The Sacred Radiance (Paxton Locke Book 4) by Humphreys Daniel

Author:Humphreys, Daniel [Humphreys, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: DJTC Media
Published: 2022-08-03T00:00:00+00:00

Aleister—Wednesday afternoon

Berlin, Germany

He’d planned on returning to the airport directly after obtaining the artifact, but the unexpected nature of the thing threw a wrench in the works.

It wasn’t a horrific result. There were worst places to play tourist than Berlin. After a leisurely stroll, he found a small coffee shop with an attached bakery, ordered a light lunch, and settled in to study the Mobius journal.

He’d spoken German for centuries. As far as reading it went, he was less comfortable, and so he took his time while taking notes in a worn leather-bound journal he’d used for years.

His work proceeded apace, interrupted only by periodic pauses to marvel at the incongruity of someone with no historically recognized magical talent stumbling upon … this.

It was more than mere translocation. As the edimmu promised, the spell hinted at the possibility of shifting between the very planes of reality, somehow bypassing the stringent requirements of inter-dimensional alignment and proximity. It was precisely what Aleister needed, and that left him more than a little uncomfortable.

He’d worked with all sort of unsavory entities in the past, but he’d never been so naive as to believe they had his own best interests in mind. Was revenge against a hated foe so valuable as to quite literally hand him the keys to that which he’d sought for so long? He supposed not. Still—the cost on the edimmu’ s end had been minuscule, even though those entities tended to hoard information as misers clutched physical treasure. No, one way or another, the creature he’d summoned wouldn’t provide information unless there was some larger benefit to it or its kind. Of that, he was almost entirely certain, as it was inherent to their very nature.

Knight eventually decided that he could analyze the issue until he became paralyzed with doubt, or he could proceed. There was no way to determine an answer without the latter. The payment would come due, and he was more than willing to pay the price.

His decision was easier given the understanding that the price might be avoidable, should his venture succeed.

Bending back to the journal, Aleister continued his study. Traveling within the first three dimensions was rather elementary once he translated the notes and odd, pseudo-magical notation Mobius’ formulae had become as the author inscribed them. The German notations might have taken him some time, but the symbols, at least, he understood quickly enough. Within the first hour, he estimated that he could consistently cast the first portion of the spell effect and ‘tunnel’ to any point within his line of sight. Theoretically, it should be possible to go further, utilizing recall or photographic imagery. While the spell didn’t describe an explicit warning against trying that, it expressed the event of such an attempt working as a mathematical variable.

Aleister chuckled to himself and took a sip of cooling coffee. Whoever ended up in the archaeological dig site hadn’t bothered to check their numbers.

Of more interest—and utility—to Knight was the expanded description theorizing how to move between extra-dimensional realities.

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