The Broken Night: A Progression Fantasy Epic (Keiran: The Eternal Mage Book 4) by D.E. Sherman & EmergencyComplaints

Author:D.E. Sherman & EmergencyComplaints
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Timeless Wind Publishing
Published: 2025-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Thirty-Eight

I stopped back home to use my crucible and let Querit know what happened to the mage I’d gone to collect. Without the planned second set of notes, it was going to be far more difficult to confirm which parts of the rune structures were accurate, but I had faith in the golem’s research ability. He’d literally been created to be a lab assistant and had all the tools he needed built directly into his golem core.

He was less than impressed with my faith in his abilities, or maybe he was just feeling the pressure to succeed. I wasn’t sure what his old life had been like, but it probably hadn’t involved speedy research into pioneering new techniques to fend off the predations of a powerful archmage lich. In all fairness, that was a lot for anyone to handle.

Once I’d passed on the update, I stashed my trinkets into my phantom space and teleported to the tunnels below Derro to seed my new and improved scrying beacons as far underground as possible. Unfortunately, that was not a particularly quick or easy task. Just opening a dozen holes wide enough to drop the orbs a few hundred feet down took me hours to accomplish, hindered by the fact that hundreds upon hundreds of sand worms were drawn to the mana I was using to transmute the sand and stone.

That did take care of the other part of my plan. Every corpse got tossed into a special box I’d made. It was a two-foot cube with an open top that opened into a pit fifty times that size. Everything inside went into stasis, essentially keeping it fresh forever. By the time I was done, it was over half full with sand worm corpses, which ought to keep a few brakvaw fed for a week or two.

It was kind of a pain to use, though. For one thing, I had to be far more deliberate in my use of force magic to kill the worms so I had more than just shredded corpses. For another, I needed to make sure the worms were actually dead, something which took a surprisingly long time, else shoving a decapitated-but-still-living worm into the spatially expanded storage box would cause it to tear itself to pieces. Spatial expansion and live creatures did not mix well together.

The final problem was that no less than three of the worms who’d taken the bait at previous drop shafts followed me over and tried to attack me while I was making new ones. Killing them necessitated retrieving the scry beacons from their stomachs, a particularly gruesome job that I could thankfully perform with force magic and telekinesis.

With any luck, this plan would pay out soon. I’d been running the numbers for adapting the artificial resonance creation ritual, and things did not look good. It would take months of uninterrupted mana generation at minimum – time I didn’t have. A nice, fat chunk of moon core to ease my mana burdens might actually be the only way to pull this off unless the brakvaw proved to be exceptionally generous.

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