Order of the Fire Box Set by P E Padilla

Author:P E Padilla [Padilla, P E]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crimson Cat Publishing
Published: 2019-11-23T07:00:00+00:00

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They found a section of the wall that was close to a jumble of rocks large enough to hide their presence.

“I can’t believe Arkith would allow such a perfect place to hide enemies this close to his walls,” Kate said.

Koren swiveled his head back and forth, checking for demons or traps. “It’s not so unlikely. We’re in Hell. Fighting like we are accustomed is not ordinary here. The walls are enough to show might and enough of a deterrent for most other powerful demons who would try to attack Arkith, but subterfuge is not common here between demons with power.

“The demons are simple when it comes to warfare. Grab the closest blunt object and pummel your enemy to death. That’s if you don’t go with the attack they almost always choose: slashing with their claws and biting until the enemy is dead.

“Arkith is more sophisticated than that, but he is also still within his lord’s domain. He wouldn’t imagine that another demon would try to breach his walls like we are trying to do.”

“I guess that’s good for us then,” Benedict said. His eyes shifted to Visimar and he winced slightly as if expecting to be ridiculed, but Visimar simply stared at the man, his eye twitching.

“Here is what we have to do,” Koren continued as if Benedict hadn’t said a word. “Everyone take out your firestones and huddle in close to the wall. I’ll see if I can trigger them.”

“Trigger?” Peiros said.

“Yeah. I’m not even sure if it’ll work, but with the affinity I achieved with my stone with all those weeks of being near it but not able to touch it, I think I might be able to push the energy in the right direction. It will be up to the magic itself to do what needs to be done.”

Peiros shrugged and moved in close, holding his firestone to everyone else’s.

Koren put his hand above the stones, but didn’t touch them. He closed his eyes.

Kate felt something like a wave of heat pass over the hand holding the stone, but nothing else. The stones sat there, dangling from their cords, all in a bunch. A faint red light flickered within them, as always, but nothing else seemed to be happening.

Koren cracked one eye and glared at the stones. He closed it again, took a deep breath, and let it out slowly.

His brow furrowed.

Several minutes passed with no apparent success. Kate was about to pull her stone back and tell them they had to figure something out, and then she felt it.

Heat radiated from the mass of stones. She would swear it even radiated up the leather cord to her hand. Where the flickers of red used to be, there was a brighter light, almost orange, pulsing in each of the firestones. They surged in time with the others.

Without any further warning, the stones flared and bright light exploded away from them.

Toward the wall.

It was surreal. There was no sound, but as Kate watched, the section of the wall beside them blew out as if it had been hit with a massive stone from a trebuchet.

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