Last Battle of the Icemark by Stuart Hill

Author:Stuart Hill
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Through all of this Cronus had quietly watched from his icy pinnacle in the Darkness. The fact that the attack on Romula had been delayed by the rains concerned him not at all. The Icemark and her Allies were now committed to invading the Polypontus, and, once their armies had crossed the borders, his invasion of the Physical Realms would be uncontested. Surprise would be complete, and he would have established control over the entire country before anyone knew what was happening. So would begin the building of a new empire whose core and centre would be the Darkness; so would begin the first move in a war that would ultimately challenge the Goddess Herself for the right to rule Creation.

But one more piece needed to be put in place before the glorious jigsaw of his plans was truly complete. He would succeed anyway, no matter what happened, but he felt he owed it to the overall elegant effect of his strategy to try and convince Oskan Witchfather to join with him and Medea in establishing the New Order. Besides, it had to be admitted that everything would be so much easier if his son would join them.

What a truly magnificent triumvirate they would make, and how pleasing in its symmetry that three members of one diabolical family should rule the Physical and Spiritual Realms. He, Cronus, would of course be the senior partner within the ruling trinity, while Medea, who was still not aware of the true scale of his plans, would be a very junior contributor indeed. He had almost completed the moulding of her thoughts and attitudes, but in one area she remained stubborn. No matter what Cronus did to alter her mindset, she retained a love for her father.

But Oskan . . . Oskan had a potential whose range and power nobody really understood. With him on board, limits really wouldn’t apply. But as yet, neither he nor Medea were aware that they were simply pawns in the game he controlled. Oh, how he loved his ability to manipulate the worlds around him. Not only simple-minded Barbarian queens, but even those of his own blood. Medea really had no idea that her grandfather had orchestrated her battles with her father as a means of testing both their abilities, and he’d found the results most informative.

All that remained to be done now was to convince Oskan to finally accept his true heritage within the Darkness. And Cronus was convinced that his son wouldn’t be able to finally resist the call of true evil when he fully understood exactly what was on offer.

* * *

Sharley felt nervous. In fact, he was close to panicking as he waited with Mekhmet and Kirimin in the small room next to the comfortable family apartments that he’d known for years. He told himself he was being ridiculous; he was, after all, only waiting to see his dad for the first time since he’d rescued them from the Magical Realms! But then the

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