Myth-Ion Improbable and Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. by Robert Asprin

Author:Robert Asprin [Asprin, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Event Horizon EBooks
Published: 2015-02-28T21:00:00+00:00

“SKEEVE,” AAHZ SAID, “can you see where the flow for Count Bovine’s spell leaves the main energy?”

We had moved around to the side of the room where Count Bovine’s spell took its energy from the river of flowing energy pouring out of the ground.

“Yes, right in front of us,” I said.

I pointed out where it left and how high it was to Aahz, who nodded.

I was using a part of my mind that allowed me to reach out for energy and do spells myself. That part allowed me to see the energy, where Aahz, who had lost his powers, could not.

Where the energy for Count Bovine’s spell left the main stream was like a branch on a big tree. It sort of cut it off of one side of the main flow, moving up and sideways. The moment the secondary flow was sideways to the main one, it vanished into the spell it was being used for. We had about a body length, right above where I stood, to cut that side-flow off and send it along in the main flow. At least, that was the theory on what we were going to try. Sort of like trying to dam up the side branch of a river in one quick move, without getting wet. But even that side-branch of this energy, where I could see it, had to be ten paces across. Far, far wider than my little gold shovel. Yet from what I understood, Aahz wanted me to try to divert or even stop that energy with my shovel. Not a chance in a Bovine hell.

Aahz moved over behind me. “We’re going to have to do this together,” he said. “Tananda, when I say ‘ready’ you connect the gold in this shovel to whatever gold you can sense nearby. Pull in as much as you can.”

“Oh, so you’re going to make the shovel bigger?” I asked, starting to understand his plan.

“Exactly,” he said.

Tananda nodded. “I’m going to have to make the gold wide, at least ten feet around.”

Tananda could see the giant flow of energy as well as I could. She also knew how insane this attempt was.

“I know,” Aahz said, nodding.

“Can you hold that much?” I asked. “I sure can’t.”

“We’re both going to try,” Aahz said. “You steer, I’ll lift. I’m going to get under the shovel. When Tananda connects other gold to it and starts expanding it, it’s going to get really, really heavy very quickly, so be ready the moment I say go. I don’t want to drop it.”

I nodded. This gold-plated shovel wasn’t that light as it was. I couldn’t imagine how Aahz and I could even try to hold up a gold block ten feet across, even a thin one.

“We have to keep it out of the flow until it’s big enough,” Aahz said.

“Okay,” I said. “Let’s do this and get on to the next life.”

Aahz laughed. “That’s what I like about you, apprentice. Always a good mental attitude.”

“Give me something to be positive about,” I said.

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