Dungeons (The Dragon Mage Book 2) by Vider Rohan M

Author:Vider, Rohan M.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

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The immediate area around the dungeon obelisk was the quietest in the glade. Sitting down with my back against the obsidian structure, I examined the elemental stone again, peering at it from all directions.

The blood-red stone gleamed with an inner fire of its own, but other than that, it differed little from an ordinary ruby gem. Opening my magesight, I studied the stone anew. Seen through the lens of magic, the crystal’s nature was unmistakable. Dense lines of spirit filled the entire stone, shining with a luminance that was blinding.

Buried in the heart of the crystal’s spirit weave, I picked out the base structure of a fire magic spell. But unlike the smaller fragments I’d examined before, the kernel in this stone was fuller. The elemental spirit in this crystal is more mature and complex, I concluded.

Just how complex? I wondered idly. Letting my senses brush over the crystal, I inspected it in more detail. Threads of spirit radiated outwards from the kernel in a replica of what I assumed was the spellform of the fireball spell.

If only I could learn the spell from the—

My thoughts broke off as I noticed an oddity. Many of the spirit filaments along the edges of the crystal dangled free as if they’d been shorn off.

A second later, I realized why. Of course. The spiritform in the crystal was incomplete, likely broken when Petrov had ripped the elemental stone free from the gauntlet. But if that was the case, why hadn’t the spirit within reverted to its original shape? At the moment, it looked… damaged. Interest piqued, I delved further into the crystal.

The spirit weave recoiled.

My eyes widened. How did it do that? I wondered. It was almost as if the elemental spirit within the stone had been aware of me…

Uncertain if the reaction had been an anomaly, I slipped a strand of mana into the crystal and watched in fascination as the stone’s spirit weave retreated from its touch.

None of the other spirits I’d interacted with—fragments or saplings—had shown this much animation, and I was unsure what to make of the stone’s unexpected behavior.

My curiosity mounting, I sent more mana to probe the crystal’s depths. This time unable to avoid the multiple strands besetting it, the elemental spirit inside froze in place.

Tentatively, I let a single strand of mana touch its weave.

Emotion flooded me.

Rage.

Fear.

Pain.

Hastily, I withdrew my probe. The crystal throbbed with life, an angry life of a sort I was familiar with. It seemed alive in a way that my dragonfire did at times.

And it was hurt.

For whatever reason, the elemental spirit within the stone did not appear able to repair the damage done to its spirit weave.

Perhaps it needs a helping hand.

Reaching into the crystal again, I slipped mana towards one of the dangling strands. At first, the elemental spirit tried to evade my magic, but I persisted and eventually latched onto my target.

The spirit stilled under my grasp.

Treating it as I would a frightened animal, I coaxed mana into the injured spirit.

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