The Silver Dwarf (Royal Institute of Magic, Book 4) by Victor Kloss

Author:Victor Kloss [Kloss, Victor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Middle Grade Fantasy
Published: 2016-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

— Chapter Twenty —

Shopping at Goblin Avenue

Despite the time crunch, they left the library and decided to work on the apprenticeship for a couple of hours, simply to decompress. Even Ben was starting to feel the pressure of the last few hours; revelation after revelation was taking a toll on his healthy heart. It seemed strange, but the apprenticeship seemed like a bit of a break by comparison.

Ben went straight to the Spellsword Department, Natalie had work to do in Trade, and Charlie needed to catch up on Diplomacy. Ben managed to lose himself in the training and was able to switch off the constant thoughts about Elizabeth’s Armour and the void for a full two hours.

“You’re almost ready for the B3,” James McFadden said, watching Ben’s monster-summoning spell form into a perfectly structured wolf.

Ben had a smile on his face as he left the spellshooter room and headed back down to the library at their pre-arranged meet-up time of four o’clock.

“I don’t know about you guys, but I made some good progress,” Charlie said. “If we ever run into an elm dryad – highly unlikely as I’m pretty sure they exist only in South America – then I’m fairly sure I could negotiate safe passage through their forest.”

Natalie smiled. “That’s good to know. I also made progress; I finally managed to convince a real trader to sell a pound of liquid fire magic for less than five hundred pounds. I’ve been stuck on that step for ages.”

Their apprenticeship chatter lasted until they reached the cramped, old section of the library, where the dark, claustrophobic air stifled their conversation.

“We haven’t really covered these books here,” Charlie said, pointing at a particularly dusty set of shelves.

They resumed their search, with a silent determination. Now that they knew they had to enter the void, time was against them, and they worked quickly, scanning each book and moving on if they saw nothing relevant.

An hour passed and they found little. Ben was starting to tire from the constant attention needed on the often tiny print, as well as the deflation of not finding anything. But each time he caught himself slowing, he rubbed his eyes and dived back into the books with renewed vigour.

Predictably, it was Charlie who made the breakthrough.

“I may have something,” he said, his head buried in a book. Ben could just make out the title: The Void: A Goblin’s Domain. “Listen to this: ‘ If there is one race suited to the void, it is the goblin. Their particular branch of magic is most harmonious with the nature of the void. They are the only race capable of transferring both their mind and body into the void, and there are several goblin clans known to have left the Unseen Kingdoms for the void. Its harsh, dry landscape suits the Arath Goblins the best.’"

Charlie stopped reading, and started turning the pages quickly. “Okay, now it’s gone off on a tangent. Hold on a second – ah, here we go.

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