Mastering the Elements_Elwin Escari Chronicles_Volume 2 by David Ekrut

Author:David Ekrut [Ekrut, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

The High Inquisitor’s Shoes

Partial Spending, Day 399 of experimentation.

Though he watches my incantations with a keen interest and prods me for further information, Abaddon has proved to be an agreeable subject of study. However, I believe he is now watching me from his perch in the shadow realm. This means, I am unable to spend any Berats for testing purposes until concluding my dealings with the Seeker. I have told him nothing of the partial spendings of elementalists’ essences, for I fear this would cause him to withdraw his aid. Preliminary tests have confirmed my hypothesis. The dragons cannot rise without him, and if he falls, they will as well.

~Ricaria Beratum, 2996 A.S.

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Another knock slammed into the thick wood. “Open up.”

“What now?” Daren asked. “We cannot pretend to be the high inquisitor if they were sent by the high inquisitor.”

Jax ignored the question. He crept to the door, listening to the shuffling feet outside in an attempt to ascertain the number of guards. There was too much movement to determine. A lot then.

How had the guardians found them so swiftly?

“Are you certain this room has been hired?” the voice asked more quietly.

“Aye,” the innkeeper said. “To a large Kalicodian. You are looking for a savage, right? And other patrons heard someone arguing. Has to be them.”

“Open it up,” the voice commanded.

As a key clattered into the hole on the other side, Jax checked the beam running across the door. The iron felt fairly secure. But when the door opened an inch and clanged into the wood, the bolts securing the brackets rattled.

“What in the Lifebringer’s name?”

“It’s barred from the other side,” the innkeeper explained.

“Dorum. Get your axe.”

“We’ll have to fight our way free,” Jax said, moving toward his room.

“Wait,” the kid said. “There might be another way.”

“There isn’t,” he said, not hiding his annoyance. “They are coming in and—”

“No,” Elwin said. “I can get us out of here with an incantation.”

Jax felt his heart sink. He’d been quick to believe the kid when he claimed to know where they could find artifacts because he couldn’t see any deception, and he was far too young and manicured to be adept at being duplicitous. However, he had never considered the possibility that the kid’s head was cracked.

“I know how it sounds,” Elwin said, quickly, “but I am training to become a magus. Have you heard of the Words of Power?”

An axe struck the door. Then two axes.

“Curse it all,” Jax said, “we don’t have time for thumping fairytales.”

“The dragons use the incantations,” Elwin continued. “That is what they are doing when they appear and disappear. They are using something called a dimensional folding. I can do it. I can get us to the street outside.” The last he said without conviction.

“Can you use a sword?” Jax asked.

“Yes,” Elwin said. “But if you let me incant us out of here, I may not have to.”

“Maybe we should try it,” Daren said at the precise moment the axe head split the door.

Any eye peeked into the gap.

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