Balancer (Advent Mage Cycle) by Raconteur Honor

Author:Raconteur, Honor [Raconteur, Honor]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: advent mage cycle
Publisher: Raconteur House
Published: 2012-08-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen: Surprises

Fortunately, I didn’t have to worry about transporting everyone to their target. In fact, I only had one core group that I needed to bring to Chahir—to Alvacon, to be precise. Everyone else had been assigned times and routes and went in by different means. Even Coven Ordan didn’t have enough Earth Mages to travel by earth path, but every type of Mage has their own method of travel, some more circumspect than others. Some groups left much earlier in order to land outside of a city’s limits and then walk in, avoiding a showy entrance.

Each team had either a caller or a mirror broach on them in order to coordinate the attack.

I let Shad, Dassan and Xiaolang worry about coordinating everyone. I didn’t have the head to keep track of details like that. My main task was to bring my team to Alvacon and guard Chatta and Dassan’s backs as they destroyed the sigil. Night, I think, just came along to keep an eye on me.

We arrived in Alvacon by mid-morning, a good hour before the designated time. The sigil that we wanted to destroy stood in the center courtyard of a now abandoned Star Order temple. I brought us up in a clear patch of ground, looking around as I did so. All around us were the highly cultivated flower beds and shrubberies that only the very wealthy could afford to tend. This highly structured look has never been to my taste, and I took a little perverse satisfaction that since no one was around to frantically prune everything, the shrubs were starting to grow in whatever direction they pleased.

This sigil had been cleverly disguised as part of a water fountain in the center of the garden. The fountain itself stood at a little over seven feet, spewing water from three sides into a shallow pool. Inscribed into the main pillar was the sigil, an elaborate and complicated design that made absolutely no sense to me.

Chatta had spent three days learning everything she could about sigils and blood magic so that she could assist Dassan with the incantation. No surprise to me, she slipped her shoes off, rolled up the hem of her pants, hiked up her robe to bare her ankles, and stepped into the pool to get a closer look. Dassan joined her, also shedding his shoes before stepping into the water.

One moment everything was normal, even peaceful, for such an early summer day. The next I felt an insane explosion of power. I could literally feel a ley line becoming exposed and power rapidly filled the air, becoming so thick that I could almost taste it.

Chatta and I whirled at the same time, facing the direction it was coming from.

“Garth, what—” she exclaimed in growing horror.

“It’s a ley line,” I answered, cutting her off. “Some idiot has tapped into a ley line!”

From the building, a dozen or so young men spilled out of the doors, a variety of weapons in their hands. I

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