The Second Wish by Simon Archer

Author:Simon Archer [Archer, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LitRPG
ISBN: 9798670871426
Google: oui-zQEACAAJ
Goodreads: 54699996
Published: 2020-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

14

Dave

When I woke up that Sunday around noon, it was the first time I’d felt completely in control of my destiny. Power coursed through my veins. I threw my blanket off and stood up out of the old cot that was my bed. Soon I would have the most luxurious bed money could buy. I looked down at my hands. They were the hands of a king-in-waiting. I was one giant step closer to bringing my plan to completion. When I was done, no one would dare challenge my power.

I walked to the tiny kitchen in my shabby apartment and clicked on the television while I made coffee. A newscaster was reporting a phenomenal tornado event that happened the night before. The images on the screen were incredible. Buildings leveled, people displaced, destruction everywhere. There were small groups of crying survivors on their knees, praying for a miracle to put their lives back together. I felt a warm tingling in my stomach, and a smile spread across my face.

When the idea to test the ferocity of the power I’d accumulated up to that point came to me, I spent quite a while deciding the best way to do so. Destroying an old building, collapsing a bridge, and blowing up a powerplant all came to mind first. Then I’d heard the wind outside my apartment window, making the trees rustle, and the idea came to me. There couldn’t be a greater demonstration of power than to control the most powerful force known to man; Mother Nature. I spent hours pouring over my spellbook, combining phrases and studying techniques for the magic I was going to wield. I had such a mastery over the information that I never had a doubt I could put the proper spell together. I simply needed to perfect the process in my memory, so I didn’t have to be distracted, looking things up while trying to perform the magic. Finally, late into the night, I was ready.

I had collected my artifacts and laid them around me on my living room floor. I would only actually need to use the blanket, but having them all present only added to my power. In front of me, I had prepared a two-liter soda bottle by filling it three-quarters full with distilled water. There were a variety of herbs needed for the spell, so I had put them in separate dip cups I’d stolen from various restaurants over the years, and laid them in a circle around the soda bottle.

I turned off all the lights in the apartment except the tiny one above the stove, which shed just enough light for me to see the herb dishes I would be pulling ingredients from. I cut a piece of string to twelve inches, and laid it next to the soda bottle, spread out straight towards the west. Once everything was in place, my heart started racing. I’d thought when the moment came that I would be nervous, or anxious, or scared even, but I wasn’t.

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