Hozark's Revenge by Scott Baron

Author:Scott Baron [Baron, Scott]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-12-17T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Five

“Impressive. Well done,” Visla Jinnik said as he cast a very minor spell. He was able to do so only because he had found, after a bit of trial and error, that his control collar did not perceive this one as a spell used as an attempt to escape.

Henni had been focusing on her shielding spell. He had taught it to her days prior, but only now was it really starting to click. She pushed back his probing attack with relative ease, though to be fair, it was nowhere near what he’d have been able to do if not constrained by his thick golden collar.

“It’s making more sense,” she said. “The whole intent part of it. I think I’m getting it, finally.”

“You most certainly are,” the visla said with a sense of pride.

She had been picking up his lessons faster in recent days, and their captors, for whatever reason, seemed to be allowing them more time between draining sessions.

Henni was only minorly reduced in power and strength, though she slept like the dead every time she was brought back to her cell and woke fully restored.

Jinnik, on the other hand, was showing the wear and tear of the constant reduction of his magic. He mused that if not for the extra little bit of recharge time they had both been fortunate enough to enjoy, he might not have been able to last much longer.

Even for a power user with as vast a reservoir of magic as he, eventually the well would run dry if not allowed to replenish. Whether Niallik realized this and ordered more respite for him, or if it was merely a pleasant coincidence, he did not care. What mattered was he was finally starting to slowly climb out of the deep pit of exhaustion that had claimed him for far too long.

He was missing his son terribly, and he would do anything necessary to reunite with him once more. But taking this rowdy young woman under his wing had given him something his confinement had been lacking. A sense of purpose. And in nurturing her blossoming powers, he found his parental instincts kicking in once again.

That this unlikeliest of cellmates had actually been helping protect Happizano was an additional motivation to help her. She had done right by his boy, and he would aid her in turn to the best of his ability.

Jinnik relaxed his grip on his spell, allowing Henni to take a brief respite from her defenses. But rather than pause to catch her proverbial breath, the feisty, violet-haired young woman immediately tried to cast an attack spell. It wasn’t anything significant, her collar would not allow that, but had she succeeded, it would have made an impression.

Unfortunately for her, the spell misfired and fizzled out into nothing.

“Damn it! Why won’t that work?” she griped. “Every time it’s the same thing.”

“You excel at defense, and your magic has true potential. But it would seem your talents do not lie in the offensive arts.”

“But magic is magic.

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