Spellweaver Codex 2 by DB King

Author:DB King [King, DB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-06T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Cal followed Oswerg out of the dining room and down the hall to the back of the building. As Ebba indicated, a door there opened and led to a patch of packed dirt surrounded by walls of the same black stuff that formed the inn.

“All right.” Oswerg rolled his shoulders and went to stand at the far side of the yard, facing Cal. “Time to practice. I’m going to push you harder this time.”

“You pushed me pretty hard before,” Cal said as he held out his hand and summoned his codex.

“That?” Oswerg chuckled. “That was nothing, just warming you up. This time it’s for real.”

Cal braced himself. He wished he had more time to rest first, so he could digest his breakfast and wrap his head around everything that had happened. But their enemies weren’t going to leave him time for dinner, so he couldn’t expect his trainers to either.

“Magical sparring,” Oswerg announced. “And no wind tricks. Just use your earth magic, understood?”

“Absolutely.” Cal clutched his codex and readied himself.

Oswerg leaned over and touched the ground with one finger. A line ran from him through the dirt, forming a ring around the outer edge of the yard, with Cal and Oswerg enclosed within it. It shone with magical power, like a crystal catching the light.

“To protect the inn from damage,” the ogre explained.

Cal waited for his master to start the fight, but realized why should he? Oswerg told him they were sparring, and winning fights were as much about seizing the initiative as about what magic he used.

Letting the magic of his earth spell flow through him, Cal reached out into the world. He didn’t just want to move the earth, he wanted to form something from it, something that wasn’t already there for him to use. Power flowed from him, and the air in front of him shimmered as he started creating a boulder to fling at Oswerg.

Before the boulder fully manifested, the ground beneath Cal shook. He kept his attention on his summoning, refusing to be distracted. He knew it was probably part of Oswerg’s plan, designed to throw Cal off balance and seize the initiative, but he wasn’t falling for it.

Cal felt a strange sensation around his feet, and something shifted and moved. He glanced down and discovered his shoes were sinking into the ground.

“What the—”

Cal tried to pull his foot out, but the dirt rapidly covered it, enclosing around his legs as he continued to sink. He squirmed and wriggled, pressing his hands against the unstable terrain, his attempts to summon a boulder entirely forgotten. Still, the ground kept shaking and Cal kept sinking until he was waist deep in the yard.

He looked over at Oswerg, who smirked at him, one hand pressed against the soil.

“Pretty good, right?” Oswerg asked.

The ogre stood up and brushed the dust from his hands. Though the shaking stopped, Cal was still trapped, half-buried beneath a mountain of dirt.

Cal stopped squirming. He was there to practice his spells, and that was what he needed to use to get out of this.

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