Sordid Sorcery: A Harem Fantasy by Scot C Morgan

Author:Scot C Morgan [Morgan, Scot C]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Several weeks had passed since Tal and Lethana watched Dishgash and Gry in action. Tal made his way through many more books, sending Lethana to the library for him to get new ones on more than one occasion. He continued to test the knowledge he gained from the books, finding success with every feat of magic he attempted—though occasionally only after a few slightly injurious failed efforts.

He performed many minor magical feats in the privacy of their room, including levitations, minor transmutations, and, on one occasion, the temporary disappearance of Lethana's clothes—which abruptly ended that practice session in favor of a different sort of activity.

Potion mixing came easy to him, though he only had access to some of the ingredients he needed. So, what he made was thusly limited. He filled enough vials to make use of all of the holding straps on the front of his sorcerer's apron—a satisfying accomplishment in itself—but most of the elixirs were little more than novelties, aside from a potion he came up with to increase his stamina for the recreations between the sheets. Working on it was a distraction from what he should have been doing, but he made it to keep up with the multiple back-to-back workouts Lethana expected from him.

He told himself he'd delve into less self-indulgent potions at some point, but the volume of spells he set out to learn took up more time than he expected. For the more dangerous magic, he had to go to an empty and much larger room, a safe place to cast spells such as a fireball and spheres of lightning without killing himself or Lethana.

This greater magic was done, at first, under the supervision of an elderly sorcerer named Hewson Horsley, who, Tal learned, had been assigned by the headmaster to be Tal's mentor. Horsley wasn't an elder, in the sense of a Guild title, but he certainly was old. He only once tried to demonstrate one of the spells he and Tal were discussing, but Horsley's demonstration was far from impressive. Tal could see that whatever potency the man had once had, certainly had faded with time.

Still, the old man was a cheerful, if absent-minded, conversationalist. Tal learned more about the Guild elders, including who specialized in which types of magic. He also learned from Horsley a little bit of the reasons for the discord within the upper ranks of the Guild. As Horsley told it, the leadership of the Guild had separated into factions, some wanting to continue the long and honored tradition of the Guild teaching new generations of sorcerers to carry out the perpetual calling to protect the realm from outside threats, and even internal ones. Others, spearheaded by Zardmel himself, were more interested in some sort of transformation of the realm as a whole.

Tal could never get out of Horsley what exactly that transformation would be, if Zardmel and his cohorts had their way. Tal suspected it was his repeated inquiries into the matter which drove Horsley

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