The Gilded Empire by Ryan W Mueller

Author:Ryan W Mueller [Mueller, Ryan W]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 29: A Cruel Test

Kara stared at Rik's petrified body. "What can we do now?"

"I have no idea," Warrick said.

Kara glared at him, longing to strike him. "You're the powerful sorcerer. You should know."

"I am not a god!"

"But Krinir made you the Creator," Kara said. "You're more than a normal sorcerer. There has to be something you can do."

"If I knew what to do, I'd do it. I've seen enough in the Webs to know we need to get Rik back to normal." Warrick began pacing, muttering under his breath. He settled down on a nearby rock and closed his eyes. After about a minute, he opened them and said, "The Webs are telling me nothing. Krinir has made the strands dark."

"Then we'll just have to rely on ourselves," Kara said.

Eliza cleared her throat, sitting on a nearby rock. "I don’t know if this will help anything, but we found this scroll. It was written in some kind of code neither of us understood."

Warrick's expression lightened. "I need to see that scroll."

Eliza handed the scroll to him, and he read through it. No one disturbed him, for he looked deep in concentration, likely to lash out at anyone who interrupted him.

At last, he said, "This place we're in might just be the most important place in all the Shadowed Land. This is the place where Krinir and I battled Lionar almost five hundred years ago. Somewhere in here lies the secret of where I sent Lionar."

"I don't understand," Kara said. "Shouldn't you know where you sent him?"

"Krinir must have blocked those memories. For all these years, I knew that I had fought him and imprisoned him somewhere. I never knew where."

"Does this scroll tell you where?" Kara asked.

"No. I must have thought it was too important to put on this one scroll. It merely tells me where I'll find the answers, and where we'll find what we need to cure Rik." He scanned the scroll again. "If' I'm reading this correctly, both answers should be in the same place."

"We also need to find my father and Selene," Eliza said.

Kara turned to her. "Who?"

"They came here with us, but they fell into some kind of pit. Selene's a powerful sorcerer, so she probably used her magic to save them."

Warrick closed his eyes again, focusing intently. After a few moments, he said, "The strands leading to them are also dark. Krinir has certainly been thorough."

Kara shuddered. "If he can do that to the Webs of Fate, if he can make you forget so many things, how can we ever hope to stand against him?"

"I wish I could give you an answer," Warrick said, "but Krinir has made it impossible to find any help in the Webs. Every time I look at potential paths to his defeat, I see nothing but dark strands." He slammed a fist against the rocky wall. "When I get my hands on Krinir."

Kara didn't know how to react to Warrick's anger. She'd never seen him this angry, and however much he'd helped her, he was still the man who'd slaughtered an entire city.

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