Necromancer: Book Ten Of The Spellmonger Series by Terry Mancour

Author:Terry Mancour [Mancour, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

Pentandra, Taren called, mind-to-mind, I think we have something!

As likely the most adept thaumaturge actually on the battlefield, Pentandra had pulled Taren off of combat duty to devote his talents to studying how to break the spell that held the Ways.

What is it? She asked, eagerly.

That slight fluctuation in the field? I checked . . . it did correlate with something else, pretty much precisely: when Korbal summoned Sheruel to his side, I think he did it through a hoxter pocket.

Damn! Pentandra swore. I guess Sheruel wouldn’t need to worry about dying in one.

Inside a ball of irionite, he can re-energize what’s left of his enneagram as he emerges, agreed Taren. That’s consistent with the experiments I conducted back at Greenflower. But what was fascinating was that the distortion spell stopped the moment he entered it, and then didn’t re-engage until he was back out of it.

Which implies that Sheruel is powering the blocking spell, Pentandra reasoned.

That’s what I’m thinking, Taren agreed. If we can convince them to repeat the trick, we might have just enough time to get a bunch of us away. We’re starting to get wounded piling up, he added, concerned.

Can’t we put Sheruel in a hoxter? she asked. And then destroy the anchor?

Wouldn’t that be lovely? Taren sighed. I thought about that. Hells, I’d even try it. It would be interesting, at the very least. But . . . well, I’m guessing that Sheruel has enough innate power and perception to contest a hoxter summons, if he wanted to. I can think of at least four different ways he could do it, thaumaturgically speaking. And there is no telling what the effect of that contest would be . . . beyond interesting.

But if Sheruel wanted to be in a hoxter pocket . . .

. . . then the field around Olum Seheri would resort to normal. And we could escape this hellhole.

Is it that bad? Pentandra asked, anxiously. Her husband was in the middle of the battle – in the thick of it, if she knew Arborn.

It’s bad, Taren admitted. I’ve been in some nasty battles, Penny, but . . . this one is probably the worst. The draugen are hard enough to kill, but the Nemovorti, they’re powerful. They each have different capabilities, we’re learning. Those iron staves they carry are no joke, either. The human bodies they’ve chosen are big, strong, and enhanced with necromantic magic. We’re doing the best we can, and we’re holding our own, for now, but . . .

I understand, Pentandra assured him.

A few moments later the barn began receiving reports from the various monitors confirming that Sheruel was, indeed, working with Korbal, as the warmagi closed in on his position. The disembodied goblin head floated serenely over the battle, next to the Necromancer, as the Nemovorti formed a defensive line around them both.

Pentandra got very anxious, when she saw what was happening. According to the map, the foe had the Kasari rangers on the run, back toward the city – that wasn’t good.

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