Immortal Swordslinger 2 by Dante King

Author:Dante King [King, Dante]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-18T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

A storm gathered overhead as Labu guided the ship along the coast toward the guild island. Great black clouds rolled in off the sea and towered over the ocean as they cast everything into deep shadow. The wind whipped my hair around my face and tipped our boat to one side while the pitching waves flung us up and down.

The coast seemed to fly past to our left. In any other situation, I would have been struck by the incredible variety of our surroundings, from the sandy beaches to towering cliffs to swamplands that melted into the sea. To fit such variety into such a short stretch of coast couldn’t be natural, at least not by the laws that governed reality back on Earth. But this wasn’t the time to dwell on my surroundings.

I drew the tidal wyrm core from my pouch, closed my eyes, and pressed it to my chest. It took a moment for the magic to sink in, but when it did, it sent a rush of energy through my veins. The tidal wyrm was clearly the greatest beast I’d slain so far. I attempted to carve a pathway from the monster’s core, but I was only able to fashion a single line that didn’t connect with my water channel.

“What technique did you learn?” Vesma asked me, her voice excited.

“None yet. I’ll need to kill a few more wyrms.”

A snake-like head burst from the water to our right, and I drew my sword. But instead of the thick, muscular body of a tidal wyrm, the creature tapered to a slender neck, then a flippered body bulging with fat. It opened its mouth and sang a mournful note so clear and perfect that my heart stirred. Then, it sank back beneath the waves.

“We won’t be returning to the mainland tonight,” Labu said as he gazed up at the brewing storm.

“We can’t stay on the island. Not if your buddies take issue with rescuing your sister,” Kegohr said. “I just knew something was off.”

“We could barricade ourselves into a room,” Vesma said. “Wait out the storm and then make a break for it once the weather’s cleared.”

“If this is Horix’s doing,” I pointed out, “that’ll just give him time to search us out and surround us. I don’t like any of this. We’ll go in, find Kumi, and take our chances with the storm.”

I turned to Labu. “How come you’re a member of the guild in the first place? Your family have Wild Augmenting powers, but there you are working with people who reject your kind.”

Labu frowned. “I am not truly a guild member. I am my father’s emissary to the guild. And as part of that, I have been learning their techniques, turning my Wild power into something more civilized and focused. It is the only way we can bring the Qihin to their former power—by becoming stronger, fiercer, more skilled in the ways of civilization.”

“And do the guild members accept you as one of them?” I asked.

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