The White Dragon by Salvador Mercer

Author:Salvador Mercer [Mercer, Salvador]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Publisher: Diamond Star Publishing
Published: 2016-07-15T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Ulsthor

The argument was short-lived. Eric exerted himself, finally tiring of taking orders and suggestions from those around him. It was his life on the line, and he knew what was waiting in the highest peaks of the Felsic Mountains—an ancient terror that chilled his soul to the bone. He knew he was lucky to be alive. Had he not stumbled upon the Kesh wizards, the dragon would have caught and killed him. He would have died for sure.

To owe the Kesh his life was ironic in so many ways. He had just killed one of the very men who had intervened on his behalf. This thought he banished from his mind, as he understood that they had ulterior motives and that framing him for the murder of his own company somehow played into their complex designs. He was sure that he hadn’t seen the last of them.

His associate, Lucius, returned to Razor Rock with both Gabby and Alexi. The Fist would rest and heal at Gabby’s establishment, and then they would travel to Moartown to meet up with Eric in a fortnight. Zokar, Diamedes, Argos, and himself would travel east until they reached a pass similar to the Highstone that would allow them to travel from the northern badlands into Kesh, passing the same extensive mountain chain—The Felsics.

Zokar informed Eric that they would go to Ulsthor, the western-most city in Kesh that was usually used as a trading hub and transport terminal. Many caravans stopped there and ventured no further into the wizard lands, instead passing their cargo and crew to Balarian merchants who traversed the realm led by the wizards and mages of Kesh.

It wasn’t like there was a prohibition to traveling in the magic-user’s kingdom, but rather, Kesh acted as a haven of sort for all types of unsavory characters. The cities inside the realm were large and magnificent, and the Kesh bordered on accepting and using slavery, instead having a system of indentured service for debts owed to the ruling caste. They were tolerated by the major realms of Agon because they were powerful. Never in its entire history had a realm attacked and conquered Kesh.

The trip to Balaria would not be necessary, Zokar had explained. They could find most of what they needed in Ulsthor, as well as the necessary means to communicate with those in Balaria. The assassin explained that there were wizards who worked closely with certain Balarians in return for services rendered. One such wizard in the western Kesh town could use his critir to communicate with an associate in Balaria and pass a message, encrypted, of course, to Zokar’s superiors.

Eric had looked at the dead wizard’s magic orb carefully before it was rudely snatched away by Zokar and put into a large bag that the man carried and slung to a spare horse that they commandeered to carry their supplies. Zokar explained that the orbs were dangerous, as the Kesh would not only use them to communicate but to see what was happening, using the orb as a sort of seeing device.

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