Sparked: The Nephalem Files (Book 1) by Wayne Douglas

Author:Wayne, Douglas [Wayne, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

A torrent of flame leapt from my fingertips into an oncoming police cruiser. I continued my assault until the front end melted beyond recognition filling the air with the smell of hot antifreeze and burning motor oil.

"He's doing all of this?" Dana says, loading a fresh magazine into her firearm.

I nodded before sending another blast of flame into the nearby cars. "Have your men disable any vehicle they come across," I said, shifting my flame to a bug. "I can't keep this up forever."

Using magic was a delicate process, one that required immense amounts of concentration. It's fairly similar to the amount of concentration a baseball player needed to hit a 90 MPH fastball, just stretched out over a longer period.

Most people don't have the ability to deal with the amount of mental stress that magic causes. It's not something you could erase by popping open a few beers at the end of the day. The longer you use magic, the more stressful it becomes. Eventually you reach a point where your mind shuts down. It has a safety feature built in to keep you from burning out, sorta like how new lawn mowers have a low-oil shut off feature to keep you from burning up the engine.

There's a twist to it though. If you find yourself in a pinch, you can still draw upon your mental reserves, but with a large risk. There will come a point where you will not only sever your ability to use magic, but reduce your mental capacity to the point where you are unable to perform basic motor functions.

Not exactly the position you want to find yourself in.

In an ideal world, you only want to use magic as a last resort. One you only use when more mundane means of handling your problems won't work. The council frowned on using magic in front of muggles, also known as people who can't use magic. There were provisions in place that allowed you to use it to save the lives of others, but even then they gave you a hard time about it. Considering everything else I've done the last few days, I didn't think twice to start flinging my fire.

"Send a few officers to take out the cameras on the house. Something tells me he is watching the whole thing."

"Then we need to get that out of the way," she said, pointing to the news helicopter above.

I sighed. It didn't matter how many cameras we took out if he could sit on his couch and take us out while watching TV.

"Someone call Fox and tell them to get that helicopter out of here. Now!" she yelled.

Concentrated gunfire filled the air as the officers unloaded their weapons on the nearby vehicles. I allowed a smile to reach my lips when I noticed them targeting the areas around the fuel tanks. Without gas, there was no way he could make them move at all. That had to be the only weakness a technomancer had. They were still bound to the laws of physics.

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