Halls of Power by Benjamin Medrano

Author:Benjamin Medrano
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-08-10T22:00:00+00:00

Wenris let out a breath of relief, popping her back as she descended toward the crater in the middle of a grove of burning trees. Zenith was more powerful than she’d expected, marginally anyway, and if she hadn’t been concealing her power for centuries the succubus might’ve been in trouble. As it was, the collateral damage was extensive.

Several dozen craters from spells that missed or where one of them had been thrown into the ground adorned the landscape around them, and many of the trees were on fire, while others were simply snapped like twigs. Most of the wildlife had wisely fled, which meant that aside from the howl of wind and crackle of flames, the area was quiet.

Zenith was struggling to rise from the crater she’d been embedded into, her armor cracked and partially caved in from the last staff-strike, and her face pale, even as blood bubbled from her lips. Even with an arm broken she was still trying to fight, and Wenris sighed, dropping onto her, one foot on Zenith’s good arm while her other was on the cracked armor, likely making the pain of the angel’s broken bones worse.

“Enough of that, dear. I haven’t been trying to kill you, you know. If I had, I would have charged my staff with unholy energy,” Wenris advised her calmly, smirking. “That would not have gone well for you.”

“I’m… I’m going to get you for this, you traitor…” Zenith gasped, then coughed more blood as she stared malevolently at the succubus. “Unless… I die, I’ll do it… even if you are stronger than you should be.”

“I think not. That would require you going free, but I have no intention of allowing that, either. No, I made preparations for this some time ago, just in case,” Wenris murmured, reaching up and pulling out her necklace, the one with the golden birdcage on it. She smiled, murmuring several words that caused the cage to begin glowing with faint azure light. She extended it toward Zenith, whose eyes went wide as streamers of azure light extended from the cage, starting to wrap around her.

“No! What… what is that?” the angel protested, trying to struggle and flee, but Wenris simply pressed down harder, pinning the angel as the spell wrapped around her.

“This is a dimensional prison, Zenith. Within this tiny little birdcage is a space that could fit even a dragon, but it’s its own separate world, one where you’ll heal, but be unable to interfere or communicate with outsiders without my help,” Wenris replied brightly, smiling. “Unfortunately it’s rather… slow to use, so I had to use it after subduing you.”

“You psychotic demon! Tyria will get you for—” Zenith’s voice was filled with pain and anger, but in the middle of her sentence the spell completed, and with a flash of light the angel vanished, and Wenris almost stumbled as her feet fell to the dirt beneath where the woman had been laying. The azure glow had vanished as well, and Wenris held her necklace up to examine the cage more closely, her eyes narrowing as she did so.

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