Primal Conjurer 4: A Harem Fantasy by Danny Rogan

Author:Danny Rogan [Rogan, Danny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B0D3KHXN9L
Goodreads: 213020400
Publisher: Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Published: 2024-06-23T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

As disturbing as it was to learn the true identity of “Jessup,” it at least eased Ryn’s worries on one other score. He now knew without a doubt that Executor Xaven (his future self) was fully committed to stopping the second devil war. There was something so authentic about the memory he’d experienced that he couldn’t deny it was his own.

To fake a memory of a day so true to his own experience... even an experience he wouldn’t have for twenty years and, hopefully, not at all... felt impossible. Even one of his auxiliaries couldn’t get so many details of his thought patterns and reactions so perfectly right. Knowing his future self wanted him to succeed was encouraging.

That didn’t mean Ryn was confident he wasn’t still being manipulated somehow. Executor Xaven had no problem manipulating his own auxiliaries. He’d even changed Nephale’s memories to make it more likely she would bond his past self instead of running off to die.

If Ryn received more memories from his future self over the bond he shared with Nephale, he would have to examine them carefully and not take anything he “remembered” at face value. Despite all that, it was comforting to know he could ultimately trust the mage who’d sent Nephale back to him. His future self, for better or worse, had his back.

But what about Simula’s claim? In his dream of the future, he’d been bonded to Gloriana Langley. She was the woman Simula (who was, to be fair, a devil pleading for her life) had assured him was devil-marked. It was Gloriana who would betray the academy.

Yet mages could sense devil marks in mages they bonded with. Executor Xaven had been bonded with Gloriana in his future, and he’d sensed no devil mark in her. That meant, at least in Executor Xaven’s time, Gloriana had never made a deal with a devil.

While they hadn’t met until they were both in their thirties, that meant Gloriana had survived the massacre Nephale remembered (where over half the academy’s riders and pegasi were killed in an orchestrated training accident) and fought the devils for at least another fifteen years after. So did Nephale remember it wrong? Or had she simply heard it wrong?

Every devil-mark Ryn brought to justice with his and Nephale’s advance knowledge changed the future. Ryn had indelibly altered the course of Nephale’s history by exposing Mentor Caladan before he could become Executor Caladan. And by murdering Simula, he had made it difficult for the devil army to achieve the overwhelming numbers Executor Xaven had faced in his time. Their devil forgemaster was dead.

Yet none of those changes should have altered any of the events playing out at the Clarion Flight Academy, which stood high in the mountains on another continent that took over a month to reach. Executrix Valenda had, of course, kept the news that one of the mentors assigned to guide young mages at the Primal Academy was devil-marked. Few inside the academy even knew (Caladan had simply “retired”) and the news wouldn’t spread.

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