore off after ten minutes, they returned to their quarters and promptly made love like rabbits.

A short while later he was back inside the padded compartment. Now that he had achieved four Essences, there was something he wanted to try: combining them all. He was curious to see what would happen, if anything.

He donned the bone crown and held the mineral rock in hand, then he stepped into the White, touched the Dark, parted the veil to the Emerald, and melded with the Gray. Then he created an Esoterum

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