Monk Punk and Shadow of the Unknown Omnibus by French Aaron

Author:French, Aaron [French, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Hazardous Press
Published: 2015-01-03T22:00:00+00:00

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Deep in the earth—in a cavernous chamber lit by circular rows of torches, a polished wood floor, a ceiling of crags and stalactites, so spacious that each uttered word became an echo—Zheng sat in a throne upon a wood tabernacle adorned in the expected gold symbology, his guards flanking him. Li Xi hung to the side. Before them, three men in gi uniforms stood at fighting position, trident blades extended.

“What you shall observe,” Zheng said, “requires first arduous study and mastery over the elder mysteries of the world. Only then can the five elements be wielded at will.”

“My interest in the Tao has opened some pathways,” Li Xi said. “But I’ve never used my abilities in combination with an artifact.”

Zheng signaled to the three men who had their eyes closed in deep meditation; each began twirling their sword, blades whooshing and echoing through the air. Moving in unison. Weapons spinning in arcs. They yelled, expelling qi.

Zheng signaled to them again, and suddenly, after a conjoined cry, all three trident-swords burst into flames. Waves of heat flowed in watery streaks. The men paced together and leaped and lunged, fiery blades releasing showers of sparks.

After another signal, they yelled and the swords turned light blue, and water and ice flung down from above. Then they became brownish-green and rocks and minerals dripped down their blades, scattering across the floor. Huge boulders appeared, shaking the chamber.

“Now wind,” Zheng ordered, and the blades became like transparent crystals, and the men spun, whirling like the Sufi dervishes of Arabia, calling forth great blustering gusts. The chamber howled; the torches guttered and nearly blew out.

Zheng rose to his feet. “Summon the light!”

At once the trident-swords glowed like the sun and bright white heat that scorched Li Xi’s eyes entered the room. He remained aware of the three men leaping about and thrusting their blades, but all had become blinding white. Throughout his travels, he had never encountered a power so great.

The British armies are doomed, he thought joyously.

Zheng shouted at the men to cease, then turned to Li Xi. “What do you think?”

Li Xi smiled. “I think I am in a divine place.”

“So let it be,” replied the leader of the White Lotus Society.

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