Familiar Territory: A Wizard in Bremen part 3 (The Realm of False Gods Book 6) by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [higgs, steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

The portal opened instantly but we were lying on the ground so as it opened behind him, we fell downward through it. This was one element I hadn’t considered - how to control where we went.

The portal linked two points, I understood that much, and it did so because the ley lines were connected. Quite why human flesh was wrong for it, I didn’t know, but I had proved one thing to myself: I could open a portal if I said the incantation.

The joy of that realisation was very short lived because I arrived in the immortal realm and fell a metre to the ground where the tip of the sword struck the ground first. The searing pain from it made me lose consciousness and vomit, not in that order thankfully.

I awoke a few seconds later in a panic thinking the shilt I came through with must have escaped and by now Daniel would know what I had done. I needed my demon master blind to my activities though I was going to struggle to cover up the murder of five shilt. My rising concern died the moment I looked down to see the shilt beneath me. We tumbled as we fell through the portal and the sword had skewered him to the ground as I fell onto him.

‘This is going to hurt, Otto,’ I said out loud to gear myself up. I really didn’t want to do it, but no one was coming to my rescue, so I closed my mouth to avoid biting my tongue and threw myself backwards. The sword came free of the shilt as I whimpered pathetically from the pain. Now on my knees, I still had to get it out of my back which was an even harder manoeuvre.

I checked the shilt was dead, which it was. I didn’t need it waking up and escaping now. Then I reached behind slowly, doing everything I could to not disturb the damned sword prematurely. On a three count which only got to two as I tried to surprise myself, I gripped the blade with both hands and pulled it free. They say size doesn’t matter but I screamed every centimetre of that blade and when it was finally free, I let it drop from my right hand and lowered myself carefully back to the ground.

I needed to rest.

The portal had opened in a clearing in a wood. There were stars above me with clouds moving across them and trees all around. Unable to ascertain how the shilt move from A to B in such a way that they know exactly where B is, I ended up wherever the portal took me. Shortly, when the wound had healed, and I felt up to it. I was going to try to cross by myself. I might have the whole thing completely wrong. But maybe I didn’t. Maybe I had worked out a way to do this, but crossing was only half the task. I needed to be able to control where I went.

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