The Shattered Trident by Richard Phillips

Author:Richard Phillips [Phillips, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781542007337
Published: 2019-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

When Kragan felt Carol strengthen her mental link to the Endarian time-shaper, he wanted to roar with joy. This had been his true target all along.

All of the necessary elements were now locked into place. Kragan-Kaleal hurled a mental battering ram into the mix, implanting within Galad a vision of the time-mist barrier that surrounded the Endarian Continent. Kragan picked a particular place for Galad to target, fended off Carol’s attempt to stop him, and forced the time-shaper to open a channel wide.

A shaft of accelerating mist shot out through the open archway as if launched from a ballista. On the opposite side of the room from where Carol sat, a counterbalancing pomaly time stone solidified.

Kragan fought off another of Carol’s counterattacks and waited for the shaft formed of accelerating time-mist to reach its distant target.

Kaleal spoke inside Kragan’s head.

“Her attacks grow stronger with each passing moment. We must break our link.”

“Not yet,” replied Kragan, despite his growing sense of dread. How could Landrel’s prophesied witch’s mind magic be so potent after all the sorcery she had expended?

Kaleal’s roar of fear-laced rage filled Kragan’s head. A white-hot poker seemed to have found its way into Kragan’s skull, yet he refused to break the psychic connection to the young woman.

When the time-shaft struck the mist barrier that surrounded the Endarian Continent, the sudden restoration of Kragan’s link to the source of his life magic knocked him to his knees and severed his bond to Rafel’s daughter. So many years had passed since such power had filled him that he had forgotten the ecstasy that accompanied the rush.

Kragan had accomplished what the master Endarian time-shapers who had sacrificed themselves outside of Lagoth believed impossible. He had punched a hole through the distant time-mist barrier and, in so doing, made himself whole once more.

With a low growl of satisfaction, Kragan rose to his full height just as a flash of movement pulled his head to the right. The hurled dagger came to a stop an arm’s length from his throat, caught in the grip of the air elemental he had summoned. Kragan thrust the weapon back at his attacker, but the elemental failed to reach its target, banished back to its mystical plane by powerful wards. Kragan recognized the foe who advanced toward him, despite his camouflaged uniform and hood.

“Blade!”

The word rumbled from his throat like a curse as Kragan’s claws unsheathed themselves. He needed no magic to kill this little man.

Kragan leapt forward, his right hand whistling through the air on an arc that would split the assassin from throat to groin. It wasn’t the speed with which Blade moved that shocked him. What stunned Kragan was the ease with which the man avoided his blow, shifting his body to the left as if he had seen this strike coming before it began. Blade’s counterstrike opened a gash from the wielder’s right elbow to his wrist, splattering acrid blood into Kragan’s face.

With a thought, Kragan attempted to liquefy the earth under his opponent’s feet, but his magic failed to affect the earth near the bearer of the runed knife.

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