Dragon Road by Joseph Brassey

Author:Joseph Brassey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: epic fantasy, Skyfarer, drifting lands, Adventure
Publisher: Watkins Media
Published: 2018-04-30T23:00:00+00:00

They didn’t get to the doorway before another random portal exploded into the heavens, much closer this time, ripping across the sky and silhouetting another behemoth. The ship rocked visibly in the sky. The deafening concussive crash came a half second later, and high above their heads, Aimee watched as a crack zigzagged down the center of the dome. A large piece of glass shook loose, split apart. A hail of knives rained down. Without thinking she lunged forward. Her hands whipped through the gestures of the shield spell, widening it, thickening it, and with the releasing word a glimmering disc of translucent force flashed from one end of the room to the other, catching the fragments. The force of the spell’s size and scale drove her to her knees and she grunted with the strain.

“Don’t just stand there!” she shouted at the people nearest to her. “Clear the dome! Get out, now!”

She caught sight of the others running towards her. The crack in the dome had destabilized the entire roof of the structure, and it groaned, now, with the strain of its own collapsing weight. She forced herself onto one knee – thank the gods she’d chosen a dress she could move in – and tried to push the shield up. She almost had it. The room was emptying of people. Yaresh shouted at a far wall and ushered people through doors. She glimpsed Pentus at the top of the stairwell, looking over his shoulder before fleeing after someone, shouting, “Wait!”

She just had to hold it up for a few more seconds. Let the last of the stragglers out. A fraction remained. More pieces shook loose, striking her spell. She felt the impact jar through her limbs, and shouted in defiance and pain.

High overhead, another crash sounded. Aimee’s face drained of color as the fresh eye of a new, massive portal tore open right overhead and swallowed the sky. She heard someone shout her name, had just enough time to feel the first hint of terror.

The blast hammered down at them, and the whole dome shattered. Aimee screamed as a rain of debris smashed into her shield, covered it, overwhelmed it. She felt her fingers tingle as the magic started to give way and death hammered down. No.

An arm seized her around the waist. She felt a surge of magic, and Elias was moving, blindingly fast, carrying her and Vlana at once. Massive glass shards exploded all around them.

They skidded to a stop in the street. People fled in every direction, order replaced with chaos. Vlana staggered, and Elias caught his balance on a lamppost as he stopped. All Aimee could do was stare upwards, at the still-blazing portal in the skies. They felt a shift beneath their feet, and tension groaned along the spine of the ship as its rear engines blasted to full burn. The wheelhouse was attempting to pull the behemoth away from the portal, she realized. The strain of the blazing engines against its pull

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