Master of Seduction by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight [Knight, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2017-07-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Five

I, Rachel thought, staring up at the gaping jaws of the magical raptor, Am out of my mind. Why did I let him talk me into this?

You know perfectly well why, retorted a disgusted mental voice. You’ve got a thing for him, and you want his approval.

Idiot. She’d be lucky if she didn’t get herself eaten. Never mind that this was an illusion -- it felt real.

It wasn’t merely the gleam of moonlight on Super Chicken’s feathers, or the thing’s ear-shattering roars. It was the heavy reptilian scent of the creature, the reek of blood and meat on its hot breath and clinging to its gory claws. The whole effect made her hindbrain gibber like something out of an old Monty Python movie: Run away! Run, run away!

One thing was for damned sure. She didn’t want to find out what the simulation would feel like if Super Chicken ate her.

A huge clawed foot slashed at her head, and she threw herself aside. Her enchanted plate armor rattled as she hit the pavement rolling. She had to admit, she liked the armor. Unlike her bullet resistant vest, it weighed little more than her tank top and leggings. Which might be because a tank and leggings were what she was really wearing…

A deep male voice roared a battle cry, and Nathan leaped at the dinosaur, swinging an enormous claymore in a glowing arc. The magical blade was four feet long, with another foot of hilt so it could be swung two-handed. It was a good choice; nobody in their right mind would want to get any closer to the giant reptile than they absolutely had to.

As Nathan hacked at its muzzle, the creature jerked its head up. The gemstone over its eyes flared blue, and the blade rebounded off the blue hemisphere of the raptor’s magical shield in a shower of sparks. The dinosaur shrieked and darted its head at Nathan, toothy jaws open wide. He dodged as it snapped, teeth biting empty air. Whirling the blade as if it weighed no more than a chopstick, he darted in, slamming the weapon again and again against the raptor’s shield.

What had Nathan said about using magic in the simulation? “Look, all you have to do is picture what you want to do -- create a fireball or whatever -- and the spell will create an illusion of that attack to let you experience what it would be like. The point is to see how you would use magic if you had it.”

“Okay, what the hell.” She pictured a fireball appearing over her hand in the kind of spell she’d been watching Oriana perform for years.

Woosh! The ball of flaming sparks burst into being, its heat warming her palm. Wow, it worked! She hurled it at the raptor.

The ball of fire splattered against Super Chicken’s shield, raining sparks. And doing absolutely no damage whatsoever.

Crap.

How the hell had the original Magekind team defeated the thing? Rachel conjured another fireball and hurled it after the first.

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