Thongor in the City of Magicians by Lin Carter

Author:Lin Carter [Carter, Lin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-04T06:00:00+00:00

Beyond the cavern of the altar, he found yet another of the underground streams and bathed his sore, aching body in the icy waters, gladly cleansing the foul slime from his flesh. Then he went on, intending to forge ahead so long as strength endured within his body.

He did not get far.

As he passed a side-tunnel, a flashing movement in the gloom of the tunnel’s mouth caught his eye. A globe of thin glass flashed in the light to splinter to fragments at his feet.

A vaporous cloud of perfumed blue powder swirled up to envelope him before he could move.

Without thinking, he drew a breath—drew the narcotic dust into his lungs. And strength ebbed from his limbs. He fell forward into a spreading pool of whirling blackness and lay like a dead thing.

A portion of the shadow detached itself from the mouth of the tunnel and resolved into a tall man in robes of midnight black, hooded and visored from view.

It was the Black Archdruid, Mardanax of Zaar!

He had journeyed hither in winged flight to take his captive from the Zodak Horde. With unearthly magic arts he had tracked the Valkarthan through the weird maze of catacombs . . . to render him senseless with the narcotic vapors of the Dream Lotus.

And now Thongor, mightiest of warriors, kingliest of heroes, lay totally helpless at the feet of his greatest and most relentless enemy.

Eyes of cold and mocking cruelty smiled through black mask-slits, as Mardanax of Zaar leaned over Thongor’s unconscious body, and prodded him in the side with one foot.

Then, chuckling gloatingly, he stooped over the fallen hero and kicked him deliberately in the face.

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