Echoes of War (Guardian of Aster Fall Book 6) by David North

Author:David North [North, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: High Peak Publishing
Published: 2023-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

Fair Warning

Given how they were treating the priests and his own history with the Hasterns, Sam’s initial impulse was to punt them over the battlements. The Ivory Fortress was at the peak of Osera’s layout and if he got the right angle, they might fly quite a way over the city’s lower levels. He restrained himself with great difficulty.

Although they were being rude, he had no history with these two Hasterns individually, so punishing them for the family’s old injustice toward his parents wasn’t appropriate. At the same time, he could certainly punish them for the arrogance they were showing the church. The bishop was being very accommodating about Ayala’s father and he didn’t plan to let this group of alchemists interfere.

One way or another, they were up to no good.

If they were interested in helping, they would have already told the church what they knew about Helimar’s condition and what they planned to do to fix it. They would have been transparent and worked together on the problem. Instead, they were keeping it secret while demanding Helimar be handed over to them.

That meant they wanted something else.

The contingent stopped a short distance away from him and, to his surprise, gave him a polite bow. Their mana fields were still at full blast, pushing away the priests and church officials who were trying to intercept them. The man and woman in the lead slanted their arm across their chest and inclined their heads to Sam.

Behind them, the other three researchers did the same. Those three didn’t have the Hastern name, so they were probably allies or part of the extended family from the Alabaster Palace in Tower Reach, but they were still stronger than almost anyone in Osera.

“May I have the honor of introducing myself?” the man in the lead asked as he stood up. He looked at Sam with great interest and his voice was full of confidence, as if it were entirely natural to walk up to a legendary being and say hello.

From their perspective, Sam was someone from an unknown race who had recently risen to fame and was probably stronger than a World Spirit. They should have approached with caution and due respect, but they were full of themselves. Instead, they’d marched up like this.

It made it immensely tempting to kick them off of the fortress like a Hastern-shaped ball. Nevertheless, Sam managed to control himself. His father’s family deserved more than a single kick for how they had treated his father and grandfather, not to mention the attempt to kidnap Altey a couple years before, but at the same time, he had left the Hasterns so far behind that punishing them now felt a little like bullying children.

Their success on Aster Fall was nothing in the context of the Void. He’d had two hundred years to consider how much value to place on the Hasterns and the answer was simple. They’d given his father nothing, so he would give them nothing.

One day, he’d have a conversation with his great-grandfather about abandoning his descendants.

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