Abraham Allegiant (Chronicles of the Nephilim Book 4) by Brian Godawa

Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Embedded Pictures Publishing
Published: 2013-03-20T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 33

When Nimrod came out of the debris of the Babel cataclysm twenty-five years earlier, he was a disgraced and demoralized creature. Fifty of his royal offspring, giants born of his union with the daughters of Uruk, survived with him. They traveled eleven miles southwest to Borsippa, to start anew.

He had lost an empire, but he was determined to crawl back up out of the muck to become a mighty ruler again.

But it would not be easy. It would take time. He had lost his sorcerers and magi, his invincible army was crushed into rubble, his indomitable guardian god abandoned him, and his kingdom of power and fear was demolished.

He had many enemies who made several attempts on his life over the years. But he survived them all and began his obsessive pursuit of regaining dominion. He was driven by pure undefiled revenge against the God who cursed him and his vile Chosen Seed, Abram of Haran.

But he was becoming a shriveled version of his former self. A skeletal soul of bitterness and rage. He did not eat or sleep, he seethed. His once bright blue eyes became darkened pools of deadness. His face was gaunt and his back stooped over. He was paranoid of death threats and surrounded himself with a personal guard of his finest warriors. Only one thing about his character grew stronger: His desire to kill.

After these many years, he finally felt that he had a hand on the region again. He built up his army, and by pillaging and plundering the dispersed tribes, he regained some wealth and reputation as a marauder to be feared.

When Nimrod sent a raiding party up to Haran to find Abram, he was infuriated to learn that Abram was gone, left for Canaan, and Terah was dead.

Lucky for Terah, thought Nimrod. I would have skinned him alive and eaten his organs.

Terah had been the source of both Nimrod’s rise and fall, with his power over the golem army as well as his fathering of Abram, this “Chosen Seed.” It was a bitter irony that enraged Nimrod.

But he could not go after Abram now.

Canaan was wild and rough with a completely different environment than Nimrod was familiar with, and it was allegedly crawling with warring clans that had giants. He was not battle ready for that kind of foray yet, so instead he commissioned two pairs of bounty hunters to find Abram in Canaan and bring him back alive. That would allow Nimrod the time to reestablish himself as king of Shinar, his old land of Babylon.

The obvious choice would have been to use his finest Gibborim warriors from his offspring. They were giants, but such beings were a growing presence in Canaan, so they would not stand out as much for their size. On the other hand, their foreign presence would be far too obvious as mercenaries and would draw too much attention. Abram would most likely catch wind of their pursuit in advance.

So instead of using his giant warriors, he would use the opposite: Female assassins.

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