The Fragment of Power by Ben Hale

Author:Ben Hale [Hale, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Snowlight Publishing
Published: 2019-06-27T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24: The Bonebreaker

Mind retreated as the Belrisa charged Tardoq and the two dakorians locked into a duel. He’d battled dragons and reavers, great warriors and renowned kings, but the duel between the two Bloodwalls surpassed them all.

The Bonebreaker swung her hammer in a swing that would crush Tardoq’s chest. Tardoq sidestepped, narrowly missing the blast of power that erupted from the head of the hammer. Tardoq swerved around her flank but she spun and twirled her hammer, swiping for Tardoq’s legs.

Tardoq leapt into a rolling flip and retreated up the stairs to the second floor. Belrisa pressed the assault, driving him back, her hammer crashing through the railing and sending glass and metal cascading onto the floor. Tardoq swung his sword at her shoulder but she blocked, and then struck him with her free hand, sending his giant form tumbling into Ero’s quarters.

She lunged out of view, her hammer shattering the wall and knocking Tardoq through the next wall into Mind’s quarters. Tardoq bounced off the bed and caught the edge, heaving it into the woman’s path. She blasted it with her hammer, the energy tearing a hole through the mattress and sending it bouncing off the far wall. But Tardoq leapt and caught a fixture on the ceiling, an ornate swirl that allowed him to grasp the edge. Swinging his legs over the tumbling mattress, he struck back, his now weighted sword coming down across her arm, drawing first blood.

“Perhaps a sword has merit,” she said, and lunged, driving the hammer at his back.

Tardoq rolled forward, the hammer passing above his body. The motion carried him through the open door to the receiving room, the spikes on his armor bones catching the glass and shattering the door. He came to his feet on the balcony overlooking the room and leapt into a flip that carried him back to the floor by a couch. She skidded to a halt on the balcony and fired her lance, the power deflecting off his sword to burn a hole through the wall into the Bonebreaker’s quarters. Tardoq sprinted to the side, using his sword to deflect each subsequent lance, the deflections burning into cloth and glass, wall and stone.

“This room was expensive before the damage,” Ero said with a sigh.

“You’re worried about the cost of the room?” Mind scoffed. “She’s going to kill him.”

Ero swept a hand to the four dakorians and the two humans, all of whom had weapons pointed at them. The dakorians also carried lance hammers, while the two humans carried smaller weapons that fit in their hands, the end of which glowed with red light.

“Are you ready?” Ero asked.

“Of course,” Mind replied.

He started forward, and the group of dakorians raised their weapons. The one with a bone missing on his shoulder shook his head. “She will decide your fate.”

Mind realized the group had no idea about magic, just like the dakorians that had come with Tardoq through the Gate. All their training, all their vaunted skills, had not prepared them to find mages.

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