Dragon Mage: Dragon Point Seven by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York Times Bestselling Author

Chapter Eleven

The fifth vow: Find and question Maalik about his lies.

Azrael knelt on scorched earth, watching as the last of the smoke sucked into the jewel. The moment there was none, he clipped a metal cage around it and uttered a word of magic. The dangerous amulet glowed and warmed before settling down. His fingers protected by gloves, he grabbed it by the thick linked chain, dangling it away from his body.

“I can’t believe we did it.” Nikail approached, too tired to swagger. “And we’re sure that was the last one of them?”

“The last of any consequence. This is the seventh and final prison.” Azrael dumped the amulet into a leather pouch then placed it inside a chainmail sack.

“Now we just need to hide it, and we’ll be done. Finally. It’s been a long time coming.” Nikail managed a grin through the grime coating his face.

“That was a hard-fought battle.” Another man, sporting a trimmed beard and a gash through his shirt, which showed a flat stomach streaked with a red line, approached.

“Ridwan,” Azrael said in salutation “Did we all make it?”

“Yeah. Maalik is puking though. The Shaitan managed to hit him with some kind of spell before we managed to contain it.”

Azrael glanced down at the bag in his hand. “Now that they’re trapped, hopefully things can go back to normal.”

“Drinking, wenching, and doing very stupid things.” Ridwan grinned.

“The stupidest,” Nikail agreed. His face sobered. “I can’t believe we did it.”

“Don’t celebrate yet.” Maalik arrived, looking pale but determined.

“Why not? Once this is buried and forgotten, it’s done. No more Shaitan, no more Iblis. We won,” Ridwan insisted.

But the expression on Maalik’s face… It didn’t bode well.

Damn. A word that didn’t truly convey what he felt in that moment.

Maalik appeared sick but determined. “It is only a temporary victory. The Shaitan will return.”

“A problem for another generation,” Ridwan declared. “We did our part. Saved the world.”

“You only delayed the inevitable. Those prisons won’t hold them for forever. I saw it. Saw what happens when they return. Rivers of blood. Screams of the innocent.” Maalik’s eyes stared off, haunted by what he’d seen. Not the first vision he’d suffered.

“How long before they escape?” Ridwan asked.

“Not for a while,” Maalik admitted.

“Meaning we might be long gone. Someone else will have to fight them,” Nikail pointed out.

Maalik shook his head. “The generation that will eventually face the Shaitan will fail without our help. They won’t have magic.”

“How can they have no magic?” Azrael exclaimed, finally interjecting himself.

“The world moves on. Some things go extinct. When the Shaitan return, no one will know how to stop them.”

“Meaning the Iblis will come.” Nikail ducked his head. “All we’ve done is for nothing. We’ve only delayed the destruction.”

“There is a way to ensure that doesn’t happen,” Maalik said.

Azrael stiffened “You’ve got a plan?”

Maalik nodded. “There is a way to ensure there are people to fight the Shaitan and teach a future generation how to use magic. All we have to do is bind ourselves to the spell holding the Shaitan in their prisons.

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