The Thran (Magic: The Gathering: The Thran) by J. Robert King
Author:J. Robert King [King, J. Robert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast Publishing
Published: 2018-03-27T00:00:00+00:00
They were figures from a nightmareâwarriors with silver bodies and lightning swords. Wherever those blades fell, bodies split in half. There would be a clean moment when every severed organ and bone showed in the afternoon glare. Then vitality spewed into the sudden space. All went red and grotesque. Only the sword remained clean, darting down to notch cobblestone before rising to slay again.
Gix reeled, clutching a fence post shorn by such a brilliant blade. After centuries of peace in Halcyon, there had been no need to apply new powerstone technologies to warfare. It took a man like Yawgmoth to gaze into a crystal and see the potential for murder. An angry smile formed under Gixâs bandages. He himself had used a powerstone in attempted murder. He was the original innovator, and he could innovate again.
Beyond the shorn fence, a sedan chair waited in a small statue garden. Catching an anxious breath, Gix vaulted up over the fence.
A sword shaved through wood behind him as though it were mere paper.
Leaping into the sedan chair, Gix slid a trembling hand beneath the control crystal. He pulled upward. The craft jittered into the sky. There came a crash below. Gix glanced over the rising edge of the vessel.
The silver-garbed warrior who had pursued him into the garden had taken a swing at the sedan chair, missed, overbalanced, and spilled among statues. Marble figures toppled around and atop the guard, pinging against his armor. His sword had bit deeply into the ground, and he struggled to yank it free.
Gix moved his hand to the top of the control stone. The craft plummeted. It spun slowly as it descended and veered toward the struggling warrior.
Sword arm pinned under pernicious statues, the man was oblivious.
The sedan chair fell like a hammer on the man. Even enchanted armor could not dull that blow. There came a screech and a groan. The warrior collapsed beneath crushing weight. The chair cracked and fell to one side. A hiss of steam went up.
Gix clambered from the wreck and surveyed his work. The garden was ruined. Shattered statuary littered the ground, and the warrior lay among the other figures. He was little more than pulp within his powerstone armor. It had pulled away from dead muscle.
Aching and dizzy, Gix flung back fallen statues, peeled the manâs fingers from the sword hilt, and dragged the thing loose. The sword had quite a heft, and it tingled in his grasp. Gix kicked the helm off the bloodied head and set it in place on his own head. It, too, bristled with power. Feverishly, he knelt and tugged at the bloody armor.
âI can use this sword to seem one of themâ¦to kill ten of them,â he panted as he worked. âI can strip them too andâ¦and dress ten Untouchables. Each of them can kill ten, until weâve taken over the whole city.â
The armor sucked free of the pulverized man. Gix wriggled into the slick suit and felt it tighten around him.
âUntil weâve taken over the whole cityâ¦â
The sword cleft the fence one last time, and Gix strode forth.
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